What version are you using? MS pushed out an Retina update for 2011 months ago. It's looking great over here... before the upgrade it looked like 1992 graphics.
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New Office for Mac to Come Next Spring, Office for iOS Not Arriving Until Fall 2014?
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What version are you using? MS pushed out an Retina update for 2011 months ago. It's looking great over here... before the upgrade it looked like 1992 graphics.
Currently mine looks like this
PS. Updated, wayyyy better! Thanks heaps, guys!
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I am sure that a large number of your readers and contributors, like me, do not hail from the Northern hemisphere. It is most disconcerting when all your time frames are listed as Summer, Winter, Fall and Spring with regard to releases. I know this is an Apple thing and dislike it with them as well. In case you haven't visited the southern hemisphere, please be aware that we have seasons opposite to yours. Therefore your Spring is our Autumn (not fall which is a particularly American term) and each season is opposite yours.
Perhaps we could adopt beginning, middle and end of year, or talk in terms of months.
Thanks for listening.
I am sure that a large number of your readers and contributors, like me, do not hail from the Northern hemisphere. It is most disconcerting when all your time frames are listed as Summer, Winter, Fall and Spring with regard to releases. I know this is an Apple thing and dislike it with them as well. In case you haven't visited the southern hemisphere, please be aware that we have seasons opposite to yours. Therefore your Spring is our Autumn (not fall which is a particularly American term) and each season is opposite yours.
Perhaps we could adopt beginning, middle and end of year, or talk in terms of months.
Thanks for listening.
So, will this be a Cocoa app? I just want to see M$ doing that. 
2014....let's see....that's about 10 years late to the party?!?
2014....let's see....that's about 10 years late to the party?!?
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With particular reference to Excel, I take it you don't work in finance, professional services or insurance.
If you did, your colleagues might die of oxygen starvation from laughing themselves to death if you dropped that one on them.
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Thanks for providing the proof. I also heard that Deutsche Bank just replaced all their Office licences for Pages and Numbers last week.
tsk tsk
Have many clients in insurance and many use custom solutions for document management and iPads for getting digital signatures. Office is still relevant but it's relevance is certainly waning. It hasn't affected iPad sales as far as I can tell.
I wouldn't say Office is "irrelevant", exactly. However within my company, which is fairly large (50,000 employees) and certainly information-intensive (commercial airline), content creation is completely divorced from content distribution. All dissemination is done with pdf documents. So the content creator IS essentially irrelevant and comes down to a matter of personal choice.
I haven't actually needed Office for several years now. I do understand that for certain specialized fields like accounting, Excel is indispensable. But I can see it being replaced more and more by specialized tailored apps, and increasingly marginalized.
For the vast majority of users, consumer OR business, it is becoming less of a necessity. Especially as standardization across various formats (ie, Rich Text is pretty much in every email client now, etc) increases.
Heck, I could make 90% of my personal documentation with TextEdit, for pete's sake!
I haven't actually needed Office for several years now. I do understand that for certain specialized fields like accounting, Excel is indispensable. But I can see it being replaced more and more by specialized tailored apps, and increasingly marginalized.
For the vast majority of users, consumer OR business, it is becoming less of a necessity. Especially as standardization across various formats (ie, Rich Text is pretty much in every email client now, etc) increases.
Heck, I could make 90% of my personal documentation with TextEdit, for pete's sake!
Despite its shortcomings, Outlook is the only viable Exchange calendar client on the Mac. Mail works reasonably well for Exchange email, but Calendar is a non-starter. iWork isn't relevant here, since it doesn't even include a calendar app. And, while I like and use Keynote, it hasn't been updated seriously in more than four years, which doesn't bode well for Apple's commitment to it or the iWork suite in general.
That's important. I can't tell you how many times i open resumes sent in that are completely messed up.
Another option is to save it is rich-text (rtf). You get all the same pretty formatting without the proprietary file formats.
99% of the documents (esp. resumes) out there could be RTF and don't need to be DOC, DOCX, ODF, etc.
That's simply because NOBODY uses a TABLET for running office suites. I don't know what those devices are actually used for (except for showing off that "our staff has them, too"), but I'm pretty sure that they aren't used for actual WRITING or number crunching. Maybe to show some power point slides, but certainly not for editing.
That being said, if anybody needs Microsoft Office on a tablet, there is this thing called Surface RT that comes with Office 2013 pre-installed. And then there is the new generation of Windows 8 tablets that can even run the real thing.
Apache OpenOffice - for IOS-Devices, too
IPad: www.rollapp.com/openoffice
Version for IOS should work properly
Open Office is free and much more stable than LibreOffice - I wonder that it isn't appreciated more...
Try Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 (stable, office-sufficient). In exchange with other companies that uses Word/Excel we have no real problems.
IPad: www.rollapp.com/openoffice
Version for IOS should work properly
Open Office is free and much more stable than LibreOffice - I wonder that it isn't appreciated more...
I use Office365 exchange for my custom domain mail hosting - the funny part is that Apple's own Mail.app and friends do a better job with communicating via the Microsoft proprietary protocol. I really wonder whether they're actually putting any effort into it give the mountain of bugs that power users point out on a regular basis over at Arstechnica forum which has some Microsoft employees lurking around.
I'd say that if it is coming to iOS it'll end being like Office for Windows RT - parts of Office compatibility might be thrown overboard in favour of being legacy free which means not all of your documents are going to be read perfectly.
Question is, when will Apple be good enough to give us an updated iWork?
And, yes, I do use it on my iPad.
According to the AppStore the iWork applications were updated in December last year - and they're performing pretty well so far. If there is going to be an update it'll be a gradual one given that for most people iWork as it currently stands is already a pretty good alternative to Microsoft Office even if it lacks some of the fancy high end bells and whistles that Microsoft Office has.
iCal - iSync - NO OUTLOOK
Happy, left Outlook far behind
We use iCal and synchronization by iSync with phone (bluetooth) - works
Happy, left Outlook far behind
Office 2011 isn't bad but Office for Windows has always been an exceptional suite of applications.
And the latest version (2013) is brilliant. I can't fault it.
GIVE IT THE SAME LOOK AND FEEL IN BOTH THE WINDOWS AND MAC VERSION!!!!
No one I work with will use a Mac for work because everyone hates Office for Mac, since the interface for Windows is much easier and more intuitive.
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And before anyone suggests it, no installing windows 7 and windows office on the Mac is not a good solution. That's a bandaide on a broken leg. LOL
No one I work with will use a Mac for work because everyone hates Office for Mac, since the interface for Windows is much easier and more intuitive.
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GIVE IT THE SAME LOOK AND FEEL IN BOTH THE WINDOWS AND MAC VERSION!!!!
No one I work with will use a Mac for work because everyone hates Office for Mac, since the interface for Windows is much easier and more intuitive.
And before anyone suggests it, no installing windows 7 and windows office on the Mac is not a good solution. That's a bandaide on a broken leg. LOL
Uh, you do know that they are made by different companies, right?
You might as well say "Thanks but no thanks. I would rather a new Mac Pro than a Sony Blu-Ray player".
Nobody is collaborating to meet your hierarchy of wants, so I'm not sure what your point is.
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ITT: A lot of people that think that businesses buy ipad's to run office suites and replace desktop computers.