Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / September 2005

I was wondering if Office 2004 Service Pack 2 will be available on cdrom. If
so, can you estimate when?
This service is available to Office 2003 customers, so I was wondering if it
will be made available to Macintosh customers as well.

I'm new to this newsgroup.  Tried searching the archives and found
nothing about this.  So here goes...
Is there a Command line version of Microsoft AutoUpdate?  I administer
a few hundred macs and want to deploy the updates to as many of these

A reader of MacInTouch made a parenthetical mention that the SP2 updater
that was originally posted contained some bugs and that a different SP2
was posted sometime later. See comments by Blake McCormick at
<http://www.macintouch.com/office2004part07.html#sep26>.

   I recently purchased a 17" iMac G5, with OS X 10.4 Tiger on it. I
am unable to install Office 2004 Standard for the Mac on it - the combo
drive will not recognize the disc.
When I insert the CD, it spins for a few seconds and then ejects

I've a problem with the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac. Whenever I want
to save any document (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) it cracks, the little
coloured circle appears and the program gets blocked. There's no way to
save any document. I've noted, that the problem is the screen

Great article and links to some very good discussions.  Articles discuss the
placement of the MacBU in the home/entertainment division of Microsoft and
future ramifications.  The question "Who is to blame for lack of Mac Office
enterprise support" also is debated at length.

I am having extreme trackpad and button problems after installing sp2
on a G4 power book running Tiger 10.4.2.  I have two of them and have
cloned the problem one to the other, so know that the problem is
software, not hardware.

OFFICE MAC 2004 "UPGRADE" INDICATED THAT IT WOULD UPGRADE FROM OFFICE 98,
BUT OFFICE 98 IS ON OLD SLOT LOADING IMAC G3 AND I WANT TO PUT OFFICE MAC
2004 ON NEW IMAC G5.  I CAN NOT GET OFFICE 98 TO INSTALL ON THE G5.  OFFICE
MAC 2004 UPGRADE WILL NOT RUN WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO READ ...

I have not experienced the problems reported by others and have installed SP
2 Pack successfully.
The problem I encountered on along the way was that during installation, the
installer identified 2 locations for Office 2004. One location was

I have tried everything I can find to get service pack 2 for Office
2004 to run on my G4 iMac:
-Repaired permissions
-Ran periodic daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance

I ran into a problem where I think I need to establish a new product key for
Office:Mac 2004, but I cannot figure out how.
I recently bought a new Mac (Dual G5 Power Mac) and used the Firewire
transfer mechanism to copy all the files and applications from my old G4.

I'm running Office 2004 in OS 10.3.8, and use Entourage as my primary
email program.
I keep all my email addresses in the Entourage address book.
Many times a day, I send someone an email in which I want to insert

Since installing SP2, Entourage and Word crash repeatedly when trying
to print documents (Word) or certain calendars (Entourage).
Anyone else have the problem? Any fixes?
Thanks.

Downloading the SP2 update for Office 2004, it locks up as soon as
launch is attempted, both through Microsoft update and by downloading
the file from the Microsoft site. The 11.2.0 update program ceizes to
function but the logo remains in the dock even after forced shutdown.

Hard to believe, but after over 6 months of waiting for MS to fix the
font problem that everyone seems to have, now SR2 is out and it does
not fix it.
Coincidentally, I had the corrupt font problem again this morning with