Cant get mac ms office into shared app folder

[ChuckScudder]

latest and greatest of parallels and mac OS- installed parallels 6 and put outlook in Windows to get exchange email . But can't get Mac Word and Excel available in Windows to open Outlook attachments. Have tried everything I've read on boards - macfuze, un/reinstall tools, etc. I presume they have to be in the Shared app folder, but can't get them there. any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[joevt]

Do you have "Share Mac applications with Windows" enabled in Virtual Machine -> Configure -> Options -> Applications? Maybe try deselecting it, then reselecting it again.

Try reinstalling Parallels Tools.

Do you have Mac Word and Excel in your Mac's /Applications/Microsoft Office folder?

When "Share Mac applications with Windows" is enabled, Parallels Desktop and/or Parallels Tools creates an .exe (in \Application Data\Parallels\Shared Applications) of each .app on your Mac.

I do not know how Parallels chooses which apps to put in the Shared Applications folder. Apparently, they don't need to be on the Mac OS X partition. Maybe you just need to run the Mac app so that the Mac knows about it and Parallels will know about it too.