Microsoft Office For Mac 2008

[allison]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I recently purchased Office 2008 for my mac. I typed a document on Word and e-mailed it to my PC at home. I specifically purchased Microsoft Office so their would be no problem converting my documents, however, I cannot open my word 2008 document (from my mac) on my PC which has Microsoft Office 2003. Can this version be too old to open the new one? Please Help!

 

[Kubrick]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: intel

I recently purchased Office 2008 for my mac. I typed a document on Word and e-mailed it to my PC at home. I specifically purchased Microsoft Office so their would be no problem converting my documents, however, I cannot open my word 2008 document (from my mac) on my PC which has Microsoft Office 2003. Can this version be too old to open the new one? Please Help!

Install the Microsoft Office 2007 Compatibility Pack free from
Microsoft's website. It allows you to view the new generation of file
formats from Office.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Install the Microsoft Office 2007 Compatibility Pack free from
Microsoft's website. It allows you to view the new generation of file
formats from Office.

Hi,

Just a quick point of clarification - it's the PC, not the Mac, that
needs the compatibility pack installed.

-Jim

 

[allison]

> Version: 2008
> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
> Processor: intel
>
> I recently purchased Office 2008 for my mac. I typed a document on Word and e-mailed it to my PC at home. I specifically purchased Microsoft Office so their would be no problem converting my documents, however, I cannot open my word 2008 document (from my mac) on my PC which has Microsoft Office 2003. Can this version be too old to open the new one? Please Help!

Install the Microsoft Office 2007 Compatibility Pack free from
Microsoft's website. It allows you to view the new generation of file
formats from Office.

Problem solved. Thanks! =]

 

[DVC]

When will the Compatibility plug-in for .X and 2004 for the Mac finally be shipped?

 

[Michel Bintener]

No one knows, except for Microsoft. Keep checking Mactopia and the Mac Mojo
blog to find out.

When will the Compatibility plug-in for .X and 2004 for the Mac finally be
shipped?

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Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

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[Phillip Jones]

I'd like to know myself.

But don't hold your breath I wouldn't be surprised if they nixed the
idea. teeing of Mac customers even more. I don't think the converters
were ever intended to work with X and below only 2004.

When will the Compatibility plug-in for .X and 2004 for the Mac finally be shipped?

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[John McGhie]

No, they didn't 'nix the idea, they're still trying to get it working right.

The "converter" is actually a large slab of the Office 2008 core application
suite. Which as we know is full of bugs.

I would imagine that it would appear at the same time as, or very shortly
after, the first service pack (so it gets the fixes contained in the first
service pack).

I think it will be with us in "weeks" not "months". The service pack is in
testing now: they will publish it as soon as it passes.

Cheers

I'd like to know myself.

But don't hold your breath I wouldn't be surprised if they nixed the
idea. teeing of Mac customers even more. I don't think the converters
were ever intended to work with X and below only 2004.

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[Phillip Jones]

Thanks glad they haven't nixed the idea yet.

No, they didn't 'nix the idea, they're still trying to get it working right.

The "converter" is actually a large slab of the Office 2008 core application
suite. Which as we know is full of bugs.

I would imagine that it would appear at the same time as, or very shortly
after, the first service pack (so it gets the fixes contained in the first
service pack).

I think it will be with us in "weeks" not "months". The service pack is in
testing now: they will publish it as soon as it passes.

Cheers

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[DANCG]

I read awhile back of a way to speed up Word OPENING by altering a setting, but I can not find the article again. This had worked very well but I had to reconfigure my MACBOOK PRO OS X 10.5 & I lost the setting

Any ideas??

 

[D. Mannus]

The easy way to prevent this is to go to Word preferences then to Save. Click on Save as and select Word 97-2004 .mac This will allow you to open such documents anywhere.

 

[John McGhie]

Since you did not quote the text of the message you are commenting on, we
haven't a clue what you are referring to.

However, changing the default save format to the old .doc format is a silly
thing to do. Not only does that disable the new features of Office 2008
(because the old file format won't store them...) but you end up with files
that are twice the size on disk, and open to corruption.

You will also be driven mad with compatibility warnings.

There is nothing wrong with saving a single file as a .doc for someone who
does not have a copy of Word on their machine (although, RTF is safer).

But making it the default save format is simply breaking the expensive
product you just bought.

The easy way to prevent this is to go to Word preferences then to Save. Click
on Save as and select Word 97-2004 .mac This will allow you to open such
documents anywhere.

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