Move Office 2004 to external drive? or uninstall/reinstall?

[pw9571]

I had trouble saving Word docs to my external MiniStack drive. Called
tech support and they told me that Office and the Documents folder need
to be on the same drive.

My Office apps are on the main HD of the MiniMac. My Documents folder
(too big for my puny MiniMac disk capacity) is on the external drive.
Therefore, I'll be moving Office apps over to the external drive.

Question: Can I just drag the applications over to the external drive?
Or must I uninstall/reinstall?

Thanks.
Paula

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Paula:

No.

Firstly, I don't believe them The Documents folder can be on any drive
you like, and so can the applications folder. I think you would be wasting
your time moving them.

Secondly, you can't just drag them over, you need to reset the preferences
to tie all the pieces together.

If you really want to move your application over, run the Remove Office tool
from the Additional Tools folder. Then do a Drag-Install to the MiniStack
drive.

If you don't Remove first, you may get some very difficult to manage
problems because the Preference files will point to the wrong drive.

Cheers

I had trouble saving Word docs to my external MiniStack drive. Called
tech support and they told me that Office and the Documents folder need
to be on the same drive.

My Office apps are on the main HD of the MiniMac. My Documents folder
(too big for my puny MiniMac disk capacity) is on the external drive.
Therefore, I'll be moving Office apps over to the external drive.

Question: Can I just drag the applications over to the external drive?
Or must I uninstall/reinstall?

Thanks.
Paula

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