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Office 2004 11.3.5 Special Report: Preparing for the update

Office 2004 11.3.5 Special Report: Preparing for the update

CNET staff

Readers are encouraged to take due precautions before applying the update. In particular, as with any application update, there's nothing quite like having a recent backup of a successfully working copy of the application, on which to fall back in case of trouble.

Having a backup strategy is a fundamental part of MacFixIt's philosophy of Macintosh maintenance. If you don't have a backup strategy, please, get one. External hard drive prices are low, and even if you don't want to grapple with the complexities and expense of a sophisticated incremental backup solution such as Retrospect, there are many cheaper, simpler alternatives; a straightforward disk duplicator, such as Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper, is reliable and easy, and can greatly contribute to your peace of mind in times of update-induced stress.

Index:

Resources

  • Retrospect
  • Carbon Copy Cloner
  • Super Duper
  • Release notes
  • Preparing for the update
  • Undoing the update
  • Application crashes, fixes
  • Documents will not open
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  • Exchange server synchroniz...
  • Missing applications
  • Spotlight issues
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