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AU_student_iceBook · May 22, 2004, 11:30 AM

For those of us that aren't upgrading to office 2004, does anyone that has it want to extract the splash screen and put them on the net were everyone can download them?

mdc · May 22, 2004, 12:02 PM

do you know where the splash screens are? if you do you can download the office 2004 trail. i see the advert for it on this page right now, so refresh your browser a few times. then you have 30 days to extract them.

AU_student_iceBook · May 22, 2004, 02:30 PM

Originally posted by mdc:
do you know where the splash screens are? if you do you can download the office 2004 trail. i see the advert for it on this page right now, so refresh your browser a few times. then you have 30 days to extract them.

That's not a bad idea....I don't know where the resources are, but I can poke around in there.

If I find it and make it I will post them and let you guys know.

Jaey · May 22, 2004, 10:25 PM

Just out of curiousity, why do you want the splashes?

d4nth3m4n · May 22, 2004, 11:58 PM

Originally posted by Jaey:
Just out of curiousity, why do you want the splashes?

sounds like he wants to doll up the old office as office 2004.

AU_student_iceBook · May 23, 2004, 12:15 AM

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
sounds like he wants to doll up the old office as office 2004.

Yep, something like that.

Basically, there's no way in crap I will upgrade to the new version of office....but the new icons and splash screen look sweet. A much needed update to the aged look of the office suite.

I will post an update when/if I make some headway.

SwarmyCurve · May 23, 2004, 02:08 AM

Originally posted by AU_student_iceBook:
Yep, something like that.

Basically, there's no way in crap I will upgrade to the new version of office....but the new icons and splash screen look sweet. A much needed update to the aged look of the office suite.

I will post an update when/if I make some headway.

You have 1TB of disk space but you won't upgrade for Office 2004? Seems like you have enough money.

kovacs · May 23, 2004, 05:13 AM

Originally posted by AU_student_iceBook:
Yep, something like that.

Basically, there's no way in crap I will upgrade to the new version of office....but the new icons and splash screen look sweet. A much needed update to the aged look of the office suite.

I will post an update when/if I make some headway.

You like the new icons

Synotic · May 23, 2004, 10:27 AM

I wasn't exactly sure the best way to distribute these.. so it's a collection of .icns files, with the icons pasted over them, and the splashes distributed as .pict files, which they are in the resource fork.

Anyways.. it's worth a shot

splash and icons

Stradlater · May 23, 2004, 12:07 PM

Originally posted by AU_student_iceBook:
Yep, something like that.

Basically, there's no way in crap I will upgrade to the new version of office....but the new icons and splash screen look sweet. A much needed update to the aged look of the office suite.

I will post an update when/if I make some headway.

1. The new version of Office is much better and worth the purchase.

2. The new icons are nothing special.

3. The new splash screens suck.

AU_student_iceBook · 01:35 PM

Originally posted by Synotic:
I wasn't exactly sure the best way to distribute these.. so it's a collection of .icns files, with the icons pasted over them, and the splashes distributed as .pict files, which they are in the resource fork.

Anyways.. it's worth a shot

splash and icons

Thanks Synotic! I appreciate you doing that.

UPDATE: It is all done now...thanks Synotic...my old word has a face lift.

AU_student_iceBook · May 23, 2004, 01:32 PM

Stuff originally posted by Stradlater is bold:
1. The new version of Office is much better and worth the purchase.
I can understand that for some people it is worth it, for how little I use the office suite now, it just isn't worth it for me.

2. The new icons are nothing special.
That's cool, I just like them.

3. The new splash screens suck.
If you want the resources to the old ones, I can hook you up.

Jaey · May 23, 2004, 01:49 PM

I don't have Office '04, so I don't know how good it is, but looking at those icons and splashes, I have to agree with Stradlater. They suck.

Stradlater · May 23, 2004, 02:10 PM

Originally posted by AU_student_iceBook:
[B]Stuff originally posted by Stradlater is bold:
If you want the resources to the old ones, I can hook you up.

I might cook up some custom ones sometime soon, but I'm not sure it's worth it since you barely see them; both of the defaults just really don't do it for me.

AU_student_iceBook · May 23, 2004, 03:22 PM

Originally posted by Stradlater:
I might cook up some custom ones sometime soon, but I'm not sure it's worth it since you barely see them; both of the defaults just really don't do it for me.

If you ever do, be sure to post them!

eatinwokout · May 23, 2004, 07:25 PM

How can the splash screen in office 04 be changed? Where are they located.. i wanted to change mine to somehthing else.

AU_student_iceBook · May 23, 2004, 11:15 PM

Originally posted by eatinwokout:
How can the splash screen in office 04 be changed? Where are they located.. i wanted to change mine to somehthing else.

I used this piece of software to change mine:

http://www.macupdate.com/download.ph...stallcsi22.sit

It worked great and you can substitute any image you create for the splash screens for the applications it supports.

Good Luck.

eatinwokout · May 24, 2004, 02:29 AM

Originally posted by AU_student_iceBook:
I used this piece of software to change mine:

http://www.macupdate.com/download.ph...stallcsi22.sit

It worked great and you can substitute any image you create for the splash screens for the applications it supports.

Good Luck.

The plugins for the CSI splash screen program does not support office 04 yet. I was talking with the developer it.