Microsoft AutoUpdate may offer Office 2016 for Mac updates even though you have Office for Mac 2008 installed on your Mac. Upon accepting the update, Office for Mac 2008 gets automatically upgraded to Office 2016.

Applies to: Office 2008, Office 2008 Home and Student Edition, Office 2008 Special Media Edition, Word 2008, Excel 2008, PowerPoint 2008, Entourage 2008.

Hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Word to plant malware on Windows PCs, Microsoft said Tuesday. The bug in Microsoft Word 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2010 was patched Nov. 9 as part of Microsoft's.

I did notice that I could not find the Word application in the application folder. I don't think I have done anything differently except that I often have to stop my computer from automatically searching and downloading the latest and very large update files. If anyone knows how I can get Word back and running, I would most grateful. All the applications in Office seem to work.

Click the tab for the kind of item you want to bring back. Let’s assume you want to bring your styles back: Click the Styles tab. • Organizer now shows you a list of the items available within each kind (if you clicked the Styles tab in the previous step, you see a list of the styles in each template).

• You can remove from Dock after you complete the updates, but remember to do this for future updates. Updating to Exchange Web Services (EWS) Entourage users on Exchange 2007 or higher need to upgrade to the EWS version for improved Exchange support. When you have fully updated Entourage, you can go to the and download the latest EWS updater. Currently this is 131.0. After you update the MAU will automatically update Entourage in the future for EWS. Restarting between updates is important for a successful install.

Mac-only features included are a publishing layout view, which offers functionality similar to for Windows, a 'Ledger Sheet mode' in Excel to ease financial tasks, and a 'My Day' application offering a quick way to view the day's events. Office 2008 supports the new format, and defaults to saving all files in this format. On February 21, 2008 Geoff Price revealed that the format conversion update for Office 2004 would be delayed until June 2008 in order to provide the first update to Office 2008.

There are more welcome and substantial changes as well. Now you can save to PDF, and Automator actions are supported. The new My Day widget for Entourage floats on the Mac desktop displaying calendar items and to-do lists. This is handy if you rely on Entourage but don't want to run it all the time. Office 2007 for Windows clusters functions within a contextual 'Ribbon' toolbar that displays different options. Office for Mac lacks the Ribbon, but some menu items appear only in step with the task at hand.

Word 2011 ships with over 50 layout themes, but you can also create custom themes to turn a generic Word template into something that’s unique to you and your business. Another excellent feature is full-on Spotlight integration and a new Spotlight-inspired tool for finding and replacing text in a document. You’ll now see a search field at the top of every document that, when you type a word in the field, highlights every instance of that word in your document Word 2011 now has a built-in equation editor that makes it easy to add and edit mathematics equations.

This will set the date to change each day. Word for Mac (2011 and 2008) • From the Insert menu, select Date and Time. • In the Date and Time dialog box, choose the format you want. • At the bottom of the box, select Update automatically if it is not already selected. This will set the date to change each day. Inserting a date in a header Word for Windows (2010 and 2007) • Click the Insert tab. • In the toolbar, click the Header icon, and choose your header type.

Supported Operating System Apple Macintosh, Mac OS X • • Operating System Versions: Mac OS X version 10.4.9 (Tiger) or a later version of Mac OS Note To verify that your computer meets these minimum requirements, on the Apple menu, click About This Mac. • Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 (12.2.0): You can download this update for free from the. Note To verify that you have installed this update, you can open any Microsoft Office 2008 application to check the version number. For example, open Word, and then on the Word menu, click About Word.

• • 36 minutes to read • Contributors • In this article Security Bulletin Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-029 - Critical Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2680352) Published: May 08, 2012 Updated: June 20, 2012 Version: 1.2 General Information Executive Summary This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted RTF file. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.

In short, Microsoft Word gets the job done without getting in the way, If Word is your primary tool for getting work done with words, run, don’t walk to upgrade to Word 2016.

Maybe you have moved away from it because of its price. Though these alternatives aren’t the full-fledged Office suite that you expect to grab for free, you can still rely on these methods and use them for your productivity. Also, you might want to consider these Not everyone is a Microsoft Word fan. Here are fresh alternatives to Microsoft Word that you might not know about. You never know which of those free or cheap alternatives will work out for you.

