Office for Mac problem

[omeletpants]

Just upgraded my Intel iMac to SL. Running Office for Mac 2004.

I created an alias for both Excel and Word and placed them in the dock. If I open a Word or Excel doc in my email the dock creates a new Word or Excel icon in the Dock and opens it from that instead of the alias I created. When I close that document the icon disappears from the dock.

If I open the Word or Excel application from Finder it opens from the alias and doesn't create a Word or Excel icon in the dock.

I have been running Mac for Office for 5 years and this has never happened before

 

[BlueRevolution]

You shouldn't create aliases first. Just drag the application icon into your Dock.

 

[omeletpants]

Deleted the aliases. Then dragged the icons from Finder. Opened a Word file from an email and the same thing happened: new icon appeared on the dock and opened the file from there.

 

[BlueRevolution]

Then drag the old icons out of the dock, control+click on the new ones, and select Keep in Dock.

 

[omeletpants]

In SL there is no "keep in dock" in my SL

 

[Ashka]

Right click the dock icon, then put the curser on 'Options' Keep in Dock is one of the Options..
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[omeletpants]

Right click the dock icon, then put the curser on 'Options' Keep in Dock is one of the Options..
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Some of the icons have the "keep in dock" option (Safari, Entourage) and some don't (Excel, Word, iPhoto, iPhotos). It's weird.

 

[trainguy77]

Some of the icons have the "keep in dock" option (Safari, Entourage) and some don't (Excel, Word, iPhoto, iPhotos). It's weird.

Do the ones that don't have a "remove from dock" option? it switches between the two.