Microsoft updates Office 2008, Office 2004
Today, Microsoft released updates for both Office 2008 for Mac, and Office 2004. These two updates fix several vulnerabilities within Office and add improvements.
Microsoft Office 2008 Update 12.1.5
This update contains several improvements to enhance stability, compatibility, and performance. In addition, this update includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code. For more information about this update, please visit the Microsoft Web site.
This update weighs in at 104 MB and can be downloaded from the Microsoft Office 2008 update website, or through Automatic Update (by choosing Help > Check for Updates from any Office application).
Microsoft Office 2004 Update 11.5.3
This update contains several improvements to enhance stability and performance. In addition, this update includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code. For more information about this update, please visit the Microsoft Web site.
This update is 15MBs, and can be downloaded from the Microsoft Office 2004 update website, or through Microsoft Automatic Update.
Update: Release notes for the Office 2008 12.1.5 update have now been posted. You can find them here.
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IF it wasn't for TUAW, I would never get an update for MS Office. The auto update doesn't work. In fact when TUAW informs me there is a new update the auto update doesn't work when I manually try to use it to search for (and load) the update. I have followed TUAW's links to and downloaded each update myself.
December 10 2008 at 5:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI second that - I just ran Auto Update and it didn't find the update. I too had to go to the M$ website to download the update manually & install it. Kinda defeats the purpose of the "Auto" update.
December 11 2008 at 4:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIs there no way to just shut down the 'toolbox'/formatting palette off completely and work strictly from toolbars at the top of the document window? Or did I completely misunderstand the blog explanation? I'd gladly work through the main window/menus rather than have to deal with the horrific spaces bug. It drives me crazy.
December 09 2008 at 9:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyJust to clarify... I realize I can close the toolbox window. But I'm talking about completely disabling the feature as a workaround and accessing the formatting features via menus/regular toolbar (I don't need any other tools from the toolbox in my work).
December 09 2008 at 9:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNot sure why but AutoUpdate isn't picking this up for Office 2004 on 10.5.5. I'm in the UK, could that have anything to do with it?
December 09 2008 at 5:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt sometimes takes a bit of extra time for the update to populate through all of our servers. You can download it directly from Mactopia if you don't want to wait for it to show up in AutoUpdate.
December 09 2008 at 11:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWow!
MS Word starts up way faster now....actually it seems to be a whole lot faster overall.
Btw, after a reinstall of MS Office 2008, I have a weird problem of Word not showing an example of the fonts from the drop down menu (if that makes any sense)
example: http://img116.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1gv6.png
Does anyone know how to fix this??
It won't. The Spaces issue is due to a conflict between the (legitimate but uncommon) way Office sets up the Toolbox window and the way that Apple uses Core Graphics to trigger Spaces. The fix either depends on Apple correctly supporting the drawing approach of Office, or Office reworking a large amount of windowing code.
See http://www.schwieb.com/blog/2008/10/23/risks-and-rewards/ for detail.
I hope this fixes the fact that Office can't seem to play right w/ Spaces
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