Well, what does one say about "an industry standard?"

I only call it that as it seems ubiquitous as the defacto word processor. I have grown used to Word over the years and gotten comfortable with it. Not saying much though.

My primary usage came through work I did as an educator. I wrote papers, exams, published newsletters, articles, teaching notes, etc. Honestly, I got about as frustrated at the strange indentation (all would jump or never go, or so it seemed) and Word is simply not a test writing program. That was a bummer for me personally. Always a struggle with numbering, indentation, and so forth. There possibly could have been some training that might have resolved it, but I went to the manual and couldn't ever quite grasp those concepts.

When it comes to simple letter writing, it is more than sufficient. A bit bloated and slow, but nice for letters and notes.

The cost, though, is prohibitive. Ugh. Way too expensive. They keep adding features. Each update drove me nuts. They would change so much to only really keep most of the essentials the same, if that makes sense. Move things around, regroup, new menu orders, new looks, graphics, and all the autocorrects that I would try to stop, turn off, dismantle, then eventually learned to keep my styrofoam brick by the computer just in case....well, ok, that was a poor attempt at humor.

I am recommending Word if you have the money and are already familiar with it. I do believe Pages to be a better and more affordable option, at least for my needs.

Is this supposed to be MicroSoft's update to make its apps work on Lion? Not being sarcastic - just want to know. MSWord seems to work a bit less buggy, however, it still will not save to NAS devices, as it did under 10.6. But . . . sometimes it will now (very unpredictable). Artifacts still appear within document margins and selected words and phrases often deselect themselves. Does anyone (or even MS) know if this is the official fix or is it just a bone MS tossed out to divert attention away from its broken suite of business apps for the Mac?

Best update I've ever installed for Word.

Word now starts up much faster... Opens files faster... Saves faster. I'm amazed and afraid to update to Office 11.

Office 2004 11.6.3 (April 12, 2011) fails to install, installer quitting after "searching for programs to update." Tried on five different machines, Intel and PPC. Tried AutoUpdate and direct download. Tried starting in safe boot. No dice - nothing works. Something wrong with this one.

It seems 12.2.9 is now available as a download.

Despite running the update from the AutoUpdate app, none of the Office 2008 apps show version 12.2.8, and opening the AutoUpdate/manual download update says there's nothing to update.

Unable update to 11.6.2. Already have 11.6.1
Auto update says it downloads, and tried manual download still no luck. Any suggestions?

No go, updater didn't work.

After 5 minutes of looking for files to update and no progress made, I killed the process. How hard can it be to update your own software? Updater was hanging, soaking up CPU, the fan was going wild and nothing was happening.. why do we bother with this sort of software ??

After 11.5.5 there has been no way that these updaters found the software to upadte. But it is there, updated to 11.5.5. Ridiculous! I am not very happy with Pages (too bloated and in many cases totally impossibile to understand) and unfortunately have to go on converting Word files to Pages because of my job. What a disaster

On my Mac Pro 2008 (2x2.8, 12GB Ram, OS X 10.6) Word, Excel and PowerPoint take 1-2 minutes to launch. No other app takes this long.

Any solutions?

Thanks.