How can the answer be improved? Microsoft will end support for Office 2004 on October 13, 2009. The company will still update Office 2008 and is working on the next version of Office for Mac.

Item.93851 MacInTouch Reader Regarding the new Microsoft Office-related updates: 1. I dumped Office 2008 because it was problematic on my MacBook.

I now have Office 2004 installed on the MacBook with 10.5.5. Has anyone tried the updates yet? I've had too many bad experiences with Microsoft Office updates over the years and I would like to hear from someone that has installed the updates with no problems. When any Office file acts strangely after opening, I find that closing it and opening in NeoOffice 3 usually resolves the issue. Item.109632 Bill Gallagher I have tried to use Microsoft's Auto Updater, as well as doing a direct download to obtain the most recent 11.5.7 security update for Office for Mac 2004.

Every time I try to run this, the update just hangs interminably and is searching for programs to update. My version of Office had already been updated to 11.5.6, and everything in Word, PowerPoint and Excel continue to work fine. I've never had a problem with updates to Office previously, but this seems to be a non starter. I'm still using an old 1.0 Ghz iMac with 10.5.8. Anyone else having problems with this update? Item. Frutiger Light Condensed Italic here. 110427 Sterett Prevost Re: Jean Smith and 11.5.7 install issues 11.5.6 must have been installed first, and on one of my Macs I had to reinstall 11.5.6 before 11.5.7 would 'take'.

Another obstacle to update installs would be if any of the Office apps have been moved from their MS-installed locations. This might require reinstalling Office from scratch and applying the updaters 'one at a time'. This is one reason I have a folder called, 'Updaters & Installers' into which I place all application updaters for later (ugh!) use. Another tip might be to not use the update function found in the Office apps themselves, but, rather, to separately download the updates and apply them from the Mac desktop. I use this technique and copy the updates onto a flash drive so I can visit each of our Macs and do the update without having to waste any time. Item.115390 Chris Trusch Microsoft AutoUpdate Since I keep getting more and more.docx files, and am unwilling to 'upgrade' to Office 2008, I installed Microsoft's Open XML Converter on my PowerBook running 10.4.11.

No problems here, it works as advertised and also integrates nicly into Office 2004. It installed, however, a second AutoUpdate application.

The old one is in Applications, and the second one now is in Root Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0. They are to different applications, with different version numbers.

Item.115792 Robert MacLeay Following the link on MacInTouch's June 8 page, I went to the Microsoft page for downloading the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.9 Update. Clicking the download link on that page produces an error message: 'Sorry, but we couldn't find the page that you requested.'

Way to go, Microsoft. Clicking the 'Support Home' link on the error page takes me to Clicking the Microsoft Download Center on that page takes me to Selecting the popup link for 'Top Downloads for: Mac & Other Platforms' reloads this page with a link that works: 'Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5. Am Visat De Mic Copil Sa Ajung Bogat. 9 Update' sends me to FamilyID=16c71ab8-9284-407a-856a-93c67995f125 &displayLang=en which does download the update. But not automatically. I had to click the 'If your download does not start after 30 seconds, click here: Start download' link to make it happen. Again, way to go, Microsoft. Item.119239 Robert MacLeay Microsoft released updates for Office 2004 and 2008. I downloaded all 201.6 MB of 'Office2004-1160UpdateEN.dmg' to my desktop and mounted it.

I opened the file 'Read Me.html'; there was virtually nothing in it except a link to Microsoft's website. 'For detailed information about this update, please visit the following Web site.' I clicked on the link in the Read Me I was quickly redirected to a Microsoft error page that said 'Sorry, but we couldn't find the page that you requested.' Microsoft's quality control always ceases to amaze me. Item.119287 MacInTouch Reader Geoff Strickler remarks upon the very large size of the MS Office 2004 Updater 11.6.0.

Assuming Microsoft _does_ issue a proper download link, one reason why the 11.6.0 Update would be so huge is the sheer amount of alterations it is required to make. The detailed description says it is a cumulative updater that incorporates *every* previous MSO 2004 bug-fix and security-flaw-correction updater. That would be.

Service Packs 1 & 2; 11.1.1 update; six in the 11.2.x series; eight in the 11.3.x series; three in the 11.4.x series; and ten in the 11.5.x series. One would expect that thirty updates issued in the course of more than five years _ought_ to include a lot of changes.