[ANN] Office 2004 1.1.1 update

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi All,


MS just released an new update for Office 2004 (English and Japanese
only at this time).

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/d
ownload/office2004/update_11.1.1.xml&secid=4&ssid=14&flgnosysreq=True

or
http://tinyurl.com/6ljbz

MacUpdate has some information about the update:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7884



• Improved display of inserted PICT images This update fixes a number
of issues that caused PICT images to display incorrectly once they were
inserted into an Office document.
• Corrected importing of black-and-white scans from Xerox scanners If
you use a Xerox WorkCentre multifunction product and the Xerox
WorkCentre C2424 TWAIN driver to scan images in low-resolution black and
white, the images will now insert properly when you use the Insert
Picture From Scanner or Camera command in Office 2004 programs.
• Improvements for Excel 2004
• Improved performance when calculating array formulas with
user-defined functions This update improves the calculation performance
of array formulas that include a user-defined function.
• Improvements for PowerPoint 2004
• Improved stability when opening presentations with invalid font
information This update addresses an issue that could cause PowerPoint
to stop responding when opening presentations that contain invalid font
information.
• Improvements for Visual Basic for Applications
• Improved stability for Adobe Acrobat users when using forms This
update fixes a memory allocation issue that could cause Office 2004
programs to stop responding when opening documents that contain forms
that were created in Visual Basic for Applications. This issue affected
users of Adobe Acrobat.

Corentin

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

Hi All,


MS just released an new update for Office 2004 (English and Japanese
only at this time).

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/d
ownload/office2004/update_11.1.1.xml&secid=4&ssid=14&flgnosysreq=True

or
http://tinyurl.com/6ljbz

MacUpdate has some information about the update:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7884



• Improved display of inserted PICT images This update fixes a number
of issues that caused PICT images to display incorrectly once they were
inserted into an Office document.
• Corrected importing of black-and-white scans from Xerox scanners If
you use a Xerox WorkCentre multifunction product and the Xerox
WorkCentre C2424 TWAIN driver to scan images in low-resolution black and
white, the images will now insert properly when you use the Insert
Picture From Scanner or Camera command in Office 2004 programs.
• Improvements for Excel 2004
• Improved performance when calculating array formulas with
user-defined functions This update improves the calculation performance
of array formulas that include a user-defined function.
• Improvements for PowerPoint 2004
• Improved stability when opening presentations with invalid font
information This update addresses an issue that could cause PowerPoint
to stop responding when opening presentations that contain invalid font
information.
• Improvements for Visual Basic for Applications
• Improved stability for Adobe Acrobat users when using forms This
update fixes a memory allocation issue that could cause Office 2004
programs to stop responding when opening documents that contain forms
that were created in Visual Basic for Applications. This issue affected
users of Adobe Acrobat.

Corentin

Just run the update on my Desktop and my Laptop.

The only items I saw updated were Excel, and PowerPoint.
Entorage, and Word has same idential version and series number in about
Word, about Entourage.

Am I missing something??

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[Jim Gordon MVP]

To quote the "Read Me" file:

3 Improvements included in Office 2004 11.1.1
3.1 Improvements for Office 2004
3.2 Improvements for Excel 2004
3.3 Improvements for PowerPoint 2004
3.4 Improvements for Visual Basic for Applications

So you are correct. There are no specific changes to Word or Entourage
in this update. The specific improvements are listed in the Read Me file.

-Jim

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Cotentin,

Thanks for posting this

Cheers
TAJ

 

[mmmmark]

Update seemed to work without a hitch. <knock on wood>

 

[Jeffrey Weston [MSFT]]

Is update contains various improvments on Picture Rendering Issues, so if
you have some problems with images not appearing correctly, try downloading
and installing the update first.

Thanks

--
Jeffrey Weston
Mac Word Test
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Jeffrey Weston [MSFT]]

One part of the update improves the display of inserted PICT images in your
document.

An example of the one of the types of problems it should fix is the
"splitting into objects" problem detailed by user "Richard" here:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...a8f6b4f3979,c42e4eaa8d60bbb6,7ce0d9d93d16c213

Other problems that it may fix are some situations where the image looks
poorly or does not render at all. So if you are having similar problems be
sure to update Office 2004 to the lastest version (11.1.1).

--
Jeffrey Weston
Mac Word Test
Macintosh Business Unit
Microsoft

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Cotentin,

Thanks for posting this

Yeah, any improvement in stability is welcome as far as I am concerned.
I thought that the information could be of some use to othr people as
well )

Corentin

 

[davidldrucker]

Hi All,


MS just released an new update for Office 2004 (English and Japanese
only at this time).

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/d
ownload/office2004/update_11.1.1.xml&secid=4&ssid=14&flgnosysreq=True

or
http://tinyurl.com/6ljbz

MacUpdate has some information about the update:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7884



· Improved display of inserted PICT images This update fixes a number
of issues that caused PICT images to display incorrectly once they were
inserted into an Office document.
· Corrected importing of black-and-white scans from Xerox scanners If
you use a Xerox WorkCentre multifunction product and the Xerox
WorkCentre C2424 TWAIN driver to scan images in low-resolution black and
white, the images will now insert properly when you use the Insert
Picture From Scanner or Camera command in Office 2004 programs.
· Improvements for Excel 2004
· Improved performance when calculating array formulas with
user-defined functions This update improves the calculation performance
of array formulas that include a user-defined function.
· Improvements for PowerPoint 2004
· Improved stability when opening presentations with invalid font
information This update addresses an issue that could cause PowerPoint
to stop responding when opening presentations that contain invalid font
information.
· Improvements for Visual Basic for Applications
· Improved stability for Adobe Acrobat users when using forms This
update fixes a memory allocation issue that could cause Office 2004
programs to stop responding when opening documents that contain forms
that were created in Visual Basic for Applications. This issue affected
users of Adobe Acrobat.

Corentin

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[Johan]

Has anybody had problems with the Office 2004 11.1.1 Update installer?
I have tried the automatically downloaded one (via Microsoft
AutoUpdate) and the manually downloaded one (from Mactopia downloads),
but they both hang indefinitely at the "Gathering Information..."
stage. I have disabled Norton Autoprotect and quit all applications
other than the Finder, but the problem persists. I do see disk activity
early on, but after a while that stops and the installer seems to hang.
I am running OSX 10.3.8 and Office 11.1.0 on a G5 dual 2 GHz with 1 GB
memory, an internal 153 GB Maxtor disk, and an external 380 GB LaCie
disk via FireWire 800.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Johan

 

[Johan]

To answer my own question, I just tried unplugging the external disk
before running the installer (auto download), and that did work. Sorry
for the question, but perhaps the answer is of use to someone.

Johan

 

[Clive Huggan]

Thanks for getting back, Johan -- it's great to get feedback.

I had the same problem, so you are certainly not Robinson Crusoe!

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 5 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[amtb75]

Do you have any other suggestions? I just upgraded to Office 2004.
Unfortunately, I cannot update anything. I get the hanging and
spinning ball and the computer freezes. I have unplugged external
devices, run repair permissions, and reinstalled the whole thing. I
have read numerous posts on similar problems and tried all the
suggestions posted thus far. Please help- this is very annoying!
Thanks so much.