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 then open it in excel it will look very different to the original!! Also, does open office support all the excel macros/functions and how does it handle the different versions of Excel. I'm not saying that it WON'T do what I want - I just can't afford the time to find out!! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 27/2/08 6:32 PM, James / Hans Kunz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 27/02/2008, at 10:05, Neil Houghton 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 >>> student and home editions. >>> There is not a lot to shout about in this version as Entourage is >>> very similar >>> to that in 2004. The most changes appear to be in Word although >>> apart from the >>> new Publisher function, they also seem to be fairly cosmetic. >>> Files are now >>> compatible with docx in Office 2007 for Windows. >>> Excel has a new method of creating and handling sheets and as with >>> the other >>> modules, employs Smart Art graphics. (try saying that quickly) >>> Word and Excel >>> now have a photo button which interacts with both iPhoto and >>> Filemaker. There >>> is little change in Power Point. >> >> 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 >> -- >> Neil R. Houghton >> Albany, Western Australia >> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> on 26/2/08 11:05 PM, Matthew Healey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> <http://www.wamug.org.au/2008/02/26/monthly-meeting-0208/> >>> >>> Here is Ian's write-up of the Feb meeting. All formatted and pretty >>> with links and all. Have a read and leave a comment :-) >>> >>> - Matt >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > SAD Technic > Video Productions, Electronic repairs > U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl > Bayswater WA 6053 > +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 > http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas > skype: barleeway > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
