I've already upgraded my Macbook to Leopard and so far it's working very well. The upgrade went easily and the tools are pretty cool. The ones I liked most are the new Finder that imports the Cover Flow function from iTunes and the new iChat which allows the insertion of images and films.  If you haven't upgraded yet,  there are some interesting videos I've found that show Leopard's new  tools and effects:

http://www.weshow.com/us/p/20050/mac_os_x_leopard_ichat

http://www.weshow.com/us/p/20048/mac_os_x_leopard_finder

http://www.weshow.com/us/p/20052/mac_os_x_leopard_mail

So the rumors are true!!! Office 2008 will work with Leopard, how reassuring.

Seriously guys, you insult us with this fluff.  

Could you give us some idea of the performance of Office 2008 on Leopard? I notice a lot of folks are talking how fast applications launch, twice as fast as they did on Tiger (PPC and Intel).

The graphics are awesome btw. Keep up the good work, I can't wait to learn more about Office 2008!

One thing i'd like to know is if the Entourage maildatabase is still a single big file. TimeMachine can only backup whole files and not just filechanges. A 2GB mailfile from Entourage is going to be copied every single day if something changes. Using many single files would be better.

Keep up the info. Good to get the scoop from behind the scenes. Thanks.

Uhm, Messenger for Mac news?

What? No mention of how the PCs in you network show up in coverflow in the finder?

I almost spit up it drink when I first saw my PC on my home network.

You say Entourage '08 works well with Time Machine? Does that mean that you have moved from a monolithic database to individual files for each email? The one big database approach isn't very good when you have a big database with many emails (say about 2GB in size) and Time Machine backs it up every time somehing in it changes (which is quite common for emails). With the monolithic database you end up with a copy of the database every hour. That makes 12 x 2GB per day, which is not what I call "working well with Time Machine".

Looking forward to Jan 2008. However, not all is well with Leopard/Office 2004. Prior to Leopard I had no problems setting up hyper-links. After the installation of Leopard, hyper-linking does to work. I can access my previous hyper-links, but can not get new ones to link to any of my files.

Can we get new screenshots on Leopard?

What about in leopard :

- Have quicklook / coverflow / icons properly show previews of excel, word, powerpoint, entourage document ?

- The monolitic entourage 2008 database and time machine

- Real spotlight support for al microsoft documents, not just the hacked (that mostly never display mail subject) entourage spotlight cache

- iCal integration from entourage

Thanks

Entourage 2008 still uses a database model, hopefully in the future it will move to individual files like Mail 3.0.

Your blog says Because of those changes, we've given seeds of Mac Office 2008 to Apple so that they can run their own tests against it. Since these early builds of Mac Office and Leopard contain pre-release code and may contain features that have not been made totally public yet, both we and Apple are very careful to keep access to these seeds confined to a small group of people.

Except that your small group of people is firmly under the control of Microsoft or Apple, Inc. Now I see why we can't draw comparisons with the long and very public beta-testing of Office 2007: The app vendor was also the OS vendor for 2007. So here, because they are different entites, plain old users in the real world are kept in the dark.

Just got done leading a Mac User Group class on Office for Mac -- the attendees had lots of questions about Office 2008 but were able to see nothing but the vague screenshots on the MBU blog site. They left frustrated at our MUG and at Microsoft.

After reading this posting today, I am just as eager as they are to see if Apple's newer versions of PIM software (iCal, Mail and AddressBook on Leopard) will be cooler and work better than Entourage does.

Don't let the few rude people on here get you upset. I appreciate your update and the behind-the-scenes commentary. Thank you for the update.

Even the new cat, with its spiffied up applescript and newly designed Automater needs to do VBA in its office environment for me to even consider buying it.

The only alternative I have is running Office for Windows to be able to access all the automation we've done ourselves at the office. (That's what you get for outsourcing IT )

So no VBA, no new Office for me.

A.J.

