TAG | Microsoft delivers Open XML updates for Mac Office but no ODF support |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 25 June 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 There are the always-popular stability improvements. Notably, it fixes problems that could cause Word 2004 on Mac OS X 10.5 to quit when doing something as innocuous as creating a new document, printing, or using print preview.The 11.5.0 update incorporates all previous updates for Office 2004, so there are no problems with prerequisites. However, this does result in a hefty 59M download. Turning to Office 2008, the 12.1.1 update provides (you guessed it!) stability improvements as well as fixes for specific issues. In particular, it overcomes a widely encountered problem delivered by Office 2008 SP1 that prevented the opening of some Word and Excel documents (most commonly those downloaded from a web site) by double-clicking in the Finder. Items in Notebook Layout are now correctly preserved when a .docx file is subsequently saved as a .doc file or opened with the standalone Open XML Converter. PowerPoint benefits from a change that speeds the opening of presentations containing certain fonts, while Entourage users should no longer crash when the system wakes from sleep. I frequently use sleep while Entourage is running, and I've never encountered that problem. I'm just hoping Microsoft has been able to make Entourage preserve the scroll position during sleep - if you leave a window halfway down a mailbox list, it's annoying to wake the Mac and find yourself back at the top. You'll find Microsoft's full description of the update here. If you thought 59M was a lot for the Office 2004 update, take a deep breath before downloading 153M for Office 2008. Now, what about ODF? Please read on. |
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