Office 2008 for Mac

Office 2008 Known Issues

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Office Installer cannot find a version of Office to upgrade or remove

If Office Installer does not find an upgrade-eligible version of Office, click Continue to skip the

search process. You will be given another opportunity to browse to the folder or CD that contains

the upgrade-eligible version of Office.

Office Installer and Remove Office use Spotlight to locate versions of Office that are installed on

your computer. If Spotlight is disabled or does not search folders where a version of Office is

located, Office Installer and Remove Office cannot find versions of Office that are eligible for

upgrade, or versions of Office that you might want to remove. Also, the search might take longer if

your computer has a slower processor or a very large hard disk.

Office Setup Assistant cannot import identities that were created in

Office v. X, Office 2001, or Office 98

Office Setup Assistant cannot import identities that were created in Office 98, Office 2001, or

Office v. X. To import these identities after installation, open Entourage 2008, and then on the

File

menu, click

Import.

Remove Office cannot remove versions of Office that are installed on a

network volume

Remove Office does not remove versions of Office that are installed on a network volume. To

remove these versions, drag the Microsoft Office 2008 folder to the Trash.

Remove Office moves templates in the My Templates folder to the Rescued

Items folder

Remove Office moves user-created templates that are stored in the My Templates folder of any

earlier version of Office to the Rescued Items folder on the desktop.