I use Office 2004 but only for home use (just Excel & Word really)
I have wondered if I should invest in Office 2008 home edition ...
about $220
Or if I should buy iWork instead ... about $100
I would value WAMUG comments on this !!
On 27/02/2008, at 11:57 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
Hi Neil
Office 2004 runs under Leopard no problems at all. I run it on a
current
iMac and MacBookPro with no issues.
And yes, you are right Excel as part of Office 2008 does away with
Macros.
However, when you install Office 2008 you can choose not to delete
Office
2004, so this leaves you with both. Not really a solution, but at
least a
bit of a work around. Then you can run things with Macros into Excel
2004
and everything else into Excel/Office 2008. That way you don't lose
it.
A bit of a shame they did that, but that's what I've set up for
clients that
need both. Seems to be the only way to do it at the moment.
Hope that helps a little.
Kind Regards
Daniel
On 27/2/08 10:05 AM, "Neil Houghton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
One thing to shout about (and not in a good way!) is that in the
new version
of Excel they have done away with macros.
I have several spreadsheets where I use macros - so if I were to
update
these macros would stop working.
I have a LOT of time invested in various Excel spreadsheets that I
use
constantly - so I cannot contemplate either updating Excel or
changing to
Numbers (it doesn't handle Excel macros either).
The problem for me goes deeper than that - MS don't support Office/
Excel
2004 for Leopard - so even though my new iMac came with a Leopard
upgrade
disc, I'm still running Tiger - at the moment I'm up to my eyeballs
in
accounts spreadsheets and I can't afford to find out the hard way any
incompatabilities between Excel 2004 & Leopard.
Bit of a bummer really :(
Cheers
Neil
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Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au>
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