Re: Ian's First WebSite Post - Comment re Office 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Neil Houghton
Dunno Peter, All part of MS's great masterplan moving forward ;) Yes lots of us find them very useful and there has been much complaining about the decision. If you are interested, Google will point to many forum discussions on this. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia

Re: Ian's First WebSite Post - Comment re Office 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Neil Houghton
Well, for my part, I've had used Excel for more than 10 years now and I'm familiar & happy with it (except for them killing off macros). Also it is easy to say it reads/saves back to xls - so does apples Numbers - however if I open one of my xls files in numbers, work on it and save back to .xls t

Re: Ian's First WebSite Post - Comment re Office 2008

2008-02-27 Thread James / Hans Kunz
it's strange ..all talk about micro$oft office..why not using open office (with X11) or neooffice for mac it works, reads & saves back to xls/doc/ppt/pps/& many more, it only costs us much as you donate. http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php cheers James On 27/02/

Re: Ian's First WebSite Post - Comment re Office 2008

2008-02-26 Thread Neil Houghton
Looks good, I just left a comment - then, cos I'm not sure how many members would go check them out, I thought I'd post it! .. Re: > The next demo was on Microsoft Office 2008 which retails at A$229 for the > student and home editions. > There is not a lot to shout about in this version as En