Brief Hands-On Report--Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.5 Update

Microsoft released 11.3.5 Update for Office 2004 for Mac. It is available via "Check for Updates" under the Help menu or as a stand-alone updater from this Microsoft Web page. According to Microsoft,

This update contains several improvements to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities [four] that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code. In addition, this update includes all the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates.

Applies to: Office 2004 Standard Edition, Office 2004 Student and Teacher Edition, Office 2004 Professional Edition, Word 2004, Excel 2004, PowerPoint 2004, Entourage 2004.

We used "Check for Updates" under the Help menu in Word 2004 and also downloaded a copy of the stand-alone updater for updating Office 2004 on a PowerBook G4 and a MacBook Pro C2D. Then we used Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage over a several hour period--no problems were encountered. It seems to us that each application launches much faster than before the update, especially on the Intel-based MacBook Pro C2D. [Bill Fox]