Re: Nagging Excel & Word

2009-04-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, Hehe... I'm not really a fan of MS in general either! Unfortunately I do a lot of work in Excel and have quite some time invested in various spreadsheets with macros etc (which is why I won't be upgrading to Office 2008). Also I guess I have years of experience with Excel and actually q

Re: Nagging Excel & Word

2009-04-17 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Neil, I don't know what to suggest, I don't use Microsoft Office, I try not to use anything Microsoft ;-) Do you have "Enable Stealth Mode" activated in "Advanced"? The Leopard application firewall also only blocks inbound connections; it won’t prevent programs from making outbound con

Re: Nagging Excel & Word

2009-04-17 Thread Neil Houghton
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...

Re: Nagging Excel & Word

2009-04-17 Thread Ronda Brown
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

Nagging Excel & Word

2009-04-16 Thread Neil Houghton
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