04 ms office okay? or 08 a must for new mb?

[khunxhor]

okay so I went ahead and downloaded the updates for ms office 04. i had to do 11.3.5 all the way to 11.3.9 one by one....and it fixed my problem!!!! (so far atleast).


Thanks soooo much. I was totally oblivious to updating it-something that a lot of you think of as extremely simple.

Anyways, after doing all this updating, do I need to do a disk cleanup?? A technician at my school who works with macs told me I should do that anytime I update or download anything. Is this true.

Thanks again!

 

[Quillz]

Okay fine, I was exaggerating. But still MS stuff is more expensive here (85 pounds (Amazon UK) vs. 30 pounds (Apple HE) i paid for iWork). That's like 3x more expensive. And I only have one Mac, so I don't need 3 licenses.

Uh... £30×3=£90, so no, it's not quite three times as expensive. You sure love exaggerating.

 

[skyrider007]

Uh... £30×3=£90, so no, it's not quite three times as expensive. You sure love exaggerating.

60 quids more for office is still a lot of money. just use your office and be happy and let me use my iwork.

 

[agojes]

okay so I went ahead and downloaded the updates for ms office 04. i had to do 11.3.5 all the way to 11.3.9 one by one....and it fixed my problem!!!! (so far atleast).


Thanks soooo much. I was totally oblivious to updating it-something that a lot of you think of as extremely simple.

Anyways, after doing all this updating, do I need to do a disk cleanup?? A technician at my school who works with macs told me I should do that anytime I update or download anything. Is this true.

Thanks again!

Glad you got your problem fixed

 

[heatmiser]

So I went and installed '08 this morning, and it's just a nicer-looking version of '04. Frankly, the Windows version ('07) is far better than the Mac version. Two of the great features there that aren't in the OS X port are the zoom slider in the lower-right hand corner and the hovering palette that appears whenever you highlight text, allowing you to change fonts, sizes, alignment, etc. No idea why they couldn't port these to '08.

 

[ZacUSNYR]

I hate 07 and I hate 08 equally heh Simple from the stand-point of I have no effing clue where they moved everything too - also people who save in word and excel in 07 Format (.docx, .xlsx, etc)

I have 08 - it runs well - getting more ram helped a lot with it.