1. Office For Mac 2008 Support

In the Office 2008 12.3.6 Update volume window, double-click the Office 2008 12.3.6 Update application to start the update process, and then follow the instructions on the screen. If the installation finishes successfully, you can remove the update installer from your hard disk. Mac download game. Office 2008 combines Microsoft Word for Mac, Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac, Microsoft Excel for Mac, Microsoft Entourage for Mac, and Microsoft Messenger for Mac and lets you easily create high-impact documents and seamlessly share your ideas with others, whether they are on the Mac or Windows platform.

Jane – I can sense your frustration, and I feel your pain. I was frustrated too when I ran into the bug. Have you called Microsoft for support?

Messenger for Mac enables users to check spelling, pick from among many emoticons, and see what others are listening to on iTunes. Companies using Live Communications Server 2005 can encrypt their messaging, and users can chat with those using iChat, AOL, AIM, Yahoo, and MSN. Service and support Microsoft offers searchable inline and online help menus, which answered most of our questions, as well as Web-based community forums. Live e-mail or phone help costs $35 for a pair of requests, not cheap but still less than Apple iWork's fees.

Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 may be the best pick for business users, with major updates to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage. After a, Microsoft plans to release Office for Mac 2008 to brick-and-mortar and online stores on January 15, making this the first update in nearly four years. Office for Mac includes Word, Excel for spreadsheets, PowerPoint for presentations and Entourage for e-mail and time management. There's no Microsoft Access database application for the Mac, although Filemaker's upcoming release of offers Mac users a new choice. Unlike, the interface changes don't look radically foreign next to the 2004 edition.

• Make sure that your computer meets the minimum system requirements. • Click Download, or click the link for the language version that you want. • Follow the instructions on the screen to save the file to your hard disk. If you are using Safari, the downloaded file is saved to the desktop or your Downloads folder unless you specified a different location in the Preferences dialog box of Safari. To check your preferences, on the Safari menu, click Preferences, and then click General. • Double-click the file that you downloaded in step 5 to place the Office 2008 12.3.6 Update volume on your desktop, and then double-click the Office 2008 12.3.6 Update volume to open it.

Although we like Apple's attractive, introductory Numbers spreadsheet application, for instance, Excel for Mac is more robust, handling a million rows of data. At the same time, Excel 2008's lack of Visual Basic support is a serious flaw that shafts power users. Still, Entourage's update may motivate more businesses to use Office on a Mac. Word also offers richer features than Apple Pages, such as mail merge form letters that can accept data from sources other than the Mac Address Book. There's better support for long documents as well. File compatibility is another reason to skip, say,, which can read Office's new files but can't fully edit dynamic charts and Smart Art graphics.

If I get some spare time, I’ll put the font cache back in place and see if it trashes things. I can’t open certain doc files that have been emailed to me. Not from just one person, this is a consistent problem. I have to go to my husband’s pc, download them, transfer them to a memory stick and move them over. I have tried to update to 12.2.1, it says it can’t find software, however when I check the version the computer thinks I have, it acknowledges an update install to the 12.2.1.

After recently finally updating my address book and everything seemed peachy, I got another update alert and clicked on it. And poof, my Entourage was once again gone, had to keep pressing the reset/relaunch button. Went to the Apple store today and after 2hrs the techy sells me a new Office Mac 2008 software, installs it and everything seems fine. I come home, start up the Mac and again the Entourage is not cooperating, getting a message to relaunch/rest. I still can’t get into my emails and at this point I’m hoping not to lose my address and all the 200 + name/info I have stored.

Office For Mac 2008 Support

At work I spent 90% of my time on Excel 97 (Accounting & fin analysis), well, at home I simply hate Excel 2008 for Mac. It's very slow, cluttered, utterly unusable compared to the 97 edition on PC - Word: it's actually good. Seems very similar to the 97 Word version I'm using at work! It's fast and intuitive and the menus are where you expect them to be - Powerpoint: good enough for me, don't use at home anyway - Entourage: I don't use it. So, given the above, should I basically buy the new version (seems that I can't upgrade?!?) for the next Excel? The 2011 Excel seems completely different from the 2008. Thanks for reading.

Running Windows lets you play PC games that haven’t been ported to the Mac, or stay completely compatible with your documents from a PC-centric workplace. Windows 8.1, the current version of Microsoft’s operating system, will run you about $120 for a plain-jane version. Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac One of the selling points of a Mac these days is the ability to run Windows software on it, via or Apple’s own. You can run the next-gen OS from Microsoft (Windows 10) on your Mac using virtualization for free, however. Virtualization software like Parallels or VMWare Fusion (two of the best apps to run Windows software on your Mac without partitioning your hard drive for Boot Camp) isn’t free, though these applications do allow you to try before you buy.