Kurt said:
Given all the reports of problems with the latest Office update, is
there a safer way to do this?
Just run Microsoft Update, or download the updater from MacTopia and run
it. "All the reports," that I've seen, at least, is a tiny fraction of
the number of updates which have been done.
That doesn't mean that there aren't some folks who've had problems, but
it's worked fine for most people.