Update 11.3.9 for Office

[Diane]

Released today (November 6, 2007), Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.9
Update

According to the update¹s Read Me file this update patches a printing
problem in Microsoft Word only. It does not affect Microsoft Entourage 2004,
which will still appear as version 11.3.6 after the update is applied.

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

 

[William R. Walsh]

As best I can tell, Word still reports its version to be 11.3.8. I found
that more than a little surprising, and several Macs did it...so I think the
installation worked. Hard to say...I didn't have any printing problems.

William

 

[JE McGimpsey]

"William R. Walsh"

As best I can tell, Word still reports its version to be 11.3.8. I found
that more than a little surprising, and several Macs did it...so I think the
installation worked. Hard to say...I didn't have any printing problems.

Easy to say. Either look at the 11.3.9 Update Log.txt file in the

Applications:Microsoft Office 2004:Updater Logs

folder, or read the ReadMe in the update downloaded from MacTopia.

Not mysterious at all...

 

[William R. Walsh]

Hi!

Easy to say. Either look at the 11.3.9 Update Log.txt file in the

Applications:Microsoft Office 2004:Updater Logs

folder, or read the ReadMe in the update downloaded from MacTopia.

Already saw those. I have no reason to believe the updater didn't work...it
just seems odd that the Word version # didn't increment itself accordingly.

I got the update from Microsoft AutoUpdate and just used that as opposed to
downloading it.

William

 

[Diane]

As best I can tell, Word still reports its version to be 11.3.8. I found
that more than a little surprising, and several Macs did it...so I think the
installation worked. Hard to say...I didn't have any printing problems.

The true test of any Office upgrade is to look at the Microsoft Component
Plugin. It is always updated where individual Office applications are
updated or not.

Microsoft does not update each application every time an update is released.
See ³Confused over Microsoft Update Version numbers?³

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2007/05/confused_over_microsoft_update.html>

 

[Marc Baizman]

The true test of any Office upgrade is to look at the Microsoft Component
Plugin. It is always updated where individual Office applications are
updated or not.

Microsoft does not update each application every time an update is released.
See ³Confused over Microsoft Update Version numbers?³

True, but it is odd that the version number wasn't incremented in the
application that was specifically supposed to have been updated
(Word). I suspect it might have been a slip-up from the fine folks at
the MBU, but don't quote me...

 

[JE McGimpsey]

True, but it is odd that the version number wasn't incremented in the
application that was specifically supposed to have been updated
(Word). I suspect it might have been a slip-up from the fine folks at
the MBU, but don't quote me...

Hmm..Where'd you get the idea that Word itself was supposed to be
updated? MacBU never indicated that. From Mactopia:

This update fixes an issue that causes Word 2004 to quit unexpectedly
when you print a document.

All Office apps sit on top of core code that does most of the real work,
including printing, file i/o, etc. Take a look in the Office folder to
see how many supporting files there are.

In this case, the update installs an updated plug-in (WordPDE.plugin) in
the

Application:Microsoft Office 2004:Office

folder (each app has its own appPDE.plugin file). I don't pretend to
know what the plugin does, exactly, but the human-readable portion of
the plugin files show that they're involved in the production of the
print dialogs.

 

[aaronevans]

Hmm..Where'd you get the idea that Word itself was supposed to be
updated? MacBU never indicated that. From Mactopia:


All Office apps sit on top of core code that does most of the real work,
including printing, file i/o, etc. Take a look in the Office folder to
see how many supporting files there are.

In this case, the update installs an updated plug-in (WordPDE.plugin) in
the

Application:Microsoft Office 2004:Office

folder (each app has its own appPDE.plugin file). I don't pretend to
know what the plugin does, exactly, but the human-readable portion of
the plugin files show that they're involved in the production of the
print dialogs.

Just ran update, WordPDE shows 11.3.9 Word still shows 11.3.8, still
crashes with networked users.

 

[aaronevans]

Hmm..Where'd you get the idea that Word itself was supposed to be
updated? MacBU never indicated that. From Mactopia:


All Office apps sit on top of core code that does most of the real work,
including printing, file i/o, etc. Take a look in the Office folder to
see how many supporting files there are.

In this case, the update installs an updated plug-in (WordPDE.plugin) in
the

Application:Microsoft Office 2004:Office

folder (each app has its own appPDE.plugin file). I don't pretend to
know what the plugin does, exactly, but the human-readable portion of
the plugin files show that they're involved in the production of the
print dialogs.

Just ran update, WordPDE shows 11.3.9 Word still shows 11.3.8, still
crashes with networked users.

 

[Diane Ross]

Just ran update, WordPDE shows 11.3.9 Word still shows 11.3.8, still
crashes with networked users.

Microsoft does not update each application every time an update is released.
See Confused over Microsoft Update Version numbers?

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2007/05/confused_over_microsoft_update.html>

The true test of any upgrade is to check the Microsoft Component Plugin. It
is always updated.

 

[tokiyan]

Microsoft does not update each application every time an update is released.
See Confused over Microsoft Update Version numbers?

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2007/05/confused_over_microsoft_update...>

The true test of any upgrade is to check the Microsoft Component Plugin. It
is always updated.

hmmm, i thought i had updated to 3.9 a few weeks ago and got another
updater message so checked my version, as the previous people were
saying and it still said 3.8. so i updated again and the same problem
happened as last time. when i open Word and Excel for the first time,
i get nothing but corrupt font messages, alphabetically. i've tried
doing what other forum suggestions on the separate threads have said
and none have worked. the only thing that did was to hit the return
key a million times. has anyone else found the corrup font messages
after updating?