#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2008 FOR MAC UPDATES HOW TO#
No chance of fixing what is there, no real troubleshooting steps - just nuke the thing and start from scratch because we, the people who made the software, have no idea how to actually fix it.
Microsoft’s solution is to simply erase everything and start over. Method five is just depressing: “Remove and reinstall Office for Mac”. Applications in OS X are supposed to be self contained bundles that can function properly regardless of their location in the directory structure. Yes, the application is in the Applications directory, but that should only matter if the code makes poor assumptions about where the application is actually installed and there are paths hard coded into the application. I even opened up the application bundle and read the Contents/ist file. Of course I looked at the actually version number of the applications and made sure the update was not already installed. I have no external or network drives mounted, I have closed everything and restarted the computer several times. Microsoft therefore must have an exact solution because this problem is common enough to have a support document describing this exact error.
The symptom is an exact description of my problem. The tale of the problematic Office 2008 Mac update is not an uncommon one as Google’s auto-complete helpfully demonstrates:Īfter some searching, I came to this support document from Microsoft that at first seems very helpful. Patching software should be quick and painless but Microsoft seems determined to make life difficult for us lowly sys admins who are given the job of actually making their software work properly for normal people. The number of hours I have spent trying to properly update Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is depressing.
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