If you choose to uninstall office 2004 test drive and you're already running Office vX, remember to reset the 'always open with' for .doc files etc, otherwise you'll get a weird error message whenever you double-click on a word doc.
Cheers, Tobes. > ---------- > From: Matthew Healey > Sent: Thursday, 20 May 2004 10:52 AM > To: WAMUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: Nasty little mess > > On 20/05/2004, at 9:10 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > > Warning Will Robinson!!! > > > > Just downloaded and tried to install the Office 2004 Test Drive. > > Warning bells started tot go off when it unceremoniously installed a > > heap of fonts which I know are already installed. No questions, no > > warnings, it just dumped them in. Apart from that, everything seemed > > to go OK until I launched Word. It got to the point of optimising the > > font menu and hung. And hung. And hung. > > > > Forced quit and tried again. This time the program would not get part > > the initial splash screen. Tried Excel, same thing. > > > > Along with the software an uninstaller is provided, so I ran that. > > Worked very quickly at dumping everything into the trash, INCLUDING > > THE FONTS! Now I can't empty the trash from the Finder because, > > naturally, it thinks the fonts are in use. Of course they are, because > > they were already installed. > > > > What a mess. Treat this with very great caution. It runs for you, > > great. Just don't try to remove it when you're finished. Time for some > > Terminal action... > > Had you gotten your Suitcase "issues" sorted out before you tried > running the test drive? > > Admittedly I have been testing Office2k4 for the better part of 6 > months and had not had a single issue like the one you described. > > - Matt > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro > >
