Microsoft Office v. X for Mac Update (2006-12-19)

Yeah... uhm... it didn't work, just as you detailed, PaperQueen.

Luckily I can at least open PP files with my trial version of Keynote. I don't really need to "make" PP files... just view them.

Phucking microsoft.

Don’t get too excited.... This patch is just as worthless as the preceding “fixes” for the repeated PowerPoint problems.

In spite of following all the Microsoft suggestions to the letter, and installing all the updates, patches, etc. as directed, PP still shuts down after the Project Gallery window opens. Somehow, this summer I was able to get it to run...and stay running...long enough to finish a critical project, but the very next time I went to open it up (again, a critical project), it shut down immediately after the PG window opened. Hadn’t touched the thing in months...wouldn’t work from the app or by double clicking a PP file. It just decided to revert to its old, non-functional ways.

I’ve spent hours on multiple boards with a lot of others in the same boat. A few folks are able to get...and keep...PP running, but there appear to be more of us who can’t.

Hope your luck with the patch is better than mine. This component Office is a black hole, in my experience.

Thank God! I thought I was going to have to buy 2004. Phew!