AWADO  Still M$ is not M$ compatible! Word documents look different on the Mac version. And as soon as I try to move text via drag 'n drop (or do it accidentally) Word crashes. Once upon a time Word and Excel were really good software. But it seems these days are gone.

With iWork you get less bugs for less money.  
(Version 12.2.1)

ERIC WOEHLER  Word continues to become more and more unstable. I open a 12 page doc and it thinks it is only 3 pages long. I scroll to the bottom of the file and the spinning beachball appears then Word hangs. Time to force-quit. Re-open.. Same garbage behaviour. I have purged font caches, and tested for font problems - all ok (but Font Doctor doesnt run under SL) so relying on Apple's Font Book to tell me all is ok with fonts. Have deleted all Word Pref files and Font Cache List file. What else?

I absolutely refuse to delete Office 08 and reinstall - I am using a Mac and not Windoze.

I have more problems with Word than all my other apps on my Mac (13" unibody, late 2008, 4gB RAM, twin 2.3GHz). I have NO other crashes or app hangs EXCEPT Word and I use a LOT of apps - not quite a Power user playing with Terminal, but have been using Macs for 25+ years and am highly experienced. This is absolute cr*p and totally beyond belief.

Have given up sending reports to MS as MS doesn't care.

Can't say a good thing about M$ - I want my money back!  
(Version 12.2.1)

ERIC WOEHLER  Unable to install 12.2.1 updater - back the same old garbage.. "no version of software present to be updated" or similar. I have 12.2.0 and have stripped all the excess language files (Swahili, Mongolian, Zulu). M$ have also changed the install scripts, so previous workarounds to edit the scripts also no longer work.

Yet more reasons to forget about MS crapware - is any one from M$ reading this - I paid for a legal install of MS Office 2008. Why the hell can't I keep my software up to date?  
(Version 12.2.1)

ERIC WOEHLER  Major problems after upgrading to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Under 10.6, Word was unstable, crashing occasionally. Under 10.6.1, essentially unusable - hangs/crashes constantly. Have cleared font caches etc. no go. Tried to reinstall latest updater for Office (12.2) but was unable. What now?  
(Version 12.2.1)

EASER  My wife is taking a course that requires her to access her professor's PowerPoint lectures. Those lectures require the use of special international fonts. I installed those fonts on her MacBook Pro and opened the lectures using MS PowerPoint for Mac. Nothing came out correctly, no matter what I tried. Restarts. Permission repairs. You name it. In desperation, I opened the lectures in Neo Office. Everything worked perfectly. This tells me all I need to know about whether I intend to keep investing in Microsoft. I don't think so. If you've never encountered the FREE Neo Office, give it a look.   
(Version 12.2.1)

CHARLESBKK  When will Microsoft make a fair for Mac users. Comparing Office Mac version and Windows version. On the Mac, it has never ever support THAI. I don't ask for any special functions or abilities, BUT only support THAI. just like Windows Users have.

PS. I've given up for MSN. Thx Microsoft!  
(Version 12.2.1)

MAXEMOM  An interesting thing has happened to me: I have practically "lived" in MS Excel and MS Word during most of my work days for 12+ years now, finding MS Office somewhat "bloated" and not the most nimble software, but useable and getting the job done nonetheless for the most part, then I sort of "stumbled" upon NeoOffice (more or less by accident) a couple of months ago (as a favor to one of my family member who had asked me to evaluate it for her).

Not only was I able to transition seamlessly on a wide variety of large Excel sheets, as well as MS Word brochures, booklets and contracts, but I've had (and felt) no need to "return" to MS Office... for 2 months now.

NeoOffice (and the docs you feed it) are quite nimble and stable, plenty powerful for my (probably above average) needs, and has not left me wanting for features to get my work done. At this time, I can't find a reason why I would need to "go back"...

Just my 2 cents...  
(Version 12.2.1)

WHITEROCK  Today's update fixes the long launch times experienced with the previous upgrade.  
(Version 12.2.1)

MAC5  I certainly will not be downloading and installing any future MS Office updates until such time I hear from other users who have not encountered any problems running it. The latest update prior to this one was a total fiasco which took me a couple of days to sort out before I was able to use any part of my MS Office suite of apps.

I would appear to my mind that MS have lost the plot some what, and are making some major blunders.  
(Version 12.2.1)

DANA SUTTON  I'm sorry to disagree with all you folks, but for my admittedly limited purposes I find this service pack an excellent step forward, if only because it eliminates the most disagreeable feature of Office, the long launch times. Now if only MS would put out a version of Word that wrote clean html code I'd give it five stars across the board. (I've had no problems with this version remembering the s. n. or launching any of its components).  
(Version 12.2)