[Kelvasco]

Hey,

I have an iMac 2.4ghz 4gb ram (Aluminium desgin) and today I put Microsoft Office 2008 on it. I took it from a portable pen drive that my mum sent down for me (have a unlimited style copy at home so no illegalness), anyway everytime I start the app it immediatly dissapear and reports an error.

Could anyone help? Need help a.s.a.p as I need this for uni.

Thanks.

Kevin

[MacNNUK]

Is it installed, or just copied, maybe that's the problem.

OS ?

Perhaps you're using an old incompatible version of Mac OS ?

[Kelvasco]

Hey,

It's a copied version running the latest software for Office and Mac OSX. I also have tried to install it but it crashes at the end. Have tried it on my friends brand new Macbook and it works fine.

Hope this helps.

Kevin

[Cold Warrior]

Don't try to open it after installing. Instead, download the latest updates and apply them in order (again, without opening any other office app in between updates).

Go to this page: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx
Scroll to the bottom and you'll see a link for Office 2008. Click it and you'll see the downloads.

[Doc HM]

I have found MS Ofice to be one of the few apps that rarely objects to just being drag copied to a new volume. Must be to do with MS's non standard approach to where application support files go.
However, sometimes things can go all runny. I agree, running updaters from the MS site would be a good start.