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 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.
I’m currently building a dual boot MOE image for our mac labs and came across a weird problem when trying to install windows 7 under bootcamp.
The bootcamp assistant would run fine, partition the drive then reboot. I had a windows 7 cd in the drive but the iMac would just reboot and display a black screen with a flashing white cursor in the top left corner of the display.
I trawled support forums for a few days looking for ideas but non of the many suggested worked until I tried the following:
From there the windows installation kicked off and worked as expected.