[Q] MS Office 98 / 2001 under Classic

[Anony-mouse]

We've got one copy of the educational version of Office 2004 which
allows three installations, but we've got six iMacs so need to use the
older versions until we can obtain a grant or find money for further
upgrades.

So I'm currently trying to use the older versions of MS Office we
already have under Classic with Mac OS 10.4, but Word continually
crashes either just itself or the entire Classic environment (I haven't
tried Excel). The same happens on the iMac G5 using Mac OS 10.3.

Has anyone else hit this crashing problem or found a way around it?



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[Anony-mouse]

Well, no, we haven't had that problem on a carefully maintained,
fully-up-to-date system. But I understand that this may not describe the
practicalities of a school environment

I suggest that you work your way down these steps, and get back to us if
they do not solve your problem:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/TroubleshootWord2001.htm

Things to particularly watch for is "Helper applications", particularly
things such as SpellCatcher that may be installed and Word-aware but running
in the wrong environment; and duplicate or corrupted fonts.

Hope this helps

Thanks fo the link, I'll take a look and see what it says there.

It's a new installation of Mac OS X 10.4 on an erased hard drive,
followed by installing Office and its updaters, so there shouldn't be
any other bits causing problems. (I also had the problem in 10.3 on a
brand new iMac G5, which is why we got Office 2004). Thankfully it's
not a "school environment" as such since these are office-based
computers rather than student (ab)used ones. )

Fonts could be a possibility and perhaps the Apple Menu Options Control
Panel which I read somewhere else can cause someone else some problems
(turning them off fixes that evidently).
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