Existing users, 
Microsoft Office 2004
Entourage, PowerPoint, Excel, Word suite.
Version: 11.5.6
Not a MS vs Mac forum
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: derryckw--2008 Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 02:30 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Leave your hate for MS at the door, I have been a Mac user since '88 and would never own a MS product other than Office because I can not survive without it. Since OSXs release MS has put out a solid product with Office. I use office everyday at work on a Windows machine and the Mac version is so far ahead of it's counterpart. You can say whatever you want about MS but Mac Unit has been doing an outstanding job!!! Keep up the good work and I look forward to 2008.
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Not a propaganda forum either - Superstitious
Your post is hardly objective. There are serious shortcomings in the bloated and overpriced MS Office suite for OS X. Entourage's performance, for instance, is so poor on the Mac that since our university has adopted Exchange for e-mail and switched everyone to Entourage, people are having to dump perfectly good computers (like 17" 800 Mhz flat panel iMacs) because Entourage slows the machines down to a crawl. It's absurd that e-mail is something Microsoft can even manage to bloat to the point of people having to switch computers.Where is the file converter for the new file format? An arcane beta isn't good enough. A fully featured seamless and 100% effective converter that comes as a regular Office update is.
Word doesn't even include double spacing in its Formatting toolbar by default, and the clunky floating palette is disliked by every user I've seen. When I see someone using Word, that palette is nearly always hidden and people go through convoluted steps to access simple things like double spacing.
In order to get features like Japanese typography, people have to do ridiculous things like drag Word onto a special program that's nested in folders in the office folder. Why can't a user simply click a preferences option to turn this stuff on?
The program is obsolete when it comes to design and only has a strangehold on the industry due to inertia and monopoly power.
Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 06:22 AM PDT
Not a propaganda forum either - jmcintosh
Seriously, did you just complain about how difficult it is to get the "feature" of Japanese typography? Give me a break.The original poster is right. MS Office 2004 has it's weaknesses, but it's a step ahead of the competition (free or otherwise). So many of the criticisms posted here sound more like political shouting or religious zeal, rather than reasoned evaluation of software.
Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 09:18 PM PDT
I use NeoOffice to work around Office bugs - deemery
For what it's worth, I routinely get PowerPoint presentations from Windows Office that won't display graphics correctly and Word documents that crash Word when you try to print them.NeoOffice has been my savior, displaying graphics that PowerPoint won't and printing documents that Word won't.
dave
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Wednesday, October 10 2007 @ 05:16 AM PDT