1. the color change happens to me with utilities which work with colors
and for me has been harmless. The font change has happened to me when
I've spent long hours at the computer and seems harmless also--goes away
if I let the computer rest a few minutes.
2. Office is notoriously slow with PowerMacs. Excel especially needs for
you to allocate a lot of memory to it. Even Word needs more than what it
comes with.
3. I hope you know about the Word viruses and are either using virus
protection or not using your disks anywhere else or both? This is a real
problem that Mac users are not used to coping with.If you are using
Office then you will need to consider viruses!!
4. The good news: the System 7.5.3 update should be available at the Mac
ftp sites on Monday, March 11. It is really just recommended for
PowerMacs.
good luck
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Sandy Andrews
ozma@asu.edu
Melissa Martin <mmmartin@acay.com.au> wrote:
> I have recently purchased MS Office 4.21 for Power Macintosh.
>
> I loaded it all onto my Power Mac 7200/90 16/1G.
>
> Firstly the little Apple above the Apple Menu went black instead of
> being the usual rainbow of colours. Then the titles in each window
> changed from being the usual Chicago font to something else.
>
> I tried everything from removing the newly added extensions to removing
> the Office Manager. Eventually I deleted the Finder Prefs file. This
> fixed the problem.
>
> However, when I started up Excel, all the titles changed back to the
> other font again. Each time I remove the Finder Prefs file it fixes the
> problem. If I open anything else up it is fine. It is only when I then
> open Excel that the titles change font again.
>
> While this is only a minor cosmetic thing, I am concerned that there are
> other things going on in the background that I cannot see. When the
> first problem arose (the black apple), the system became very unstable
> with all sorts of nasty memory messages coming up (I rebuilt the desktop
> to no avail). I tried to delete one file with NO applications open and
> the computer crashed. On restart it got to the Mac OS screen and it
> restarted itself again.
>
> Is this simply a minor Excel bug (to add to the long list), or is there
> something I can do? Please help!