I would be kind of hard to beat the Nazis, the Rwanda Genocide, Céline Dion or 9/11 (etc) in the "worst thing since the Hindenberg" category...
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Microsoft Releases Update to Office for Mac 2011 SP2
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I would be kind of hard to beat the Nazis, the Rwanda Genocide, Céline Dion or 9/11 (etc) in the "worst thing since the Hindenberg" category...
Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
Maybe his productivity is writing todo memos and the occasional photo slideshow from a vacation.
iWork sucks for collaborative work, otoh. And I tried to like it, I really really tried.
And Apple consistently doesn't make it better. Versions doesn't allow a single user to use more than one system (the Versions are tied to the computer, not the document file) or keep files on a server. iCloud doesn't allow for sharing.
Bad Experience
Just had someone in my office run the new update to 14.2.1 from 14.1.x via auto update. Outlook asked to rebuild database, seemed to be OK except all of his e-mails from a pop account have disappeared. E-mails from an exchange account seemed OK, although there were some synchronization errors for a bit.
Recovered previous user identity from TimeMachine and I'm waiting for MS to fess up on their second screw up and provide a fix.
Just had someone in my office run the new update to 14.2.1 from 14.1.x via auto update. Outlook asked to rebuild database, seemed to be OK except all of his e-mails from a pop account have disappeared. E-mails from an exchange account seemed OK, although there were some synchronization errors for a bit.
Recovered previous user identity from TimeMachine and I'm waiting for MS to fess up on their second screw up and provide a fix.
It gets better...
Well... Outlook is retrieving new e-mails from the POP account that disappeared but they are nowhere to be found within Outlook. So I suspect that the e-mails are in the database, just not showing up in Outlook.
Well... Outlook is retrieving new e-mails from the POP account that disappeared but they are nowhere to be found within Outlook. So I suspect that the e-mails are in the database, just not showing up in Outlook.
I wish. iWork is hopeless for equations, which is essential for engineering. Shame really otherwise I'd drop Office like a hot brick.
Yes, thats what I kept getting....Only way around it is a fresh install...Mine is still working, but it's only on my MBA....The other copy is installed on my iMac, but I haven't updated it yet.
I thought of that, but technically I was not comparing anyone to nazis. It's just that the "worst thing since the Hindenburg" quote I replied to ticked me off, history wise...
Cool! Didn't know this. Thanks for the tip. The iWork interface is still light years better than Office imho.
I thought of that, but technically I was not comparing anyone to nazis. It's just that the "worst thing since the Hindenburg" quote I replied to ticked me off, history wise...
Perhaps the worst thing since Vista?
In any case I love your Abe Lincoln quote in you signiture.
Just put it on, Word and Excel seem to open much faster now....
It does amuse me though that whenever you need to update a MS product it seems to need to update autoupdate first!
It does amuse me though that whenever you need to update a MS product it seems to need to update autoupdate first!
Just upgraded to 'office 2011 14.2.1' and now iTunes does not recognize, or display a sync contact option for Outlook now. Is this because the Outlook contact files moved somewhere else? After the latest sync with my iPhone I now have zero contacts on my iPhone, but the contacts in Outlook are still intact. Suggestions
Never mind, read the fix on Microsoft support forum.
Delete files under Users Library/Preferences folder:
com.microsoft.Outlook.SyncServicesPreferences.plist
com.microsoft.SyncservicesAgent.plist
Also delete the OfficeSync Prefs in Application Support
Reset sync services in Outlook preferences then sync thru iTunes.
Delete files under Users Library/Preferences folder:
com.microsoft.Outlook.SyncServicesPreferences.plist
com.microsoft.SyncservicesAgent.plist
Also delete the OfficeSync Prefs in Application Support
Reset sync services in Outlook preferences then sync thru iTunes.
Come again? Not sure what you mean, but LaTeX files are just plain text and for smaller documents I usually just have one file that I work with (except for articles/research papers where I'll have a a BibTeX file or book-like materials where I will, by choice, split chapters into separate files). Perhaps you're talking about equation editors like LaTeXiT. Those are also optional--if you know or learn the actual LaTeX behind them (which I confess can take some time for more complex equations, but not really much more than learning things in an a Word-like equation editor), you don't need them.
Come again? Not sure what you mean, but LaTeX files are just plain text and for smaller documents I usually just have one file that I work with (except for articles/research papers where I'll have a a BibTeX file or book-like materials where I will, by choice, split chapters into separate files). Perhaps you're talking about equation editors like LaTeXiT. Those are also optional--if you know or learn the actual LaTeX behind them (which I confess can take some time for more complex equations, but not really much more than learning things in an a Word-like equation editor), you don't need them.
I'm pretty sure the one you quoted just wanted to put some equations into iWork documents and later update them, not to move complete documents to LaTeX and abandon iWork completely.
