Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

MS Office for Mac and spaces??? Help!

N

nigelivy

macrumors member
Original poster
Apr 21, 2009
66
0
Newbury, Berkshire, UK
Hi,

I have tried everything from Lotus Symphony to iWorks to NeoOffice to MS Office for Mac 2008, and have found that I still go back to MS Office for sheer efficiency and compatibility with the rest of the world. But I absolutely pull my hair out with it when it comes to spaces. I work with 4 spaces, and Office never stays in one space. Is there a solution to fix this?
Is there any other Office type software out there that you would recommend?
Thanks,

Nigel
 
i haven't had too much problems with Office in Spaces so long as in the spaces preferences i have my apps set to their own workspace. occasionally ill get a palate from office moving around, but even thats not too frequent. /shrug. maybe i've just been lucky.
 
I have absolutely pulled my hair out over this! iWorks is to finicky for me. I don't want to have to export all the time. NeoOffice and Symphony don't hae the funtionality I need.
I have added all of the Office suite into Spaces and assigned them to a space but I still have problems with Office whether I have the formatting palette open or not... :S
 
Try VMWare in Unity mode and Windows Office temporarily. Perhaps the next version of Office for the Mac will have a feature added called "Works with Spaces".
 
It's crazy, if MS would get their act together and fix this problem then they would be doing themselves a HUGE favour! I've tried almost all Office software out there, both free and purchase - including iWork. And have still found MS to be the most superior except for this problem of not functioning properly in spaces!
I would not be able to get rid of spaces. I can't work properly without it and I think it's one of the biggest step forward in Mac OS X! ;)
 
danny_w said:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/425321/
Click to expand...

Thank you. Someone finally points the OP to one of the DOZENS of threads which already exists about Office and Spaces incompatibility.

OP, do a search for the topic in the MR forums and you will see a number of threads in which Nadyne, from the MS Mac BU, links to an article and explains why there is incompatibility at this time. Hint: the ball is in Apple's court to fix it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back