On 12/21/09 9:42 PM, "Julian Vrieslander" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I upgraded from Office 2004 to 2008 because the newer version of Excel > offered a feature that saves me some time in my work. I have seen no > compelling advantages or serious disadvantages in the 2008 versions of > Entourage, Word and Powerpoint. At home, one of our laptops is still > running Office 2004, and it still does everything we need. We have an > unused installer disk for 2008, but no real motivation to run it. > > So I would say that, unless you have a valid reason to upgrade, you are not > missing much. Well said Julian. Many issues have been installing and upgrading Office. If you actually follow the direction and do not run any applications that remove languages etc, you should be OK. (They have fixed that in SP2, but I still suggest not using applications like Monolingual. Just don't install them in the first place rather than stripping later) You should quit all applications before installing a major application like Office and Adobe applications. Any application that is open can be modified causing problems. Easy way. Log out of your User. When you log in, hold down the Shift key to disable all startup items. Now this is where the tricky part comes in. To launch the MAU AutoUpdater, you need to know where it's hidden or launch any Office application and select it under Help in the Menu bar. I suggest doing this before you log out and select to "keep in Dock". If you quit the application, you must be sure you've quit the Microsoft Database daemon that's invisible and MyDay so again I suggest the log out/in with shift key down. After installing the updater, RESTART. Download and install the next updater. RESTART Verfy that you are fully updated by checking this file: "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/MicrosoftComponentPlugin.framework" There are only two updaters needed for those that have the original DVDs. 12.1.0 and 12.2.3. Those that purchased recently have the DVD that comes with 12.1.0 so you only need the 12.2.3 updater. If you have an Exchange account and meet the requirements, you can upgrade to the EWS version 13.0.3 after you install Entourage 2008 and update to 12.2.3. The other big gotcha is if you have upgraded to Snow Leopard is to remove the older version Microsoft fonts. Fonts to delete after installing Snow Leopard (includes help deleting font caches) <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/remove_fonts_snowleopard.html> If you have a problem, ask for help. -- Diane -- YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
