install 12.1.0, and then:

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This update includes all the improvements that were released in all previous Office 2008 for Mac updates. For more information about the improvements in a previous update, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

953822 Description of the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.1 Update

956344 Description of the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.2 Update

958267 Description of the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.3 Update

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Wasn't that bug patched way back in the summer? I didn't pay attention to the MS fixes, but I know it was in my update alerts for Debian...

6 months is a bad turnaround time, even for Microsoft.

Use CrossOver, http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/ , and install Office 2000/2003/XP (i.e. the PC version).

CrossOver only uses one of the cores, but it is still so much faster than Office 2008 for the Mac at editing charts.

I hope this helps.

Abdo

I had a go with codeweavers crossover, it looks quite good & runs all of Office 2000 & 2003 apart from Access 2003 which did not run at the time, but they may fix eventually.

I cant see the point of the latest version of Office as everything by Microsoft seems to have problems somewhere & be ten times bigger than the last version.

I have Office 2000 for my PC & cant see any reason to change!

We purchased Office for our school and I was very amused to download the install software and the same day have to install the following patches: 12.0.1, 12.1.0, then 12.1.1. Fun. Just under half a gig of patches.