May 08, 2014 Mavericks can run both Office 2008 and Office 2011. Office 2008 is end of life software and will receive no further updates. Surprisengly, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition Upgrade is only $39.90 on Amazon. Other version that have the same thing but without the Expressions Media are over $100. Try this: Make sure your PC is connected to the Internet. If Update Options is missing under Product Information, and the About button is the only option available, you either have a volume license or your company is using Group Policy to manage Office updates. Sep 06, 2015 My problem is, that I have a macbook late 08 and mac osx 10.10 is very slow. I like to use the nice Mac OSX Mavericks an the new Office 2016 is only for 10.10 (or higher). I can't remember the program were I can fix the installationrights. Thank you for you help. Jan 11, 2016 My problem is, that I have a macbook late 08 and mac osx 10.10 is very slow. I like to use the nice Mac OSX Mavericks an the new Office 2016 is only for 10.10 (or higher). I can't remember the program were I can fix the installationrights. Thank you for you help. I've not had any problems with Word on two systems upgraded to Mavericks but they're both on Word version 14.3.8 (the latest, I believe). – mjturner Oct 28 '13 at 15:39 Yeah, Office 2011, and Microsoft Auto Update reports no available updates.
Let’s take a closer look at windows themselves: how you move them, size them, and use them. And although OS X Mavericks windows are similar to windows you’ve used in other versions of Mac OS (and even, Windows), you may just discover a new wrinkle or two.
How to open and close windows in OS X Mavericks
To start peering into windows on your Mac, first you need to know how to open and close them. When you’re working in the Finder, you can choose the following commands from the File menu.
You’ll use many of these commands frequently, so it would behoove you to memorize the keyboard shortcuts.
- New Finder Window (Command+N): Opens a new Finder window. In other programs, Command+N might open a new document, project, or whatever that program helps you create.
- Open (Command+O): Opens the selected item, be it an icon, a window, or a folder.
- Close Window (Command+W): Closes the active window. If no windows are open or if no window is selected, the Close Window command is grayed out and can’t be chosen. Or if you prefer, you can close a window by clicking the red Close button in the top-left corner.
How to resize windows and window panes in OS X Mavericks
If you want to see more (or less) of what’s in a window, just hover the pointer over any edge or corner and drag. When the cursor turns into a little double-headed arrow click and drag to resize the window.
Display windows frequently contain multiple panes. The line divides the blue Sidebar to left and the actual contents of the window to the right. When your mouse pointer hovers over the resizing area of this bar, the cursor changes to a vertical bar (or it could be horizontal if the panes are one above the other) with little arrows pointing out of both sides, as shown in the margin.
When you see this cursor, you can click and drag anywhere in the dividing line that separates the Sidebar from the rest of the window. Doing so resizes the two panes relative to each other; one gets larger and one gets smaller.
How to move windows in OS X Mavericks
To move a window, click anywhere in a window’s title bar (or anywhere in the gray part of a display window, except on a button, menu, search field, or scroll bar) and drag the window to wherever you want it. The window moves wherever you move the mouse, stopping dead in its tracks when you release the mouse button.
How to shuffle windows in OS X Mavericks
The commands on the Window menu provide tools you can use to manage your windows. Here is a brief look at each of the items on the Window menu:
- Minimize (Command+M): Use this command to minimize the active Finder window to the Dock and unclutter your Desktop. It’s the same as clicking the yellow gumdrop button.
- Zoom: This command does the same thing as the green gumdrop button.
- Cycle Through Windows (Command+`): Each time you choose this command or use the keyboard shortcut for it, a different window becomes active.So if you have three windows — call ’em Window 1, Window 2, and Window 3 — and you’re using Window 1, this command deactivates Window 1 and activates Window 2. If you choose it again, the command deactivates Window 2 and activates Window 3. Choose it one more time, and it deactivates Window 3 and reactivates Window 1.
The next four commands in the Windows menu help you manage Mavericks’ new Finder window Tabs. If you’re a fan of tabbed browsing (à laSafari), you’ll love tabs even more in a Finder window.
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The modern Mavericks way of doing things lets you view multiple folders and disks in a single window, with each folder or disk in its own tab.
Tabbed windows are an ingenious way to cram a lot of information into a little space.
- Show Previous Tab (Ctrl+Shift+Tab): Each time you choose this command or use the keyboard shortcut for it, the previous tab — the one to its left, unless it’s the leftmost tab — becomes active.
- For example, Documents is the active tab. Use this command, and Applications becomes the active tab. Use it a third time, and Downloads becomes active. Because Downloads is the leftmost tab, if you use this command yet again, it wraps around and Documents becomes the active tab again.
- Show Next Tab (Ctrl+Tab): Same as above except in reverse. Instead of showing the previous tab (the one to the left), this command shows the next tab (the one to the right). Use this command three times in a row, and you see the Downloads, then the Applications, and finally the Documents tabs again.
