Word X gives no place to put name of doc

[Dave]

Hi,

We are working on a new installation (not an upgrade) of OS X on a G4 with
512M memory. We then installed Office v.X and then copied the old OS 9.6,
Word 98 documents to the drive. With Word we can open and save any existing
document. The icons on some of the files are grayed out, but after we open
them and save them with Word X they are fine.

But when we create a new document, then go to save it, there is no place
to put the name of the new file. We can browse out to any location, but
there is no place to label the document with a name. This happens when
using the "Save" button and the "Save as" option.

We un-installed Office and re-installed it and no difference was seen.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Dave. . .

 

[Walt Basil]

Hi,

We are working on a new installation (not an upgrade) of OS X on a G4 with
512M memory. We then installed Office v.X and then copied the old OS 9.6,
Word 98 documents to the drive. With Word we can open and save any existing
document. The icons on some of the files are grayed out, but after we open
them and save them with Word X they are fine.

But when we create a new document, then go to save it, there is no place
to put the name of the new file. We can browse out to any location, but
there is no place to label the document with a name. This happens when
using the "Save" button and the "Save as" option.

We un-installed Office and re-installed it and no difference was seen.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Dave. . .

Wasn't the latest classic version OS 9.2.x? ;-)

Have you applied the latest updates to Office? To OS X? You can find a
list of MS updates here:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx> and you can use your
software update to update the OS itself.

JE McGimpsey gives an excellent overview of what your separate
components should be updated to be the latest:
<http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/vxversions.html>

The sheet that comes down when you save or save as is actually driven
by the OS as far as I know. It calls upon the OS to actually display
your hard drive's folders, and the place to name your file is above
that, at the very top of that sheet. At least, every time Apple updated
it's finder view, Office's view changed as well without updating Office
at all.


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[Walt Basil]

Wasn't the latest classic version OS 9.2.x? ;-)

Have you applied the latest updates to Office? To OS X? You can find a
list of MS updates here:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx> and you can use your
software update to update the OS itself.

JE McGimpsey gives an excellent overview of what your separate
components should be updated to be the latest:
<http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/vxversions.html>

The sheet that comes down when you save or save as is actually driven
by the OS as far as I know. It calls upon the OS to actually display
your hard drive's folders, and the place to name your file is above
that, at the very top of that sheet. At least, every time Apple updated
it's finder view, Office's view changed as well without updating Office
at all.

Forgot to add that I cross posted this to the Word group.
--
Walt Basil
www.basilweb.net

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