Office Update 10.1.5

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Christopher MacLeod

Recently I ran Microsoft's Office X 10.1.5 update. According to the
updater's "read me" section, my updated files should be designated 10.1.5.
Mine, however, still read 10.1.4 even though the updater claims that it has
succeeded. Any advice would be appreciated.
(My apologies for a generic question on a Word news group.)
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Hi Christopher,
Recently I ran Microsoft's Office X 10.1.5 update. According to the
updater's "read me" section, my updated files should be designated 10.1.5.
Mine, however, still read 10.1.4 even though the updater claims that it has
succeeded. Any advice would be appreciated.
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THe application does not update every single component in Office with
every updater. Check the version number of /Applications/Microsoft
Office X/Office/Microsoft Component Plugin and it should tell you what
version you are really running,.

(My apologies for a generic question on a Word news group.)
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No problem :))


Corentin
 
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Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.

Corentin said:
Hi Christopher,


THe application does not update every single component in Office with
every updater. Check the version number of /Applications/Microsoft
Office X/Office/Microsoft Component Plugin and it should tell you what
version you are really running,.


No problem :))

Corentin

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I guess it the nature of the mindset at MS that instead of rolling all
previous updates into the next update, Apple does for example, if you
have OS X.2.3 and download and install the X.2.6 combo updater, All
updates (x.2.3,4,5 and 5 and and and all security patches are rolled
into one update. x.2.8 includes all updates upto and including 10.2.8
then you run a minor patch for the issues on certain machines. if x.2.9
comes out it will update everthing back to x.2.3.

Would seem like it would be much simpler to run one update that updates
all previous items plus the current update.

Have I made things clear as mud? <grin>
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Hi Phillip,

I guess it the nature of the mindset at MS that instead of rolling all
previous updates into the next update, Apple does for example, if you
have OS X.2.3 and download and install the X.2.6 combo updater, All
updates (x.2.3,4,5 and 5 and and and all security patches are rolled
into one update. x.2.8 includes all updates upto and including 10.2.8
then you run a minor patch for the issues on certain machines. if x.2.9
comes out it will update everthing back to x.2.3.

Would seem like it would be much simpler to run one update that updates
all previous items plus the current update.
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Yeah, there are some Combo updater available for Office, unfortunately
we don;t have one that would allow you to go directly from 10.1 to
10.1.5 :-\
Have I made things clear as mud? <grin>
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:-D

Corentin
 
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M-Rick

Phillip said:
I guess it the nature of the mindset at MS that instead of rolling all
previous updates into the next update, Apple does for example, if you
have OS X.2.3 and download and install the X.2.6 combo updater, All
updates (x.2.3,4,5 and 5 and and and all security patches are rolled
into one update. x.2.8 includes all updates upto and including 10.2.8
then you run a minor patch for the issues on certain machines. if x.2.9
comes out it will update everthing back to x.2.3.

Would seem like it would be much simpler to run one update that updates
all previous items plus the current update.

Have I made things clear as mud? <grin>
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I am completely agree with you !!
 
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Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.

M-Rick said:
I am completely agree with you !!
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About the updater, or about the Mud?? <grin>
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Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.

M-Rick said:
about the updater ! :)
I think completely stupid to have to do each update one by one ...
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I'm in agreement on that. I think having to run a series of updaters in
specific order is "Brain Dead" but, That's MS's way of doing things and
nothing we can do anything about.
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John McGhie [MVP]

Hi Rick:

from said:
about the updater ! :)
I think completely stupid to have to do each update one by one ...
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Spoken like a true Broadband user.

The complete service pack for Microsoft Office is 146 MB. THAT's why we
have separate updaters :) And being on dial-up still, *I* am very grateful
that we have the individual patches!

In the next version, I think we are getting PC-style "Intelligent Updaters".
You go onto the Microsoft website and it has a look at your system, works
out what you've already got, then installs only what you next need.

They introduced it last year for PC Office, and it seems to be working
really well. It's an extension of the Windows Update technology, and works
just like Software Update.

Ideally, they would like to add Microsoft Office updates into the Apple
Software Update system (the way they do with Internet Explorer) but I think
Apple won't let them.

Cheers

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