Installing Office 08 for Mac

I don't see a specific place in the forums to post this, so I apologize if this is the wrong place...
Does anyone have any tips for a new mac user before installing office 2008 for mac?
Thanks,
Paul

Hi,
I installed Office 2008 in two of my office mac and two of my home mac without any trouble. There had been [some issues|http://www.macworld.com/article/131822/2008/01/office2008issues.html] with the release version of Office 08, but they have been fixed in later updates.
So, simply install and then run updates, hopefully everything will go smoothly.

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