Office 2008 for Mac is the best option for Mac users who share documents at home, work, or at school. It comes packed with powerful features for creating artful documents, dynamic spreadsheets, and effective presentations. Plus it’s completely compatible. No need to worry if your documents will open correctly on PCs or other computers. With beautiful docs, spreadsheets, and multimedia presentations, you can quickly create, manage, and re-use content across any platform. Manage calendars, communications and projects with a completely easy-to-use 2008 UI and new tools that help you make time behave.

New in this version: This update fixes critical issues and also helps to improve security. It includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code. Applies to: Office 2008, Office 2008 Home and Student Edition, Office 2008 Special Media Edition, Word 2008, Excel 2008, PowerPoint 2008, Entourage 2008, Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition. Requirements: OS X 10.4.9-10.8 Universal Binary.

Feb 15, 2013 - Official direct download links to all Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac editions on the Digital River servers. Office 365 customers get the new Office for Mac first. You’ll have Office applications on your Mac or PC, apps on tablets and smartphones for when you're on the go, and Office Online on the web for everywhere in between.

This document explains how to reset and back up Office 2008 • Ensure all Office applications are closed. • Navigate to ~User/Library/Preferences folder and drag all the files to desktop that starts with com.microsoft.xxx.plist (xxx=name of Office app) • Additionally delete/Move following files: • Application/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/ OfficePID.plist • ~ User/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/ Microsoft Office 2008 Settings.plist The user will be prompted to re-enter the product key the next time Word is used. • If user is having problem with font then delete ' Office Font Cache (12)', located in the same folder as Microsoft Office 2008 Settings.plist.

• Office is now successfully reset. • If all is well, trash the old file otherwise, quit all Office apps again, trash the new files and drag the original files back to where they belong.

Additional information on troubleshooting Microsoft Office fonts can be found Backups How to enable automatic save in Microsoft Office 2008? • Open Microsoft Word (or any other Office App). • Hold Command and Comma key.

• System Preferences window would open. • In System Preferences > Save > enable ' Always create a backup copy' and ' Save AutoRecover info every 2 Min'. Template Backups Normal.dotm When newly blank document crashes, it is possible the problem persists in normal.dotm.

Try renaming the existing normal.dotm to oldnormal.dotm and reopen word to recreate a new normal.dotm. The location for normal.dotm are as follows: • Office 2008: ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/Normal.dotm • Word 2004: ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Normal • Word X, Word 2001, Word 98: /Applications/Microsoft Office ***/Templates/Normal (where *** stands for your version of Office) If by chance the normal.dotm location is changed, the normal.dotm can be located by opening Microsoft Office Word>Preferences>File Locations> dialog to confirm its location. If the old normal.dotm is corrupt and there are customizations in old Normal that you don't want to lose – such as macros, AutoText, custom toolbars, and styles – you can transfer them from OldNormal to your new Normal using Organizer. Restore customization from old Normal to new Normal • Open Word • Use File>Open to navigate to the template location noted above.