office 2004 installed but all documents stilltest drive really really annoying

[juliajong]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I had all my word/excel documents in the Test Drive and just installed Office 2004 but all my documents still read as the test drive which is now expired. When i try and open them individually it doesn't work but if i have word open and then open the documents they are fine. Even if I create and save a new document it still is in the Test drive mode and i can't open it unless i open office first. Help please it's really a pain.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I had all my word/excel documents in the Test Drive and just installed Office
2004 but all my documents still read as the test drive which is now expired.
When i try and open them individually it doesn't work but if i have word open
and then open the documents they are fine. Even if I create and save a new
document it still is in the Test drive mode and i can't open it unless i open
office first. Help please it's really a pain.

You "should" have removed Test Drive before installing Office 2004 (but
the advice to do so is largely hidden).

Run Remove Office and remove both the Test Drive and Regular versions.
Reinstall Office and update it.

 

[Matthew Gardiner]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I had all my word/excel documents in the Test Drive and just installed Office
2004 but all my documents still read as the test drive which is now expired.
When i try and open them individually it doesn't work but if i have word open
and then open the documents they are fine. Even if I create and save a new
document it still is in the Test drive mode and i can't open it unless i open
office first. Help please it's really a pain.

Question: Why didn't you uninstall the test drive?

Matthew

 

[juliajong]

What happens to all my documents if I uninstall the test drive?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

What happens to all my documents if I uninstall the test drive?

Nothing, unless you have them in either the Applications folder or your
Preferences folder.

 

[Matthew Gardiner]

What happens to all my documents if I uninstall the test drive?

The same thing that would happen if I ran around naked in my house - it
would have zero effect on your documents.

You are uninstalling the software, you aren't deleting the documents - learn
the difference - please, I beg you, learn the difference.

Matthew

 

[JE McGimpsey]

The same thing that would happen if I ran around naked in my house - it
would have zero effect on your documents.

Unless, of course, you have picture windows, in which case your
documents might be lonely for a while.

You are uninstalling the software, you aren't deleting the documents - learn
the difference - please, I beg you, learn the difference.

Template documents, by default, are saved in the application folder. So
are any documents stored in the Startup folder within the application
folder.

So THOSE documents ARE at risk, because the Remove Office application
DOESN'T "uninstall" the software, it does DELETE the application folder,
along with the Microsoft Preference folder.

It's silly to expect a user to *intuit* what "Remove Office" does and
does not touch.

It's not enough to "learn the difference" between user documents and
applications (FAR more documents are deleted than applications, BTW).

You also have to understand what the Remove Office application actually
does.

Which, I thought, is exactly what the OP was asking...