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    Office 2004 and Office 2008 for Mac Update (08-2008)

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by ValkyrieLenneth, Aug 13, 2008.

  1. ValkyrieLenneth

    ValkyrieLenneth Notebook Evangelist

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    Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.1 Update

    Aside from the security fix, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.1 Update [14.5MB] also updates the Japanese postal code dictionary in Entourage and fixes an issue that causes Word 2004 to close unexpectedly when opening a document that contains a numbered list.
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...0C-3F62-4D18-BF45-881655683BD5&displaylang=en


    Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.2 Update

    The 12.1.2 update for Office 2008 for Mac [159.6MB] is more substantial, repairing a global issue that prevented all Office 2008 applications from running AppleScript scripts from the Script menu, while also delivering a number of individual fixes for Word, Excel and Entourage.

    More specifically, Microsoft said Word should now launch more quickly and tables will no longer included random instances of bold text. Other changes improve the display of form fields and the reliability of headers & footers in the word processing application.

    Meanwhile, Excel should now open spreadsheet files that contain invalid characters and see improvements to the overall performance of calculations. Number formatting for some international languages and stability when saving workbooks that contain PivotTable reports has also been improved.

    One of the major focus areas for Entourage was to improve stability when using Microsoft Sync Services, Microsoft said. In particular, Tuesday's update fixes an issue that where all contacts in Entourage or in the Apple Address Book would be deleted and re-created when you use Microsoft Sync Services. It should also prevent duplication of events and other items in Entourage or in iCal.

    Other changes to Entourage focused on improving junk mail filtering, recurring calendar events, time zone information, embedded images, and the reliability when Entourage establishes a encrypted channel.

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...0D-BE80-4ADE-856A-EA542F7D84E1&displaylang=en


    Hope you guys like it :)
     
    ValkyrieLenneth, Aug 13, 2008
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  2. WilliamG

    WilliamG Notebook Deity

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    I downloaded this yesterday. Yep, Word opens more quickly now. It was pretty ridiculous before...
     
    WilliamG, Aug 13, 2008
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  3. HLdan

    HLdan Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yes, I am so glad that Word is much faster at launching. I know MS purposely dumbed down the Mac version. The older Office 2004 was screaming fast on the PPC Macs.
     
    HLdan, Aug 13, 2008
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