office assistant

[wen46]

I just installed office 2004 on my imac which uses tiger. I wanted to
change the office assistant from the little computer graphic but when i
went to gallery assistant, the forward and back arrows are greyed out
and i can't change to another character. any suggestions?

 

[markg5]

I just installed office 2004 on my imac which uses tiger. I wanted to
change the office assistant from the little computer graphic but when i
went to gallery assistant, the forward and back arrows are greyed out
and i can't change to another character. any suggestions?

Do you have vX any where? Otherwise you are stuck with "max" ... or you could
just turn the annoying little bugger off

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I just installed office 2004 on my imac which uses tiger. I wanted to

Do you have vX any where? Otherwise you are stuck with "max" ... or you could
just turn the annoying little bugger off

I'm fairly sure that you can also pull the extra assistants from Office
2001, if you only have that (never tested with Office 98).

I believe it's as simple as quitting everything, then dragging the files
from the CD into the apps/ms office 2004/office/assistants folder. On the
CD, you probably need to look in the Value Pack.

Office 2004 came with fewer assistants and less clipart.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I'm fairly sure that you can also pull the extra assistants from Office
2001, if you only have that (never tested with Office 98).

I'm not so sure about that. The one big thing that Office X did was change
everything over to native OS X, not just carbonizing code but also replacing
tens of thousands of icons and things graphic. I suspect that included the
assistants. I'm not so sure that office 200 assistants will work, and I
finally got rid of 2001 when I moved over to my new computer a year or so
ago, so I can't check. The Finder icons for the Office X assistants are most
definitely OS X-type icons, of kind "Microsoft Assistant character", so the
assistants themselves may be too.

I believe it's as simple as quitting everything, then dragging the files
from the CD into the apps/ms office 2004/office/assistants folder. On the
CD, you probably need to look in the Value Pack.

Office 2004 came with fewer assistants and less clipart.

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**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
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[matt neuburg]

I just installed office 2004 on my imac which uses tiger. I wanted to
change the office assistant from the little computer graphic but when i
went to gallery assistant, the forward and back arrows are greyed out
and i can't change to another character. any suggestions?

I suggest that if this is the main problem you're having with Office
2004 you should call it a good day and be happy. m.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Do you have vX any where? Otherwise you are stuck with "max" ... or you

I'm not so sure about that. The one big thing that Office X did was change
everything over to native OS X, not just carbonizing code but also replacing
tens of thousands of icons and things graphic. I suspect that included the
assistants. I'm not so sure that office 200 assistants will work, and I
finally got rid of 2001 when I moved over to my new computer a year or so
ago, so I can't check. The Finder icons for the Office X assistants are most
definitely OS X-type icons, of kind "Microsoft Assistant character", so the
assistants themselves may be too.

I tested it a while back, and it worked fine. I promptly took them out
again, though, it's conceivable leaving them there would have caused
glitches. I do run constantly with some clipart from Office 98 (screen beans
are so cute!), but I remember testing the assistants, and being quite
surprised when it worked.

I have a vague memory of thinking "ha, all they did was OS X-ize the icon."

Here's the thread:
<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/browse
_frm/thread/b35b2fa9d0502581/d22c6d93d30fe22d>

Daiya

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I just installed office 2004 on my imac which uses tiger. I wanted to

I suggest that if this is the main problem you're having with Office
2004 you should call it a good day and be happy. m.

Seriously, Matt, don't you know cracks like that jinx people?

 

[matt neuburg]

Seriously, Matt, don't you know cracks like that jinx people?

I wasn't trying to jinx anyone - I'm just saying that there are a lot of
problems that are serious and important and very real, and it's truly
not worth wasting any bandwidth on this newsgroup or in your brain
worrying about why the stupid Office Assistant doesn't look like Albert
Einstein or a paper clip.

(Fortunately, as has been pointed out, it doesn't have to look like
anything, since you can access Help much more efficiently with the
Assistant turned off. I wasn't able to figure out how to do that on a
friend's Windows machine, and it drove me crazy - we couldn't consult
help at all without passing through the cursed paper clip. Boy, was I
glad to get back to the Mac version later!)

m.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I wasn't trying to jinx anyone - I'm just saying that there are a lot of

problems that are serious and important and very real, and it's truly
not worth wasting any bandwidth on this newsgroup or in your brain
worrying about why the stupid Office Assistant doesn't look like Albert
Einstein or a paper clip.

