Office 2007 Beta 2Technical Refresh Available Now!

The Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh is up!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?...

YEAH! was already downloading @ 55% but thanks anyway

Already downloaded, installing now.

Works very well or so it seems. Some nice changes, bugs fixed, etc. Nothing really huge so far.

One weird thing: the same .docx document, when opened in Vista is 29 pages, in XP it's 31 pages. This happened with Beta2 and still happens with B2TR. Looks like the line height is subtly different (the document uses three fonts: Cambria, Calibri, and Consolas).

Sven Groot wrote:

One weird thing: the same .docx document, when opened in Vista is 29 pages, in XP it's 31 pages. This happened with Beta2 and still happens with B2TR. Looks like the line height is subtly different (the document uses three fonts: Cambria, Calibri, and Consolas).

Hey, if any folks are interested, beta testers are needed for KOffice 1.6. Details here.

AndyC wrote:



Sven Groot wrote: One weird thing: the same .docx document, when opened in Vista is 29 pages, in XP it's 31 pages. This happened with Beta2 and still happens with B2TR. Looks like the line height is subtly different (the document uses three fonts: Cambria, Calibri, and Consolas).

Different printers? Paper sizes?

Sven Groot wrote:


No, it's inside Word. I don't need to print it to see this (although I do also see it when printing the document).

Oh no, I upgraded to Office 2007 from 2003 on Vista. At first, everything seemed to work. Then, Vista found 12 new updates for Office 2003 (why, because I only left Access 2003), and I restarted my computer to install them.
 
Now, my installation is totally broke. Microsoft Office Professional Plus and Microsoft Office 2003 installers are running hot anytime I start an Office 2007 application, like they where trying to trash my hard drive, and it takes forever to open any app.

In Outlook  I get the error "The Office open XML file Normal cannot be opened because there are problems with the content". The Inbox works, the Sent items folder is totally broke. 

Word finds "unreadable content in Normal" etc. etc.

Looks like have have to do a System Restore... This must be my worst installation experience ever... starting with the odd delays in Vista when trying to launch the downloaded installtion files, and ending with an unusable pile of apps.

EDIT: Did a repair of Office 2007, and now everything works except my Outbox in Outlook (The messaging interface has returned an unknown error). But very impressed with Excel and Word!

AndyC wrote:



Sven Groot wrote:  No, it's inside Word. I don't need to print it to see this (although I do also see it when printing the document).

Word lays out the page based on the default printer, which can cause this (it gave me no end of hassle when trying to finish my undergrad dissertation!)

Sven Groot wrote:


On Vista the default printer is the Microsoft XPS Writer, on XP it's the CutePDF Writer. Neither has a real printer installed (it's on the same machine).

AndyC wrote:



Sven Groot wrote:  On Vista the default printer is the Microsoft XPS Writer, on XP it's the CutePDF Writer. Neither has a real printer installed (it's on the same machine).

They probably report different printable areas on the page. What happens if you install a common printer on both machines? (Even if one doesn't really exist!)

Sven Groot wrote:


I'll try it this weekend on my parents' machine, they have a LaserJet 5L that works in both Vista and XP.

AndyC wrote:



Sven Groot wrote:  I'll try it this weekend on my parents' machine, they have a LaserJet 5L that works in both Vista and XP.

The printer doesn't need to actually exist - just use the Add Printer wizard and tell it there is a LaserJet 5L (or whatever) on LPT1:

Which is kind of dumb, because the patch of the Office base install is larger than the beta 2 installer itself.