Help Please. I am setting up my macbook pro for a second user but office didn't transfer over. Is there a way to have additional users on the same comp have office available without having to re-install it for each user?

mpr130 wrote:
Help Please. I am setting up my macbook pro for a second user but office didn't transfer over. Is there a way to have additional users on the same comp have office available without having to re-install it for each user?
How did you attemp to transfer Office?
OS X Lion: Set up a guest account

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bug,
Apparently the transfer stopped part way through.
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on the now exposed area, touches the frame the external monitor will stop working.
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OK so I'm a little confused here:
able to confirm that when plugged into a monitor the computer still works.
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Welcome to Apple discussions.
Your post was hard to follow, but, for openers, very few people should EVER use terminal commands. As you have found out, you can screw a system up badly.
So much for the lecture.
OS X requires a system administrator password when anyone tries to install software that will affect the operating system. This is an Apple security feature that keeps people from, hopefully, doing dumb things to their system.
You cannot use a "friends" disk on a system that differs from your own.
Bottom line, you need to reinstall the operating system (whatever came with the system). If it is OS X 10.5, you could do an archive and install.
There is no way that I know of to undo the damage caused by entering the arcane terminal commands.
Barry

Help Please. I am setting up my macbook pro for a second user but office didn't transfer over. Is there a way to have additional users on the same comp have office available without having to re-install it for each user?

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