Microsoft KB Archive/194527

= OFF98: Readme for Office 98 Update for Mac OS 8.5 =

Article ID: Q194527

The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY
This article contains the text of the readme file that is included with the Office 98 Update for Mac OS 8.5.

For more information about the Office 98 Update for Mac OS 8.5, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194430 OFF98: How to Obtain and Install Office 98 Update for Mac OS 8.5

MORE INFORMATION
---    MICROSOFT OFFICE 98 UPDATER FOR MAC OS 8.5 INSTALLATION README FILE October 1998 ---

(c) 1998 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. The Microsoft Office 98 Updater for Mac OS 8.5 addresses several issues that can affect Office 98 users who install Apple's Mac OS 8.5 upgrade. These issues are:


 * Menus drop down slowly and display a white background color instead of native platinum.
 * Word 98 documents that use certain fonts may paginate or lay out differently after upgrading to OS 8.5.
 * The euro currency symbol is not available in Office 98 applications even though OS 8.5 supports creating, displaying and printing it.
 * In addition, Microsoft has discovered an isolated issue with Word 98 when Fast Save is enabled. Editing long documents that contain multiple floating images could potentially change text in the document into unreadable or incorrect characters, such as the "[ASCII 216]" character. This issue can affect users on any version of the Mac OS.

The following files are updated:


 * Microsoft Office 98
 * Microsoft Word
 * Microsoft PowerPoint

This patch will work on all installations of Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition, including installations which do not have Word or PowerPoint. If either application is not found, the patching process will continue without error.

Important notes about this Updater:


 * If you have multiple copies of the files the updater is trying to patch, 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.
 * It is not possible to directly update Office 98 if it is located on a 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.
 * This copy of Office 98 Updater for Mac OS 8.5 is designed to work only with the English language version of Microsoft Office 98. If you try to run this patch against other language versions, you will receive errors and your files will not be properly updated. Check the Microsoft Office 98 web page at <http://www.microsoft.com/macoffice%3E for the version of the Microsoft Office 98 Updater that matches your copy of Microsoft Office 98.
 * We recommend you close other running applications before running this Updater.

Additional query words: OFF98 8.5_patch

Keywords         : kbdta Version          : MACINTOSH:98 Platform         : MACINTOSH Issue type       : kbinfo