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Install/Update

  1. Pre-Install Tips
  2. Install Office 2008
  3. Install Office 2011
  4. Update Entourage
    1. Update errors
  5. Import/Export Help
  6. Remove/Reset

Download updates

Download updates from Mactopia or use AutoUpdate under Help in the menu bar. Even if you prefer to download from Mactopia, use AutoUpdate to keep you notified of updates. It will NOT automatically install the update.

Remove Office Test Drive

Special Bulletin: Before you install Microsoft Office, you must first remove the Office Test Drive from your computer. Use the 'Remove Office', application to completely remove all Office files. You'll find 'Remove Office' in the Office Additional Tools folder.

Note: Remove Office does not remove your Microsoft User Data folder. (this is the folder where all your mail/data is stored). It does remove any registration keys and preferences for Office.

Pre-Installation Tips

  • Read the directions! This includes the download page for the updaters.
  • OS X: Quit any applications that are running, including virus-protection applications, all Office applications, Microsoft Messenger for Mac, and Office Notifications, because they might interfere with installation. How to quit Notifications
    • Easy way: Disable login items. Log out/in. Hold down the Shift key until startup is complete.
  • If you use 'Remove Office', backup your normal file, custom templates and custom dictionary (found in Preferences). Otherwise, “Remove Office” will delete those files.
    • Normal file: Note: starting with Office 2004 the Normal template is moved to the MUD folder, but the Templates folder is not moved.
    • You'll also need your CD key when you re-install.
    • Using 'Remove Office' does not delete your Microsoft User Data folder that contains your email messages.
    • 'Remove Office' is different from dragging the MS Office folder to the trash. It deletes invisible files and preferences used by MS Office.

Tips when upgrading Entourage mail:

  • Clean up your database before importing
  • Export your contacts
  • Make a backup of your database
  • Empty your Deleted Mail

CD Key/PID/Serial number

Carefully check whether you entered the key correctly. For more help, see here.

If you can't update then Microsoft has probably disabled the CD key in the installer because it has been pirated and spread over the internet. If you have a legitimate copy contact MS Customer Service to get a new key.

Many copies sold on eBay do not come with legitimate CD keys.

If you ever sell your computer you need to be sure to remove your CD key. If not, the next thing you know it will be all over the internet. See below for options to delete the CD Key.

The PID (Product IDentification) code is used to register. Registeration is not required and serves no useful purpose. It will put you on a Microsoft email list.

'Registration' has nothing to do with the operation of the software - unlike the Activation required for MS Windows software. It's little more than a marketing tool.

Resetting your Mac Office Registration number

When you first install Office, you type in your product CD Key, which generates a PID (Product IDentification) code. (a product ID will look like this: 11111-130-0001111-12345. This is used to receive support from Microsoft.) The product key is on a yellow or bright orange sticker on the CD package. This is what is used to install.

  • The Home & Student and Student & Teacher versions come with 3 product keys/licenses. This can be used on 3 different computers. This cannot be used in a work environment.
  • The Standard version comes with 1 key that can be used on two computers (1 desktop and 1 laptop) but you may not run both at the same time. Close one before you launch the other. e.g. Excel on one, but Word on the other, will still conflict, because they are tracking Office, not any individual program.

If you need to change the CD registration key for any reason, The following options can be used:

  1. Easy way: launch the Remove Office application in the Additional Tools Folder in your Microsoft Office 2004 folder. After you launch the application. Press the option key at the first dialog window and the button changes its name to read 'Remove License Info Only.'
  2. Download Mac HelpMate (freeware). Mac HelpMate has an option to De-Serialize Microsoft office. Open the app, authenticate by clicking the lock, click on Clean, then choose De-Serialize Office.
  3. Quit all Office applications. Trash the files listed below and then re-launch any Microsoft application. Your copy of Office will act as if it has been reinstalled and allow you to enter new serial number and registration information.
    1. /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004 (or X)/Office/
      - OfficePID (normally an invisible file)
    2. Users/[Username]/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
      - Carbon Registration Database
      - Office Registration Cache
      - Microsoft Office Settings

    4. Tip: Download EasyFind to find and trash the invisible OfficePID file (Spotlight won't find invisible system files). Turn on the 'Invisible Files & Folders' option when you search for an item named 'OfficePID'. Select the file in the search results window and choose File > Move to Trash.

  4. Office for Mac 2008 users: (above methods do not work)

    5. Delete these two files on one of the machines:

    ~:Library:Preferences:Microsoft:Office 2008:Microsoft Office 2008 Settings.plist

    where ~ is your home folder, and

    HD:Applications:Microsoft Office 2008:Office:OfficePID.plist

    When you start an Office app, you'll be asked for a CD Key.

