I am considering upgrading to lion but i am very worried i have office for Mac 2008 have the issues been resolved

Have the issues with Lion and Office for MAC 2008 been resolved

darrinb001 -
I have a thread open on this issue with recent replies. See this:
Re: New install Office 2008 under Lion
Hope that helps. - Randy

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Is OSX lion compatible with microsoft office for mac 2008

Can anybody out there please give me a definitive answer to this question: Is OSX Lion compatible with Microsoft Office for Mac 2008? The technical support people of both Apple and Microsoft could not provide me wth a useful answer to a question that must interest hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions. I don't want to download the new OS and then encounter nasty problems.

Yes. The only problem you could face, is if you want to reinstall MS Office 2008 on Lion - this is not possible, because the installer runs on Rosetta, which is no longer supported in Lion. But if you already have Office installed, there should be absolutely no problems.

Office for Mac 2008 crashes after Mountain Lion upgrade

I've just upgraded to Mountain Lion and now Microsoft Office for mac 2008 won't work. Every time I try and open any of the apps it produces a Microsoft error report message.
Any ideas as to why & how I might fix this, please?
Thank you!

spurs_on wrote:
that's strange as I pasted in a screen grab.
I think I have managed to solve the problem having explored other discussions on here. I restored to standard fonts in my Font Book and it all now seems to work. Hopefully!
Thanks for your support.
(PS, pasted graphics won't work, if you ever need to know how to post a picture here just ask)

Office for Mac 2008 - Mail Merge fails under Lion

I have upgraded to Lion and have Office ofr Mac 2008.
Since the upgrade to Lion I cannot use the Word Mail Merge as it cannot find the convertor from Excel Workbook to text... everything worked fine till I upgraded to Lion

rlmr wrote:
Understand... but its the Mac OS I have changed not touched the Microsoft programme which works A1 on my non Lion Machines
Yes, but Mail Merge is not a feature of Lion. It is a feature of Word. Since it is a Word feature that is "broken" then as mentioned, you should be asking in the Microsoft forums.

Does Lion support MS Office for Mac 2011? The RoaringApps compatibility list shows Office 2011 having some unspecified problems with Lion.

Does Lion support MS Office for Mac 2011? The RoaringApps compatibility list shows Office 2011 having some unspecified problems with Lion. Any confirmation yest showing compatibility with Office 2011?

I'm running MS Office 2011 on Lion and it runs just fine. No "Full Screen", but it runs just fine. There may have been an update to install (I know there was an iWork one anyway), but even before I installed any updates Office '11 worked just fine.

I am using Office for MAC 2008, when I switch to other applications on my MAC and then go back to Office window it never brings me back to the window I was working on. I have to click on the Window tab, but my window is ticked but not appearing. Why?

I am using Office for MAC 2008, when I switch to other applications on my MAC, to copy and paste something for instance and then go back to Office window it never brings me back to the window/worksheet I was working on. I have to click on the Window tab in excell for instance, but my window is ticked but not appearing. I then have to click on one of the other open files and then click back to the sheet I was working on for it to appear. Can any one tell me why?

Does that happen only on web pages that are running a Flash presentation? <br />
When Flash "steals focus" from Firefox, you need to click outside the Flash presentation in the browser window, to regain focus in Firefox. A major problem arises when the Flash presentation is in the entire browser window, though. The Firefox developers are working on fixing that in Firefox, but it doesn't look like a fix is going to make it into Firefox 4.0, though.

Is mountain lion compatible with old (2004) version of microsoft office for MAc?

I have heard that Mountain Lion is not compatible with old (2004) version of microsoft office for MAc. Is that true?

Kurt Lang wrote:
... unless, like me, you open up an uber-important Excel 2004 file in Excel 2011 and get the following dialog box which leads to a trashed Chart, which I need access to EVERY WEEK:
Can't say I've ever seen such error messages, and I've opened lots of files created back in OS 8. Also many more much older than that from Windows 95 and even MS-DOS.
Lucky for you; unlucky for me that an important Excel 2004 Chart gets corrupted when opened in Excel 2011!
I suspect the problem is in the conversion routine that Microsoft added to Office 2011 to update Excel 2004 files. How conversant are you historically with converting Excel 2004 files that contain charts to Excel 2011? Because your experience with OS 8, Windows 95 and even MS-DOS has no relevance on this issue.
Kurt Lang wrote:
You will notice, Kurt, that I based my advice to the OP as "if you are unable or unwilling to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2011..."
Yes, I saw it. But if everyone did what you would expect with your statement, no one would suggest upgrading to Office 2011. Besides, you're the one who stated "unable or unwilling", not the OP.
Are you always this argumentative, or is this my lucky day?
Many people suggest upgrading to Office 2011. I do it frequently in my other "workarounds" type of answers to the Rosetta in Lion/Mountain problem. I chose not to offer that solution here, and as I expected, someone else, namely you, did!
The problem was that you finished your suggestion with this comment: "Particularly when it isn't really necessary." Since this statement was not true in my case (it IS necessary for me to continue to use my important Excel 2004 file as well as some other historical files I have; and conceivably could be important to the OP), I posted the correction.
You also made the suggestion that: "...the cost of VM software isn't that much less than just upgrading to Office 2011." While certainly true in the vacuum of the OP asking specifically about Word 2004; when the OP becomes aware that his complete library of PPC applications will fail in Mountain Lion, your suggestion about the relative cost to upgrade may no longer be as relevant.
Lastly: Yes, I commonly state to similar OP's that if they are "unable" (because, for example, they may also have conversion problems with Office 2011, Appleworks 6, Freehand or other programs) or "unwilling" (perhaps they just cannot afford to upgrade all of their PPC apps at this time), that here is an alternative that will keep the status quo available to them, and buy them some more time to consider their options while continuing to use Lion/Mountain Lion and their PowerPC apps.
Is the relevance of my post to the OP's problem (and your reply to my solution) sufficiently clear for you now?

