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just to update- the problem was a dodgy font, but I couldnt work out which one! I just uninstalled all the fonts I had put on, and the problem has totally dissapeared. I seem to have had the same problem with quark 6. It has worked fine for months, then the other day, whenever I tried to open...

great. thanks for all the help guys. will try those suggestions asap thanks for the help

thanks guys, seems to be a dodgy font then. Strange as none of my other apps have a prob with loading them. will have to do a bit of investigation. cheers for the help. bez

Thanks for the reply mate. I have extra fonts installed, but ive had office on for about 5 months now and never had a problem. I have just deleted all the preferences for it, but it still quits on startup. Anyone got anything i can try? Thanks for the quick reply.

Hi everyone, I have a bit of a strange problem at the moment. When I open up microsoft word, as the programme is loading, I get the little spinning colour wheel, then a dialogue box appears containing this: Microsoft word has unexpectadly quit. The system and other applications have not...

Thanks. So will booting from the cd give me my current password?

Hi all, I am a mac novice so if this question seems a little dumb please excuse me. Last night I accidently locked the padlock on my preferences, stopping me changing them. Obviously I clicked on the padlock, which prompted the adminisrator user name and password. Now when I entered the password...

Hi all, are there any sites online that have any decent free downloadable games for the mac? Also, when I had my old imac, I downloaded a snes emulater from somewhere, but cant remember. Anyone know where I should look? cheers

the screen is an lcd monitor ( samsung syncmaster 172w). Thanks for the reply. It makes sense now you have explained it like that, that the powerbook will just mirror the resolution it is displaying. Its just nice t have a bigger screen to work on when I am at home. Thanks for your help

thanks very much guys, very helpful. :D

Hi everyone, I am new to the forum, and a bit of a mac novice so any advice would be greatly appreciated. What I would like to know is, is there an add/ remove programmes thing like there is in windows if you want to uninstall some software, game etc? I presume that dropping it in the trash is...

Thanks for replying .Sorry I am not being cleare, I am a bit of a computer novice. What I mean is that I cant get my powerbook to to fill the screen of my widescreen monitor, resolution 1280*768. I can get it to mirror what is on the screen of the powerbook, but it does not fill the screen of...

anyone?

Hi all. I have recently purchased a 17" widescreen monitor for my pc, with the intention of hooking up my 12" powerbook when I use it at home. The problem I am having is getting the mac to output in the correct resolution for the 17 " monitor.The powerbook gives me the resolutions to choose from...

Hi all, I am new to the forum and have recently updated my old imac to a powerbook G4. I can not get my broadband supplied by bt to work as they have not created the drivers for the system yet. Can I download the appropriate ones anywhere off the web, or has anyone else had this problem and...