If the above fails, please try the following

Please delete

  • ApplicationsMicrosoft Office 2008 folder
  • Your User FolderLibrary PreferencesMicrosoftOffice 2008
  • Reinstall Office

Is there an easy way to do trial and error and change the key if it was already used?

If you look in the Application menu for the About item and display that, it will display the Product ID to you.

If you find two machines on which all but the last five digits match, the same key was used on those two machines.

It won't tell you 'which' key was used, just that the 'same' key was used.

Disable Network check

See the tip posted on MacOSXHints. Remove microsoft autoupdate mac. Office X used port 2222 and now Office 2008 uses 2223 for Network PID Checking. I don't condone software piracy. Use this script only as described in the tip.

Entourage 2008 for Mac is an updated version of MS Office with advanced features to manage and recover quick access to your data. However, users may sometimes encounter one of the following messages:

  • Office Database is Damaged
  • Entourage cannot access your data. To try to fix the problem, rebuild the database
  • The action could not be completed. An unknown error occurred

Cause of the error message:

Entourage Identity lets its users create more than one account to access email contacts, calendar entries, tasks, journals, etc., but all identities (alternately database) are separate and unique, and each identity uses a different set of account settings, appointments emails and more. The problem occurs when multiple identities create messages, tasks, notes, appointments, etc., and the information store increases beyond the prescribed size, then the Entourage identities are subject to damages and there is a need to rebuild entourage 2008 database.

Consider the following case:

In this case, the user tries to archive the old emails, and despite being successfully archived, there is an issue with Entourage database:

Entourage performance is drastically reduced when there is less free space. User tries to make the system more efficient by archiving the old emails and thus freeing some space:

  1. Import Inbox to .RGE archive
  2. Attach compressed archive to local storage
  3. Shut down the storage
  4. Build a duplicate copy of the main identity

When the user tries to load Main identity without verifying its contents, then everything appeared perfect in Entourage, but when the user tries to access the last seen folder, it contained corruption. The corruption affected the archive as well as the Inbox, which is connected to Exchange server. Subsequently, the user is also unable to access the main identity folder, and the only way to solve this problem is to rebuild the Entourage database.

Resolve the issue

The Repair and Rebuild Entourage 2008 database resolves the issue in two ways –

  1. Using the Inbuilt Database Utility of MS Entourage
  2. Using reliable automated software

Use the inbuilt database utility of MS Entourage to rebuild the database and resolve the corruption issue of Entourage corruption. Follow the below-mentioned steps to repair entourage 2008 database:

  1. Quit all apps.

Press the ‘Command option’ and ‘Escape key’ together; select an app and click on ‘Force Quit’. Once you have quit the application, close the Force Quit Application window

  1. Test the free space as available on the disk

The free space should be three times the space on the current size of the identity folder. Examine the free space by opening the Identity folder available in the Finder option. Go to file and click on Get Info followed by Get Information. For a successful rebuild, the size of free space should be 3 GB if the current size of identity is 1 GB.

  1. Create backup

Rebuild the database with the help of backup. To create the backup:

  1. Go Home and double click on Documents folder followed by Microsoft user data folder
  2. Next, double click on Office 2008 Identifies
  3. Right click on Identity folder and click on Duplicate
  4. Close all the open Windows

4. Rebuild the database and Create a new Identity

  1. Press Alt key and restart Entourage while holding the Alt key till the Database Utility option opens
  2. Select the main identity available in Database Utility. Click Rebuild database followed by Continue
  3. The status bar displays the status of the Rebuild Once the process is complete, and the database is rebuild than a message displays on the screen stating that ‘Your Database was successfully rebuilt.’
  4. Click on Close button followed by Quit, and this should repair Entourage 2008 database

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If the database rebuild is not successful, then create a New Identity. Database rebuild situation arises when the Exchange server has multiple identities, and there is a requirement to establish a new identity to resolve the problem. The following steps help in creating the new identity:

  1. Quit All apps and search for a given folder ‘HD/Users/USER_NAME/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008 Identities/IDENTITY_NAME’ and copy it to the desktop
  2. Start Entourage an click on Entourage menu to click on Switch Identity
  3. Click New and type in the new name of the identity
  4. Quit Entourage and search for the folder ‘HD/Users/USER_NAME/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008 Identities/NEW_IDENTITY_NAME’ and rename it with ‘New’ ’
  5. Copy the database contained in the old database to the new folder

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Hopefully, the manual method of using the inbuilt database utility of MS Entourage resolves the issue.