Does Office for Mac 2008 work on Mountain Lion?

Thinking about upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion on MacBook Pro. Have Office 2008 for Mac running currently. Will it work on the Mountain Lion OS? I went to Apple and have gotten three different answers.

Yes, it will work with Mountain Lion. However, its continuing reliability is waning, so I recommend you might upgrade to Office 2011 or you can consider these options:
You can try the freeware suite, Libre Office, that is functionally similar to Office 2007 for Windows except it works on Lion/Mountain Lion. Note that this and following options are not 100% compatible with Office.
You may want to consider as well:
These two suites are similar to Libre Office but not as current or as well-supported:
NeoOffice
Open Office
And, then there is Apple's iWork suite:
Pages - word processing and layout
Keynote - presentation
Numbers - spreadsheet
Each can open and save Office compatible files. They may be purchased separately via the Mac App Store for $19.99 each.
As for other software, any PPC-based software will not run in Lion or Mountain Lion because Rosetta is no longer part of OS X. You will need to upgrade to Intel versions of the software.
(Access to the Mac App Store requires Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or higher and an Apple ID.)

If i upgrade will office for mac work since this is important for my work

if I decide to upgrade to Lion from my current OS , will my Microsoft office for Mac work, since i heard it will not

If you have Office 2004 or a copy of Office 2008 you haven't yet installed, no. If you've installed Office 2008 or have Office 2011, yes.
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I have just bought my first mac and have been told that i can get a free upgrade to lion but it seems that this is only an option in the us and canada, not the uk. is this true?

i have just bought my first mac and have been told in pc world that i can get a free upgrade to lion, but it would appear that this is only for those in the u.s. and canada. is this true? also from reading the discussions it seems that lion is not a good thing. i am already regretting my decision to go to a mac.

I have found that both Linux and Mac (unix) are capable of reading "deep" folders while win 32 will have issues, your it people are clearly wrong. I run a network with both win/mac. And as long as the win servers/pc's that have shares are set to allow apple file sharing in their folder properties. And the macs are set to allow smb there should absolutely no trouble with you accessing anything across the platforms, heck, from a Mac to a win pc on some occasions you don't even need to include a "domain" name to log on to, and you can create aliases and make your own shortcuts etc... So you don't have to manually connect each time you boot up etc... But that's all personal preferences I suppose.
All I can tell you is that, I do it on a daily basis managing a small business. So your answer is yes you can.

MS Office for Mac crashes in Mountain Lion

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion yesterday, none of my MS Office for Mac (2008) programs launch - anyone know if there's a fix for that? Of course, I can't run any updates etc as it hangs at the splash screen.
I don't have the discs any longer (lost in a move) and I begrudge buying another version when I only use it to open documents people send me in Word, etc. I use the iWork suite myself but need to be able to open Word & Excel and make changes.
Anyone know of a fix for getting them working again (ideally) or at least a workaround if I can download something else (e.g. a 'lite' version or something) to open them and edit.
Thanks in advance.

Mark Hughes Proximity wrote:
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion yesterday, none of my MS Office for Mac (2008) programs launch - anyone know if there's a fix for that? Of course, I can't run any updates etc as it hangs at the splash screen.
I don't have the discs any longer (lost in a move) and I begrudge buying another version when I only use it to open documents people send me in Word, etc. I use the iWork suite myself but need to be able to open Word & Excel and make changes.
Anyone know of a fix for getting them working again (ideally) or at least a workaround if I can download something else (e.g. a 'lite' version or something) to open them and edit.
Thanks in advance.
That's weird because I'm running MSOffice 2008 in Mountain Lion without any trouble. I also use Office 2011 without any issues.
I can only assume that you didn't install ML correctly.
Try installing ML again, maybe?
Also make sure that the folder "Microsoft Office 2008" is in your "Applications" folder and not nested inside any other folder. ML doesn't like you keeping your applications anywhere other than directly in the "Applications" folder.
BTW in my opinion LibreOffice is better than OpenOffice - although it's still clunky.

