Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

This update contains several improvements to enhance security, stability, and performance, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code. For detailed information about this update, please visit the Microsoft Web site.

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Important To prevent an issue that might occur during the installation, you must quit all Office and Messenger applications that are running before installing this update. For more information about the issue, see I can’t install Office 2008 for Mac updates.
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Applies to: Office 2008, Office 2008 Home and Student Edition, Office 2008 Special Media Edition, Word 2008, Excel 2008, PowerPoint 2008, Entourage 2008.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to May 2019.

Files
Office2008-1210UpdateEN.dmg

File sizes and hashes are retrieved from the Wayback Machine’s indexes. They may not match the latest versions of files hosted on Microsoft servers.

• Operating System Versions:  Mac OS X version 10.4.9 (Tiger) or a later version of Mac OS

To verify that your computer meets these minimum requirements, on the Apple menu, click About This Mac.

1. Print this page if you want to use it as a reference when you are offline.
2. Quit any applications that are running, including all Office applications, Microsoft Messenger, and Office Notifications, because they might interfere with installation.
3. Make sure that your computer meets the minimum system requirements.
4. Click Download, or click the link for the language version that you want.
5. Follow the instructions on the screen to save the file to your hard disk. If you are using Safari, the downloaded file is saved to the desktop unless you specified a different location in the Preferences dialog box of Safari. To check your preferences, on the Safari menu, click Preferences, and then click General.
6. Double-click the file you downloaded in step 5 to place the Office 2008 SP1 Update (12.1.0) volume on your desktop, and then double-click the Office 2008 SP1 Update (12.1.0) volume to open it. This step might have been performed for you.
7. In the Office 2008 SP1 Update (12.1.0) volume window, double-click the Office 2008 SP1 Update (12.1.0) application to start the update process, and then follow the instructions on the screen.
8. If the installation finishes successfully, you can remove the update installer from your hard disk. To remove the update installer, first drag the Office 2008 SP1 Update (12.1.0) volume to the Trash, and then drag the file that you downloaded to the Trash.

   This update is also available from Microsoft AutoUpdate, an application that can automatically keep your Microsoft software up to date. To use AutoUpdate, open an Office application, and then on the Help menu, click Check for Updates.

To remove this update

This update does not include an uninstall feature. To restore your application to its original state, delete it from your hard disk, reinstall it from your original installation disk, and then install the updates that you want.