- Move Tab to New Window: Does just what it says: Moves the active tab into a new window of its own.
- Merge All Windows: Combines all open windows and tabs in one window.You can click a tab and drag it left or right to change the order. You can also drag and drop a tab from one Finder window to another. The trick is to drag it right onto the tabs in the target window. If you drop it anywhere else, the tab will be displayed in a new window.
- Bring All to Front: In OS X Mavericks, windows from different applications interleave. For example, you can have (from front to back) a Finder window, a Microsoft Word window, an Adobe Photoshop window, another Microsoft Word window, and another Finder window.
- In this example, choosing Bring All to Front while the Finder is the active application enables you to have both of the Finder windows move in front of those belonging to Word and Photoshop.
- Other items: The remaining items on the Window menu are the names of all currently open Finder windows. Click a window’s name to bring it to the front.
Using OS X Mavericks you can open any icon in the Finder — whether it’s a file or a folder — in at least six ways. Anyway, here are the ways:
- Click the icon once to select it and choose File→Open.
- Click the icon twice in rapid succession.If the icon doesn’t open, you double-clicked too slowly. You can test (and adjust) your mouse’s sensitivity to double-click speed in the Mouse (or Trackpad) System Preference pane, which you can access by launching the System Preferences application (from the Applications folder, the Dock, or the App menu) and then clicking the Mouse (or Trackpad) icon.
- Select the icon and then press either Command+O or Command+down-arrow.
- Right-click or Control-click it and then choose Open from the contextual menu.
- If the icon is a document, drag it onto the application icon (or the Dock icon of an application) that can open that type of document.
- If the icon is a document, right-click or Control-click it and choose an application from the Open With submenu of the contextual menu.
You can also open any document icon from within an application, of course. Here’s how that works:
- Just launch your favorite program, and choose File→Open (or press Command+O, which works in most Mac programs).An Open dialog appears.When you use a program’s Open dialog, only files that the program knows how to open appear enabled (in black rather than light gray) in the file list. In effect, the program filters out the files it can’t open, so you barely see them in the Open dialog.This method of selectively displaying certain items in Open dialogs is a feature of most applications. Therefore, when you’re using TextEdit, its Open dialog dims all your spreadsheet files (because TextEdit can open only text, Rich Text Format, Microsoft Word, and some picture files).
- In the dialog, simply navigate to the file you want to open (using the same techniques you use in a Save sheet).Click a favorite folder in the Sidebar or use Spotlight if you can’t remember where the file resides.
- Select your file and click the Open button.
For what it’s worth, some applications allow you to select multiple files in their Open dialogs by holding down either Shift (for contiguous selections) or Command (for noncontiguous selections). If you need to open several files, it’s worth a try; the worst thing that could happen is that it won’t work and you’ll have to open the items one at a time.
Some programs, including Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop, have a Show or Format menu in their Open dialogs. This menu lets you specify the type(s) of files you want to see as available in the Open dialog. You can often open a file that appears dimmed by choosing All Documents from the Show or Format menu (in those applications with Open dialogs that offer such a menu).
How to use drag-and-drop in OS X Mavericks
Macintosh drag-and-drop is usually all about dragging text and graphics from one place to another. But there’s another angle to drag-and-drop — one that has to do with files and icons.
You can open a document by dragging its icon onto that of the proper application. You can open a document created with Microsoft Word, for example, by dragging the document icon onto the Microsoft Word application’s icon.
The Word icon highlights, and the document launches. Usually, of course, it’s easier to double-click a document’s icon to open it; the proper application opens automatically when you do — or at least, it does most of the time.
How to use Quick Look in OS X Mavericks
To use the Quick Look command to peek at the contents of most files in Open dialogs, right-click or Control-click the file and choose Quick Look, or use its easy-to-remember shortcut: Press the spacebar. Whichever way, you’ll soon see the contents of that file in a floating window without launching another application.
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The Quick Look window shows you the contents of many types of files.
Sometimes Quick Look even works on files the current application can’t open. For the most part, if a file can be selected in an Open dialog, you can probably view its contents with Quick Look. Quick Look is so wonderful it’s also available for icons in the Finder.
When your Mac can’t open a file in OS X Mavericks
If you try to open a file, but OS X can’t find a program to open that file, OS X prompts you with an alert window.
Click Cancel to abort the attempt to open the file, or click the Choose Application or Search App Store button to select another application to open this file.
If you click the Choose Application button, a dialog appears. Applications that OS X doesn’t think can be used to open the file are dimmed. For a wider choice of applications, choose All Applications (instead of Recommended Applications) from the Enable pop-up menu.
You can’t open every file with every program. If you try to open an MP3 (audio) file with Microsoft Excel (a spreadsheet), for example, it just won’t work; you get an error message or a screen full of gibberish. Sometimes, you just have to keep trying until you find the right program; at other times, you don’t have a program that can open the file.
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When in doubt, Google the file extension. You’ll usually find out more than you need to know about what application(s) create files with that extension.