Mac users, Office 2004 or Office 2008?
10 March 2009, 04:48 PM
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Mac users, Office 2004 or Office 2008?
Hi all,
Currently in my Uni I've stuck with Office 2004 SP2 and patches in the labs and last year the general vibe was it was more stable than Office 2008. Even though certain mags gave Office 2008 a good writeup searching through forums people only had bad things to say about it....crahes all the time, doesn't install, doesn't support this or that etc. Whereas 2004 while certainly not as good as the Windows offering seemed to be more stable at the time. I installed an XML converter for students if go cross platform with Office 2007 etc.
Now Office 2008 IIRC is on 12.1.5 update wise, I'm not sure when Service pack 2 is coming out.
I know the basics of Office but not the complicated stuff so I can only test it in a limited way, Office 2008 seems ok when I use but my question is what's peoples preference these days?
Looking on forums people still don't have much love for 2008
and don't say neither they are both shi*e
Currently in my Uni I've stuck with Office 2004 SP2 and patches in the labs and last year the general vibe was it was more stable than Office 2008. Even though certain mags gave Office 2008 a good writeup searching through forums people only had bad things to say about it....crahes all the time, doesn't install, doesn't support this or that etc. Whereas 2004 while certainly not as good as the Windows offering seemed to be more stable at the time. I installed an XML converter for students if go cross platform with Office 2007 etc.
Now Office 2008 IIRC is on 12.1.5 update wise, I'm not sure when Service pack 2 is coming out.
I know the basics of Office but not the complicated stuff so I can only test it in a limited way, Office 2008 seems ok when I use but my question is what's peoples preference these days?
Looking on forums people still don't have much love for 2008
and don't say neither they are both shi*e
10 March 2009, 08:07 PM
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Running 2008 now. Big difference is the layout - finding **** is a lot harder!!!LOL!!
However, I had to change as a lot of my students are using 2008 and therefore are using .docx suffixes. These don't load into 2004
I bodged it by importing into NeoOffice and re-saving, but what a ball-ache!
So far, aside from the general location of stuff, it's pretty good. Excel is annoying (quirks like each time you move to a new cell, the "fill" colour reverts back to the current cell colour, not the one you last chose
)
But I'm getting used to it.
Dan
However, I had to change as a lot of my students are using 2008 and therefore are using .docx suffixes. These don't load into 2004
I bodged it by importing into NeoOffice and re-saving, but what a ball-ache!
So far, aside from the general location of stuff, it's pretty good. Excel is annoying (quirks like each time you move to a new cell, the "fill" colour reverts back to the current cell colour, not the one you last chose
)But I'm getting used to it.
Dan
11 March 2009, 08:38 AM
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We have 2008 on all our iMacs and my MacBook. I like it but then I also really like 2007 on my Windows laptop.
The single biggest pain is Entourage when connected to an Exchange Server, it always runs in cached mode
so every time someone moves desks it drags their entire mailbox over the network and stores it locally in their Home Folder. This is an issue for 250/300MB In boxes. The wizards to set Entourage profiles up is also overly complicated
The single biggest pain is Entourage when connected to an Exchange Server, it always runs in cached mode
so every time someone moves desks it drags their entire mailbox over the network and stores it locally in their Home Folder. This is an issue for 250/300MB In boxes. The wizards to set Entourage profiles up is also overly complicated
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