Here the 2011 Mac Office http://www.macworld.com/article/146295/2010/02/office2011announced.html
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nolan Porterfield Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 6:28 PM To: macgroup Subject: [MacGroup] Office 2008 for Mac Grateful thanks to all who answered my inquiry about Office 2008 for Mac. All the responses were very helpful. Individually: TO MARTA -- I can't use TextEdit because most of the stuff I'm sending back and forth to editors requires footnotes and other formatting which TextEdit doesn't have. TO STEVE, LINDA, DAN, TOM, and NEAL, all of whom recommended MS or Office and convinced me I don't need virus protection, all of whom get more thanks. TO DAN -- I'm aware of the ".doc" / ".docx" problem and am pretty sure the editors I'm dealing with have ".docx" or a program to convert ".doc." But I'll check with them, and thanks for the alert. TO JONATHAN AND HARRY -- I downloaded NeoOffice several years ago and think it's still on my HD. I used it briefly; don't know why I gave it up. I think maybe it was because it didn't have a data base (or at least not one I could easily transfer my AW data base to). That's no longer a problem. TO BILL -- Thanks for the link to 2011 version of Office. I checked it out, and it has several features I could use, but don't absolutely need. Plus, I really can't wait till the end of the year; my editors will lynch me if I don't do something soon! TO ROBERT -- I tried iWork '06 when it came out and really loathed iPages. Another of my shortcomings, I guess. TO ED -- When you say "the next version of Office" . . . which "is really bad," I assume you mean the '08 version. That's something of a disappointment, but I guess I'll have to suffer through the ribbon interface. Not sure I could find the '04 version of Office for Mac and really don't have time to look. Working with editors "online" is entirely new to me. I haven't published an article since about 2001 and my last book was in 1997, all done with AppleWorks. I did edit a volume in 2004 which required some e-mail with contributors, but the publisher accepted my AW hard copy. I guess it's a case of "live and learn," but I'm an old dog who doesn't learn new tricks very fast (if at all). Be that as it may, thank you all again. You've come through in the sterling manner I've come to expect from macgroup. More stars in your crown. Nolan
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