RE: [WinMac] MS Office Red X of Death - Ahhhh!

John Hanks(jbh[at]bioserver.vsb.usu.edu)
Sun, 23 May 1999 14:35:44 -0500

Dwight,

I have occasionally had luck by opening the offending document on a PC which
does see all the images, selecting the entire document, copying it and
pasting it into a new document, saving the new document and moving it to the
Mac. Some hand waving and incomprehensible chants seem to help this
proccess, although that may be my active imagination.

Some other things you may want to do are to get the Office Update for OS8.5
and install it even if you are not using OS8.5 and disable fast saves in the
office apps (buried in the option dialog somewhere, I don't have a mac at
home to check exactly where.)

Hope this helps.

jbh

John Hanks
Computer Specialist
USU Dept. of Biology
Logan, UT

-----Original Message-----
From: Dwight Early [mailto:earlyd@erinet.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 1999 3:19 PM
To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
Subject: [WinMac] MS Office Red X of Death - Ahhhh!

OK, Gang, has anybody had any luck with the Microsoft Office apps and the
Red X of Death when trying to read documents using Win graphics in versions
of Word, Excel or PP 97 with Mac Office 98 apps?

I'm the lone Mac in a sea of PeeCee's and this is Red X of Death is killing
me.

I know that the MS Knowledge Base acknowledges the Red X, but offers no
solution.

TIA

--Dwight Early

P.S. This my home email address. During normal business hours Eastern
Time, use the following email address <dwight.early@ascfb.wpafb.af.mil>

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