Microsoft Releases Office 2008 12.1.1, Open XML Converter for Office 2004
Microsoft also released the final version of their Open XML File Format Converter for Microsoft Office 2004. This updater allows Office 2004 users to open and save files in the Open XML format used by 2007 Microsoft Office for Windows and Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac.
Finally, it appears that Microsoft's Mac Business Unit is growing with plans for "products beyond Office 2008" and is actively hiring.
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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.
Wow - kinda spooky.
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.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953822
For me the apps seem to open up much quicker.
* 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...
....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...
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