I guess there's no point in asking if my much-beloved personal copy of V.X will work in Leopard - or is there?

Had an earlier unpleasant rant about the secrecy thing with 2008 and how people might be tempted to try Apple Mail, iCal and AddressBook. Fortunately, it was not posted.

Entourage  (2004) actually >>works<< to integrate mail, appointments and contacts. In Tiger, the Apple apps don't. If I get a meeting invitation in Entourage, I click a button and it goes onto my calendar. This does not happen automatically in Mail.

Will be interesting to see how Leopard stacks up against Office 2008.

Still wish there was a public Beta.

Entourage trolls, Entourage trolls, why don't you ever learn. Comment spam is silly and unproductive.

The new cat works fine with Office 2004 but not with Office Pro 2004. Virtual PC 7 had a problem with its networking when Tiger was launched and now Leopard has caused the same sort of problem. When you launch VPC after installing Leopard, you find that a MS Kext file has been damaged or is no-longer working, at any rate.

So, despite thousands of hours testing, you guys managed to miss a pretty basic fault.

The question is, will there be a fix for this? It's pretty important. Not only does it affect the ability to run the Mac's network connections rather than have to set up all the comms in XP or whatever, but it even prevents the user from dragging a file from Windows to Mac Desktops & vice versa.

When will a Leopard version of Messenger be available?

I think that iHateEntourageTrolls is missing the point. While all the other office apps were 100% usable in a commercial office Entoruage 2004 and its horrific Exchange support is not. If you need a true Exchange client and ALL its features (without a local database) you'll still be running Outlook 2001 under Classic which is woefully unacceptable. We're all looking to Entourage '08 to free us from the strait jacket of Classic and Outlook 2001 so we can integrate seamlessly into the feature-rich groupware environment that Exchange fosters. We've bought the Exchange Cals we want the Exchange client. Until I can offer my users a product that work as well a Outlook 2001 in Classic then I'll remain up s**t creek without a paddle... its been 7 years since Outlook 2001 was launched. I just hope the wait is worth it.

FYI, Outlook 2001 is not an option with Leopard.  There is no Classic support in Mac OS X 10.5.

Virtual PC 7 compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is indeed extremely important for us PPC Mac users: I really hope there will be a 7.0.4 or even 7.1 (maybe addressing also some other residual bugs) update!

BTW, when using Parallels Desktop, VirtualBox or VMware Fusion on my Intel Mac, I must say that I still miss some of VPC 7's ease of use and features: it was a near perfect product and would have been absolutely *great* if ported to become a Universal application...

I think Microsoft Office 2004 and Time Machine are colliding with one another in my newly upgraded Leopard-Intel-Mac.

I can't prove it, but starting Excel, Word, and/or Powerpoint while Time Machine is backing up seems to have cause a Mac OS panic hang twice.

Any guesses? (I heard Adobe has issued warnings about running Time Machine backups while their software is running -- I have no Adobe software, but I suspect some bad interaction with Office 2004 is happening.)

I agree that there is something going on with Leopard and Entourage.  Entourage appears to be running, but none of the windows are open.  I see nothing.  It is there in activity monitor.  I am going to turn off time machine and see what happens.

...is the best software availible on Mac. Keep up the good work.

I have recently installed Leopard and I am noticing some problems now with Office 2004 - small but frustrating. Now the Thesaurus doesn't work properly. Specifically, I can not see the words in the Synonyms page.

If I press the drop down arrow, the words become viable again but if one of those words is selected, they all disappear again.

Is there any chance of Microsoft releasing a fix for this?

How about mentioning that Entourage and iCal do not sync together, something that is pretty fundemental for those who use Ent with an Apple?

Of course a time/date when we can expect them to work together again?

Thank for the updates!

One question, though. Where can one sign up to become a beta tester for MS Mac products?  All this info is a great 'tease' but nothing replaces actual test user comments....

