Microsoft heeft dinsdag een update voor Office 2008 for Mac uitgebracht. De update heeft versienummer 12.1.1 meegekregen en is iets meer dan 150MB groot. Downloads zijn verkrijgbaar in elf verschillende talen, waaronder de Nederlandse. Deze update, de eerste na Service Pack 1, bevat een groot aantal veranderingen die de stabiliteit en performance ten goede zou moeten komen. Uitgebreide informatie over de veranderingen kan in dit knowledgebase-artikel worden gevonden, dit is daar een korte samenvatting van:
Improvements for all Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac applicationsImprovements for Word 2008 for Mac
- Stability is improved.
- Dates in a chart are displayed correctly in Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac and in Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 for Mac.
Improvements for Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac
- Spaces between words are preserved.
- Macros are preserved when you save a document that contains macros.
- Items in Notebook Layout documents are preserved when the document is converted.
- Font size is preserved for text in tables.
Improvement for PowerPoint 2008 for Mac
- International decimal separators are accepted for error bars.
- Reliability is improved when chart data is updated.
- Excel workbooks open correctly when you double-click the workbook or when you download the workbook from a Web site.
- Reliability is improved when you reference or link to a sheet name that resembles a cell reference.
- Reliability is improved when you calculate or edit a formula.
- Excel 2008 unexpectedly displays the following error message when you edit or recalculate a formula:
- Embedded movies are no longer duplicated when you save a workbook in the .xls format.
- Reliability is improved when you save a workbook in the Microsoft Excel 5.0 Workbook format or in the Microsoft Excel 95 Workbook format.
Improvement for Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac
- Performance is improved.
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- Stability is improved when you wake the computer from sleep.