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Microsoft Office Update, and Visual Basic for Applications to Return

tliszt said:
"The response to MS-Office Mac 2008 has been overwhelming!"

Are you kidding?! They have been GIVING Office/Mac 2008 away for *FREE* for gosh sake! (only had to pay the shipping charge)

Microsoft was nervous because a) it hadn't been released to support the newest Intel processors and current Mac OSX release, b) Apple's iWork '08 was gaining ground -and- is an excellent alternative to MS-Office, and finally c) unless they started giving it away, people were abandoning Word and other core apps for such viable contenders as the excellent NeoOffice and iWork (Pages/Numbers/Keynote) options.

How can everyone be missing this small little detail?!
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Whoa calm down, it's just software. No need to get worked up. And I mean come on, you think Apple is innocent and never lies about statistics? Bahahahaha. Of course, they're the good guys. Totally not in it for money. :rolleyes:

Don't get me wrong though; I'm still not happy about Office '08 SP1.
 
Random 08 question, but ever since I installed '08 whenever I download a .doc, .xls, .ppt, .docx, .xlsx, etc... file for school or some other site it always adds .dot to the end of it. Is there anyway to turn off this preference? It gets annoying fast when I want to use Quick Look, which doesn't support .dot.

After I ran SP1 word / excel were all opening VERY slowly (use Keynote instead of Powerpoint), but instead of deleting any files in the General Preferences for word I unchecked "WYSIWYG font and style menu" and this seems to have fixed the problem of taking around 1 minute to start up.
 
issues installing Office 2008 Update

Some users who have installed Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 are reporting an issue that occurs after installation. The issue causes the Office Setup Assistant to open when they try to open an Office application. This situation occurs when the Office Setup Assistant detects that an invalid Product Key was used to install Office 2008.

To resolve this issue, please move the following files to the Trash:

· /Users/username/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/Microsoft Office 2008 settings.plist

· /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/OfficePID.plist


After you complete these steps, open any Office application, and then use the product key that is included with your original installation disk to complete the installation. The product key is located on the back of the Office 2008 for Mac DVD sleeve or on the back of the Install Guide. For additional assistance, visit the Help and How-To <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx> section of the Microsoft Web site.

If this helps you, please contact me through the private posts, I would like to get some files from you to help track down this issue.

I am sorry you if experienced this issue, and I hope with your help we can determine why some folks are getting into this issue.

David Pelton
Microsoft MacBU
 
DavidPelton said:
Some users who have installed Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 are reporting an issue that occurs after installation. The issue causes the Office Setup Assistant to open when they try to open an Office application. This situation occurs when the Office Setup Assistant detects that an invalid Product Key was used to install Office 2008.

To resolve this issue, please move the following files to the Trash:

· /Users/username/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/Microsoft Office 2008 settings.plist

· /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/OfficePID.plist


After you complete these steps, open any Office application, and then use the product key that is included with your original installation disk to complete the installation. The product key is located on the back of the Office 2008 for Mac DVD sleeve or on the back of the Install Guide. For additional assistance, visit the Help and How-To <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx> section of the Microsoft Web site.

If this helps you, please contact me through the private posts, I would like to get some files from you to help track down this issue.

I am sorry you if experienced this issue, and I hope with your help we can determine why some folks are getting into this issue.

David Pelton
Microsoft MacBU
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I experienced this problem. Deleted all the files described above. When prompted for the CD Key i entered it but when i click Continue it doesnt do anything.:(
 
rexamafex said:
I experienced this problem. Deleted all the files described above. When prompted for the CD Key i entered it but when i click Continue it doesnt do anything.:(
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Hmmm. The key on the back of your DVD sleeve should be the right one. You might try calling Microsoft Product Support to see if they can verify the key?

Schwieb
MacBU Dev Lead
 
rexamafex said:
I experienced this problem. Deleted all the files described above. When prompted for the CD Key i entered it but when i click Continue it doesnt do anything.:(
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because your CD key is blocked by MS, if you purchased it , call customer service, or try to find another key some where
 
Why is it so difficult for Microsoft to get anything right? This update (which auto update couldn't even find) totally destroyed office...it wouldn't open at all. Good to see that there's a work around, but the point is that there shouldn't have to be a work around to get a service pack to work! Fortunately, I just used Time Machine to revert back to the old version of office.

