Office 2008 12.1.1 Update Published

[guru_ck]

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/mo...4058&mode=info

What's new in this version:

* Stability is improved.
* Dates in a chart are displayed correctly in Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac and in Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 for Mac.
* Fixes an issue that causes spaces between words to be lost when you open a document that was created in or saved by Word 2008 for Mac or by Microsoft Office Word 2007.
* Fixes an issue that causes OnOpen and OnClose macros not to run correctly in versions of Word for Mac and Word for Windows that support Visual Basic macros.
* Fixes an issue that prevents Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 (SP1) from opening Word documents when you double-click the document or when you download the document from a Web site.
* Fixes issues that cause items in Notebook Layout documents to be displayed incorrectly or to lose information. This issue occurs when the document is saved in an Open XML Format such as .docx and then is saved in .doc format or is converted by the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.
* Fixes an issue that causes the font size to change unexpectedly for text in a table that is formatted with a table style or with the Autoformat feature.
* Fixes an issue that causes Word to display the following error messages:
Word was unable to save the document as the file type you specified.
* A file error has occurred. Check your network connections or make sure the disk is properly inserted and not defective.
* Fixes an issue that causes Excel 2008 to reject the entry of international decimal separators in some Error Amount entry boxes. This issue occurs when you create error bars for a Line chart or for a Scatter chart.
* Fixes an issue that prevents charts from being updated correctly. This issue occurs when the chart uses data that is calculated by a function such as TODAY, RAND, RANDBETWEEN, INDIRECT, and OFFSET.
* Fixes an issue that prevents Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 (SP1) from opening workbooks when you double-click the workbook or when you download the workbook from a Web site.
* Fixes an issue that prevents Excel 2008 from resolving a reference or a link to a sheet name that resembles a cell reference such as “foo1” or “ark50.”
* Fixes an issue that causes the following behavior in Excel 2008:
Excel 2008 does not calculate formulas when you open a workbook.
Excel 2008 unexpectedly displays the following error message when you edit or recalculate a formula:
* Fixes an issue that causes embedded movies in a workbook to be duplicated, one behind the other, in a workbook that is saved in the .xls format.
* Fixes an issue that sometimes causes a loss of data when you use Excel 2008 SP1 to save a workbook in the Excel 5.0 Workbook format or in the Excel 95 Workbook format.
* Fixes several issues that cause problems when you work with PivotTable reports.
* Fixes an issue that causes Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 (SP1) to take a long time to open a presentation. This issue occurs when the presentation contains text that uses certain fonts, such as fonts in the “DFP” family.
* Fixes an issue that causes Entourage 2008 to exit unexpectedly when you wake the computer from sleep. For example, this issue occurs when you close and then open the lid of a portable computer.

[MM07]

Installing this now. Thanks for the head's up.

[Full of Win]

Less than 30 seconds ago I got the urge to check for an update while using Word 2008 - and I thought to myself that would just be a waste of time.

Wow - kinda spooky.

[Watabou]

Installing now. 153 MB I see. Pretty big. Hopefully this will make Word start up faster.

EDIT: It's actually 476MB now that installer started up. It took about 5 minutes just to check "additional volumes".

Another EDIT: Finished installing. Even when Word was opened once, it started up in 4 seconds. That is an improvement by a bit.

[MM07]

Also more in depth info here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953822

For me the apps seem to open up much quicker.

[Wicker]

* Fixes an issue that prevents Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 (SP1) from opening Word documents when you double-click the document or when you download the document from a Web site.

Finally!

Wonder if my system will break if I try and install this... think I'll give it a day or two and put up with the non-opening documents meanwhile...

[Dany M]

Right after i downloaded it i slimmed it in xslimmer and then i opened word and it was fast!!! ame for powerpoint

[daneoni]

....and it wont install for me even though i'm currently running 12.1.0, thanks Microsoft...and no, im not running a pirated version. Meh...i use 2004 more anyways

[Dany M]

Originally Posted by daneoni

....and it wont install for me even though i'm currently running 12.1.0, thanks Microsoft...and no, im not running a pirated version. Meh...i use 2004 more anyways

IDK but if you moved the folder it could not have found it...

