Microsoft KB Archive/247048

= OFF98: Contents of the Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition/Mac OS 9 Updater ReadMe =

Article ID: 247048

Article Last Modified on 9/26/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q247048



SUMMARY
The Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition/Mac OS 9 Updater contains a Read Me file describing the changes made by the updater. This article reproduces the contents of the ReadMe file.



MORE INFORMATION
--- MICROSOFT OFFICE 98 UPDATER INSTALLATION README FILE DECEMBER 1999 ---

(c) 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

This Microsoft Office 98 Updater addresses three issues:


 * creating and editing charts in Excel and Graph on Apple's Macintosh OS 9.0
 * printing from PowerPoint to an Epson 740 printer via the USB port
 * improperly exported date format for text files in Excel when using VBA.

In Excel and Graph on Mac OS 9.0 the Format Chart dialog is incorrectly displayed making it difficult to create and edit charts.

In PowerPoint, printing to the Epson 740 printer via the USB port gives an "out of memory" error with no document printed.

In Excel, using VBA to export text files containing four-digit dates results in data loss. When using VBA to save these text files, dates are exported in two-digit format instead of the intended four-digit format. When the text file is then re-opened in Excel, the 20th century is assumed for years exported as 30 to 99, and the 21st century is assumed for years exported as 00 to 29.

NOTE: The loss of the definitive century information is specific to using VBA to export text files with four-digit date formatting. All other means of saving your text files in Excel correctly maintain the century information. Excel's native file format is not affected in any way.

The following files are updated: *Microsoft Excel *Microsoft PowerPoint *Microsoft Graph

Important notes about this Updater:

target machine, you will be instructed to quit the updater. "Microsoft  Office 98" is required for any Office application to boot. If it is not found, the updater assumes you do not have Office 98 installed and therefore no update is necessary.
 * If you do not have a copy of the file "Microsoft Office 98" on your

network volume. You must run the Updater on a copy of Office 98 located on a local disk, and then copy the updated version to your network volume.
 * It is not possible to directly update Office 98 if it is located on a

you will be asked to choose which copy you want modified. You can run the Updater multiple times if you want to patch more than one copy of these files.
 * If you have multiple copies of the files the updater is trying to patch,

language version of Microsoft Office 98. If you try to run this patch against other language versions, you will receive errors and your files
 * This copy of Microsoft Updater is designed to work only with the English

will not be properly updated. Check the Microsoft Office 98 web page at  for the version of the Microsoft Office 98 Updater that matches your copy of Microsoft Office 98.

of Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition, even installations which include only a subset of the patchable files. If any of the application files are not found, the patching process will continue without error.
 * This patch will work on all installations of the English language version

Updater.
 * We recommend you close other running applications before running this

Additional query words: OFF98 xl98 ppt98 sonata

Keywords: kbinfo KB247048

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