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Office 2008 for Mac SP1 prevented documents with some very old file types from opening when you double-click the document or when downloading the document from a Web site. To work around this issue, you could use the File > Open command. For more details about this issue in the SP1 update, see the Word Help topic: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?target=0b9aa757-50ab-443b-8b0e-3a50ece1d5451033&clr=99-4-0&ep=11&CTT=Category&MODE=pv&locale=en-US&usid=265a0982-eb1b-4bde-a321-d6a4c9ac4012.

The Office 12.1.1 update fixes this issue. For a list of all the improvements included in Office 12.1.1, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953822/en-us.

Posted by: Radhika S in Office, word, Announcements, Announcements, Update, word, Office 2008
Tags: word, Word 2008, double-click, issue

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[DRay]

DRay

Jun 26, 2008

8:53pm

Great, but ...

I'm glad you're rapidly fixing the bugs in Office 2008, but the biggest problem I'm having has yet to be addressed: The fact that Office apps take an amazingly long time to open. Word 2008 still takes 30-40 seconds to open on initial launch on my MBP. It's a problem that makes me hesitant to use Office unless I really have to.

[stx66]

stx66

Jul 07, 2008

4:08pm

Hey!, too.

I 2nd the "Did you fix the .doc.dot renaming issue also?". Explaining this problem to non-computer people is a major hassle where I work.

[T, Mr.]

Mr. T

Jun 26, 2008

8:53pm

Hey!

Did you fix the .doc.dot renaming issue also?

You still bomb my Console with thousands of messages containing «CGBitmapContextGetData: invalid context»

...

[K, James]

James K

Jul 11, 2008

1:53pm

Nice to have....

It would also be nice if there was feedback from the 2008 icons when launching one of the apps..... Mr T's issues come first though - I pity the fool who's log gets filled with invalid context errors.

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