Microsoft Office updated to 12.1.3

It got a bit lost in the hustle and bustle of yesterday's announcements, but there was an update released for Microsoft Office 2008; the 12.1.3 update, weighing in at 154 MB, provides the usual slew of security fixes and bug repairs that you know and love. Some crashing bugs have been squashed (including one that affected documents with embedded PDF images that I've seen once or twice), chart performance is improved across the entire suite, PowerPoint gets a fix to address file timestamp issues, and Excel comes in with multiple fixes for file saving and corruption problems.

You can download the DMG of the update directly from Microsoft, or run an Auto Update pass in your Office application of choice. If you encounter update issues or problems after the patches are run, please advise (and, more importantly, let Microsoft know). The best way to get improvements in Mac Office, when there are definitely some management attitudes that need adjustment, is to make your needs clear.

Update: Many Exchange 2003 users who have updated to 12.1.3 (including yours truly) have discovered an unfortunate issue in the new build: attempting to send or respond to meeting invitations results in an error. Whoops. Alternatives include using OWA (or your iPhone!) to respond to invites until this gets cleared, but it's quite annoying.

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t_do

Excel does not work following the installation of this application (other apps still work). Anyone else with this problem?

October 25 2008 at 11:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mikael

Yes. This version sucks bigtime.
My entourage messes up the inboxes of my accounts and randomlly dispatches incoming mail to my exchange inbox or POP account inbox.
Terribly annying.

Anyone got a cure?

October 24 2008 at 12:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave

This broke invite responses for me. HORRIBLE update. I now have to uninstall and reinstall office. What a pain.

DO NOT INSTALL THIS UPDATE.

More information on the Forum:
http://www.officeformac.com/ProductForums/Entourage/6828/8

October 17 2008 at 10:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

yinyang

well it looks like the error messages that would keep on appearing in console.app whenever you opened an Office application have been resolved - a small win there for me!!

October 16 2008 at 6:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

natepetedmb

I "downgraded" (but it feels like an upgrade) back to 2004. 2008 office for mac is a joke.

October 15 2008 at 8:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Found this on the web for those having trouble with the "install not found" on HDD problem:

ERIC WOEHLER If you get the message that "No version of the software found on volume", due to having removed all the megabytes of language files etc, you can still get the installer to run.

1. Download the update from MS and save the updater on yr desktop - you will be modifying the file, so need to be able to edit and save it

2. Right click on the Updater and click "Show Package Contents".

3. Navigate to Contents -> Resources. You need to modify the script: package_updatable.

4. Remove these lines using Text Edit or BBEdit or similar:

if not found_valid_version:

sys.exit(48)

Save these changes to the Updater then close. Now it will update.

I had to open the .DMG and copy the file onto my HDD before I could show contents. Installed perfectly though. Enjoy

October 15 2008 at 4:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Ket

Expose still isn't perfect with Word windows.

Example, if you start with a first word window, switch to Safari, and then select a second word window in expose, it will actually bring the first word window back to the forefront instead of the selected second word window.

It's still broken, and a pain in the ass when i switch between multiple word windows and other applications all day long.

Here's hoping for a fix in the next helpful patch..

October 15 2008 at 2:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Ket

p.s. I do NOT have Spaces enabled.

October 15 2008 at 4:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sir. Poopy Pants

Office for the Mac sucks.

October 15 2008 at 2:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

erik

The Spaces issues are due to problems in the OS. See http://www.tinyurl.com/office2008spaces for a brief discussion of the issue.

Schwieb
MacBU Dev Lead

October 15 2008 at 1:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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stephane

Hummm I wonder how come all other applications that are multiple-window-based work fine on OS X...

Sounds like this is a "too hard of a bug" to fix. Mactopia is just pushing the burden onto someone else.

That bug has made it so I cannot use Office with my current setup. It's ridiculous...

We don't need yet another page that greatly explains the limitations and responsibilities of each parties, we just need Office to behave properly in space.

October 16 2008 at 7:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

GLacy

Office 2000 works great for me through CrossOver - Windows NOT required. Opening a printing a file is all I need it to do. I am so glad I don't have to use Office really for anything else.

When Microsoft readily admits that they don't support the Mac version as well as the PC version and yet it costs about the same - they are stealing your money.

October 15 2008 at 11:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply