Student Select and Office for Mac 2008

I have had Office 2008 installed for 3 weeks and today tried to instal the downloaded upgrade 12.0.1. When I try to upgrade the installer stops at the select a destination. After it searches for the volume it comes back with "...cannot install... A version of the software required...was not found on this volume"
I only have the Macintosh HD volume which is were the Office 2008 was installed. Path: Macintosh HD/Applications/ MS Office 2008.
Any ideas how I can get the installer to select the volume? or can I do it manually somehow?

thanks Vic
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On 3/23/08 8:49 43PM, in article ee853a2.119.RemoveThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"Vic@officeformac.com" wrote:

> I have had Office 2008 installed for 3 weeks and today tried to instal the
> downloaded upgrade 12.0.1. When I try to upgrade the installer stops at the
> select a destination. After it searches for the volume it comes back with
> "...cannot install... A version of the software required...was not found on
> this volume"
> I only have the Macintosh HD volume which is were the Office 2008 was
> installed. Path: Macintosh HD/Applications/ MS Office 2008.
> Any ideas how I can get the installer to select the volume? or can I do it
> manually somehow?

Follow the directions here:

New installer for 12.0.1

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/03/new_installer_for_1201.html>

--
Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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How do you insert a picture from a scanner? I scan pictures and letters into Word quite often. It was in the Insert/Picture menu in Office 2004. I cannot find it anywhere in Office 2008. Both versions of Office are the Home & Student Edition.
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Scanning directly into a Word document required Twain support which was not
retained in Office 2008. You'll have to save your scan as a file then use
Insert/Picture - From File instead.

I don't know that it will make any difference, but if you can substantiate
that the loss of the feature is a detriment to your workflow I'd suggest
that you use Help> Send Feedback to ensure it's being tracked on MacBU's
radar... The more requests submitted the more likely it is to be reinstated
- but there are no guarantees:-)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 3/25/08 12:45 AM, in article ee853a2.121 RemoveThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Sandra
King" wrote:

> How do you insert a picture from a scanner? I scan pictures and letters into
> Word quite often. It was in the Insert/Picture menu in Office 2004. I cannot
> find it anywhere in Office 2008. Both versions of Office are the Home &
> Student Edition.
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I have heard a lot of different opinions regarding Office 2008 on Mac. I have just switched back to Mac from PC, I'm running a MacBook 2.2Ghz.

Most of the professional reviews I have read about Office 2008 have been positive but many other user reviews have been extremely negative, with reports of bugs and constant crashes and unexpected quits, as well as time lags.

What is Microsoft's position on this and are there any planned updates to iron out these bugs? I have 8 days remaining on my Office 2004 trial before I have to decide whether or not to purchase Office 2008. I would have done it no questions asked until I read so many negative reviews...

Cheers
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Hi Cartz -

The bottom line is that you can't rely on someone else to tell you what
*you* need. There's some degree of truth to what others have to say, but you
need to identify your needs & determine which product suits them best.You
also have the option of going with 2004 now & upgrading to 2008 later at a
reduced rate, whereas you can't "downgrade" - although you can return 2008
within the 'satisfaction guarantee' period & purchase 2004 instead.

Keep in mind that most of the postings you see from users are from those who
have experienced problems - those who have no problems rarely take the time
to post about how pleased they are. Many of the problems are actually the
result of issues that existed before installing the software as well as
improper preparation/installation in the first place. And then you always
have the contingent that are perennial complainers - they'll complain &
criticize no matter what:-)

Any new release is going to have its share of "bugs" but most will be
resolved over time & many of those reported bugs are merely perceived
because the software is simply *different* than what the user is accustomed
to and expects... Or prefers.

