I'v hit the wall many times.
When using Excel to crunch numbers and data, it is a VERY VERY small worksheet.
When using Excel to crunch numbers and data, it is a VERY VERY small worksheet.
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First Looks at Mac Microsoft Office 2008
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I'm actually going to use this feature, since I work with very large arrays of data at work. (Think megapixel cameras.) While it certainly won't replace our dedicated analysis software, being able to dump a whole array into Excel will be nice in a pinch.
BTW, the new size limitations are 16000 columns x 1 million rows.
Hopefully my school bookstore doesn't take too long to get it in there for $5.35
I'm hoping to get it for $30 through Microsoft's Home Use Program for my workplace.
Maybe. I don't really see anything wrong with the version I'm running now, except it's a tad slow for not being intel native.
Actually, now that I think of it, speed is the ONLY thing that bugs me about Office 2004. Can anyone say definitively how much faster this new version is on the same hardware?
I'm 100% sure Microsoft knows this and did it intentionally.
This means that Office 2008 can't be used in a corporate environment that depends on Excel. Microsoft has to protect their own turf.
Drag in a JPEG. That works fine. I do agree that Word for Window's inability to read TIFF files and cut/paste of images from a Mac is a serious drag in life.
In the current version, make a macro to do this. Turn on macro record (record to your personally macros), paste special/plain text, stop recording. Assign macro to any key combination you want. Poof. Shortcut for paste plain text.
yeah, the size limitations of excel leave it useless for a lot of the GPS based tracking data we use for several classes at my school. you'd be amazed how many cells it can take up when you plot all of the GPS coordinates of where a beaver has traveled in the last 18 months.
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yeah, the size limitations of excel leave it useless for a lot of the GPS based tracking data we use for several classes at my school. you'd be amazed how many cells it can take up when you plot all of the GPS coordinates of where a beaver has traveled in the last 18 months.
GPS tracking of a beaver? Are you that concerned with where your woman has been?
The Home and Student edition is a more reasonable (but still hefty) $150. Differences from the Standard Edition:
1) No Exchange integration.
2) No Automator intgration.
[edit] And somebody else already noticed that the $649/$849 price tags were in Australian dollars too... However, that still seem inflated. Probably accounts for the physical remoteness and size of the market, and possibly includes GST. It's expected to be more like $399.95; $239.95 upgrade for Standard edition, and $499.95; $299.95 upgrade for Special Media Edition in the USA.
yeah, the size limitations of excel leave it useless for a lot of the GPS based tracking data we use for several classes at my school. you'd be amazed how many cells it can take up when you plot all of the GPS coordinates of where a beaver has traveled in the last 18 months.
You might be similarly surprised with how many cells of data you get from 1000 video frames off of a 49 megapixel sensor....wait, you could probably calculate that in your head...nvm.
For me at least, Office 2008 is too little, too late. After a powerpoint file corruption and too many Word quirks, I uninstalled Office. I haven't had a copy of Word around for months and couldn't be happier. For smaller projects or page layout stuff, I use iWork. For larger papers, I use LaTeX (and with the LyX editor, it's not as hard as you think). It's a nice combination for academic folks, especially since you get a free bibliography manager in the form of BibDesk.
Farewell Office, it was frustrating while it lasted...
Farewell Office, it was frustrating while it lasted...
Since my university offers it for like $75 (media only, no packaging), I may as well pick up a copy before I graduate. Otherwise I'd just stick with Office X, which works just fine for me.
I've been using the beta for some time and I am very pleased with it. I use Office 2007 on the PC, so iWorks really wasn't an option for me (as good as I hear it is). I intend to purchase it when released.
Well, a UB office for my MBP sounds better than Office 2004, but I bought iWork a couple months ago, and I don't see myself needing what MS has to offer...
I wish they would just clone the functionality of the PC version for the Mac -- especially Outlook.
The main reason I want MS Office on the Mac is because I need to use these apps due to compatibility the the Windows machines I use at work. I don't want to have to learn a different interface, or different features. I just want the "office" apps I need -- without the stigma or unpleasantness of Microsoft Windows.
I really wish they would "port" Access to the Mac also. That would be more useful than any of the other apps, since there are already other file-compatible apps out there to deal with .doc, .xls, and .ppt. The lack of Access on OS X is a gaping hole in one's ability to ditch Windows. (Visio, and a Project client would be nice too.)
The main reason I want MS Office on the Mac is because I need to use these apps due to compatibility the the Windows machines I use at work. I don't want to have to learn a different interface, or different features. I just want the "office" apps I need -- without the stigma or unpleasantness of Microsoft Windows.
I really wish they would "port" Access to the Mac also. That would be more useful than any of the other apps, since there are already other file-compatible apps out there to deal with .doc, .xls, and .ppt. The lack of Access on OS X is a gaping hole in one's ability to ditch Windows. (Visio, and a Project client would be nice too.)
In my old job - working in a climate research lab - we actually ran up against this problem with Excel 95. The row limit was 16384 or thereabouts, while we had datasets that were 20K+ in size. We were happy to see Excel 97 get bumped to 65535 rows (or thereabouts), but I can certainly think of circumstances where even that wouldn't be enough.
I wasn't actually planning to get Office at all; but the Black Friday deal was just too tempting (home/student edition, meaning 3 licenses, for basically $50-60 total after rebate). I'm very happy using the iWork apps though, and it's still my intention to stay Office-free if possible.
I'm puzzled over the lack of "macro support". Does that mean that all my PC-created files that contain macros will no longer work properly? Less compatibility than the 2004 version?
It's a sticky issue for Microsoft. They've moved toward real language support in the Office apps, with the .NET framework runtime. I certainly don't see them porting much of .NET to OS X.
Maybe Microsoft could put the language support in Mac Office and make it work with Mono.
It's a sticky issue for Microsoft. They've moved toward real language support in the Office apps, with the .NET framework runtime. I certainly don't see them porting much of .NET to OS X.
Maybe Microsoft could put the language support in Mac Office and make it work with Mono.
AppleInsider has written an article about this. There are already other mac programs that exist out there that MS would have to fight for (IE filemaker vs access) so they don't bother. The last thing MS want to do is promote the idea of switching to Macs since Windows is one of their three monopoly pillars.
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I guess Entourage will continue to have that useless single entourage database file and continue to be incompatible with Apples time machine.
If only Apple Mail was better....
I guess Entourage will continue to have that useless single entourage database file and continue to be incompatible with Apples time machine.
If only Apple Mail was better....
I too love/no complaints with Office X. I just took advantage or the Office 2004 and 2008 black Friday deal for the $32 bucks. Figured the $600 program might come in handy in the next 6 years. (Who knows when this will get updated again .. if ever. We might see an Office 2012)