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Office 2008 12.0.1 update now available

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As my boss mentioned on Mac Mojo in his Office 2008 update post, we've been working on the 12.0.1 update. It hit our servers this morning, and you can download it now.

What's in it? The complete list is here. My favourite fixes are:

  • permissions issue fixed - no more 502! (which means that you won't have to follow Schwieb's directions that are in this linked post)
  • stability and performance improvements all around
  • Excel's support for second displays is improved (important to me because I'm always on two displays when I'm in my office)
  • Entourage plays notification sounds in Leopard
  • Entourage sync improvements

You can either download it directly from the link above, update when Microsoft AutoUpdater does its job, or open the Help menu in any Office application and select Check for Updates.

Go forth and update!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2008
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    March 11, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2008
    This update installer is purported to fix the 502 permissions errors. However, it does leave a number of files with the incorrect 502 owner. Namely every file in /Library/Fonts/Microsoft/ and a number of files in /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008.

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2008
    Two bugs that I've found:

  1. Exposé (the F9 key) doesn't work right with Word 2008. The light blue square doesn't select the window(s) of Word correctly or at all.
  2. The Font "Bauhaus 93" when validated in the Font Book shows some kind of errors, but it's all ok, and I don't know who could solve this small glitch, you or Apple. I have Office 2008 updated to 12.0.1 and Leopard 10.5.2 on iMac/Intel. Thanks Nadyne. -Big Jim

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2008
    It also doesn't fix my issue where i have a column configured with £ signs, I save the document, open it back up and it has removed the £ sign and put a $ there instead!!!!!!  Everytime, like clock work. Arrrgggghhhhh!!!!  Very annoying, happens on 3 of my Macs - how did this miss QA in the first place?  Was it just a case that 2008 was rushed to meet it's deadline?

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2008
    Thank you Nadyne you are the only one from MacBu obviously reading the comments. With regard to the powerpoint issues it is very surprising that you do not have any performance problems as there appear plenty of messages on various forums. I have a small PP presentation of 8 Mb. Including some small pictures and graphs that were pasted as images (paste special: png) that's all. It makes 20 slides in total so really not a big deal. It takes on average 5 seconds before powerpoint shows up the next step (additional text on a slide or the next slide) which is not acceptable during a presentation I think you agree on that. During presentation I only leave powerpoint run (no other programs running). I use leopard 10.5.2 on a C2D 2.3GHz MBP machine so not the oldest mac you can find within your customers configuration. I hope you can use that information and solve that problem. It is really a big issue as it is in general for any office program with "large files" 20 Mb word file or 1000 lines excel data sheets.... PS powerpoint 2007 is not much better during handling but at least it shows presentations correctly (upon click something happens)!

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2008
    @disappointed - I just realised that I forgot the link to the Product Forums.  The Product Forums are much more likely to be able to help you out than I am. :) http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2008
    So much for fixing sunc services in Entourage-  it promptly crashed twice on me after this update and still is acting up!!

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    March 12, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 15, 2008
    Entourage is not working after the Update - it keeps trying to update the Password Keychain and gets in a loop.

  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2008
    Upgraded -- and now Entourage is not updating my inbox! :( I rebooted, rebuilt the Entourage DB, reboot again, and still no luck. It connects, says it is updating my Inbox, but mail that I know is there (via webmail) is not syncing down. I'd recommend holding off for a few days, if you need a minor thing like working email.

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2008
    @no_mail_for_me - Are you in an Exchange environment?  If so, have you tried following the steps that are outlined in the "I'm not receiving email or items in my Exchange account" help topic?  

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2008
    @nadyne: great tip, much appreciated! Option #3 (Empty the Cache on Inbox) fixed it; my oversize mailbox is now re-syncing (over VPN, sigh). My inbox is easily >2000 msgs, if that is any help. The question remains why was it necessary, as mail was flowing fine before the upgrade, and I definitely closed Entourage & Reminders before upgrading. It would be nice if there was some hint from Entourage when a sync with Exchange fails -- from the UI, it looks like Inbox sync succeeded, and there were no error messages available via Console.app. Thanks again.

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2008
    @no_mail_for_me - Glad to help. :)   Entourage didn't know that the sync had failed, so no message.  When Entourage does know that the sync failed for some reason, you'll see an exclamation in the lower right corner of the Entourage screen, and you can see all of the details about the failure by clicking on Window -> Error Log in Entourage.   In the future, you might want to check out the Entourage public forum (I've linked to our forums above) or the Entourage Talk mailing list: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/subtalk.html The folks who watch those forums are more knowledge about troubleshooting than I am.  I only pointed you towards an existing help topic, so if you have questions beyond what you can find in the help, those resources are probably going to get you better answers than I'll be able to provide.  :)