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Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.1, Office 2004 11.5.0, Open XML converter released

Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.1, Office 2004 11.5.0, Open XML converter released

CNET staff
2 min read

Tuesday, June 24

Microsoft has released significant updates to both Office 2008 and Office 2004, as well as the final release of the Office Open XML converter 1.0.

Office 2008 12.1.1 is available as a 153MB download and includes the following enhancements, among others:

  • Stability is improved.
  • Dates in a chart are displayed correctly in Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac and in Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 for Mac.
  • Fixes an issue that causes spaces between words to be lost when you open a document that was created in or saved by Word 2008 for Mac or by Microsoft Office Word 2007.
  • Fixes an issue that causes OnOpen and OnClose macros not to run correctly in versions of Word for Mac and Word for Windows that support Visual Basic macros.
  • Fixes an issue that prevents Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 (SP1) from opening Word documents when you double-click the document or when you download the document from a Web site.
  • Fixes issues that cause items in Notebook Layout documents to be displayed incorrectly or to lose information. This issue occurs when the document is saved in an Open XML Format such as .docx and then is saved in .doc format or is converted by the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.

Office 2004 11.5.0 is available as a 59.2MB download and includes "several improvements to enhance stability and compatibility with documents that were created in Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2007 for Windows." If the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac is installed, this update enables Office 2004 for Mac to read and write Office documents that are in the Open XML Format.

The Open XML Converter is available as a 44.6MB download. It allows you to convert Open XML files that were created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for Windows so that you can open, edit, and save them in earlier versions of Office for Mac. Open XML Converter can convert Word documents, Excel workbooks, and PowerPoint presentations that are in the Open XML Format so that you can open and edit the files in Office 2004 for Mac and Office v. X for Mac.

If you are experiencing issues with any of the aforementioned updates, please drop us a line at late-breakers@macfixit.com.

Resources

  • Office 2008 12.1.1
  • 153MB download
  • 59.2MB download
  • 44.6MB download
  • late-breakers@macfixit.com
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