Nobody here can tell you what Microsoft's "position" is because we're *not*
Microsoft & can't speak for the company. And the few 'Softies who pop in
here can only say so much. Experience has shown, however, that MS certainly
will do whatever they can to continue improvement of 2008. By the same
token, some of what certain users 'don't like' won't necessarily be changed
if it's an intended design difference.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 3/26/08 2:21 AM, in article ee853a2.123 DeleteThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"cartz@officeformac.com" wrote:

> I have heard a lot of different opinions regarding Office 2008 on Mac. I have
> just switched back to Mac from PC, I'm running a MacBook 2.2Ghz.
>
> Most of the professional reviews I have read about Office 2008 have been
> positive but many other user reviews have been extremely negative, with
> reports of bugs and constant crashes and unexpected quits, as well as time
> lags.
>
> What is Microsoft's position on this and are there any planned updates to iron
> out these bugs? I have 8 days remaining on my Office 2004 trial before I have
> to decide whether or not to purchase Office 2008. I would have done it no
> questions asked until I read so many negative reviews...
>
> Cheers
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I just installed a 300+ MB "critical update" for Office 2008 (Dutch version). Now Entourage crashes every time I try to collect my e-mail. Help? Please?
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On 3/26/08 9:06 56AM, in article ee853a2.125 RemoveThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Robin
Graber" wrote:

> I just installed a 300+ MB "critical update" for Office 2008 (Dutch version).
> Now Entourage crashes every time I try to collect my e-mail. Help? Please?

There are other issues with the Dutch versions. See the post "[ANN] Fonts
increasing in size - follow-up"

A temporary workaround for users who enabled the Dutch dictionary would be
to switch to the English dictionary for now. Please note you will have to
re-launch Entourage for the change to happen.

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Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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I'm interested in this problem too, which didn't get addressed.
I received an PC .xlsx file from a colleague and it won't open in Mac as an Excel file, but only as a word compatibility file, which doesn't include all the data in the file. I got Office 08 expressly for this purpose.
Please advise. Thanks.

> Answered your other post...
>
>
> On 18/01/08 7:25 AM, in article ee853a2.27.TakeThisOut@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Robert
> Eidschun " wrote:
>
> > Just today (17 January 2008), I installed Office 2008 on my Mac and discovered
> > a major incompatibility: Excel files, moderate in size or larger (e.g., 2 Mb)
> > created in Excel 2007 for PC and saved in xlsx and xlsb formats cannot be
> > opened by Excel 2008 for Mac.
> >
> > I just spent an hour on the phone with technical support at Microsoft. While
> > talking to the support person there, I sent to him three such files, and he
> > and his collegues were unable to open any of them in Excel 2008.
> >
> > If you try to open such a file in Excel 2008, the latter seems to "hang", but
> > will eventually report (after 10 to 15 minutes) that the file is
> > "incompatible" or "corrupt". I sent three such files to Microsoft, and, while
> > they were able to open all of them in Excel 2007 for PC, they could not open
> > any of them in Excel 2008. They are deferring the matter to the Mac
> > development team at Microsoft for further investigation, but for now, have no
> > fix.
> >
> > I also tried to use Excel 2008 to open such a file that was residing on the
> > Windows partition of my Mac's hard drive, but once again, Excel 2008 was
> > unable to open it.
>
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I have just started using Office 2008 and find real compatibility issue with Office for Windows. I find that I have no problem opening Word documents from a PC but for some reason PC users have a real difficulty with my documents. Instead of normal text, when they open my documents they get a lot of unintelligible characters. I had no such problems with Office X or 2004.
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On 3/27/08 8:37 46AM, in article ee853a2.127.TakeThisOut@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"drumdoc@officeformac.com" wrote:

> I'm interested in this problem too, which didn't get addressed.
> I received an PC .xlsx file from a colleague and it won't open in Mac as an
> Excel file, but only as a word compatibility file, which doesn't include all
> the data in the file. I got Office 08 expressly for this purpose.
> Please advise. Thanks.

Try dragging the file to Excel in the Dock and try forcing Excel to open it.

--
Diane
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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> I have just started using Office 2008 and find real compatibility issue with Office for Windows. I find that I have no problem opening Word documents from a PC but for some reason PC users have a real difficulty with my documents. Instead of normal text, when they open my documents they get a lot of unintelligible characters. I had no such problems with Office X or 2004.

I should add that this applies even to documents saved as Word 97-2004 documents. It also seems to have "infected" documents created with previous version, ie Office 2004.
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Hey! i just bought a Microsoft Office:Mac 2008 home and student addition. I was wondering if the software is compatible with Mac versions 10.4? the requirements say 10.4.9
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