using office for different login users

[diana_yeow]

Hi

I'm new to Mac and would appreciate any help. I have installed office using 1
user a/c and when I login to another user a/c , I could not see the office
programs. I found an earlier thread on this and the answer was to install
office on the root application folder instead of the user application folder.
reason being all programs installed in root application folder wil be
available to all users.

How do I check where I have installed it ? If i have installed it in the user
application folder , do I have to uninstall ? When I install the office, I
don't recall the s/w asking me where I want install it .

Can anyone advise ?
Thx a million

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Diana;

You neglected to indicate which version of OS X you're using so specifics
may vary a little, but in general...

When you install programs they're installed to the root Applications folder
by default, so that's where they should be unless you specified otherwise.

Just to confirm, double-click the hard drive icon & you will see an
Applications folder - that's the *root* applications folder. When you open
it you should see the Microsoft Office 2008 folder - regardless of which
user acct is logged in. If you log in as the other user you can drag the
application icons from that folder to that user's Dock.

I think the question may be "Where are you looking?". If you've gone no
further than the other user's Dock that may be why you don't "see" them -
the Dock icons are only created for the user account which is active at the
time the installation is done (usually the Admin user acct.). The result is
that the other users have access to the programs (via the Applications
folder) but the icons have to be added to the Dock manually. IOW, each user
can customize their environment based on what's made available to that
account. When you create or modify the other user accts you can deny them
access to just about anything you wish, but unless you do they have access
to all installed applications.

If you need further details consult the Mac Help for your version of OS X on
managing user accounts. Anything that isn't clear will be more likely
addressed in the Apple Discussions forum:

http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Diane Ross]

You neglected to indicate which version of OS X you're using so specifics
may vary a little, but in general...

If you did install Office in a User's application folder, you can drag it to
the root Application folder.

I can't remember exactly, but Office 2004 installs fonts differently, but if
you installed Office 2004 in a User's application folder, then your fonts
might not be installed for each user.

Office 2008 Font Install:

Office 2008 uses a different method for fonts and many fonts are new
versions. Office 2008 will install fonts to the /Library/Fonts/Microsoft
folder. By being at the root, then all users on the machine have access to
them and you don't get Office 2008 putting multiple copies on the machine
for each user.

The installer will scour /Library/Fonts/ and ~/Library/Fonts/ for fonts with
the same name and move them to /Library/Disabled Fonts/ or
~/Library/Disabled Fonts/ depending on where they were found.

Cheers and Welcome to Mac! I have a few tips and links posted to help new
users here:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/new2mac/index.html>