[michael180]

I hope this is the right forum for this. Word for the Mac is extremely slow, and sluggish on my Mac Pro, it was the same on my iMac. Every-time I launch the program I get this message:



Is anybody else experienced this?

Thanks

[ghporter]

Uninstall it and then reinstall it. Something has corrupted it.

(And I fixed your title-it's "Mac", not "MAC". Yes, that's important.)

[Macola]

There's an update that may fix it...I had this problem a while ago and the update didn't help. I fixed it but can't remember how:
After you install Office 2004 for Mac SP2, you receive an error message when you start Entourage 2004 for Mac, Excel 2004 for Mac, PowerPoint 2004 for Mac, or Word 2004 for Mac

[michael180]

Thanks Macola, I found the found the update through Entourage. It's fine now.

ghporter, what's the difference between Mac, and MAC, why is that important?

Thanks all

[hookem2oo7]

I've always had to delete the database file that office creates in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2004 Identities/Main Identity

after deleting this file everything works as it should. I don't know what is stored in that database file (mail messages, settings...no idea) but i don't use Office for anything but word/excel/ppoint so deleting it is no big deal for me.

[analogika]

Originally Posted by michael180 

ghporter, what's the difference between Mac, and MAC, why is that important?

We're a little touchy, us Mac users.

MAC is an acronym for "medium access control", the unique numbers for every network interface. Or for "military airlift command" or any number of things.

"Mac" is not an acronym, it's an abbreviation of "Macintosh", a line of computers built by Apple.

Little things, but important to us. Like I said, we're a little touchy.

[ghporter]

"Military Airlift Command" ceased to be some time in the early 1990s (it's morphed into the "Air Mobility Command"). But with everything and its dog networked anymore, knowing that a Media Access Control address is an acronym and "Mac" is shorthand for "Macintosh" as in the apple or the computer just makes sense. And as analogika says, we're touchy.

For what it's worth, EVERY ethernet device has a (supposedly) unique hardware address that media access layer of the OSI model associates with a particular IP address so the router it's connected to knows where to send data. Wireless devices have something different, but it's the same length, the same format, and does the same thing, so it may as well be a MAC.