Hi Ronni, No, there is a little application called Microsoft AutoUpdate which takes care of all the applications in the Office package - but I have it set to check manually to avoid this sort of thing :(
Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 17/4/09 7:41 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: > Hello Neil, > > On 17/04/2009, at 2:39 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: >> >> 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). > > Perhaps all Microsoft Products (Entourage, Excel, Word, etc) check for > updates when you launch the application. > Therefore they need access to the Internet. > >> >> 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!! > > Have you checked the Preferences of both Excel & Word to see if you > have "check for Updates" enabled? > > Cheers, > Ronni > > -- 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> -- 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>
