Service Pack 1 for Mac Office 2008
May 15th, 2008 | by Michael |Macworld has an article detailing Service Pack 1 for Mac Office 2008. This service pack is supposed to improve performance and stability, as well fixing other small bugs. Specific improvements to Excel include:
. . . restores chart formatting options available in previous versions of Office and improves the spreadsheet program’s ability to alert you to potential compatibility issues when you save the workbook in a file format compatible with previous versions of Excel (including Excel for Windows). Changes made when you move or resize the formula bar will now be retained. Microsoft also improved support for secondary displays.
I fired up Office last night and checked for updates, but none were found. I’m not sure if they are slowly rolling this out through automatic update, or maybe they are requiring early adopters to download the Service Pack manually for right now.
Alternatively, some people are experiencing problems after they install the Service Pack, such as extended periods of CPU usage. Vincent Noel, the author of the "Bloody Fingers" blog, tracked the problem down to Spotlight attempting to index areas where the Service Pack was installed.
So, if you are an Excel power user, you may want to go ahead and download this Service Pack, otherwise, you may want to give Microsoft a little time to work the bugs out.