Hi, I am trying to solve a problem that I've noticed over the past couple of days. I recently updated to MacOS Sierra and have not been able to make Microsoft Office open. Each time I click on any office program I get the message 'Microsoft Office cannot open because of a problem.' I have a late 2012 MacBook Air with 128GB hard drive and 31GB of free space. I have never had an issue with Microsoft office until now.

Microsoft supports the Windows versions of Office, even those that target consumers, for 10 years, or twice as long as it does Office for the Mac. Office Home and Student 2007, for example, which launched in late January 2007, a full year before Office for Mac 2008 appeared, will be supported until October 2017, more than four years from now. The older Office Student and Teacher 2003 retires down the road, too, in April 2014, alongside Windows XP. Even the Mac suite that's clearly business-oriented, Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition, loses support in a few days.

Now Microsoft Office for Mac Operating System includes a wide range of programs such as spreadsheet program (Excel 2011), a presentation tool (PowerPoint 2011), word processors (Word 2011) etc. Now in Office Professional 2011 include the wide range of Office programs such as spreadsheet program (Excel 2011), the presentation tool (PowerPoint 2011), word processors (Word 2011) and emailing system (Outlook 2011) some other. You can also get. Microsoft Office for Mac operating system with the new update also added Word, Excel and PowerPoint and the other packages of this productivity suite. Now as with new update now Microsoft Office also added Outlook used for e-mail and scheduling client Mac business fans have been clamoring for years. We can see there were several enhancements that made the whole suite for Mac more perfect for Mac users. Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 and some other features also requires internet access.

This step might have been performed for you. • In the Office 2008 12.3.6 Update volume window, double-click the Office 2008 12.3.6 Update application to start the update process, and then follow the instructions on the screen. • If the installation finishes successfully, you can remove the update installer from your hard disk. To remove the update installer, first drag the Office 2008 12.3.6 Update volume to the Trash, and then drag the file that you downloaded to the Trash. Note This update is also available from Microsoft AutoUpdate, an application that can automatically keep your Microsoft software up to date.

Lower results are better and are in bold. How we tested. We open 250-page file and stopped timing when the pages were calculated. We timed a scroll from the first page to the last page. We performed a Save As operation.—Macworld Lab testing performed by James Galbraith Macworld's buying advice After years of lamenting what Word for Mac lacks, I find myself in the odd yet enviable position of announcing that Word 2011 is great. It is a solid word processing application that is powerful and well designed, and makes it easy to find all the features you need. But what’s most important is that it’s designed to move your Mac into your office with no regrets, no compromises, and no excuses for why your Mac can’t play well with the Windows version of the same application.

The location for normal.dotm are as follows: • Office 2008: ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/Normal.dotm • Word 2004: ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Normal • Word X, Word 2001, Word 98: /Applications/Microsoft Office ***/Templates/Normal (where *** stands for your version of Office) If by chance the normal.dotm location is changed, the normal.dotm can be located by opening Microsoft Office Word>Preferences>File Locations> dialog to confirm its location. If the old normal.dotm is corrupt and there are customizations in old Normal that you don't want to lose – such as macros, AutoText, custom toolbars, and styles – you can transfer them from OldNormal to your new Normal using Organizer. Restore customization from old Normal to new Normal • Open Word • Use File>Open to navigate to the template location noted above. • Change the Show drop-down list to Word Templates. • Choose Normal or Normal.dotm and click Open.

You can accept or reject a meeting directly within a calendar event. Meetings can be forwarded directly to others, and conflicting and adjacent appointments are better managed. The workspace is more customizable overall, thanks to toolbar tweaks and the Favorites menu. My Day is a helpful snapshot of upcoming To Do items and appointments, although its bluish appearance can't be customized. We just wish that it showed an entire day's events instead of hiding the morning's appointments in the afternoon and displaying overdue appointments in a separate pop-up window.

In late August 2008, Microsoft announced that a new Solver for Excel 2008 was available as a free download from Frontline Systems, original developers of the Excel Solver. However, Excel 2008 also lacks other functionality, such as Pivot Chart functionality, which has long been a feature in the Windows version. In May 2008, Microsoft announced that VBA will be making a return in the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac. And the will still be supported. Limitations [ ]. Error message in Microsoft Excel showing features that are not supported Office 2008 for Mac lacks feature parity with the Windows version.