My only issue is that Entourage & iCal is only syncing one way (iCal to Entourage). This is a real problem, as I cannot sync my iPhone now. Anyone else have this problem, or know of a solution?

"Office 2004 works just fine on Leopard too."

Oh please. I had a witty comment saved somewhere in a Powerpoint, but it's been converting metafiles for half an hour, so I can't post it right now. Oh look, my battery is dead because of all the Rosetta translations.

Regarding ihateexchangetrolls...

So we should just be Pollyanna running around pretending everything is great? Might work for you, but for the rest of us: this is getting beyond intolerable.

Regarding Exchange/Entourage:

I have been checking back to the blog and still have yet to see the promised "expediting of Exchange/Entourage functionally posts" promised when the Geoff or the MBU was crowing about when Office 2008 reached ZBB:

/blog/update-on-office-2008-progress#comments

Where is the "beef" as it were? So far we have had a few blurbs about Entourage, but nothing concrete other then talk about "Out of office Assistant" which even Outlook:2001 had 7 years ago and advancements in the calender. Waaaaay more then these tidbits are needed. Calander looks great, please reveal more about Entourage.

In case it was missed (and apparently ihateEntouragetroll, cant comprehend) Entourage is beyond critical for many most of us, yet once again it is the single biggest thing we ARE NOT HEARING ABOUT!!!!

So if Entourage is not that important to you (read:anyone for the matter) great, don't cast dispersion on those of us who will not be mollified by continued lack of Exchange Support transparency on the blog. How much clearer do we have to be? How many times do we have to shout to be heard? I'm game for as long as it takes.

Lastly:at this stage of the game is it any wonder why this comes up in every blog post on the site? Does it really need to be explained further as to why that is...?

Awesome.  The good thing is that when Office 2008 comes out, Leopard will have already had some point upgrades in it's hand, meaning Leopard and Office should work well together.

Could y'all post some pictures of the Entourage interface?  So far the screenshots of the editing events/invite windows look awesome.  I am a heavy user of that app so I'd like to see what visual adjustments have been made.

Leopard Spaces goofs bad with Office v.X.

With your focus on shipping Office 2008, I'm not sure if you'll ship a fix for this, but I set up 2 spaces, and set Word to open in Space 2, however, when I first open the application, Project Gallery and the toolbar/Formatting Palette show up in Space 1.

MS Office 2004 is not playing well with Leopard on my MacBook Pro.

Selecting "Print" from the menu bar or by command P causes Word, Excel & Entourage to crash. The print button, on the other hand, will send the file to whatever printer was last used.

Looking forward to Office 2008...

Apple released Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) a week ago and for the most part Entourage 2004 is "very compatible" according to There's a new cat in town on Microsoft's Mac Mojo blog. However, they also acknowledge that they discovered some code in their Leopard

Obviously iHateEntourageTrolls is the troll.  Of course, he's probably right that our little comments are unproductive, but clearly Entourage is the Mac Office component that most needs updating, and the signs are pointing to it being neglected again in Mac Office 2008.  Full Exchange integration isn't even that big a deal to me personally, though I understand why it is to many.  I would be happy to switch to Mail.app or another application, if only my IT department would relent and enable IMAP on their Exchange server.  Meanwhile, I am stuck with Entourage as the only application for mail access, apart for OWA.  I don't hate Microsoft, though I'm glad to not be on Windows, I use Word and PowerPoint every day, and Excel frequently, and they are fine.  Why is Entourage so painful?

ENTOURAGE ENTOURAGE, WAH WAH WAH!

enough already, I think they get it!!! sheesh...

I'm having problems with Entourage recurring tasks since I installed Leopard.  The recurring tasks are showing up as hundreds of individual entries -- in one case spanning the next 90 years.  I don't think I need worry that far into the future.

If I delete the spurious entries, it just does it again and recreates the hundreds of entries.

