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Office 2011: Bypass new installation "Welcome" screens on multiple users

Hello.

I've just installed Microsoft Office 2011 on 16 Mac Pros running OS X 10.5 (not server)

Each machine has 10 users.

I would ideally like Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint to load up automatically on a new blank page on each user on each machine WITHOUT having to go through the "welcome screens"...i.e.

NOT:

- The "Enter the following information to personalize your copy...." screen
- The "Keep Office to Mac up to date" screen
- The "What's new in Word:mac" screen
- And the "Word Document Gallery" screen.

Are there some preference files I can copy to each user from the Admin account or something similar? There must be a way so that I don't have to go through registering each user on each computer (i.e. 160 times).

Many thanks in advance for any assistance you can pass on.

Regards

Lawrence

Mac Pro suite, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Office 2011 updated to most recent version

Posted on Mar 5, 2011 5:45 AM

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Posted on Mar 5, 2011 8:06 AM

I know it's much more satisfying to handle issues here but, considering the scope of your issues and the newness of O2011, the Microsoft Mac forums may be the better resource. They have a number of decently qualified MS employees who know Macs, in addition to end users.

The Office for Mac forums are here:

http://www.officeformac.com/productforums/

I surf that site from time to time and it seems a high-functioning and useful resource.
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Mar 5, 2011 8:06 AM in response to saleemmartin

I know it's much more satisfying to handle issues here but, considering the scope of your issues and the newness of O2011, the Microsoft Mac forums may be the better resource. They have a number of decently qualified MS employees who know Macs, in addition to end users.

The Office for Mac forums are here:

http://www.officeformac.com/productforums/

I surf that site from time to time and it seems a high-functioning and useful resource.

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