Microsoft has released Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.1 Update which Microsoft says improves stability and fixes several issues.
This Update applies to:
• Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
• Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition
• Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition
• Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac
• Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 for Mac
• Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac
More info and download link here.
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I’m past worrying about MDN’s one-eyed view over Office versus iWork. I know what I need for work and what I use at other times. I use Office, iWork and Mellel. End of story!
My daughter spent the whole of last weekend preparing a PowerPoint 2008 presentation for school. The file then refused to open, and nothing that I did (even on trying to open the file on a native Windows-based laptop) would open the file.
The rescue came in from NeoOffice. It opened the whole file intact. I renamed it – at which point it opened natively in PowerPoint 2008!
BTW, if you’re a student/parent of student in the UK, you can buy an authorised copy of Office Mac 2008 for £37 from software4students. That’s a whole lot cheaper than iWork.
Grrr, grumble. I had to delete all of my Entourage keychain items and recreate them.
Even looks like I can quit and restart Office apps without having to reboot my Mac first.