I say 'hopefully' because what I see in the crash log suggests that the updater may not even be able to find the necessary components - perhaps you'll get lucky. If all goes well Repair Disk Permissions again, then restart before launching any Office programs. If the Office updater fails you'll have no alternative but to reinstall Office - but don't do so until you check back. If it isn't done properly you'll be wasting your time. Let us know how you make out. HTH :>) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac On 9/13/08 5:19 PM, in article, 'clemso'.

• Restart your computer and try installing the update again. • Make sure that the user account you use to authenticate the update installer is an administrator account.

Contents • • • • • • • Release [ ] Office 2008 was originally slated for release in the second half of 2007; however, it was delayed until January 2008, purportedly to allow time to fix lingering bugs. Office 2008 is the only version of Office for Mac supplied as a.

Close System Preferences 9. Click the Apple icon in the top left corner of the screen and choose Log Out 10. Log into your new test account and download the 12.3.2 update from the following link: 11.

Over the past several years Microsoft has undertaken a massive redesign of its Office products for Mac and iOS. These updates have streamlined the look and feel of Office apps, making them more like their Windows versions, but with what I find to be a far less cluttered look and feel.

This raises an important point: Word for Mac is top-notch when it comes to collaborative work. This is obvious when it comes to basic document editing. Email a document to someone, have them make changes, and send it back to you. If they’re using the current version of Word on the device they edit with, the transition is seamless. But, better yet, share your document using,, or a, and you can have dozens of people working on the same document at the same time, each without interfering with the other’s changes.

If the old normal.dotm is corrupt and there are customizations in old Normal that you don't want to lose – such as macros, AutoText, custom toolbars, and styles – you can transfer them from OldNormal to your new Normal using Organizer. Restore customization from old Normal to new Normal • Open Word • Use File>Open to navigate to the template location noted above.

Excel As well as making charts easier on the eyes, Excel for Mac 2008 adds tools for stepping through complex formulas. Formula Builder walks you through building calculations, keeping recently used ones at the top of its memory. As you type in the Formula bar, Excel will autofill values that may match. Excel has expanded and can now handle a total of 17.18 billion cells, as many as its Windows cousin.

The Elements Gallery offers Ledger Sheets, templates for commonly used tasks such as juggling a household budget or managing company payroll. We find these handy for getting started with a project.

Bottom line Microsoft Word 2016 is an excellent update to what is, for most users, an important business tool. Changes to the program’s user interface make it easy for anyone to bounce from Word on a Mac to Word on any other platform with a minimal transitional curve. Word’s collaboration features make it possible for business users to work on the computing platform of their choosing without making significant sacrifices. While the program doesn’t support some of Yosemite’s more important, user friendly, and bacon-saving features—such as Autosave—the overall user experience is superb.

Proofing tools for other languages failed to find their way to the installation pack, and are not offered by Microsoft commercially in the form of separately sold language packs. At the same time, Office applications are not integrated with the proofing tools native to Mac OS X 10.6 Leopard. Is not available for OS X.

This security update is rated Critical for all supported editions of Microsoft Word 2007. This security update is also rated Important for all supported editions of Microsoft Word 2003, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, and Microsoft Office for Mac 2011; and all supported versions of Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. For more information, see the subsection, Affected and Non-Affected Software, in this section. The security update addresses the vulnerabilities by modifying the way that Microsoft Office parses RTF-formatted data.

Quicken 2015 for Mac also sports an updated design, reminiscent of Apple's new 'flat' design direction in OS X Yosemite. Intuit is allowing customers to on which features will be added next, and the company says that they will be provided as free updates. Intuit's free companion app for iOS will also work with the new Mac version, allowing users to synchronize data and monitor account balances and budgets from their iPhone or iPad. In addition, functionality that has long been a part of Quicken's Windows version —such as multi-currency conversion and advanced investment options— has yet to cross the operating system divice. Among those missing are the ability to create a 12-month budget, show loan amortization, and pay bills directly within the application. Quicken 2015 for mac book.

Known Issues. None Affected and Non-Affected Software The following software have been tested to determine which versions or editions are affected. Other versions or editions are either past their support life cycle or are not affected. To determine the support life cycle for your software version or edition, visit.

Finones urged users who have not yet installed the November patch to do so as soon as possible. More information about the vulnerability can be found in the security bulletin. The MS10-087 update can be downloaded and installed using Microsoft Update and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at or subscribe to. His e-mail address is.