Hi all, This problem seems to have arisen since I recently updated Office 2004.
I have the OSX firewall set to "Set access for specific services and applications" - so when an application wants to accept an incoming connection a dialog box pops up asking if I want to allow or deny connections for that application and, normally, once set that's the end of it. Now with Office 2004 - I allow Entourage (hard to get email otherwise) but block Excel and Word - since I see no reason to allow them. Everything works fine - Word & Excel don't actually need to connect - but I still keep getting the popup box asking me if I want to allow the connection (with "allow" preselected as default!) - even though it is already set to block in OSX preferences. I then duly select "block" and proceed as normal! It doesn't happen every time I open Excel or Word - but it happens often enough to be annoying - as yet I haven't noticed any specific pattern to what causes it. It seems to happen more frequently with Excel - but that could just be because I use Excel much more than Word! I don't remember the problem before I upgraded Office 2004, in fact I don't remember being asked to allow/deny for Word/Excel prior to the upgrade (though I'm not certain about that). So, a couple of queries: 1) Is this just normal behaviour (ie normal MS annoying feature) - do other users find this happens for them (assuming you have the firewall set to block incoming connections for Excel & Word). 2) Is there anything else to set (preferences anywhere?) so that once the firewall is set to block it just accepts that and doesn't keep trying to change my mind!! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
