How to Place the Office 2004 Icon on the Leopard Dock

[aRKay]

There are things some of us like and dislike about the new OSX 10.5
Leopard Dock. One of the dislikes is it picks up and displays the icon
of the first item in the folder.

For example, if you drag the Microsoft Office 2004 folder to the dock
the icon used will be the generic folder for the Additional Tools folder
and it does not look as good a we were used to seeing in OSX 10.4
(Tiger).

It is pretty easy to bring back the Office 2004 icon in Leopard. All you
have to do is open the Microsoft Office 2004 folder in the finder and go
to the Finder¹s File menu and click on New Folder. This will create a
new folder and you then need to rename the folder to ³/Office Icon² (do
not use the quotes) but note the leading /.

The second step is to open your Applications folder and do a Get info on
the Microsoft Office 2004 folder and click on (or highlight) the small
icon at the top and do a Cmd-C to copy the icon to your clipboard. The
open the Office folder and do a Get Info on the newly created ³/Office
Icon² folder and paste in the icon you just copied. Then from the
Applications folder drag the Microsoft Office 2004 folder to the Dock.

Try it and see if you like it. The price (free) is right.

aRKay

 

[Barry Wainwright [MVP]]

I have removed a _lot_ of items from my dock in leopard, because spotlight
makes a super 'launcher'.

Just hit cmd-space, then type 'w' - Word is the first item highlighted on my
mac, I hit return and word launches!

Likewise, 'x' for excel, 'po' for powerpoint, 'en' for entourage, 'me' for
messenger.

It works for any application, just type enough letters for spotlight to
identify the right application. He more often you use an app, th emore
likely it is to rise to the top.


--
BarryW
Microsoft MVP (see http://www.microsoft.com/mvp for details)
Visit the Entourage User's Weblog for hints tips & troubleshooting for
Microsoft entourage: http://www.barryw.net/weblog

From: aRKay <[email protected]>
Organization: Mac G4 1GHz
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:44:43 -0600
Subject: How to Place the Office 2004 Icon on the Leopard Dock

There are things some of us like and dislike about the new OSX 10.5
Leopard Dock. One of the dislikes is it picks up and displays the icon
of the first item in the folder.

For example, if you drag the Microsoft Office 2004 folder to the dock
the icon used will be the generic folder for the Additional Tools folder
and it does not look as good a we were used to seeing in OSX 10.4
(Tiger).

It is pretty easy to bring back the Office 2004 icon in Leopard. All you
have to do is open the Microsoft Office 2004 folder in the finder and go
to the Finder¼s File menu and click on New Folder. This will create a
new folder and you then need to rename the folder to „/Office Icon¾ (do
not use the quotes) but note the leading /.

The second step is to open your Applications folder and do a Get info on
the Microsoft Office 2004 folder and click on (or highlight) the small
icon at the top and do a Cmd-C to copy the icon to your clipboard. The
open the Office folder and do a Get Info on the newly created „/Office
Icon¾ folder and paste in the icon you just copied. Then from the
Applications folder drag the Microsoft Office 2004 folder to the Dock.

Try it and see if you like it. The price (free) is right.

aRKay