[MacTUG] Office 12.2.1 path out - fixes problems with the Open XML format

Glenn Anderson anderson at uwaterloo.ca
Mon Aug 10 09:22:43 EDT 2009


 From one of the web article on this:

Microsoft whips out Office 2008 patch for Mac lovers

Microsoft has hastily applied a fix to the Mac version of Office 2008,  
after the software giant introduced a glitch in the Open XML format  
when it released Service Pack 2 for the suite.

The company noted yesterday that the 12.2.1 patch would get rid of  
error messages that some Mac users were faced with when trying to open  
various PC-created documents in Office 2008.

Customers had reported the following error message: “Microsoft Excel  
cannot open the file. You may have to download the latest updates for  
Office for Mac. Do you want to visit the Microsoft Web site for more  
information?”

It had popped up when users tried to open some (though not all) OXML  
file formats in the Office suite afterapplying Service Pack 2 to the  
software.


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