Microsoft Office 2008 para Mac OS X 10.5.8

The result: All the performance issues are gone. ( I’m living in a motel right now, traveling for my helicopter business.) It took hours - the updates totaled over 400 MB of downloads and I’m connected to the internet on a horrible 600-800 Kbps connection that likes to drop. And two smaller updates that became available on August 5. So I bit the bullet and installed Office 2008 on my iMac. I opened the file on that machine and it worked just fine. I had a developer preview version of Snow Leopard installed and, in preparation for a Microsoft Office 2008 project I’ll be starting in the fall, I’d installed Office 2008 with both major updates. The software on that computer was different, though. That computer’s processor isn’t as quick as my iMac’s and it has the same amount of RAM. Next I sent it over my network to my new 13-inch MacBook Pro. The new file was about 5% smaller in size, but had the same symptoms as the original. So I used the Save As command to create a new version of the document. I thought it might have some internal problems. It pops from my Mac to an editor’s PC and back at least five times during each revision process. The document was originally created about 10 years ago and has been revised and saved periodically for every edition of this book. It’s 40 pages of text that utilizes about 20 styles and fields for automatically numbering figures and illustrations. All I know is what I experienced: text editing so slow that I could type faster than Word could display the characters.Īt first I thought it might be the document itself. Whether the problem was Mac OS X’s inability to run the old PowerPC application or Word’s inability to run on the 10.5.8 update is a mystery to me. Office 2004 was written for the old PowerPC processor that came in older Macs. After all, the iMac has an Intel dual core processor. I suspect that something in that update just didn’t sit well with Word 2004, which I was still running on that computer.

You see, the other day, I updated my iMac from 10.5.7 to 10.5.8. It wasn’t long before I was pulling my hair out.

The project requires me to take relatively lengthy, style-laden Word documents, turn on the Track Changes feature, and edit like crazy. I just started work on a new book revision.

Microsoft Office 2008 para Mac OS X 10.5.8