An update to a previous entry
http://www.geeklane.com/2011/07/06/office-2011-mac-–-crashing-when-copying-and-pasting/
I asked the user today if their version of Word was still crashing and they said it wasn’t. Seems that one check box is the problem.
Weird.
I recently had a staff member who was having trouble emailing word documents from within Word. To be honest I never actually realised you could do this. I’d never even thought about trying it.
Anyway, Word 2011 has a feature under the “File -> Share” menu that allows you to email the current document as an attachment.
The staff member was trying to use it with Outlook 2011, but the email kept being created in Mac Mail. I went into Mac Mail preferences and made sure Outlook 2011 was the default email client. I thought this was a systemwide setting and that other applications would use the setting when trying to send email.
Turns out that Word 2011 doesn’t use this setting as even with it set to Outlook, it still kept trying to use Mac Mail.
It was then that I discovered that Outlook 2011 has a setting under preferences -> general, that sets Outlook as the default email client.
We clicked this button and tried again and it worked.
So, why doesn’t Word 2011 use the default as set by Mac Mail? Why do I have to set it in Outlook for it to take notice? Seems a little strange to me.
I’ve spent a good part of the last week trying to get the unis windows 7 MOE to install on a bootcamp partition. Little did I know when I started that it was a complicated process with obstacles all along the way.
To cut a long story short I could not find a way to get the iMac to boot and pull the SCCM image via the network. I even tried booting from a set of SCCM OSD dvds that the sys admin guys burnt. That too didn’t work and kept bugging out when the SCCM installer would try to set the windows partition to be active.
So…. In the end the solution that worked is as follows:
* Run bootcamp assistant to setup the partition
* Insert a standard windows installation DVD and reboot
* Hold down the “Option” key to get a boot menu
* Select the dvd and then press the “Space bar” until the windows menu appears (See previous blog on why pressing space is needed)
* Install windows, use generic info because this install will be getting overwritten with the SCCM image soon.
* Once installed, insert the SCCM OSD disk and run the autorun.
* SCCM installer will kick off and start staging the image for deployment.
* System will reboot and installation will kick off
Doing it this way seems to get around the “Setting the partition active” problem. I guess if windows is already installed then the SCCM OSD installer just skips trying to set the partition as active.
So I managed to get the unis windows 7 SCCM image deployed to a bootcamp partition of an iMac. Monday will be time to kick DeployStudio into gear and create the dual boot master images. Then try to deploy it out to some other test systems.
Everything going ok I’m hoping to be deploying dual boot images to macs by the end of next week.
After that, it’s on to setting up Munki and getting it working.
I have a user at work who has been having constant and regular issues with Word 2011. I couldn’t really narrow it down but it will just crash and he will lose his work.
The common action he did when the crash happened was to cut/copy + paste.
Once again, trawling google and forums seems to have provided a solution (and yet again the actual microsoft support suggestions are useless).
In this case I got him to:
* Click the “Word” menu and choose “Preferences”
* In the window that opens, click “Edit” under the “Authoring and Proofing Tools” section
* The “Edit” window loads. About half way down is an option called “Use smart cut and paste”
* Untick this option so it’s NOT selected.
* Click “OK”
* Restart Word (cause microsoft stuff seems to like that)
* See how it goes.
I haven’t heard back from the user in 4 days, so for me that’s another issue solved.