Word in Office X incompatible with Tiger

[Daniella]

Word in Office X quits every time I try to drag an image into an open
document.

When I insert an image from the menu, I see the image's place holder
(an empty rectangle) but not the image itself. The same thing happens
when I open Word documents that contain images.

Is anybody else encountering this problem?

 

[Daniella]

Re seeing image placeholders:
There is a setting to turn image placeholders on and off in Word |
Preferences | View. Try unchecking it.

Thank you. It worked like a charm.

Re the quitting:
I assume this happens with all images, not just one image?

Yes, it happens with mor ethan one pictures, but not all the time.

Consistent and reproducible problems in Word usually respond to one of the
standard troubleshooting measures, which you will find listed here:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/TroubleshootingIndex.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

Thanks again. I'll take a look.

PS. Word in Office X is not incompatible with Tiger--that's a little
dramatic.

You're absolutely right (and I'm delighted).

 

[Daniella]

Re seeing image placeholders:
There is a setting to turn image placeholders on and off in Word |
Preferences | View. Try unchecking it.

Thank you. It worked like a charm.

Re the quitting:
I assume this happens with all images, not just one image?

Yes, it happens with all images, but not all the time.

Consistent and reproducible problems in Word usually respond to one of the
standard troubleshooting measures, which you will find listed here:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/TroubleshootingIndex.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

Thanks again. I'll take a look.

PS. Word in Office X is not incompatible with Tiger--that's a little
dramatic.

You're absolutely right (and I'm delighted).

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Glad to help--hope one of the fixes works.
DM

Thank you. It worked like a charm.


Yes, it happens with all images, but not all the time.


Thanks again. I'll take a look.


You're absolutely right (and I'm delighted).

 

[Daniella]

Daiya,

Glad to help--hope one of the fixes works.

The very first one -- repairing the permissions -- did the trick.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Daiya,


The very first one -- repairing the permissions -- did the trick.

Permissions are critically important on MacOS X. Repairing them before
and after each major install is recommended (a lot of people recommend
repairing them also once a month).

Corentin

 

[Daniella]

Daniella <[email protected]> wrote:

Permissions are critically important on MacOS X. Repairing them before
and after each major install is recommended (a lot of people recommend
repairing them also once a month).

I have Macaroni installed and usually leave it to take care of
permissions repair in the background.

 

[Daniella]

Permissions are critically important on MacOS X. Repairing them before
and after each major install is recommended (a lot of people recommend
repairing them also once a month).

I have Macaroni installed and usually leave it to take care of
permissions repair in the background.
Macaroni is set to do so daily, weekly, and monthly. It may have
repaired the problem I was experiencing before I got around to doing
so.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I have Macaroni installed and usually leave it to take care of
permissions repair in the background.

Yeah, this shareware is not bad at all. It takes care of launching all
these maintenance operation for you in the background on regular
intervals. It sure can't hurt. Nevertheless, the app launches the
repairs upon schedule and there could be quite some time before the next
repair kicks in.

Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Macaroni is set to do so daily, weekly, and monthly. It may have
repaired the problem I was experiencing before I got around to doing
so.

:-\ Macaroni is usually not set to repair Permissions on these
schedules. The app states that when it is setup to do so, it will repair
permissions weekly:
http://www.atomicbird.com/macaroni/faq.php#whatjobs
As I was saying in the other post though, it's a good app
All it does though is to launch the same terminal command as DiskUtility
to repair the permissions on the drive (but it does it automatically
weekly).

Corentin

 

[Kurt]

Yeah, this shareware is not bad at all. It takes care of launching all
these maintenance operation for you in the background on regular
intervals. It sure can't hurt. Nevertheless, the app launches the
repairs upon schedule and there could be quite some time before the next
repair kicks in.

Corentin

Coctail is another good one.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi Kurt,

Coctail is another good one.

True, I completely forgot that you could schedule Cocktail. One of my
favorite is TinkerTool System but I don't think you can use a scheduler
in it.

You could easely create a cron job/launchd event to run the terminal
command upn schedule anyway

Corentin