Mancow: I have a question for your site.
bug: LOL, ok?
Mancow: Why is it...that even if you pick the "Complete" option for the installation of Microsoft Office, it *still* asks for a CD if you attempt to use such things as the supposed built-in conversion filters?
bug: Because it is a Microsoft product?
Mancow: your wisdom truly knows no bounds...
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In my experience, the "complete" installation only installs the full app suite but leaves out a lot of the extras (like filters, templates, Excel macros, fonts, blah blah blah). On the Mac Office v.X suite, anyway, that happened to me several times.
Silly installer creators.
Posted by: Don | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 01:00 PM
I've noticed this most notoriously on Office 2000 and XP, I'm not sure about 2003. But it's annoying when you prepare a machine to be imaged with Norton Ghost that is to be cloned 300+ times, only to find out the features that were supposed to be installed weren't actually installed. Something else I failed to mention was the same happened even after doing a Custom installation and making sure every available component was checked to install! It's insanity, I tell you...
Posted by: Mancow | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 01:55 PM