[ANN] Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.1 available now

[Diane Ross]

Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.1 update is live! Fixes bug where Open XML files
couldn't be opened. Only English version is available now. Other languages
soon. It is also not available via the Microsoft AutoUpdater (MAU) at this
time. Download from Mactopia.

<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx>

Steps for a good install:

Quit all Microsoft applications including the hidden ones.
Easy way, Log out of your User under the Apple menu
Log in holding down the Shift key to disable all startup items
Install the updater you downloaded from Mactopia
Restart

 

[herojig]

Good tip for installing Diane. I use ARD to install all products. I think it does something like that, but under the covers. Takes the user out of the equation as well

 

[Kristian Christensen]

Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.1 update is live! Fixes bug where Open XML files
couldn't be opened. Only English version is available now. Other languages
soon. It is also not available via the Microsoft AutoUpdater (MAU) at this
time. Download from Mactopia.

<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx>

Steps for a good install:

Quit all Microsoft applications including the hidden ones.
Easy way, Log out of your User under the Apple menu
Log in holding down the Shift key to disable all startup items
Install the updater you downloaded from Mactopia
Restart

 

[Kristian Christensen]

Any idea when the scandinavian versions willbe out, we have a lot of trouble
course everyone install the 12.2 update, and then we have to reinstall the
old version to get people working again, takes a lot of our support staff
worktime

 

[Diane Ross]

Sorry, but I don't have any word on how the extra languages are going to be
rolled out. The Japanese version is the only one released other than
English. I'm sure they are working hard on getting them out.

Try to take the experience from this update to either wait a few days before
updating or have a backup of the Office folder that you can revert to if
there is a problem.