[Casper] MS Office 2008 configuration

[Postman, Hillary]

Office 2008 doesn¹t come with Do Fonts; but it¹s still very slow upon
startup without a lot of RAM.

Hillary

Hillary Postman
Technology Support Specialist III
Capistrano Unified School District
33122 Valle Rd.
San Juan Capistrano, CA
(949) 234-5530 






On 12/12/08 7:39 AM, "Smith, William" <william.smith at merrillcorp.com> wrote:

> On 12/11/08 4:14 PM, "Miles Leacy" <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm curious to see what customizations folks are using for their Office 2008
>> deployments.
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>> What modifications are you using?  Does anyone run into the "do fonts" issue
>> that was present in Office 2004?  If so, how do you stop it?
> 
> I have to admit that we need to plan for our Office 2008 migration ourselves.
> We still have a dependency on VBA but I¹m pretty sure that could be redone
> with AppleScript.
> 
> What¹s the ³do fonts² issue you¹re referring to? I prefer to install a full
> application package and then use post-install scripts to customize for each of
> our group¹s needs. Microsoft did a great thing by putting all their fonts into
> /Library/Fonts/Microsoft for Office 2008. That makes manipulating their font
> install very painless.
> 
> I¹ll be visiting with the MacBU folks at Macworld in January and hope to get
> some insight from their Entourage developers for automating the upgrade
> process. They should know the right hooks. If I learn anything then I¹ll be
> sure to spread the wealth.



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