Office 2008 for Mac updated to 12.1.1

Installed the Update as directed now Word crashes every time I try to open it. It asks me to error report and wants to send a file "Document Elements.dotx." I'm trying to not reinstall all of Office. Any suggestions? PowerPoint was doing it but now is working after crashing 20+ times. Entourage and Excel working fine.

Milo Photo said...
I have the same problem with opening up the office programs now i've installed the update, same setup assistant pop up and auto updater but no program! really annoying i have work to do!

I'm also experiencing the same problem! Help! :(

Word 08 doesn't open anymore. It asks me a stupid question over an over again if I want to participate in something and I say no then it loads up the Auto-update thing and when I click OK it just stops. Why? Any ideas?

I can't even download the update. Getting it from the website, and the the .dmg fails to mount - something about a checksum error. I've tried this several times now. Also, the autoupdater downloads the file and then won't install it (apparently the same issues). It doesn't give any kind of error that way, just acts like it didn't download.

Any ideas with this?

I can't wait until I can remove this software from my computer. Only one semester to go...

@Shahryar: in my opinion you really should upgrade to Office 2008. Even with some of it's initial problems it still blew the poor performance and appearance of 2004. And now with the more recent changes to 2008 it is easily better.
Office 2004 almost put me off buying a macbook it's that bad!
I do kind of wish though that they had just build Office 2008 to be almost a copy of Office 2007 on Windows because that is the real deal. For Office I really think that these floating windows etc are not as efficient or good looking as the windows 2007 office bar.

After reading all these comments, I think i'll stick it out with Office 2004 on both my 15" 2.2ghz MBP w/ 4GB of RAM (late 2007 purchased) & my wife's 15" 2.16ghz MBP w/ 3GB of RAM (March, 2007 purchased) - both running Leopard. It seems Office 2008 isn't quite there yet to be worth it for me to jump.

After reading all these comments, I think i'll stick it out with Office 2004 on both my 15" 2.2ghz MBP w/ 4GB of RAM (late 2007 purchased) & my wife's 15" 2.16ghz MBP w/ 3GB of RAM (March, 2007 purchased) - both running Leopard. It seems Office 2008 isn't quite there yet to be worth it for me to jump.

The initial release for Office 2008 was indeed pretty poor performance wise and there was a bug with the equation editor (making them fuzzy when saved in docx and grey backgrounds in .doc), however both poor speed and equation editor bugs were fixed in the last update.

On my macbook, word/excel 08 load in about 3-4 seconds from scratch and I haven't experienced a single issue anywhere within the program since the last update.

I don't know if I want to install this update or not considering people seem to be having problems with it..we'll see.

As for the 2008 vs 2004 comments - 2008 for me runs over twice as fast as 2004. 2004 was painful all round. I still think that 2008 need to be far more responsive though as its still half as quick as 2007 running in vmware or bootcamp.

Hi!
Download links doesn't work (on Microsoft.Com & Apple.Com), Safari produce mistake "Cann't find server download.microsoft.com (apple.com)"...
AutoUpdate say "Cann't find connection"...
What's this?
All is works & successful download on other links.