Anything that affects your computer usage--including comfort level and
intangible happiness with the object you are staring at--is worth spending
time on. Such trivial matters influence productivity.

The bandwidth of this newsgroup has quite a bit of wastage. That's one of
the things that makes it a nice group to check regularly.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I have a vague memory of thinking "ha, all they did was OS X-ize the icon."

I just tested with Office98 Max and Office2001 Genius.

They both seem to work fine in Office04.

They're not identical, though. Office98 Max is 6 bytes larger than
Office04 Max.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I'm just saying that there are a lot of problems that are serious and
important and very real, and it's truly not worth wasting any
bandwidth on this newsgroup or in your brain worrying about why the
stupid Office Assistant doesn't look like Albert Einstein or a paper
clip.

Much less wasting bandwidth complaining about it...

Your not trimming the previous post wasted more than the original, after
all.

Heck, your signature advertising *alone* wastes nearly as much
bandwidth as the original post!

I'd have thought that the subject line would allow most people who don't
care about the office assistant to avoid expending bandwidth on anything
but the header. I only looked because you replied, and I was surprised.

And as far as what the OP wastes one's "brain bandwidth" on, I'd think
that's really up to the OP.

 

[markg5]

... with the Assistant turned off. I wasn't able to figure out how to do
that on a friend's Windows machine, and it drove me crazy - we couldn't
consult help at all without passing through the cursed paper clip.

I can go one worse than this. The laptops at work don't have the assistant
installed. A good thing? No. You can't turn it off unless it is present! This
means every time you run an office program it tells you the Ass hasn't been
installed correctly. I had to get the IT manager (who guards the discs with
his life) to install the b*gger so I could then turn it off!

 

[Elliott Roper]

I can go one worse than this. The laptops at work don't have the assistant
installed. A good thing? No. You can't turn it off unless it is present! This
means every time you run an office program it tells you the Ass hasn't been
installed correctly. I had to get the IT manager (who guards the discs with
his life) to install the b*gger so I could then turn it off!

*Outrageous*. You can't beat the little B*gger to death with a stick!
Word has to do something like that to stop Powerpoint getting *all* the
flak!

There is always the "change style to reflect formatting" dialog for
whenever you get too relaxed with the lack of paperclips.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

*Outrageous*. You can't beat the little B*gger to death with a stick!
Word has to do something like that to stop Powerpoint getting *all* the
flak!

There is always the "change style to reflect formatting" dialog for
whenever you get too relaxed with the lack of paperclips.

We already beat that one up at least once last week ;-).

Beth

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

The Office Assistants from Office 2001 and Office v.X work in Office
2004. There's even a Japanese office assistant (only available in
Japanese localized versions of 2001 and v.X). I don't know for sure,
but I think all of the Office 98 assistants also work in 2004.

The assistants can be controlled via visual basic. You can have them say
anything you want and can change some of their behavior programatically.

-Jim

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

The Office Assistants from Office 2001 and Office v.X work in Office
2004. There's even a Japanese office assistant (only available in
Japanese localized versions of 2001 and v.X). I don't know for sure,
but I think all of the Office 98 assistants also work in 2004.

The assistants can be controlled via visual basic. You can have them say
anything you want and can change some of their behavior programatically.

-Jim

Slow weekend I gather.

I haven't seen hide nor hair of the Office Assistant (so far as giving
me trouble) In installed word2004 on my PowerBook 17" when it had X.3.9
installed, I had the assistant off then. I just used upgrade option to
install Tiger then Ran the 4.1 Update.

No so much as a hiccup.

Now I wish I could get Tiger on my G4-500. I made 4 failed attempts.
His the kicker I installed it on a FW-400 Hard Disk bought from Western
Digital (same company that made the internal 120 GB Hard Drive I use now
for X.3.9; and it worked like a charm even with a bunch of USB items
plugged in. So its not that Tiger is capable of working on the G4-500.
The G4-500 has 1.5 GB system RAM and the Hard drive is only using about
35 GB of that 120GB available.

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