Stability is, of course, improved, and a number of smaller fixes have been made to the apps. Read all about it on Microsoft's support site.įor those of you still stuck in the dark ages of Mac Office 2004, version 11.5.0 should help you stay a little more current.You can now read and write Office documents in the Open XML format, as long as you install the Open XML File Format Converter.
And that's just for Word! Excel's updates mostly contain reliability improvements, PowerPoint's performance has been boosted, and Entourage is now more stable when you wake the computer from sleep. According to Microsoft, dates and charts now display correctly in Word and PowerPoint, spaces between words are actually preserved in Word 2008 (thank the deities for that one), macros are preserved, and font size is preserved in text tables. Office 2008 has been bumped to version 12.1.1 (making it the second update since the software was released) and generally addresses stability and performance. And who ever said there couldn't be a Christmas in June? Mac Office users of both the 20 variety got updates from Microsoft last night.