This was a product designed by the MAC business unit, specifically for MAC's...so why does it have such a difficult time playing nice with them? All this time that office 2008's been out, and they still haven't found a way to make it work with spaces. Every other program I use works perfectly, except Office. I guess you can always count on Microsoft to screw things up. Can you guys please get it together.
 
Until the give me FULL Exchange support

I ain't buyin. Screw them. Remember, Outlook 2001 had full feature support, but they decided to screw the Mac community with that piece of crap Entourage. It still only gives you 80% feature support.

As far as Vista, Microsoft has even acknowledged the fact that they blew it and will be focusing on Windows 7, which ought to be a real joy.

Vista Born Broken

or

Microsoft Gives Up On Vista

Happy reading, Vista worshippers.
 
Rhumgod said:
I ain't buyin. Screw them. Remember, Outlook 2001 had full feature support, but they decided to screw the Mac community with that piece of crap Entourage. It still only gives you 80% feature support.

As far as Vista, Microsoft has even acknowledged the fact that they blew it and will be focusing on Windows 7, which ought to be a real joy.

Vista Born Broken

or

Microsoft Gives Up On Vista

Happy reading, Vista worshippers.
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Seriously, WHY AREN'T OUTLOOK FORMS SUPPORTED ?! Why Mac BU, WHY ?

Bah.. Entourage is still a joke compared to Outlook :(

Adi
 
The SP1 pack installer works smoothly for me and I didn't need to delete any preference list at all.

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rexamafex said:
I experienced this problem. Deleted all the files described above. When prompted for the CD Key i entered it but when i click Continue it doesnt do anything.:(
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I also deleted the files above, reentered my product key and it's now working again.

Word actually does load a lot faster, so I'm now actually considering to use Office 2008.
 
After downloading it at a surprisingly fast speed (in 4 minutes), in France (it's 6.50 AM), the installation went fine. :)

And I'm glad to see that Word is much, much, more snappier (on a cold launch, it still takes a few seconds, which is longer than Pages or any other soft like Mellel or Scrivener ; considering i have a MBP 2,4 with 4GB RAM, there's still some progress to do, but we're on the right track). Which was the main point of criticism. After all that Microsoft-bashing, I'm glad to say to the guys from the company : thank you. You've heard us and done the right thing. Now as long as VBA goes, I see no problem. I'm using Bookends, which is better than Endnote, for bibliography. The main problem concerns a text correction program, Antidote RX, but it can be used in a separate window after all. :cool:

And I think also that there is nothing wrong to get back to VBA in a next version. Microsoft got our message and comes back on its mistake - that's good. Keep on the good work, but I suggest, to keep the customers happy, to do the next upgrade at a VERY reasonable price. ;)

And if I need a soft specially designed for academics, I'm using Mellel and Scrivener. Pages is not interesting (no french quotation marks, a deal-breaker), and Neo/Openoffice are just not professionnal looking enough. :p
 
twoodcc said:
i didn't see this update thru autoupdate, but i am downloading from the website
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I didn't get the update in auto update and I have not been able to download it from the Microsoft page. I suppose I'm happy there is an update, but can't say that I'm all that surprised it is not possible to install. Way to go Microsoft, you always serve as a great reminder why I'm so happy to be a Switcher.
 
I could write pages on the number of stupid bugs Word alone has (get the pun - pages... anyway). Just yesterday my housemate was using Word and the equation editor to write up a whole bunch of long wounded equations for his dissertation report. He must have spent hours doing them and when he finished Word came up with an error "run out of filespace to save autosave file" despite the GBs of free space on his MacBook Pro. Word then kindly turned all of his equations into picture format (to save memory maybe?) rendering them mostly useless (without anyway of recovering the original objects). Just to cap it off he went to drag the now pictures of his equations onto his desktop and Word copied every picture embedded with the little click and drag frame used for resizing the image!

I did feel sorry for him but could not stop laughing. I'd love to see some of the code that this "software" giant comes up with. Monkeys on a typewriter.
 
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