Natalie I have found that using the disk utility to repair permissions often solves many weird problems. I'm not sure I recall this particular sort of problem but I have had plenty of others like not being able to drag and drop and menus not working. It may be a case of M$ updaters changing permissions and not getting it right - especially as the updaters were written for 10.1.x and 10.2.x.
Certainly worth a try. Cheers and good luck Greg > From: "Nathalie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 4 Jan 2004 14:52:11 -0000 > To: "WAMUG Mailing List" <wamug@wamug.org.au> > Subject: (HELP) M$ Office Weirdness > > Hello All: > > I am currently overseas with my laptop but without the original CDs of the > applications on my machine. I also have limited access to the internet, thus > this email in hopes that someone out there can help me. > > I am running 10.3.2 on a Titanium Powerbook 400Mhz. I recently installed > Jaguar and found (while on this trip) that Microsoft Word (not any other M$ > product) was quitting on me quite a bit in an unannounced way which was > causing me to lose data in large documents. > > I checked out the version of Office I was using and it was one which had not > been updated since installed from the CD. So, over 5 days here, every night I > would hook up my computer through a dial up internet connection and download > the multiple updates I needed. > > When I finally updated to the most recent version (10.1.5) I found that NONE > OF THE OFFICE PROGRAMS WORRKED ANYMORE. > > This is what happens: > > I click on the icon (Word, P.Point, Excel or Entourage), the splash screen > comes up. The program opens. When I attempt to click on the command bar (File, > Edit, etc) there is no result. I can't use any keyboard shortcuts to elicit a > response. I can't even quit out of the program, I have to use "Force Quit". > > All my other Apple and other software work fine. > > I have trashed M$ prefs in my Library folder copious times hoping for a fix, > none is available. I have updated my operating system with all available > updates--didn't work. I have attemoted to restart my computer many times in > hope the problem would fix itself. It didn't. > > I have a work document due in a few days and am starting to worry. Is there > anyone who can suggest anything out there? > > Looking forward to your responses... > > Regards, > Nathalie > > PS I wanted to email this to M$, but you need a M$ program to do that with. > Isn't that a great system? > > -- 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 > ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________
