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Microsoft Office Update, and Visual Basic for Applications to Return
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Right on, and barefeats benchmarks showed that Office 2004 under Rosetta is FASTER than the US 2008 on MacTel machines. Ô_ô
Rubbish. They're acting like this is a fracking surprise? They knew in 2006 this would be an issue. I love the "select group of customers" notion... Maybe M$ will find the missing WMDs in Iraq, too.M$ Mac BU said:
This is great. Custom error bars are back. Hope this brings performance gains!
Overall I'm really happy with Office 2008 - it's such a big step up from the previous versions (for once). I skipped 2004, as the free trial added nothing new over v.X (which I had) but I'm glad everything has been overhauled so as to look much better. It's nice to see that Microsoft is making an effort, especially with increased competition from iWork.
Overall I'm really happy with Office 2008 - it's such a big step up from the previous versions (for once). I skipped 2004, as the free trial added nothing new over v.X (which I had) but I'm glad everything has been overhauled so as to look much better. It's nice to see that Microsoft is making an effort, especially with increased competition from iWork.
Great!
Adding VB support is great! Although I agree that it should have already been there. Oh well, at least it will be there in the next update.
Adding VB support is great! Although I agree that it should have already been there. Oh well, at least it will be there in the next update.
tell me about it... in january when i launched Office 2008 for the first time i wasn't impressed... to see that it takes MICROSOFT WORD longer to launch than ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS3 was enough for me to pawn that junk off on craigslist, and write "Mac Business Unit" (or whoev) a nasty email...
their service pack 1 for office08 HAS to make it faster... there's no way anything can slow it down even more...
Yep, same here. Now Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Entourage just don't open unbearably slow, they don't open at all.
Thanks, Microsoft
Sometimes I'm wondering why I even put up with this crap.....
Surely most of Microsoft's increased Office sales is due to the fact that Mac sales are going through the roof right now?
Still hasn't fixed the Invalid Context errors in the console!
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/423449/
-Kevin
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/423449/
-Kevin
Any word on if it works better with spaces and expose cause Im tired of word documents getting stuck in the background!!!!
Not fixed. Hopefully with 10.5.3, since apparently there are other apps affected as well.
VBA and Windows Media
I do a lot of work with macros, being a student shortcuts for word templates and legal excel docs are a necessity to get anything done on time. Thank God VBA will be back.
I actually wish microsoft would bring windows media player back. I know the quicktime plugin is ok, but it has slow load times for internet only content. VLC is a good alternative, but still doesn't play the latest microsoft media formats. Either bring it back, or axe all microsoft media formats would be nice...
I do a lot of work with macros, being a student shortcuts for word templates and legal excel docs are a necessity to get anything done on time. Thank God VBA will be back.
I actually wish microsoft would bring windows media player back. I know the quicktime plugin is ok, but it has slow load times for internet only content. VLC is a good alternative, but still doesn't play the latest microsoft media formats. Either bring it back, or axe all microsoft media formats would be nice...
The tide has changed. Vista is a flop and Apple drives their Office success.
It's about time that the people with vision lead the bean counters.
It's about time that the people with vision lead the bean counters.
What about MS Project, and making THIS version of Office faster on PowerPCs?!
What about MS Project, and making THIS version of Office faster on PowerPCs?!
Project has been missing for even longer, and would be nice to see back on the Mac.
What about MS Project, and making THIS version of Office faster on PowerPCs?!
Project has been missing for even longer, and would be nice to see back on the Mac.
Available at the Microsoft website now - downloading.
Hope this speeds up Office - it's definitely sluggish at the mo compared to the lightening-fast iWork.
Have you used any remotely complex formulas with inter-cell and sheet dependencies in Numbers? On my MBP 2.4 GHz with 2 GB RAM, the lag time can be measured in seconds. Excel handles these things so much more efficiently and doesn't prevent you from working in this regard.
I'm having the same also
Luckily iWork 08 can open the new files. I have work which is absolutely _critical_ due in this week too. Bad show Microsoft.