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- Version: 12.0.1, 4/27/2008 04:28PM PST
georges6
This update is useless, with or without it Office 2008 is unusable. Word and Excel crash a least ten times a day. Check spelling (French) doesn't work at all. Excel graphics are not working either. So many major problems. It's not even a beta version.
DON'T INSTALL OFFICE 2008
Get 2004 wich is much less crashy (1 to 2 times a day... wich is not so bad for a Microsoft product)
DON'T INSTALL OFFICE 2008
Get 2004 wich is much less crashy (1 to 2 times a day... wich is not so bad for a Microsoft product)
Not backward compatible with itself 



- Version: 12.0.1, 4/27/2008 11:32AM PST
mmueck
The vast majority of my older version of Word documents that have anything more in them than just plain text have issues. Word 2004 displays these documents just fine - Word 2008 butchers them. I even tried saving the documents in Word 2004 as varying formats and Word 2008 still mangled them upon import. Diagrams that I created outside of the M$ universe and then pasted into Word now either don't show up at all or have annoying artifacts. Equations that worked just fine before are now replaced by the word 'Error!'. In short, a completely useless upgrade for me. I can't believe I gave those guys my money. Oh yea, even though I purchased Office 2008 as a brand new package, if you have any issues it'll cost you $50 per incident to deal with THEIR bugs. Now that's classic Microsoft service for a new customer who just plonked down a few hundred dollars!
On the plus side, keeping the toolbars in the document window is a better interface, and is more maclike, though I would have preferred the Word 2007 interface that let you display two pages side by side. Also, I have not had any crashes yet, which is more than I could say about the old Office.
Basically, the new Office is as slow on my desktop as the old Office was on my MacBook. I am considering going back to 2004 on my desktop at least.