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Office 2004 Update 11.2.4
2006-06-14 • Reviews
Earlier today Microsoft released update 11.2.4 for the Office Suite. It is available from either AutoUpdate (use 'Check for updates under the help menu) or as a separate download.

The only two applications to get updated are Powerpoint and Entourage - there is no change to Word or Excel (and, in fact, their version numbers remain at 11.2.3).

The update is billed primarily as a security update (full details available here), but a couple of other bug fixes are included, notably improvements to the handling of EPS graphics that could, in some cases, cause crashes or corruption. Also some documents that used German language will also now open correctly.

Before you rush in to install this update (a 54mb download - its a combo updater that includes several earlier updates as well), if you are using an Exchange account, make sure you read this KB article - there are some fairly rare circumstances where updating could cause data loss, but there is a pretty easy work-round to make it all safe.

Most important fix for Entourage users is that the complaint that some calendar items are not showing up in the entourage calendar (yet do when viewing the same account in Outlook) may be a thing of the past! This update is supposed to cure this issue. I'll check when I get back to work tomorrow and report any problems I find Happy

The other Entourage fix is a crash that sometimes occurred when connecting to LDAP servers over SSL. Not a problem that I ever encountered, so I will probably be unable to comment on how good this fix is.

Now for the bad news - what's not in there! I blogged a little while ago about the 'time zone bug' that appeared in Entourage after an Apple update for the changes to the DST rules in several parts of the world. I said at the time that this was no big issue because it was a strictly cosmetic bug. Well, it seems that for people who synced their calendars to iCal AND to some external PDA/phones, it caused replication of events, shifting events by an hour, or even caused events to be deleted from their devices. Bad news, indeed. The worse news is that this bug hasn't been fixed in this release. Come on Microsoft, why not?

Happy downloading!


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