First Looks at Mac Microsoft Office 2008

[waldo1979]

Install Issues - Font Corruption

FYI, After installing Office 2008 I noticed some Font Corruption issues. Observations:
* Text in Safari.app becomes jarbled
* Font Book.app fails to open
* Office Applications crash in libobjc.A.dylib

After several uninstalls and reinstalls, Office Application crash issues were resolved by deleting:
/Users/<username>/Library/FontCollections/com.apple.Favorites.collection

Hopefully this helps someone somewhere.

 

[DMann]

MS Office 2008

FYI, After installing Office 2008 I noticed some Font Corruption issues. Observations:
* Text in Safari.app becomes jarbled
* Font Book.app fails to open
* Office Applications crash in libobjc.A.dylib

After several uninstalls and reinstalls, Office Application crash issues were resolved by deleting:
/Users/<username>/Library/FontCollections/com.apple.Favorites.collection

Hopefully this helps someone somewhere.

Thank you for that!

 

[paulbaker]

Trail

Does anyone know if there is a downloadable trial anywhere?

 

[Mac Hammer Fan]

I am not buying Office 2008 for following reasons:
 According to several sources the "disk is full" bug isn't solved
 There is no more VBA compatibility
 MathType is incompatible with Word 2008
 iWork is a lot cheaper and a better value for my money
I admit that some changes in the new version were nice, and I have the impression that Word can handle better long docs with a lot of illustrations now, but no more VBA and MathType support is unacceptable, and iWork is is less buggy. Only Excel beats Numbers, io.

 

[paulbaker]

I am not buying Office 2008 for following reasons:
 According to several sources the "disk is full" bug isn't solved
 There is no more VBA compatibility
 MathType is incompatible with Word 2008
 iWork is a lot cheaper and a better value for my money
I admit that some changes in the new version were nice, and I have the impression that Word can handle better long docs with a lot of illustrations now, but no more VBA and MathType support is unacceptable, and iWork is is less buggy. Only Excel beats Numbers, io.

Yep. Excel 04 still works. It is the only MS application I can still justify using. Although, sometimes I open IE 5 on an old Mac just to see what life used to be like pre-Safari...