Are you saying that you use Xcode 3.0 to code Office 2008? I just today got back to coding since I installed Leopard on monday(I am just a college student) and I must say so far I am very impressed with Xcode 3.0. They made quite a few changes in it that are for the better for sure.

"ENTOURAGE ENTOURAGE, WAH WAH WAH!

enough already, I think they get it!!! sheesh..."

If they "got" it, they'd've given more information by now. Maybe not actual information about Entourage, but maybe some on why they're not saying anything yet.

An official comment on one of the other posts cited "respecting prior decisions". But this is getting beyond that, and into the realms of "damage control". The main issue is that it's not even "damage" that they're going to notice immediately.

Office 2008 will be a success. People will but it. There's enough of a reason. DOCX compatibility, for one. Universal Binary, for any Mac under two years old by the time it's released. And even the little we know about Entourage will be useful.

It's down the road where the current issues run the risk of biting them in the behind. Very little of the (much requested) Entourage information over a period of over half a year. No info on Messenger for over a full year - and that post being recently officially referenced as still being the most up-to-date information.

The information people ask for is never forthcoming. The questions are acknowledged, briefly, in posts that say that they know what we're asking about. But then the answers never really materialise. It's increasingly hard to be optimistic about the product at this stage. DOCX and Universal Binary do make this a must-have for many people. But unless there's another platform shift or new file format, for Mac:Office+1 it's going to have to be absolutely spectacular, and fully detailed ahead of time, for people to show an interest. Because so far, there's a definite perception that either the requested functionality isn't there, or that it is but the customers are being ignored in favour of a Big Reveal.

This is not the way to inspire customer loyalty. Which is a shame, as the product is actually quite good. We just want (or need) to know exactly how much better the next one is going to be.

We just installed Leopard and now are having problems with Word.  It randomly shuts down...right in the middle of documents.

Has anyone else experienced this?  Does anyone know of a fix?

The splash image is so large it doesn't even fit into the blog column.  Lots of little things add up, MacBU.

Let's get crackin' Mac Team! There's a million of us dying for a new Entourage that:

- takes less than 10 seconds to preview/open a moderately complex HTML message.

- allows me to view other people's schedules on an exchange cal.

- syncs with iphone

- searches messages quickly

- and doesn't constantly churn my HD with the database daemon.

Can't wait! We love your work, just need it faster!!!

I love the trolls who comment here after every single blog post, even if its completely unrelated to Entourage/Exchange.

At my company, you wouldn't as the janitor why the products aren't shipping, you'd ask the guy in charge of the products. Apparently, that separation of tasks thing is too complicated for you lot, assuming you're not all sock-puppets.

Macs are rare in enterprise, they are most commonly used by college students, teachers, graphics and design people. I have trouble believing that any of them even know what Exchange is.

Most people I talk to (again, this is real world people, not weird exchange trolls), care more about Word and Powerpoint and Excel.

Stop trolling this website. If you've got beef with the exchange people or Entourage people, talk to them, but to think that spamming blog posts about unrelated matter will win you sympathy from either the greater Mac community or the folks over there at MacBU is ridiculous. You all are wasting everybody's time.

I'm having the same problem as Robert. I installed Leopard on my G5 iMac and now every time I print in Word, Excel, they crash. Very frustrating.

iHateEnroutageTrolls:

Aah, but we already know that Exchange and Excel are being shown love. We know they're getting the new fileformats. We even know some of what they're looking like, thanks to the preview site.

Although we're still waiting on info on PowerPoint, also. namely on whether Mac-created files will display properly on Windows. A bit of a crisis point when you work in a place that hosts events.

Plus you're right, I wouldn't talk to the janitor about the products. I would, however, talk to a sales/product/marketing rep about it - regardless of what they were advertising at the time.

Which is what a lot of us are doing here.

Plus you'll notice that most Entourage talk goes on Entourage discussions. Between their low frequency and high hit-rate, you'll also note that they get about five times as many comments.

