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P40L VX

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Jan 31, 2007
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Hi,

I am in the process of building my new MBP with fresh installs of my applications I had on my old power book.

I have installed MS office standard 2004 but I am getting various errors I never received on my old power book...?

For example,

1. The software update on for MS wont work, it just freezes.
2. When I open word or excel etc I get the following error "an unexpected error occurred while trying to load the Microsoft Framework"
3. When I open Entourage I get the following error message "The identity cannot be opened with this version of entourage"

Has anyone got any idea what's going on...? :confused: Is there a patch to make Office 2004 work on the MBPs....?

Any help would be greatly appreciate,

Paul.
 
P40L VX said:
Hi,

I am in the process of building my new MBP with fresh installs of my applications I had on my old power book.

I have installed MS office standard 2004 but I am getting various errors I never received on my old power book...?

For example,

1. The software update on for MS wont work, it just freezes.
2. When I open word or excel etc I get the following error "an unexpected error occurred while trying to load the Microsoft Framework"
3. When I open Entourage I get the following error message "The identity cannot be opened with this version of entourage"

Has anyone got any idea what's going on...? :confused: Is there a patch to make Office 2004 work on the MBPs....?

Any help would be greatly appreciate,

Paul.
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I had some of the symptons you describe when i moved the "applications" outside of the Microsoft Office folder that it autocreated on install.
 
Just tried to re-install Adobe CS and that went tits up....:mad:

Am now re-building the mac and I will do a transfer from my old G4 via setup.

I knew I should have stuck with the old power book. :confused:
 
One thought it seems like Rosetta is screwed up as both the sets of applications you mentioned are PPC, do you have any themes such as UNO or shapeshifter installed, i had at one point and they screwed up rosetta. Removed them and rosetta worked perfectly.


Have you ever run monolingual?
 
I had the same thing with Office on my MBP - i deleted everything office-related (including the user data and preferences folders). I then re-installed it, and immediately ran the autoupdate (before opening the programs) and after that it worked. I think the framework library got corrupted.
Can't wait for Office 2008.
 
xUKHCx said:
One thought it seems like Rosetta is screwed up as both the sets of applications you mentioned are PPC, do you have any themes such as UNO or shapeshifter installed, i had at one point and they screwed up rosetta. Removed them and rosetta worked perfectly.


Have you ever run monolingual?
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My MBP is fresh out of the box today, that's why I am so annoyed...
 
miniConvert said:
I hear you there, 2004 is a POS.
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I used to think 2004 was good when i was using it on my PB, but it keeps giving me the s$%ts on my intel machine.

I'm also waiting to see iWork 07, it'd be nice to not have to use Office at all (i really only use Word and Powerpoint).
 
You have just put me off Intel Macs. I need VB macros for the work that I do and with MS Office 2008 scrapping VB macros I was planning on buying the current MS Office just before the new one comes in. Currently I run Office v.X but it cannot display all the special characters I need. Looks like I'll keep going with my PowerBook and look to get a PPC mini off ebay when they get as cheap as possible.
 
P40L VX said:
My MBP is fresh out of the box today, that's why I am so annoyed...
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Just out of curisoty do any PPC apps work?

That is pretty annoying, can't really think of anyways to repair Rosetta, have you tried to repair permissions, worth a punt.
 
I haven't got any other apps that are original PPC ones so cannot test.

I am rebuilding the thing but don't really want to go through this process again a 2nd time round.

Should I bite the bullet and do a transfer from my old Mac. I don't like the idea of this just incase it copies loads of crap...?
 
Hmm, I haven't had any problems with Office 2004 on my C2D. I use VB and it works fine. The only thing is that it's slow on it's first startup.

Nuc
 
a456 said:
You have just put me off Intel Macs. I need VB macros for the work that I do and with MS Office 2008 scrapping VB macros I was planning on buying the current MS Office just before the new one comes in. Currently I run Office v.X but it cannot display all the special characters I need. Looks like I'll keep going with my PowerBook and look to get a PPC mini off ebay when they get as cheap as possible.
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Office 2004 certainly works fine on intel macs - it is just slow, both on startup and in use. There is no way i would have stuck with my old PB just because of that.


xUKHCx said:
Just out of curisoty do any PPC apps work?
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Mine all work (Office, photoshop), just a little slower than may be ideal.
 
It must have been a problem with Rosseta....?

I re-built the machine from scratch, tried again and everything was AOK.
 
This is a common problem, update to the latest version from the Microsoft website and the errors will go away.

As for Adobe Photoshop, make sure you are not installing to a case sensitive drive.

Chris
 
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