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Office 2008 12.1.1 and Office 2004 11.5 available today

Today, we released the latest and greatest: Office 2008 12.1.1 and Office 2004 11.5.

'What's in Office 2004?' I hear you ask. First and foremost, 11.5 delivers built-in support for Open XML file formats (that's the .docx, .pptx, or .xlsx files that were first introduced in Office 2007 and that are also natively supported in Office 2008). 11.5 has a pile of reliability and stability fixes; for more details, check out our Microsoft Knowledge Base article. And yes, 11.5 is a combo updater, so you can start with any version of Office 2004, download this update, and be completely up-to-date. Yay!

Office 2008 12.1.1 has a lot of nifty stuff in it, mostly concentrated on improving performance and stability. There's a few other goodies in there; Excel got quite a lot of fixes into this release. As always, the Microsoft Knowledge Base article has plenty of details.

Go forth and download!

Published Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:44 PM by nadyne
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:15 PM by TrackBack

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Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:15 PM by TrackBack

# re: Office 2008 12.1.1 and Office 2004 11.5 available today

I'm running OSX 10.5.4 on a MBPro and cannot get this update to take.  It errors out saying that the installation cannot be made on the selected drive (i.e. search for a previous Mac Office 2008 installation).  I'm running Office 2008 12.1.0 and the Mac HD is the only drive on this computer.

This issue has been documented over at Mac Fix It

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080626114924292

Is there any way to remedy this problem without completely deleting the existing install of Office 2008 for Mac and then reinstalling?

Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:15 PM by Pete Lacis

# re: Office 2008 12.1.1 and Office 2004 11.5 available today

Pete - So far, everyone who has reported this issue has also reported that they've used a localisation-stripping application such as Monolingual or Macaroni.  That's definitely not a supported scenario.  Reinstallation is  the only way that is guaranteed to fix the issues that are introduced by those kinds of applications.  When you reinstall, make sure that you do a custom installation if you're concerned about saving the disk space that would otherwise be consumed by localised content.  

If you haven't run an app like this, I'd love to hear more details about your installation.  We've been actively investigating this problem and haven't found anything that isn't related to that kind of app.

Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:39 PM by nadyne

# re: Office 2008 12.1.1 and Office 2004 11.5 available today

I found some rough spots with 11.5 update.

I installed Office 2004 onto a clean install of Leopard 10.5.4 onto a 24" iMac. Then I installed 11.5 update. No error messages.

Subsequently, when asking Office 2004 to check for updates, Office presents the very very first update to me. Which is the very same update it presented immediately after installation and before i did the 11.5 combo update.

Bottom line: Office knows it's at 11.5, but Office doesn't know enough to not start at the beginning in offering updates.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:40 PM by Phantom Gremlin
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