Re: [Fed-Talk] Office 2008 for Mac
Re: [Fed-Talk] Office 2008 for Mac
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Office 2008 for Mac
- From: "Michael Pike" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 00:20:49 -0700
For the hell of it, when I upgraded to Leopard (which I did a clean install, I never upgrade an OS), I decided instead of bogging down my system with Office 2004 and Rosetta, I would try to survive WITHOUT it and just use iWork 08 since it has Pages and Numbers, and is universal Binary.
Let me just say that it has worked perfect for me since October 26, 2007. I have not had to use anything but iWork... it is very good at reading word files, and very good at Excel files as well.
The only thing that ever comes up is missing font warnings (which Microsoft Office installs)... but substituting a font is easy and Pages does it automatically.
If iWork 08 continues to work this well, I will not be purchasing Office 2008 in January.
I never used Entourage to begin with. I know some people use it for exchange, but if you enable IMAP on exchange, you do not need Entourage.
On Nov 28, 2007 8:35 AM, Timothy J. Miller <
email@hidden> wrote:
On Nov 26, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Dave Schroeder wrote:
> Biggest change (actually a huge change), other than graphical
> prettiness, interface enhancements, some new features, etc., is
> support for the new Office 2007 for Windows file formats (Office
> Open XML):
IMHO, the biggest change is that it'll be a universal binary, so no
more suffering with Office running under Rosetta on Intel Macs.
Frankly, since in my experience most places aren't migrating quickly
to Office 2k7 (and those that are moving are retaining the old format
as the default save), we won't be seeing a lot of the new file format
for some time.
> Biggest drawback is that Visual Basic is gone:
This is a feature, not a bug. :)
-- Tim
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