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Can't Quit Any Application
Authored by: 128K Mac on Dec 07, '01 09:43:33PM

Sorry, but wish I had your problem. All Office X applications, i.e., Entourage, Word, Excel, etc. refuse to quit. Command-Q closes all windows. Sometimes app's menu bar remains, sometimes not, but bottom line is I get a beach ball.

My new way to "quit" is command-option-ESC as force quit is the only thing that works. Doesn't seem to hurt anything (yet) but isn't something I'm that happy with.



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Can't Quit Any Application
Authored by: 128K Mac on Dec 08, '01 12:15:11AM

Found an odd old folder, Adobe Type 1 fonts circa 1995 or so, in my Classic System folder. Removed them, logged in and out, and now I *can* quit although I seem to now belong to the present group, i.e., takes 1-2 minutes to quit *all* Office X applications, with Entourage X being the slowest. Anyone else having long wait time on quitting other apps, especially Word X?

Since major part of problem is gone and was font related I'm wondering if:

1. I don't have the "right" (Microsoft TT fonts from Office 2001 rather than Apple equivalent) fonts in Classic's System folder

2. Corrupt font list created when Classic launches as I always manually launch Classic

(Related to article by webmaster robg 12/07/01 in some way?)

Mac is G4 DP 450 with1.5 GB.



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Force Quitting
Authored by: rich13 on Apr 06, '02 08:56:04AM
Yes, I'm having to force quit Entourage too - does anyone know if this will be doing anything any damage? If so, is there a way to clean up or check things after a force quit?

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