Hi, I am new!

[karenpickett]

I got a Macintosh computer for Christmas, and Office 2004 for my
Anniversary. I am still getting used to it. Does anyone know if there
is a way to add more Office Assistant's to the gallery?

Thanks!

Karen

 

[Mickey Stevens]

Extra assistants are not included with Office 2004.  However, if you happen
to have an earlier version of Office that did include additional assistants,
simply insert the old version's CD, navigate to Office CD/Value
Pack/Assistants, and copy the assistant(s) you want to
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Assistants. They'll then become
available to you.

 

[karenpickett]

Any specific version? I do not have any earlier versions. Should I
try eBay? This is my third Mac. The last time I owned one was back
around 1994!

Thanks

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Do you have any friends that owned Office X or Office 2001? You just need a
1-time copy. By the way, ClipArt is very similar--not much with Office 2004
but you can use the stuff from an older CD (though there are also online
downloads for that).

I wouldn't spend any money to get a Help Assistant, especially since you
actually get much better and much more usable results if you turn the
assistant off entirely. Then you get a nice two column view that lists many
more results on the left and lets you browse them on the right. You never
have to hit More Info or redo the search to get back to the results because
the first one you picked wasn't satisfactory, as I always did with the
assistant.

I'm *guessing* that Office 98 would also work, but no one seems to have
tested and confirmed it, though I would assume it would be cheaper than
Office 2001.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Hello Karen,

The best way to gain more knowledge is to stick around here! (or the
non-aggregated microsoft.public.mac NGs -- e.g.
microsoft.public.mac.office.word).

The very comprehensive MVPs' website (http://word.mvps.org), among other
things, contains answers (at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs) to many frequently
asked questions posed in these newsgroups. If you need comprehensive
information on a problem, chances are that other people have had the same
problem and a thorough explanation is at this website.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 7 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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