Office 2004 - Is it stabe yet?
A received Office 2004 as a gift from a friend. I already had Office X. I remember hearing a lot about stability/bug issues when 2004 was released. Have those been resolved? Should I stick with Office X, or have the bugs been worked out of v. 2004 with the latest MS update?
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(Cept powerpoint but thats such a shit program in comparrison with Word or Excel).
Dobby.
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
It's much better.
Which is much better? 2004?
Originally posted by Macvault
A received Office 2004 as a gift from a friend. I already had Office X. I remember hearing a lot about stability/bug issues when 2004 was released. Have those been resolved? Should I stick with Office X, or have the bugs been worked out of v. 2004 with the latest MS update?
Be sure to install the Service Pack 1, it irons out a few things. Compared to Office X the 2004 versions feels like a different product altogether.
It's still very, very annoying, mind.
Originally posted by dobby
We have 30 people using Office 2004 and not a problem so far.
(Cept powerpoint but thats such a shit program in comparrison with Word or Excel).
Dobby.
How shit is Power Point? I am thinking of purchasing Office 2004 recently and I think I may use Power Point quite often...
Sometimes if you have some really complex embedded "MS Project" with "MS Excel" and stuff it'll display but you can't modify, etc if it came from a PC.
I'm very very happy with MS Office for OSX. The MacBU at MicroSloth is really top notch.
Now then, if they'd just f@%#! put MSN Messenger on par with the PC version. Grrr.
Originally posted by ZO
Now then, if they'd just f@%#! put MSN Messenger on par with the PC version. Grrr.
Just drop MSN Messenger onto the trashbin in the dock. This will improove your system vastly!
Afterwards Google for AdiumX http://www.google.com/search?q=AdiumX
Originally posted by Macvault
A received Office 2004 as a gift from a friend. I already had Office X. I remember hearing a lot about stability/bug issues when 2004 was released. Have those been resolved? Should I stick with Office X, or have the bugs been worked out of v. 2004 with the latest MS update?
I just do work with "ms word". It is pretty good - a little
bit bloated, but you can personalize a lot.
No other "Text" app comes even close to
MS Word. It is a class of its own.
Stability? Much improved compared to versions prior
to "2004". Actually, i didn't count a single crash since
Dec 2004.
I have no experience with the other "Office" components.
(I have no use for them). And this is the most annoying part
of this "Office" offering. I just need "Word" and i have to
buy a complete "Office suite". This part sucks a lot.
Originally posted by BNOYHTUAWB
Just drop MSN Messenger onto the trashbin in the dock. This will improove your system vastly!
Afterwards Google for AdiumX http://www.google.com/search?q=AdiumX
Thanks for the suggestion, but why would putting Messenger in the bin help performance?
Originally posted by ZO
Thanks for the suggestion, but why would putting Messenger in the bin help performance?
I guess this remains one of the unsolved miracles
of today.
Good night
Originally posted by BNOYHTUAWB
Just drop MSN Messenger onto the trashbin in the dock. This will improove your system vastly!
Afterwards Google for AdiumX http://www.google.com/search?q=AdiumX
Are you serious or is this a joke. I'll try it anyway becuase i use adium anyway
Originally posted by koyi
How shit is Power Point? I am thinking of purchasing Office 2004 recently and I think I may use Power Point quite often...
Dude, if you're going to buy Office for PowerPoint, I would strongly recommend Keynote 2, which is part of iWork for $79. It blows PowerPoint out of the water.
As far as a Word alternative, I guess you could try Pages, though for word processing I prefer Nisus Writer Express from nisus.com.
Originally posted by Jwink3101
Are you serious or is this a joke. I'll try it anyway becuase i use adium anyway
it's a joke
Originally posted by Aquatic
open source will never be fully compatible with Monopolysoft. Stop making silly suggestions. What I want to know is: is the 11.1.1 update stable? I have 11.1 running fine now.
Stable.
And what about the compability with the office in the windows world?
Oooppss, did I ask two questions? :P
Originally posted by koyi
Ok one last question from me. Will it be too heavy for an iBook G4 800Mhz with 384MB of RAM?
And what about the compability with the office in the windows world?
Oooppss, did I ask two questions? :P
My PB did not ick up weight with the Office 2004 install and not with any of the patches ;-)
Back to facts: it will run, but you'll have to switch of some of the automatic suff such as spellcheck as you type ...
Compatibility: good except if someone uses Windows.only apps in OLE embedding.
Originally posted by BNOYHTUAWB
Just drop MSN Messenger onto the trashbin in the dock. This will improove your system vastly!
Afterwards Google for AdiumX http://www.google.com/search?q=AdiumX
It's easier and saves you time if you uncheck Messenger at the start of the install
Still a few bugs in Word, I mainly had it crashing when I wanted to make a style I made available to all my Word docs. It took a while but I think I got there.
PS Actually saying that, does anyone know how I can back this up? It says it goes in the Normal template, I assume this is a blank document or something? I don't want all the hassle of setting my styles up again when I erase & install for Tiger.
edit: Just found a file named "Normal" in the Microsoft User Data folder, it says it's a Word template, so I guess this is it.