Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Office 4.2 - Part 1 of 5

ID: Q124609

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, version 4.2

SUMMARY

The following information was published as part one of a five-part series in the 12.12.94 issue of MacWeek.

TIPS AND TRICKS FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE VERSION 4.2

Dear Mac User:

Microsoft is beginning a five-part series of tips and tricks about Microsoft Office Standard version 4.2, which includes Microsoft Excel 5.0, Word 6.0, PowerPoint 4.0, and a Microsoft Mail 3.1 workstation license. The first part of this series is on installation sizes. We hope you will find this information useful as you upgrade your organization to Office Standard version 4.2.

- The Microsoft Mac Team

PART 1: INSTALLATION SIZES AND WHAT THEY MEAN

Install no more than what you need!

The new versions of the Office programs are loaded with new features and functionality. We leave it up to you as to which features and functionality you want to load given your hardware and how you use the programs. In Office, we offer four installation options: Minimum, Typical, Complete, and Custom.

NOTE: For more information about the four installation options, see the Installation Options section below.

Most users should choose the typical installation. The chart below shows the amount of hard-disk space (in megabytes) necessary for each of the installation options:


   PRODUCT       68K MACINTOSH               POWER MACINTOSH
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                 Minimum  Typical Complete   Minimum  Typical Complete
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   Microsoft     6        10      22         11       15      27
   Excel 5.0
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   PowerPoint    7        14      35         9        16      37
   4.0
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   Word 6.0      5        10      23         6        11      25
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   Office        17       30      62         24       37      76*
   Standard 4.2
   -------------------------------------------------------------------

* For PowerMac Office, the figures shown are final installation sizes. Setup will need up to 20 megabytes of additional space on the hard disk in order to install properly. This space is used only during installation, and becomes available again once installation is complete.

Installation Options

Minimum install is recommended for PowerBooks or disk-constrained Macintosh computers. It installs only the necessary program files. All capabilities of the main program files are available.

Typical install is most common among our users, and is the default choice. This provides you with all of most popular features and functionality. It excludes such items as Remote Data Access in Microsoft Excel, Converters and Equation Editor in Word, and Clip Art in PowerPoint and Word. Of course, should you need these features, it is quite simple to reinstall them.

Complete install is recommended for power users, company support desks, and network server installations. It includes a wide range of converters and advanced programmability tools. Notice that in a Complete Install, the size of Office is less than the sum of the individual programs thanks to shared components such as spell checking, Microsoft Graph, and Word Art.

Custom install allows the user maximum flexibility to install only the features and components that he or she chooses. You can use the same process to uninstall previously loaded components to save disk space.

On a typical install, Office 4.2 actually takes up less space (as a % of hard drive) than Office 3.0.


                              1992 - Mac IIci   1994 - Power Macintosh 6100
   ========================================================================

   Hard -disk size**          80                170
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Size of Office             28 (version 3.0)  37 (version 4.2)
   (Typical Install)
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   % of Office to hard disk   35%               23%
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------

** Typical business Macintosh configuration.

We ship separate program files for 68K Mac installation and Power Macintosh installation in the box without any added cost to you. However, to save on disk space, we recommend that you install one or the other, not both. Most people do not have to install both files (i.e. "fat binary") on their desktop, although this is appropriate for network server installations.

Network Installations

For our networked customers, we provide two options:

Disk images on a network server location from which you can run a local installation.

Uncompressed images that you can run shared from the network.

Feature Tip: Have you met MOM?

Included in Office is Microsoft Office Manager (MOM). This utility allows you to work faster and easier within Office. From the MOM menu, you can launch or switch to any other program in Office by simply clicking an icon. This menu is fully customizable, so you can have additional programs at your fingertips.

Look out for Part 2 coming in the next issue! The topic will be RAM issues on 68K Mac and Power Mac.

Need More Information?

By Phone: Please call the Microsoft Sales Information Center at (800) 426-9400, and request the Mac Office Installation fact sheet. Ask for part number 098-58026. This will provide more details, including a specific list of the components included in each installation option.

By Fax: You can call Microsoft Sales Fax Services at (800) 727-3351 and request data sheets for any of the applications in Microsoft Office.

Online: See our AppleLink forum. Third Parties (H-O): Microsoft: Office: Tips&Tricks, Installation - for the Installation fact sheet.

On Product Disk: Check the "Readme Before Installation" or the "Office Readme - Network" files on Disk 1 of the application install disks.

A license to run one Microsoft Mail workstation is included in Microsoft Office Standard. The workstation license does not include Microsoft Mail software and requires Microsoft Mail Server (acquired separately) which contains all Mail software.

REFERENCES

"MacWeek," 12.12.94, "Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Office Version 4.2," page 45, The Microsoft Mac Team

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