Well, contrary to the words of the Development Lead (article above) that "Mac Office 2004 works just as it always has."--This is not true.

The first big problem I encountered is the screen display and printing of Word docs with OpenType fonts. It is a disaster.

This problem was addressed in the Apple 10.4.8 and 10.4.9 system updates, but never fully resolved.

For those of us who have the need for OpenType fonts, it appears that we must wait for a future update.

LC

Microsoft word v.x will not print any old docs after upgrade to Leopard. Newly created docs work fine. Copy & paste to a new doc, omitting the last pgh mark but retaining formatting does not work. Copy & paste into a new doc as unformatted text DOES work, however. All other office v.x programs print fine. I was going to upgrade to Office 2008, but is there any solution for this until then?

Thanks

I moved to Leopard on the day and the issues with Entourage database file size had me moving to Mail 3.0. Pre-planning made the move easy, but it was a tough bit of medicine. I've been using Outlook/Entourage for years but I really like being able to back up so easily, but 2GB+ is a bit much.

I have some concerns with the zip archive of docx but we'll see as 2007/8 is rolled out. Some things I'm hoping  Word 2008 expands on are equation editors that really work, and hopefully the macro language survives so tools like EndNote survive on the MAC platform.

This message is in regards to the user who was talking about how they store their entourage database and backing it up with time machine.

I have not personally used time machine, nor do I really care to. Any good backup application these days will do it at the block/bit level, and only grab changes. On our windows servers we use a solution that digs into every individual file and only backs up changes, storing every change ever made. So once you have your baseline backup, your set and any further backups will not take much space beyond that, nor take long to backup. The name of the application is call ArchiveIQ by a company called Data Storage Group. Their site is: http://www.datastor.com/

I have personally found this software to be the best by far for a backup solution. I realize this does not help the mac users currently, but they are working on an OS X solution. I know this because I know the developers fairly well, they are just down the block from my business.

Anyway, that is my two cents for what it's worth.

I am having lots of trouble since I installed Leopard. Random crashes in both word and powerpoint and the whole suit is much slower than before. Lots of spinning beach-balls. Lots of "this application is not responding". I just got a new macbook pro but office runs faster on my old power book. I can't wait for office 2008 I need some of these issues fixed now.

Any time frame on an update?

Nick

Why is MS taking sooooo long to release a Universal Binary version of Office? Seriously, Microsoft is the worlds biggest software vendor. Intel Macs have been in public hands for nearly two years and were probably available to developers longer than that.

I can't think of any other major software developer for the Mac that hasn't released an Universal version of their products (oh... change that... EMC hasn't updated their Retrospect yet)

Face it Microsoft, you're too busy dragging the chain to try and subdue Apple's increasing market share. Getting everyone hyped up about the new Out of Office feature of Entourage doesn't cut it - After all, it's HARDLY a NEW feature as it was there in Outlook 2001.

What about a public beta? Really Microsoft, do you really think you can fix all the bugs when the application is only used behind closed doors? When you eventually release it early next year, it will have plenty of bugs that you couldn't find, but which the general public will, which will mean that we'll have to wait another 6 months for an update.

Oh, can you also fix that stupid bug in Office (all versions) where the date modified of a document is changed, even if you've only opened the file and have not made any changes to it. It is really annoying.

Same problems as shauno with the Word Thesaurus. I haven't tried to print anything from Word or Entourage yet, and am now dreading what happens when I get home tonight and try to.

One thing I cannot understand is, why the same company who creates the best mail client for Windows (i.e. Outlook 2007) seems highly uninterested in bringing the same quality into Mac. I understand that Mac-persons possibly want the mac to stick out and continue to be something different from Windows, but that can be made on a layout scale, and not under the surface.

Why not, simply recreate Outlook 2007 for Mac under the name Entourage 2008, but with Entourage's skin?

