June 24, 2008 at 9:11 pm · Filed under Mac for PC Users, Predictions, Software
Last Fall I in a post about the frustrations of using a Mac in a corporate setting where Microsoft’s Exchange provides calendaring, contacts, and email, I considered the possibility of support for Exchange in Apple’s native applications.
If that is true, I’d have to say that while that while that is a great move on behalf of the iPhone, there is likely another story here. That story: Full Microsoft Exchange support with an Apple authored application. Far fetched? iWork’s interoperability with Microsoft Office’s Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents is proudly displayed on the iWord ‘08 landing page already. And, if Apple was going to make the iPhone play nice with Exchange, I’d find it hard to believe that a desktop solution wasn’t also in the works.
Well, it’ll be a bit more of a wait, but eventually it is to be. A colleague recently pointed me to a page on Apple’s site for the next version of OS X, “Snow Leopard.” The page confirms Exchange support for Mail.app, iCal and Address Book.
Microsoft Exchange Support
Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 built into Mail, Address Book, and iCal. Mac OS X uses the Exchange Web Services protocol to provide access to Exchange Server 2007. Because Exchange is supported on your Mac and iPhone, you’ll be able to use them anywhere with full access to your email, contacts, and calendar.
Why this feature isn’t coming sooner is my only question!
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March 12, 2008 at 9:01 pm · Filed under Tips, Miscellaneous, Support, Software
I just installed the retail version of Office 2008 for Mac and ran in to a problem. After running the installer, I started experiencing font issues. Safari specifically was having issues. I’m not the only one who has experienced this; it’s an issue that reared its head during the Beta testing but apparently didn’t get taken care of completely before Office shipped.
Avoiding font issues when installing Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
It’s simple: When the Installer recommends that you close ALL applications, take the installer’s advice. If you do so, you should be in the clear.
Correcting font issues after installing Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
If you didn’t heed the installer warning and you’re reading this post, you likely have some interesting font issues. The problem stems from the installation of fonts which took place as a part of the Office 2008 installation. Here’s how to bring things back to normal:
- Open the Font Book application
- Look for fonts which have a circle indicator next to their name. This indicates that there are duplicate versions of the font installed.
- Expand the font and identify the variant (bold, italic, condensed, etc.) of the font that has the issue (or variants).
- Click on one of the font variants and click Command-I to Show Font Info
- Identify which of the fonts is the original version, and which was later installed (look for the “Duplicate” attribute toward the bottom of the criteria in the right-hand side pane showing the font information. If it says ‘yes’, this is the one you’ll want to remove).
- To remove the font variant, Control+Click on the font/variant name to remove.
- Continue to do this until you’ve removed all the newly installed, duplicated fonts.
- Restart your Mac. Everything should be back to normal.
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