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Microsoft Office 2004 11.2.3 Update
Microsoft
has released an
update to their Microsoft Office 2004 suite of office software. According to the website, the update offers the
following fixes and features:After you install this update, you can use Mac OS X Sync Services and Spotlight searches to sync and find Entourage items, use smart cards with Entourage 2004, and enjoy improved overall security and stability when using Microsoft Word 2004, Excel 2004, PowerPoint 2004, and Entourage 2004.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
cyberdork said 5:09PM on 3-14-2006
Syncing and Spotlight works pretty well. Although I think I already found a little bug. If I open an email which I found via Spotlight it's "Modification Date" get's changed to today. And unfortunately Spotlight is listing the emails by "Modification Date" and not my "Received Date". Anyone else noticed that?
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schwa said 5:23PM on 3-14-2006
Hm, what's that noise?
Oh, right, it's everyone who paid for e2sync swearing at their computers.
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Lukas said 5:37PM on 3-14-2006
I thought Spotlight would never be able to index Entourage items, because Spotlight is file-based and Entourage is database-...uh...based.
Wait, here's where I got that idea: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/9
So what changed?
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john tylko said 6:52PM on 3-14-2006
any word about stuff with rosetta?
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Thomas Deliduka said 6:54PM on 3-14-2006
They enabled support for password protected/encrypted files in Word and Excel a couple of revisions ago but still NOT in Powerpoint! The only application I need it in!!
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tl said 2:26AM on 3-15-2006
All I can say is that the office apps -- especially Entourage run way faster, i feel like my G4 PB got a new lease on life.
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Chris said 5:21AM on 3-15-2006
Lukas, what changed is that there's now a cache of the Entourage metadata in multiple files inside ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Microsoft/Entourage/2004. I've not had any success with Spotlight noticing all the Entourage stuff yet, though others have.
The Sync Services support works pretty nicely. I'm syncing four ways between Entourage, Address Book/iCal, via Missing Sync 4 to my Palm, and via iTunes to my iPod.
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Rino Dattilo said 10:05AM on 3-15-2006
Ya, but no sync of categories .... what is that all about??
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Miguel Marques said 5:10PM on 3-15-2006
It syncs with iCal? No! It keeps 1 calendar synced with iCal.
At least for me! Anyone got all their calendars from iCal to Entourage? Or the other way around?
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Sam said 5:39PM on 3-15-2006
But it broke my Data Analysis Toolpak, just like every other update I have installed since I installed the toolpak. Now I can't do my college statistics homework until someone mails me my Office 2004 CD from home...
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