[aajad]

Same situation as daneoni. It updated previously, folder is where it should be and my screen shots are the same as daneoni. What crap.

[Chundles]

Install worked. Office still sucks.

[kbmb]

Can we fix these errors from littering my system logs please?

Jun 24 21:51:09 Microsoft Word[11306]: CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context
Jun 24 21:51:39: --- last message repeated 320 times ---

It's been acknowledged as a known bug, yet 12.1.1 still doesn't fix it.

-Kevin

[DOUGHNUT]

seems more stable than before. slight improvement in load speed (but still wish it was faster) and finally works properly in spaces/expose. decent enough of an update, so i'm not complaining.

[mwp98223]

Originally Posted by daneoni

....and it wont install for me even though i'm currently running 12.1.0, thanks Microsoft...and no, im not running a pirated version. Meh...i use 2004 more anyways

Same issue here, same screen shot. I had this problem on my macbook with the last major office update. After nearly an hour with Windows support we got it installed after a "safe boot" of system before install. I just tried that again with no luck. This error is showing up on both my iMac and Macbook.

[dukebound85]

Originally Posted by DOUGHNUT

seems more stable than before. slight improvement in load speed (but still wish it was faster) and finally works properly in spaces/expose. decent enough of an update, so i'm not complaining.

the spaces issue is what bugged me the most

[Wicker]

Originally Posted by dukebound85

the spaces issue is what bugged me the most

How is it supposed to work?

I can't seem to have two documents, each on a different space as it messes up and bounce me to the space where the first document is...

Other than that, seems all right so far, although to be fair I haven't really had time to test it thoroughly

[newyorkguy]

Originally Posted by Chundles

Install worked. Office still sucks.

AMEN

[queshy]

Hopefully this will make office transform from a hippopotamus to a much more manageable elephant, lol.

Edit: looks like I'll never know. Update does not install on my volume. Thanks!

[Chundles]

Originally Posted by queshy

Hopefully this will make office transform from a hippopotamus to a much more manageable elephant, lol.

Edit: looks like I'll never know. Update does not install on my volume. Thanks!

It won't. It's still a bloated fat mammal of an office suite.

To iWork everyone! Before the riff raff get in!

[ducksrfr]

Originally Posted by daneoni

....and it wont install for me even though i'm currently running 12.1.0

Same problem.

[DMann]

Word seems, may I say, incrementally snappier than before. The 4 second load time is also slightly faster. Perhaps MS will now be inclined follow suit by giving us 'Snow Office 2009.' (shipping by Jan 2011)

[newyorkguy]

Originally Posted by mwp98223

Same issue here, same screen shot. I had this problem on my macbook with the last major office update. After nearly an hour with Windows support we got it installed after a "safe boot" of system before install. I just tried that again with no luck. This error is showing up on both my iMac and Macbook.

It works only on pirated versions, because you allready spent the money for it.

[bart rijksen]

Originally Posted by daneoni

....and it wont install for me even though i'm currently running 12.1.0, thanks Microsoft...and no, im not running a pirated version. Meh...i use 2004 more anyways

Same problem. Does anyone have a solution?
Thanks a lot

[queshy]

This is the only reason i switched to iWork. I had no problem with office on teh windows platform really. Sure the iWork interface is way better, but it doesn't have equations support which sucks for me. On the Mac 2008 vs 2004 doesn't really amount to any speed difference like it should. It's the slowest app on my Mac.

[nsbio]

Sounds like iWork+Office 2004 is the way to go for me. The 2008 is grossly obese - 40s loading time on my G4 PB - it would have to go.

I understand that my computer is no longer the newest there is, but this time MS has probably broken the world record for loading time of ANY word processor on a hard drive-containing machine, EVER.