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Microsoft Releases Office for Mac 2008 Updates to Address Open XML Bug
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Obsidian6
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MartiNZ
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It would be nice if at some point they could fix the bugs with display updating in Word *after setting a new hanging indent, for instance, it almost never updates until one scrolls the area out of sight and scrolls back. In the meantime you might get corruption of the text, if you're lucky, but not the actual results. The corruption tends to affect the hidden character displays as well.
It would also be nice if the office apps would act like every other app in Leopard and support background scrolling *well actually, Word sometimes does but only due to another bug that means you can't for the life of you get Word into the foreground because it thinks it is there already, even to the point of mismatching the menubar with the current app - which is also a big issue with Entourage.
I think the offer of Snow Leopard with iLife and iWork bundled might change things for a few people. It would be nice to have a fresh install without any sign of office:mac, and soon enough rely on Office 2007 on boot camped Windows 7 🙂.
It would also be nice if the office apps would act like every other app in Leopard and support background scrolling *well actually, Word sometimes does but only due to another bug that means you can't for the life of you get Word into the foreground because it thinks it is there already, even to the point of mismatching the menubar with the current app - which is also a big issue with Entourage.
I think the offer of Snow Leopard with iLife and iWork bundled might change things for a few people. It would be nice to have a fresh install without any sign of office:mac, and soon enough rely on Office 2007 on boot camped Windows 7 🙂.
JFreak
macrumors 68040
Yup, we're quite close on that. I have already given up most MS products, but I still use and rely on Excel on a regular basis. It is a great program, but I'm thinking of replacing it with Numbers if the next version is close enough. Then my computer would be MS-free for good 🙂
mfinocchiaro
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English and Japanese Only?
I got the "incompatible" dialog today and tried to upgrade Office 2008 12.2.0 to 12.2.1. But...it failed when checking my hard drive. I noticed that Microsoft mentioned these failures are sometimes related to a language mixup. As I work in France, I have a French version of Office 2008. Could the fact that only English and Japanese versions are out be my issue? Any idea when MS will ship other languages for this patch?
I got the "incompatible" dialog today and tried to upgrade Office 2008 12.2.0 to 12.2.1. But...it failed when checking my hard drive. I noticed that Microsoft mentioned these failures are sometimes related to a language mixup. As I work in France, I have a French version of Office 2008. Could the fact that only English and Japanese versions are out be my issue? Any idea when MS will ship other languages for this patch?
BongoBanger
macrumors 68000
Once 7 knocks Vista into extinction, Entourage will stand alone as the worst product made by Microsoft.
MartiNZ
macrumors 65816
I think it can quite comfortably already claim that. There's nothing wrong with Vista, I've always enjoyed using it in boot camp, and I'm not so excited by what little I've seen/heard of 7, especially as the hyped reviews from around January die down to: well, actually, it's not much better.
But anyway, Entourage ... yeah. I just hope that Apple keep working on Exchange support after SL's release - it is heavily buggy as it stands.
I believe M$ got successfully sued over XML compatibility due to a patent violation. No more XML support for office users.
haha Microsoft
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haha Microsoft
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