Entourage 2008 with Mac Office 2004

[Brandon110]

Sorry for Duplicate Post

In corporate environment with OSX 10.4.11 PPC-Intel Workstations. Recently
migration from Lotus Notes to MS Exchange on the PC side. Macintosh users
will evenutally be affected, because Lotus Notes is being retired.

Currently machines have Installation of MACOFFICE 2004 without Entourage.
Initial option was to complete a customer install with adding Entourage from
Mac 2004 Office CD. After some investigation other option was to install
Entourage 2008 and keeping Offce 2004 instead of updating the entire suite.

Are there any issues with Entourage 2008 with Mac office 2004? I remember
seeing post regarding this, but could not find them from search feature.

If this is an update issue only, is there any recommended method or should
this be installed as full MACOFFICE 2008 and Trash Office 2004?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Are there any issues with Entourage 2008 with Mac office 2004? I remember
seeing post regarding this, but could not find them from search feature.

I have part of Office 2004 on my MAc alonside Office 2008 and everything
is fine,

If this is an update issue only, is there any recommended method or should
this be installed as full MACOFFICE 2008 and Trash Office 2004?

Well that I haven't tried. I don't know how updating a partial install
of Office 2008 goes, but since the installer allows you to perform
partial installation, I would guess that the udpater should be OK with
it.

If you want to trash Office 2004 entirely, you have to be aware of
things that were in 2004 and are no longer in 2008 (VBA for instance,
embedding of OLE objects, custom error bars in Excel - though I suspect
this one is a bug that will get fixed).

Corentin

 

[Diane Ross]

In corporate environment with OSX 10.4.11 PPC-Intel Workstations. Recently
migration from Lotus Notes to MS Exchange on the PC side. Macintosh users
will evenutally be affected, because Lotus Notes is being retired.

The 12.0.1 updater addressed a problem with Lotus Notes:

Reliability is improved when connecting via IMAP to a server running IBM
Lotus Domino

Currently machines have Installation of MACOFFICE 2004 without Entourage.
Initial option was to complete a customer install with adding Entourage from
Mac 2004 Office CD. After some investigation other option was to install
Entourage 2008 and keeping Offce 2004 instead of updating the entire suite.

It is never advised to install parts of Office. This could affect future
updates. Just because you install does not mean you have to use them.

Are there any issues with Entourage 2008 with Mac office 2004? I remember
seeing post regarding this, but could not find them from search feature.

The 12.0.1 fixed several major bugs. Sounds and syncing were the two major
ones addressed.

If this is an update issue only, is there any recommended method or should
this be installed as full MACOFFICE 2008 and Trash Office 2004?

If you use VBA, leave Office 2004 installed. If you do not, then trash it
AFTER you are satisfied with Office 2008 using "Remove Office".

Note: Entourage 2008 moves fonts to a different location disabling the older
2004 fonts. If you install 2004 AFTER 2004 it will just reinstall them
causing problems in Office 2008.

You can use both versions of Office applications at the same time except for
Entourage. You can switch between the two, but you must quit daemons and
make sure your mail is set correctly or you will have mail all over the
place.

Excel is also experiencing some problems. I would check on the Excel list
before moving to Excel 08.