How will mountain lion affect my office for mac 201111

How will mountain Lion affect my office for Mac 2011

I have been using Office for Mac 2011 for almost a year now and the issue started immediately after doing the upgrade.
When I start Outlook I can see that it takes 1 minute plus to set up the identity.
When it finally runs it is very slow and no fun to use. It seems that Outlook is using very few resources when I look at the activity monitor.
Overall it seems that my IMac has become slower than before upgrading to 10.8.
I do not have support with MSFT anymore and I do hope that somebody does report this issue to MSFT.
To me it seems to be very clear a result of the upgrade.
Hope that helps.

I upgraded to Yosemite now my office for mac 2011 will not work

HELP!!!! Everything was fine until I upgraded. I really need my office products and I realy dont feel like buying a new laptop (although, I guess I *could* use one )
My specs:
Late 2010 MacBook Air (13") - 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Here is the error log:
Process:
Microsoft Excel [800]
Path:
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Excel
Identifier:
com.microsoft.Excel
Version:
Build Info:
Unknown-141003~0
Code Type:
X86 (Native)
Parent Process:
??? [1]
Responsible:
Microsoft Excel [800]
User ID:
501
Date/Time:
2014-11-02 12:06:46.841 -0500
OS Version:
Mac OS X 10.10 (14A389)
Report Version:
11
Anonymous UUID:
8A55B2C7-7F03-CE6B-81C2-E5DC23FD3726
Time Awake Since Boot: 2400 seconds
Crashed Thread:
0
Exception Type:
EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes:
0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: @rpath/OfficeWindowLocalizer.framework/Versions/14/OfficeWindowLocalizer
Referenced from: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Excel
Reason: Incompatible library version: Microsoft Excel requires version 14.0.50 or later, but OfficeWindowLocalizer provides version 14.0.40
Binary Images:
0x8fe78000 - 0x8feabe03 dyld (353.2.1) <EBFF7998-58E8-32F5-BF0D-9690278EC792> /usr/lib/dyld
Model: MacBookAir3,2, BootROM MBA31.0061.B07, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.13 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.66f61
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M, NVIDIA GeForce 320M, PCI, 256 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x80CE, 0x4D34373142353237334348302D5946382020
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x80CE, 0x4D34373142353237334348302D5946382020
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xD1), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.24)
Bluetooth: Version 4.3.0f10 14890, 3 services, 19 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en0
Serial ATA Device: APPLE SSD TS256C, 251 GB
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USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader
USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Thunderbolt Bus:

Here is a very easy possible solution, worth trying before uninstalling Office. It worked for us so hopefully might work for you.
We installed Yosemite on a test machine to check for problems. Office 2011 for Mac ran and still does run fine on that machine with Yosemite.
As a result we installed Yosemite on our main machines. At the same time we updated Office for Mac 2011 using the latest update 14.4.7. It was at this point that Office started crashing every time a document was opened.
Solution that worked for us.
1 Using Font Book (comes with your Mac) we removed all duplicate fonts. We selected the automatically remove option.
2 Restart computer.
3 Shut down computer.
4 Restart computer in 'safe boot' to do this:
a) Shut down the computer.
b) Press the power button.
c) Immediately after hearing start-up tone, hold down SHIFT key.
d) Release SHIFT key after Apple logo and progress indicator appears.
e) Once computer has opened, restart the computer without holding down any keys.
5 Hopefully all should be ok now. Your machine might run a little slow for a while as it rebuilds caches etc but all ours were back at full speed after a few minutes.
Best Wishes
Bob

If I upgrade from Mac OS v 10.5.8 to 10.6 Snow leopard will my installed applications such as timemachine and MS Offfice for Mac 2008 still work?

If I upgrade from Mac OS v 10.5.8 to 10.6 Snow leopard will my installed applications such as MS Office for Mac 2008 still work? Will time machine files created under OS 10.5 still be accessible?

Yes

Spits out Office for Mac 08 but accepts other DVDs

I just got an iMac(it's from 2011 if that matters) and I want to install Office for Mac 2008 on it but everytime I insert the disc, it just spits it out again. The disc is not damaged and my iMac accepts other DVDs and CDs.... It has 10.8.5 as the operating system
Please help, I use Office quite a lot!

Spits out Office for Mac 08 but accepts other DVDs
This is a sign of your Mac expressing its taste.
Take the hint. There are a number of alternatives to Office today, most are better, some are free, none have Microsoft's insatiable tendency towards inefficiency and bloat:
OpenOffice (free)
LibreOffice
NeoOffice
Pages
Numbers
Keynote
All read and write their Office equivalent formats.

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