Installing Office 2004 on Intel?

  • Thread starter Corentin Cras-Méneur
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Hi,
As I am planning for my forced move to a MacBook Pro, I was wondering
if I have to go through the entire Office 2004 setup and all the
subsequent updates? Or can I move the Office 2004 folder and the User
Data folder? Or do I install, run all updates, then copy my MUD folder?
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Hum... I'm always tempted to use the installer to avoid possible
Permissions issues, but theoretically you could just drag the Office
folder from one computer to the other, and do the same for the prefs
and the MUD fodler.

Corentin
 
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scottc.melendez

As I am planning for my forced move to a MacBook Pro, I was wondering
if I have to go through the entire Office 2004 setup and all the
subsequent updates? Or can I move the Office 2004 folder and the User
Data folder? Or do I install, run all updates, then copy my MUD folder?
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

As I am planning for my forced move to a MacBook Pro, I was wondering
if I have to go through the entire Office 2004 setup and all the
subsequent updates? Or can I move the Office 2004 folder and the User
Data folder? Or do I install, run all updates, then copy my MUD folder?
Click to expand...

Far better to do a proper install.

There are support files scattered around that the office apps need to work
properly. Most of these are gathered into the 'Microsoft' folder in
~/Library/Preferences, but some are in other places as dictated by the
system (like the MDI importer needed by Spotlight).
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Barry Wainwright said:
Most of these are gathered into the 'Microsoft' folder in
~/Library/Preferences, but some are in other places as dictated by the
system (like the MDI importer needed by Spotlight).
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Very true!!! The spotlight importer is installed in /Library/Spotlight
by the 11.2.3 update.
Mostly everything installed in ~/Library will be automatically
reinstalled though (eg: the Fonts),

Corentin
 
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Jeremy Reichman

Far better to do a proper install.

There are support files scattered around that the office apps need to work
properly. Most of these are gathered into the 'Microsoft' folder in
~/Library/Preferences, but some are in other places as dictated by the
system (like the MDI importer needed by Spotlight).
Click to expand...

If you use the Migration Assistant in Mac OS X, this should take care of
moving your user account (and home directory data) -- and, I believe,
non-Apple applications -- to your new computer. If it doesn't move the
Office applications, at least all you have to do is install and update --
but you still save the time involved with getting your data from the old
system to new one.

It is a supported feature, even for PowerPC to Intel transitions, but each
system must support FireWire (and the old one should support Target Disk
Mode). There would be nothing stopping you, as I understand it, from cloning
your PowerPC system (with Disk Utility > Restore tab, for example) to an
external FireWire disk, and using that with the Migration Assistant on the
new computer.
 
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scottc.melendez

Thanks for the informaton. Apple is doing the data migration, but I
just wanted to make sure I'm not overlooking anything.

I'm very nervous about this...I am usually an early adopter, and i
oversee many beta programs from companies like IBM. I'm even tesing
Office 2007 and Vista betas. But my Mac is my work and home center, and
I wasn't planning on any transition until at least Office was native,
and probably Creative Suite. I'm very concerned about performance
issues with Rosetta applications; I'm hoping the hardware configuration
(2 Gb RAM and the 7200 RPM hard drive) will mitigate some performance
issues (in particular with Office and Entourage).

BTW...while my first impressions of Office 2007 are positive, I hope
the MacBU is wise enough to trim some of the fat. I spent the better
part of an evening configuring Word, Excel, and Outlook. The options
are almost overwhelming. I hope Entourage inherits some of Outlook's
organizational features (and interface).

Scott
 
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