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bmarrene - Jul 4, 2005 - 7:44 pm

Hi

I have Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac installed on the desktop on my powerbook. The entire software is in one file. Every time I try to seperate Microsoft Word from the file onto its own icon on the desktop, it copies it but it wont open. How do I get it to let me have a Word icon by itself and it actually work?

Thank you

Bonnie

rykummer - Jul 4, 2005 - 8:04 pm

Hi Bonnie,

Thank you for contacting MacOSX.com support.

You can leave the program in place and create a link to the program on your desktop by following these instructions:

-Control+click the icon for the program you want to link (i.e. Microsoft Word),
-Select 'Make Alias',
-Drag and drop the alias to your desktop.

This will create a link to the program called (for example) "Microsoft Word alias".

You can rename the alias by Control+clicking the icon on your desktop and selecting "Get Info", then "Name & Extension".

I hope this helps.

If you have further questions, please reply.

Best Regards,
Ryan

rykummer@macosx.com

bmarrene - Jul 6, 2005 - 9:30 pm

Ryan,

Thank you so much! You are a huge help! It worked just great!

Bonnie