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News Microsoft Announces SP1 for Office 2008 Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 8:12 AM EST Posted by: Brian Microsoft today announced the release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2008 for Mac. According to the company, this update contains several improvements to enhance security, stability, and overall performance, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code. Users also will find application-specific updates, including the following: Microsoft Office Excel   Compatibility. Improved compatibility with files exchanged between Excel 2008 for Mac and Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 for Windows   Custom Error Bars. Restored formatting option on the Error Bars panel for data series   Printing. More reliable printing for elements on Excel 2008 workbooks Microsoft Entourage   Calendar. Significant enhancements to improve calendar view and all-day reminders with reoccurrence   Exchange Server support. Overall improvement to synchronization support, including removing attachments from Exchange Server messages and synchronizing to the server, as well as support for editing the contents of Exchange Server messages via AppleScript and synchronizing the changes to the server   E-mail images. Ability to send and view images in Entourage from third-party tools Microsoft Office Word   Printing. Improved accuracy when orienting tables with cell shading   Document map. Improved reliability and responsiveness to select items   Notebook layout. Updated formatting, recording status and a variety of display options Microsoft Office PowerPoint   Printing. Improvements to eliminate crashing when printing documents to high-dpi printers and increased overall printing speed by 10 times on some large presentations   Mobile viewing. Ability to view Mac .PPTX files on Windows Mobile phones   AppleScript. Ability to use the PowerPoint selection object in AppleScript to implement custom scripts that operate on the current selection in PowerPoint Office 2008 for Mac SP1 will be available as a download from Microsoft's Web site or via Microsoft Auto Update later today. Microsoft also announced today that it's bringing VBA-language support back to the next version of Office for Mac. Post a Comment:   Discuss   More News

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