All of a sudden my Office for Mac 2004 started to crash on it's own. Word, Excel and Powerpoint refuses to open, Entourage works just fine.
It ain't a corrupted file, I double-click on the app icon and all I get is a error message. Tried deleting all microsoft.plist, repairing permissions, new account, all of that and then reinstall the package and update everything but still no go.
Any ideas? It's kinda urgent as I need Excel to work on spreadsheets that has macros...
So it crashes when you log in to a new user account too?
If so download Font Finagler and clear all font caches first.
If that doesn't work you may have a bad font in Library/Fonts. Move all fonts out of it to a folder and try again. Not System/Library/Fonts! It has fonts you need to rum the system. That should be reserved for the basic System fonts, unless you've moved fonts into it there should only be around 40 or so fonts by default.
-deleted Office folder -searched with Spotlight and deleted anything Microsoft-related (fonts, plist, but not Entourage identities) -emptied trash -fixed permissions with Disk utility -re-install everything back -fixed permissions -re-install updates -fixed permissions
And now not even Entourage works anymore, so I'm downloading Libre Office and I hope I can work with my macros in it...
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I've been using 2011 for a few years without any problems. But the last two software updates have been primarily related to Office 365 (the subscription model that I'm not gonna bother with), so now I get these occasional error messages telling me that Office 365 can't locate the server. WTF? Is MS gonna revive the practice of slamming?
Could be the Entourage identities folder. All Office programs use that also.
So you decided not to try the font thing I mentioned? Oh well. Good luck. I'm moving on then.
Seriously? I said right there that I deleted it all too! Anyway, Entourage is the only one that was working to begin with, it stopped working after I messed around with it some more.
But then I did a safe boot, uninstalled everything (again!), emptied the trash, moved all my fonts to the trash (all but system fonts - and left it there), reinstalled everything back (yet again!!) and only managed to get Entourage working again.
Also, Libre Office doesn't handle well my macros, so I'm stuck until I can reformat the whole disk - crappy solution the Microsoft way...
You said you deleted only MS fonts at first. Since you now only left System fonts, run Font Finagler, it could still be a font in the font caches somewhere. How many fonts are listed in System/Library/Fonts?
Can you launch anything MS in Safe Boot mode to see if it is a third party item or font.
Open the Terminal (located in Applications/Utilities) Type: sudo update_prebinding -root / -force and press Return. When prompted for a password, enter your admin password, you won't be able to see characters being typed, and press Return again. The process is complete when the Terminal returns to a normal prompt. Type exit and press Return.
so I'm stuck until I can reformat the whole disk - crappy solution the Microsoft way...
Not really. Not sure what version of the OS you are running but you can reinstall the system over the one you have. 10.5 and earlier calls it Archive and install, 10.6 does an A&I by default.
No security updates or Safari install were made in the last 20 days, so I don't think that was the issue. Only thing it could be - because it's browser-related - is that I was trying some browsers to see which one is best for my PPC. Maybe some of them made that, I don't know...
Anyway, already archived/installed and everything works just fine now. It was easier and faster than I thought, only thing is that I have to re-do some configs but that's minor. Thanks for the help.
It is the same video but he changed the download link version in his 'About" section. Make sure you hang on to the older plug-in case the new one doesn't work right.
It does work, I already tried it for some time. Too bad TenFourFox doesn't support plugins, so everytime I want to play Avengers Alliance on FB I have to logon with Safari... :p