Tiger and Office 2004 compatible?

F

fotofah

Apart from Spotlight in Tiger not being able to search Entourage, are
there any major incompatibility issues with Tiger and Office 2004?

- Dennis
 
C

Corentin Cras-Méneur

fotofah said:
Apart from Spotlight in Tiger not being able to search Entourage, are
there any major incompatibility issues with Tiger and Office 2004?
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None listed except some networking limitations in VPC.

Corentin
 
M

mgsite

Yes! Entourage 2004 will corrupt attachments such that they are
unreadable by the receiving party. That's a huge problem, obviously.

MS need to get a fix out ASAP! Kind of hard to believe they've had
Tiger for all this time and they didn't have a service pack ready at
launch. Major PITA for their customers.

-m
 
J

JE McGimpsey

Yes! Entourage 2004 will corrupt attachments such that they are
unreadable by the receiving party. That's a huge problem, obviously.

MS need to get a fix out ASAP! Kind of hard to believe they've had
Tiger for all this time and they didn't have a service pack ready at
launch. Major PITA for their customers.
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Not all attachments, or in all instances, obviously - my clients are
getting them just fine. I don't follow the Entourage group regularly -
what problems are you seeing?

In the last week since I installed Tiger I've sent Word docs, Excel
files, jpgs, text files, and pngs, from 2K to 2MB without one complaint.
Many I've sent to myself at a clients, and they came through fine.

Most of the time, I use AppleDouble, occasionally MIME/Base64. I never
use compression.
 
D

Daiya Mitchell

Yes! Entourage 2004 will corrupt attachments such that they are
Not all attachments, or in all instances, obviously - my clients are
getting them just fine. I don't follow the Entourage group regularly -
what problems are you seeing?
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JE, here's the more relevant Entourage thread:
<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage/b
rowse_frm/thread/5aa10c29c16dc651/2e4d8ace81cfdeba?q=Corrupt+attatchments+si
nce+upgrade+to+Tiger&rnum=1#2e4d8ace81cfdeba>
In the last week since I installed Tiger I've sent Word docs, Excel
files, jpgs, text files, and pngs, from 2K to 2MB without one complaint.
Many I've sent to myself at a clients, and they came through fine.

Most of the time, I use AppleDouble, occasionally MIME/Base64. I never
use compression.
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Hmm..I'm going to post over there and ask about that, because Tiger
definitely broke Stuffit.

DM
 
J

JE McGimpsey

Daiya Mitchell said:
Maybe it didn't break it, but it's no longer included--so if you do a clean
install, it isn't there anymore.
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Ah, ok. I knew about that - but installing Stuffit Expander 9 seems to
work.
 
D

Daiya Mitchell

Maybe it didn't break it, but it's no longer included--so if you do a clean
Ah, ok. I knew about that - but installing Stuffit Expander 9 seems to
work.
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Note my simplistic use of "broken" to signify "I have to actively do
something to make this work." :)

Daiya
 
P

Paul Berkowitz

Ah, ok. I knew about that - but installing Stuffit Expander 9 seems to
work.
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It's not Expander. It's the fact that Panther installed Stuffit Engine,
Entourage installed its own more recent Stuffit Engine (7.0.4) but an Erase
& Install of Tiger no longer installs Stuffit Engine, so Compression won't
work.

To get it to work, you have to either install Stuffit Standard or Deluxe - 8
or 9 - (which costs money if you don't own it already) - or uninstall and
reinstall Office 2004 which installs Stuffit Engine 7.0.4, then do the
updates again.

If you did an Archive & Install of Tiger, you can move the
StuffItEngineShell.cfm file from Previous System 1/Library/CFMSupport/ to
/Library/CFMSupport/ on you startup disk, and re-launch Entourage.

If you did an Upgrade to Tiger, you'll have no problem with Entourage
Compression.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
 
M

mgsite

The issue I've been having with corrupt attachments has nothing to do
with Stuffit or compression. I've turned off compression and use
AppleDouble in Entourage 2004.

-m
 
M

Michael Jardine

I've had major problems with Office ever since installing Tiger, though I'm
not completely sure Tiger is the culprit. Excel runs at a snails pace - I
have to wait several seconds each time I input any number in a cell. Also,
both Excel and Word crash (stop responding) when loading them up, without
reason.

Memory should not be an issue; I've got a PowerBook G4 with 1.5GB of ram and
both Word and Excel ran like melting butter on 10.3

I may uninstall Office and re-install, to see if it still has problems. If
so, will uninstall Tiger and re-install 10.3, to see if that fixes it. But
before I do so, I was wondering if anyone else had experienced similar
problems?
 
D

Daiya Mitchell

It's a method of attachment encoding. If you look that up in Help,
Entourage gives a decent explanation.
 
S

sara

Michael said:
I've had major problems with Office ever since installing Tiger, though I'm
not completely sure Tiger is the culprit. Excel runs at a snails pace - I
have to wait several seconds each time I input any number in a cell. Also,
both Excel and Word crash (stop responding) when loading them up, without
reason.

Memory should not be an issue; I've got a PowerBook G4 with 1.5GB of ram and
both Word and Excel ran like melting butter on 10.3

I may uninstall Office and re-install, to see if it still has problems. If
so, will uninstall Tiger and re-install 10.3, to see if that fixes it. But
before I do so, I was wondering if anyone else had experienced similar
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I'm having similar problems since upgrading to Tiger. Can we be the
only two people experiencing these symptoms?
 
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Chuck Lefebvre

The issue that I have are using Excel 2004 under Tiger.

Can't exit a cell that has a formula in it (Esc doesn't work).
It seems that I edit a cell and I try exiting by clicking another cell
and that cell enters edit mode.
It unusable for most projects.

Chuck
 
D

Daiya Mitchell

Try hitting enter or return. Or tab. Esc is supposed to exit and cancel
changes, right?

I've never been able to edit a formula, then click in another cell to exit
edit mode, in any version of Excel. But maybe I am misunderstanding what
you say.

If that doesn't work, post on the excel newsgroup.
 
M

mugzemet

Hello,
I'm not able to open any office application since i've upgrade.
I do get the menu, but after a while the app no longer responding and i
need to force quit it.
any idea?
thanks
 

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