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Update won't apply Microsoft Office for Mac

Update won't apply Microsoft Office for Mac

Update won't apply

Posted: 14 Aug 2008 03:57 AM PDT

"com" wrote:
 

Install and Update Errors
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/error/install_update.html#fails1>

Install Office 2008
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/install/install_office2008.html>

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Diane

HELP.... word for mac-issue

Posted: 13 Aug 2008 01:47 PM PDT

As Jim said, repair disk permissions & you should be OK - post back with
specific details if not.

Also, you can't "use up" your Product Keys. You can reinstall using the same
key as many times as you wish. It's just that you can't get away with using
the *same* key multiple times on the same computer or multiple systems on
the same network... Only one installation based on the same key will run at
a time.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 8/14/08 5:09 AM, in article caR9absDaxw, "" <>
wrote:
 

[ANN] Updaters for Office 2004 and Office 2008

Posted: 12 Aug 2008 02:02 PM PDT

"Keith Kastorff" wrote:
 

Did you not see David Pelton's reply:

There is no check in the Installer for Messenger. No updates for Messenger
go through the Office updater.

He's the developer. Believe him.

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Diane

Installing office 2004 after accidentallyinstalling an "upgrade" version

Posted: 12 Aug 2008 02:01 PM PDT

"Bob Greenblatt" wrote:
 

This is absolutely correct. Do not try deleting applications that you don't
use. They take up very little space. Entourage for example is 44.4MB.

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Diane

update 2008 12.1.2

Posted: 12 Aug 2008 12:29 PM PDT

Like others, I could not get the 12.1.1 or .2 updates to install. Unlike others having problems here, the problems I had were all related to permissions. I could not install the 12.1.1 or 12.1.2 updates until I
-repaired permissions
-rebooted
-ran the 12.1.1 update
-repaired permissions
-rebooted
-ran the 12.1.2 update
-to be safe I repaired permissions and rebooted again (this is definitely a Mac Microsoft product)

A look at the Console Install logs indicated that they were indeed looking for the languages during the install, but the permissions were preventing the operation from happening. I may have overdone it on repairing permissions, but it got the job done.

I include my experience here just in case someone had a similar issue. I will also mention that I am running an MSDN copy of Office 2008 (my company is an MS partner) which was installed with NO customizations or location changes. The 12.1 update was applied without incident.

Console error - CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context

Posted: 12 Aug 2008 12:02 PM PDT

1. File locations in preferences are all on the local HD - and none that are remote.
2. Fonts - I have no non-system or non-MS fonts installed, only the ones installed by OS X and Office. I have also cleaned out the font caches several times.
3. Startup is slow the first time, and then speeds up considerably on subsequest startups. After a reboot, the first starrt up is again slow.
4. I only consider the console error messages a problem because the programs (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) are reporting so many of the same error messages and they don't stop. My assumption is that if error messages are being reported in this volume, then something is wrong and the programs are encountering problems they find necessary to report. I don't think it too much to ask a user who pays a lot for these programs to have ones that do not report so many errors. Also, I have no idea why it they are reporting these messages, whether it is benign, causes inefficiency or real problems - this is entirely out of my depth as just a fairly educated user.