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Microsoft updates Office 2011 and 2008 with a host of Outlook and other fixes

by Mel Martin (Nov 15th, 2012)

If you haven't seen it already, sometime in the next few days you'll get a software update for Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 and 2011. The update has security patches that Microsoft deems "critical" and improvements to Outlook. The update requires a Mac running OS X 10.5.8 or later. Some Macs ...

TUAW Tips: Open .docx files with Office 2004

by Steven Sande (Sep 3rd, 2008)

If you haven't yet upgraded to Microsoft Office 2008, you're probably intimately familiar with the problem of receiving Office 2008 .docx (Word 2008) files; they're not natively supported by Office 2004. If you have updated that older version of Office to 11.5.0 and installed the Open XML File ...

Mac Automation: automating Microsoft PowerPoint 2008

by Cory Bohon (Mar 26th, 2008)

Welcome to the 3rd Microsoft Office 2008 automation post. Previously we covered automating Excel 2008 and Word 2008, now we shine the spotlight on PowerPoint 2008. In this how-to, I will show you how to create an Automator workflow to automate the daunting task of applying animations to the slides ...

Mac Automation: automating Microsoft Word 2008

by Cory Bohon (Mar 10th, 2008)

When Microsoft released Office 2008 for Mac, they did something that I must applaud -- they joined the ranks of Mac developers creating Automator-able applications. When you do a search in Automator for "Microsoft," it will reveal all of the Automator actions that ship with Microsoft Office 2008. ...

APC reports Office 2008 in private beta

by Michael Rose (Mar 30th, 2007)

Happy Friday everyone! From Down Under it emerges (via APC, the Aussie computer magazine): a preview article on Office 2008, including the tempting tidbit that the suite is now in private beta, with the 'Escher' graphics engine and plenty of shiny bits. MBU managers also admit that the initial ...