But the main question to the Office 2008 staff is, why cannot Outlook for Windows and Entourage for Mac be fully compatible? Outlook is using pst-files as database, and Entourage rge. But these files cannot be used by the other, and in order to exchange information, one needs to use third part programs. Why? It cannot be due to competition ideas, it is the same company? I have seen 'a copy of the Office 2008' in action, and Entourage was basically the same as the 2004 edition. I had a feeling of dissapointment.

I'm getting spontaneous shutdowns in PowerPoint and Word (2004) under Leopard on a Powerbook. I'll also see if there is a spot in support where I can post trouble note.

Same thing that Shauno. The thesaurus of word 2004 doesn't work well. The synonyms seem to be there (I can select one of them) but it's like they are written in white on white !

I'm having problems with Encourage. When someone sends me a HTML message some of the characters run on top of one another.

Here is the workaround I've found for the hidden thesaurus entries for Word 2004 under Leopard.

After looking up a word, click the arrow to hide the thesaurus, then click it again to show it.  All the entries for the Meanings and Synonyms should now appear. Repeat after each new word is looked up.

enjoy!

Friday, November 02, 2007 2:25 PM by iHateEntourageTrolls

# re: There's a new cat in town

"I love the trolls <blah, blah, blah>".

Wow! Somehow missed you hovering around my office the last 6 years. Must be your super-duper powers invisibility and others; you know the ones that also blinds you from reality. i.e. "the real world".

Also you might want to look up the word presumptuous. As in its very presumptuous of you to even have a clue what my users need or how we do our work. I could care less what is important to you and what you consider "weird". Especially with some of the statements you have made. Don't like it.. too bad.

Everyone I talk to "cares more" (to borrow your phrasing) about Exchange and its interaction with Entourage. So what does your little example prove? uh nothing that it proved "before", go troll somewhere else.

We who will not be mollified by the "deafening silence" regarding Exchange will continue for as long as it takes. If you want to be Pollyanna go do so, all your doing is distracting away from the "real" discussions about "real world issues".

I heard from a Microsoft rep the other day that this product is delayed until April or May. I thought the original release date was January. Is this true?

Adam - Office 2008 is set to ship on January 15th.

Word 2004 prints blank sheets in my Xerox 6110.

Furthermore the error message on Word 2004 identifies only a tiny square in the centre of the page as viable.

How can you come out with such misleading information on this combination?

My Mac is 2.4 GHz Intel Core Duo

I am not clear.

Does Leopard work with the "old" MS Office X or not?

If not, will there be a patch?

Thanks

_____

MacBookPro & MacBook, both core duos

I've just updated to Leopard from Tiger yesterday afternoon. I went to use Entourage today. Because I had my prefs to auto-check, on launch  it immediately downloaded about 15 emails, but I can't access those at all.

My Mail-Main Identity window is nearly blank. If I click inside it, I can get a few icons to show, some vertical scroll bars, but that's all.

I've run diagnostics (Disk First Air, Diskwarrior) from another disk, zapped the PRAM, but can't get Entourage to let me access my email.

Anyone else run into this problem? Any fix for it? I can't wait until Jan., 2008 for Office 2008 to fix this.

- Dennis

fotofah@gmail.com (which I can at least access from the Web!), but not my main email account

Added info: I'm using 10.5.1 on a MacPro, not just v10.5, if that makes a difference.

- Dennis

I upgraded yesterday to Leopard, going all the way to v10.5.1 after

using v10.4.11. I had my Entourage set to auto-check for new mail.

When I launched it, I got a notice via DragThing that I had 16 new

emails. When Entourage finished launching, I had a nearly empty

window. (I can still *send* email.) There are vertical scroll bars. If

I cilck in certain places of the window I can get some tiny icons to

show, but can't see the rest of the contents of my window, including

past folders, new email, etc.

I've looked on the Web and can't find others with this problem or a

fix.

