Office 2004 questions
My father, a long time user of MS Word 5.1, has owned a (slightly haunted) G3 iMac for several years, and recently purchased an eMac. Word 5 is unable to communicate effectively with modern versions of Word (97, XP, 200X) and so he's looking into upgrading.
However, he tried the "trial version" of Word 2004 on the iMac, and found it to be horribly slow. Supposedly this is due to them switching to Apple's new type rendering system, instead of relying on Quickdraw. The 30-day trial period on the eMac ran out before he was even thinking about upgrading, and so he's out of luck w.r.t trying it out on the faster (1ghz g4) machine.
Does anyone here use Word 2004? Is it slow?
One possibility that he brought up was to use an older version of Word/Office (v.X? Or was there another one between X and 2004?) just for speed reasons. Are there any compelling reasons to go 2004, especially with regards to file format compatibility?
Thanks!
Daniel
However, he tried the "trial version" of Word 2004 on the iMac, and found it to be horribly slow. Supposedly this is due to them switching to Apple's new type rendering system, instead of relying on Quickdraw. The 30-day trial period on the eMac ran out before he was even thinking about upgrading, and so he's out of luck w.r.t trying it out on the faster (1ghz g4) machine.
Does anyone here use Word 2004? Is it slow?
One possibility that he brought up was to use an older version of Word/Office (v.X? Or was there another one between X and 2004?) just for speed reasons. Are there any compelling reasons to go 2004, especially with regards to file format compatibility?
Thanks!
Daniel
Comments
As for speed it has been my experience that 2004 is actually faster than X so not sure what happened when he tested it but even on slow hardware I've found it fine.