Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / October 2008

I'm running MacOS X 10.5.5 and have not previously had MS update problems.  I
am running a full legal copy of 2004 version 11.5.0 .  When I tell one of the
apps to check for updates it finds 11.5.1, and that downloads fine.  But when
it attempts to install it searches for some ...

I just downloaded the new
Office 2008 12.1.4 Update.mpkg
and going to shut down all office items and
let the updater do its thing.

MacBU released a fix today for the problems caused by the 12.1.3 updater for
Exchange users.
Read about the fix for 12.1.4 on the Entourage Help Blog and the Mac Mojo
Blog.

I just downloaded the new
Office 2008 12.1.4 Update.mpkg
and going to shut down all office items and
let the updater do its thing.

I'm not very tech savvy about computer hardware as you'll notice so hope you
can help me.
My old CRT monitor died so I went out today and just bought up a new LCD
monitor that was on special and suggested to me by the sales clerk:

In previous versions of Word, I have been able to automatically insert the
file path & extension of any document either as a header or footer without
having to physically type it in.  With Word 2007 I cannot find where to do
this.  Many thanks any advice.

I need to know how to get templates for a newsletter similar to those on
publisher. If there's any out there or if no such thing exists any answers
are greatly appreciated.

I have internet through Comcast cable. I only use OE 6 to access newsgroups.
As of yesterday, however, I've been getting a "The server could not be found"
message when attempting to access newsgroups.  The connection is fine and all
browsers are working.

All:
The following notice was posted a few minutes ago by Microsoft.
Those of you running any version of Windows need to run Windows Update on
Thursday.  There's a nasty 0-day exploit out there.

Greetings, all.
I currently have Office 2008 patched to version 12.1.2 (080729).
I have attempted to install the 12.1.3 update both via downloaded installer
and via the AutoUpdater.

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC
"When trying to start up office i got a error report so tried uninstalling

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I have created a new post in this group because the problem that I
initially thought was only occurring with Excel is not isolated. Word
is also experiencing a problem too.
For the discussion about the Excel issue please see:

The documents folder on my intel Macbook appears to have been "trashed"
during a recent update of Office 2008.  When I went to open a file from the
documents folder it was missing as were almost all other files normally found
there.  The "Microsoft user data" folder was still ...

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
I put together a rather large document (40 pages with four pictures) as a docx. Now I'm trying to save it as a doc., but Word shuts down everytime I try. Is there anything I can do?