Re: [Fed-Talk] A Year in the Life of using MS Office 2008 for Mac
Re: [Fed-Talk] A Year in the Life of using MS Office 2008 for Mac
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] A Year in the Life of using MS Office 2008 for Mac
- From: Joel Esler <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:51:56 -0500
Use Numbers.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:49 PM, David Sullivan
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Ok, so I finally get to air my grievances about Office 2008, or at least
> Excel 2008 that is.
> Excel 2008 is unusable for me.
> Spreadsheets that opened fine in Excel X/2004 take over 5 minutes to load
> with 2008. This appears to be the fault of the chart in the workbook. When
> I switch from the data worksheet to the chart, it takes the same amount of
> time.
> After it's loaded, I can't get any work done on the chart. A click takes
> minutes to register.
> I thought that maybe it was the number of data points in the chart, but
> it's only about 1000 points. Again, this chart opens quickly and responds
> well in earlier versions of Excel.
> After reading this thread, I thought that maybe it was because I'm operating
> in Compatibility mode, but after saving as an 'xlsx' file, it didn't open
> any faster.
> Ok, so does anyone have a suggestion about my problem? As is, I have to
> keep an old version of Excel around to edit all of my spreadsheets.
> How can I reach someone at Microsoft that will actually help?
> ______________
> Dave Sullivan
> NASA/Goddard
>
>
> After using MS Office 2008 Enterprise edition daily for the last year, I
> thought it might be interesting to report on what works well and what
> doesn't. Hopefully MS can address the deficiencies mentioned. I'm curious to
> see if other people are having similar problems.
>
> The good things:
>
>
> Entourage 2008 with CAC authentication for OWA is awesome! works great and
> supports CAC authentication to multiple OWA sites concurrently
> Entourage is very solid. very seldom crashes and the database repair
> problems that frequented entourage 2004 seem to be gone
> Word and Powerpoint are considerably faster than their 2004 versions
> especially with graphics.
> MyDay is very helpful. nice addition
>
> The bad things:
>
> Entourage 2008 does not support searching of the GAL via OWA. Users must
> download the free 3rd party app "OWA GAL Search". This shouldn't be
> necessary.
> MS Word is very unstable on large (100+ page word documents) using the .doc
> file format. it can be easily crashed if a user uses page up/page down or
> scroll bar to rapidly scroll through the document. It appears to be worse if
> track changes are on and show comments/insert&deletes are being displayed.
> words crashes at least a couple times a day.
> All toolbars should be dockable/undockable. This is a common UI capability.
> Mac Office's inconsistent use of dockable toolbars in frustrating to users -
> especially those coming from MS Windows. I've never seen any mainstream
> application which such a bizarre approach to mixing dockable and undockable
> toolbars.
> Excel's lack of ability to dock the formula bar drives heavy Excel users
> bonkers. We had a number of folks switch to Apple's apps and Neo/Open Office
> because of this issue
> on Tiger, there is still a severe bug in PowerPoint that causes some
> drawings not to print correctly to PDF. This bug is silently ignored in
> Preview but not in Adobe Reader (on all platforms). Office 2004 PPT does not
> have this problem
> there is a bizarre problem, with wrapping lines within PPT slides specially
> related to use of "/" at the end of line. Problems does not occur with 2004
> and seems to happen with new slides. If the slide was created in Office
> 2003/2004 it works fine (most of the time)
> indentation behavior with bullets is not consistent with office 2003/2004.
> Extra space is added.
> Entourage makes some security assumptions about certain file extensions and
> blocks them from being accessed. there does not appear to be a way to turn
> this off or change the list.
> the default paragraph spacing (pt) for after is set to 10 by default. its
> very very frustrating to users to have to reset this to a more reasonable
> value. Word 2004 used 0
> you can’t set the theme for non .docx files, so if you save to .doc and you
> didn’t select the theme (i.e. default fonts) you must change the doc to
> .docx before you can access the theme again and change the default fonts.
> there should be a way to change directly the default fonts while using .doc
> files.
> Having a “hide” ability for MyDay was a very commonly requested feature. it
> could work how the Dock works when hidden.
> MyDay, if it is set to show in Menu Bar, does not show up in ALT-TAB nor
> does it show up in “Force Quit” which is bad. Apps should always show in
> “Force Quit”
> Word and Powerpoint – the default style should use Times Roman not Calibri
> (ppt) or Cambria (word) as the default font for documents. This is causing
> big training and support issues as Calibri/Cambria are not standard fonts.
> Icons that consist of picture and word below, only the picture is clickable.
> this is incorrect behavior as the words should also be clickable. For
> example in Entrourage message create window the Priority, Signature, and
> Security buttons the word beneath the icon is not clickable. the problem
> does not occur in all place in all apps.
> the elements gallery is nice but not used as much as the developer may have
> thought and users should be able to remove it (undock it) from being
> displayed.
> lack of ODF import/export support is problematic when communicating with
> academia and coalition partners using OpenOffice.
> "Recent Addresses" behavior when using compose message will not let you
> delete specific recent addresses like you can on Outlook 2003. You can
> either clear the entire list or live with bad entries in the list.
>
>
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