I ran (from a separate hard drive) Apple Disk First Aid, Diskwarrior

(which found and fixed some problems which weren't there right before

I upgrade to Leopard), zapped the PRAM.

I'm *very* dependent on email. Any cause or cure for this glitch? I've

read that Office 2008 is due in mid-Jan., but I can't wait that

long.

I researched possible problems with incompatibilities with various

apps, incl. Office, before upgrading, but hadn't expected *this*

glitch.

My MUD folder and its needed files seem to be in the right place, BTW.

I read a separate URL about "Where's My Data Gone?" but that doesn't

seem applicable to my problem.  http://www.barryw.net/weblog/files/lost_data.html.

Entourage doesn't seem to be opening with a new identity. It got my

new email, but I can't access it now. (I completely cloned my hard

drive before upgrading to Leopard, but that doesn't give me emails

that are new and not in Gmail.)

A rebuild of the database didn't help or verification (no problems found)

- Dennis

Will there be a release candidate of Office 2008 posted to TechNet Plus, or will we have to wait for retail release to begin testing with the software?

In response to Shauno and others' concerns about the Thesaurus in Microsoft Word 2004 post-Leopard... I just downloaded a Microsoft update (Mac 11.3.9) that fixed the problem for me.  Hope this isn't redundant.... and possible helpful.  

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx

Will the New Entourage talk to Exchange for Task and notes, so the whole deal syncs?

or is it still limited to Mail and Cal only?

@Howard

Right now, I think that the safest assumption is that it's still going to be Mail & Calendar only.

I might very well be wrong, in fact I hope my guess is totally off-target. But the whole silence on the issue leads to the same assumption from two different perspectives.

The Practical Perspective:

Entourage 2008 may well have all the extra functionality we are asking for. But until the full feature set is announced, we cannot rely on that for purchasing decisions. No plans can be made that rely on features that we are not totally sure will exist in the product. Even if they end up being there in the end, it's a gamble.

The Cynical Perspective:

Silence speaks volumes. The questions go unanswered because the features simply aren't there. Because if the new version really did solve all of the issues, it would be a marketing fantasy come true. Winning over swathes of potential customers in a single blog-post.

Whichever the reason, all we can really do is assume the features we know about. Anything else is bonus.

Personally, I'm not sure which side I fall on. I'm a cynic by nature. But I also have first-hand experience of where marketing and reality diverge somewhat.

I suspect that Entourage 2008 will be a big improvement on 2004. But without the feature set being public, I'm assuming the worst. Forced cynicism is the only way to avoid disappointment - and this is a lesson I learned the hard way.

Since I upgraded to Leopard, my Word 2004 has gone crazy.  It crashes constantly.  If I get it to open, I can't close a document without it crashing.  I tried updating to 10.3.9 and although the installation was apparently successful, if I open a Word doc, it still tells me it's in 10.3.8.  Any ideas?  Thanks.

Since installing Leopard, Entourage has corrupted repeating tasks and birthdays in the Address Book.  Let's hope that these problems are solved in Office 2008.  I also look forward to accessing Entourage Tasks and Notes on the iPhone - Apple and Microsoft make it happen.

I'd like to know what "flavors" Microsoft plans to release to us Mac users in Office for Mac 2008.  Will it be just a regular Joe version, Pro version and Student version...or will they actually release some of the other office programs for Leopard as well?

The Office program I'd like to see Microsoft release for OS X is OneNote. I was able to use the program with Office 2003, its first release and I really enjoyed it.  Once I got my Mac and Office for Mac 2004, it was quite a different story.  They attempted to integrate OneNote into Word by creating Word Notebook files and failed miserably.  It would behoove Microsoft to bring that product over to the Mac side for students due to its versatility in notetaking abilities.

Since installing Leopard, I can't open my old Appleworks 6 documents with Word (2004). I get an error message that says "There was an error reading from the file." I've reinstalled Word and all its updates and still get the same thing. Anybody else having these issues? Any suggestions?