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Chris Barnes
I am trying to help one of the faculty in my department recover from a
hard drive failure on his macbook. He was able to recover his data,
(everything in the /Users directory), but is having problems with
"version differences".
His old macbook was running OS X 10.3 with Office 10.
His new macbook is running OS X 10.4 with Office 2004.
Let me start by saying this: please do not suggest he upgrade to 10.5 or
another higher version of Office. Ain't gonna happen (he is just that way).
Ok, problem #1 - the minor problem:
As I said, Office 10 was never installed on his new system. But
*somehow* some of the apps think it's still there. That is, when he
clicks on a .doc file, it tries to open in Word 10, not the Word 2004
present on the system (yes, I know about GetInfo and "use this for
everything" and have already done that). Also, the "Open With" shows
the Office 10 apps as a legitimate selection
Where did they come from? I assume there is a preferences file
somewhere that got copied over from his old system, but the question is
"where is it?"
Problem #2 - the bigger issue:
The Equation Editor seems to have different settings for things like
font, sub & super script size, formatting, etc. Please, please tell me
that those are in a settings file he can copy over from another machine
(still running OS 10.3 and Office 10).
Iow, when he opens a pre-existing document (a sheet that is basically
nothing but one formula after another), it looks dramatically different
under Word 2004 than it did in Word 10. This is a big enough issue to
him that he would rather uninstall Office 2004 and reinstall Office 10,
if he has to. And frankly, I can't say as I blame him.
hard drive failure on his macbook. He was able to recover his data,
(everything in the /Users directory), but is having problems with
"version differences".
His old macbook was running OS X 10.3 with Office 10.
His new macbook is running OS X 10.4 with Office 2004.
Let me start by saying this: please do not suggest he upgrade to 10.5 or
another higher version of Office. Ain't gonna happen (he is just that way).
Ok, problem #1 - the minor problem:
As I said, Office 10 was never installed on his new system. But
*somehow* some of the apps think it's still there. That is, when he
clicks on a .doc file, it tries to open in Word 10, not the Word 2004
present on the system (yes, I know about GetInfo and "use this for
everything" and have already done that). Also, the "Open With" shows
the Office 10 apps as a legitimate selection
Where did they come from? I assume there is a preferences file
somewhere that got copied over from his old system, but the question is
"where is it?"
Problem #2 - the bigger issue:
The Equation Editor seems to have different settings for things like
font, sub & super script size, formatting, etc. Please, please tell me
that those are in a settings file he can copy over from another machine
(still running OS 10.3 and Office 10).
Iow, when he opens a pre-existing document (a sheet that is basically
nothing but one formula after another), it looks dramatically different
under Word 2004 than it did in Word 10. This is a big enough issue to
him that he would rather uninstall Office 2004 and reinstall Office 10,
if he has to. And frankly, I can't say as I blame him.
