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installing MS Office 4.21 on OS9.1
Name: Jim S Date: December 3, 2001 at 05:10:05 Pacific
Comment:
Has anyone found it possible to install this version of Office on a beige G3 / 300mhz sucessfully? It simply gives a message: office wa not sucessfully installed". Any feedback or suggestions appreciated.
Name: the pickle Date: December 3, 2001 at 09:26:09 Pacific
Reply:
Would suggest you not even attempt it. Office 4.2.1 will give you some serious compatibility problems when used with Mac OS 8.5 and up. Even Office 98 doesn't work perfectly with 8.5 and up - you have to apply a whole raft of updaters and patches to get it to work, and that *still* doesn't get the little control panel thingy working.
My advice: either get a used copy of Office 98 (do you *really* want to use Word 6 for anything? Didn't think so) for about US$50-75 on eBay, or just bite the bullet and upgrade to Office 2001 or Office X.
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Response Number 2
Name: Jim S Date: December 4, 2001 at 02:24:49 Pacific
Reply:
It seems possible alternatives could be:Star office was rumoured to be indevelopment for mac os x, or maybe appleworks 6.2, or corel wordperfect 3.5 enhancement pack
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Response Number 3
Name: arvind Date: February 1, 2002 at 03:00:05 Pacific
Reply:
Respected Sir/ Madam,
Here v r having mac 8.1 and i want to download office 98 for mac and i dont have any driver so can u tell me how to down load office 98for mac wthout driver i am ready to download frm the net and iam ready to install
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