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Microsoft Updates Office 2008 and Office 2004

Microsoft today issued updates for both Office 2008 and Office 2004. The updates provide improvements to "stability and performance" and "address vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of a computer's memory by using malicious code."

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.2 Update weighs in at 159.6 MB and addresses security vulnerabilities and AppleScript reliability through the suite of Office applications, as well as providing specific performance improvements for Word, Excel, and Entourage. A full list of improvements is included on Microsoft's update description page.

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.1 Update weighs in at 14.5 MB and addresses security vulnerabilities, as well as fixing a specific stability issue in Word 2004 involving documents containing numbered lists and updating the Japanese postal code dictionary in Entourage 2004. Microsoft's update description page details these improvements and provides additional information about the update.

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46 months ago
Microsoft just release Office updates! Maybe some of the bugs will be fixed!

They released 12.1.2 for 2008 and 11.5.1 for 2004.
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46 months ago
And I got the dreaded:

You cannot install Office 2008 12.1.2 Update on this volume. A version of the software required to install this update was not found on this volume.

AGAIN! Legal copy and this s@#t! Any ideas?

This happened with 12.1.1 also because I had deleted localizations. I followed snorkeller1's suggestions and I turned off Remove Localized Files in Macaroni so that I would not have this problem again. I checked the SLT.bundle and it has all languages so I am lost. Help anyone?
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46 months ago
Good to know, and thanks for that. Yes, "weighs in" is a very good way of describing it. The update is downloading just now, quite fully occupying my MBP and taking the best part of half an hour to do so. It has just struck me, looking at the details of this update, that this thing takes up a little over twice the whole HDD of my first computer, back in the very early 1990s. This update "weighs in" at 160 mb; my antique had 80mb, and ran a much more primitive (but not at all ineffective) version of MS Office, perfectly adequate for its day. A clock speed of 33mhz also crosses my mind. Hilariously, (in hindsight,) I also remember being introduced to the first desktop to have 1 GB in that entire section of our university, and the awed shiver which greeted it from staff and students alike. The date for that was mid 1990s. Has anyone else fond memories of computing antiquity? Cheers.
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46 months ago
I love how it expands to take up a half-gig ... Word seems to boot up a little faster and is a little more responsive.
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46 months ago
Yes, I was just looking at that, and mentally doing the maths in my head; you're right. It does, er, seem to expand to half a gig. It is fortunate then, that we have the GBs to spare for good old MS. Cheers.
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46 months ago
I got that update. Think I would have skipped it though if I was tight on GB's...
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46 months ago
I'm also having this problem, having previously removed languages with Monolingual. I will try the old remedy of reinstalling Office if the other trick of replacing the setup assistant with the one from 12.1.0 doesn't work. It really annoys me that MS couldn't be bothered amending their code despite the fact that a large number of people were inconvenienced with this issue when 12.1.1 was released. :mad:

Dear Microsoft, every other software developer can work around the fact that some people don't want several gigs of unwanted languages on their systems. Why can't you?
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46 months ago
If you guys would quit tinkering with your macs and deleting the language files so that the program would pass the upgrade checks you wouldn't be in this boat.

:rolleyes:
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46 months ago
Word and the eternally tardy Excel both boot up far faster I'm delighted to report; however, it must be said this update was not before time given comments on other threads about Office 2008......cheers
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46 months ago

If you guys would quit tinkering with your macs and deleting the language files so that the program would pass the upgrade checks you wouldn't be in this boat.

:rolleyes:


I would if I had a Mac Pro with 1TB of storage, but I don't. Instead, I have a Mac Mini with an 80GB HDD (including 50GB of iTunes as well as a myriad of other stuff) meaning it's full to the brim. Every gig of space I can save, regardless of how I save it, is extremely valuable.
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