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post #1 of 23
5/24/06 at 8:48am
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I'm a student who uses Word, Excel & Powerpoint extensively. I am looking at buying a Macbook, but I have heard that the Office system can be unstable. I've also seen that it can have problems transferring between MS Office and Office for Mac. Can anyone comment?
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post #2 of 23
5/24/06 at 12:55pm
I use Office Mac on my porwebook and i've never had any problems with it. I transfer documents between my PC and the powerbook all the time with no problem.
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post #3 of 23
5/24/06 at 2:28pm
I have actually heard that office for Mac is better than Windows Office. The only thing to be concerned with is its nots universal binary yet and wont be until the release of Office 2007.
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post #4 of 23
5/24/06 at 6:17pm
I prefer Word for Mac more than for PC myself.

As far as it not being universal yet, people say it works pretty well regardless.
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post #5 of 23
5/24/06 at 9:31pm
I've been using Office for Mac for as long as I have had my PB and I've had no problems whatsoever. I too agree with Kakaze, Word on the Mac is better than on the PC.
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post #6 of 23
5/24/06 at 9:34pm
No problems running it via Rosetta. Works fine. Launches, perhaps, mildly slower than I recall on a PPC vs. the Intel-based machines.
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post #7 of 23
5/24/06 at 9:36pm
You could also try using Open Office, which is compatible with MS products, if you need to transfer a file to the MS version
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post #8 of 23
5/24/06 at 11:16pm
I use Office.mac and it is very slick. Better than the PC version, in fact it is what Office PC should be.

Be wary of Open Office. I tried it and had numerous file conversion problems (plus the interface is clunky to me).
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post #9 of 23
5/24/06 at 11:37pm
I am also one who prefers office for mac over office for pc. I have never had any problems transfering files or doing anything of that nature.
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post #10 of 23
5/28/06 at 3:50am
u can do office:mac or u can do an openoffice variety. in light of an open source option, i'd recommend saving as RTF instead of DOC, should minimize or eliminate formatting issue between the 2.
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post #11 of 23
5/30/06 at 12:36am
i prefer the pc layout of office to the mac layout whereas in the mac layout everything is in applets and seprate floating menus and stuff gets hidden when you don't want it to be, in windows its right there under the fingertips.

do stay away from openoffice for mac, its fantastic piece of software for windows and linux users, but not for mac. so go ahead give NeoOffice a run, its a modified version of OOo for mac that integrates into the mac desktop a little better
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post #12 of 23
5/30/06 at 12:53am
Gee, what a surprise.
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post #13 of 23
5/30/06 at 1:59am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kakaze
Gee, what a surprise.



what are you smoking?
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post #14 of 23
5/30/06 at 2:25am
I'm not smoking anything. I was expressing sarcasm over the fact that you, ZOMG!, prefer the Windows version of Office to the Mac version.
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post #15 of 23
5/30/06 at 10:44am
i explained my preferance though, its not unfounded. the fact that all the tools float separatly around the screen in hte mac version, i find that annoying and stupid because some of them tend to disappear just when you need them, so you gotta go on a hunt first before you can use the stupid option. in windows everything is in one window, so tools dont get hidden from view right when you need them.

and honestly, i don't use MSOffice outside of school on a mac anyway, i honestly forgot the last time i used a windows version of office since for the last 4 years or so i've been uisng OpenOffice. So in the end i do prefer OOo to MSOffice.

and in the mac world, MS Office it think is the best option since apple works is a freaken train wreck.
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post #16 of 23
5/30/06 at 10:55am
It's unfortunate that AppleWorks seems to have lost its momentum. I have noticed some improvements in Pages. While Pages is not as powerful as MacOffice, for most normal, day-to-day word processing it works just dandy.
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post #17 of 23
5/30/06 at 5:07pm
I believe that, once iWork gets at least a spreadsheet as part of it's suite that it will replace Appleworks on new installs. Appleworks right now offers a spreadsheet and, I believe, a database.
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post #18 of 23
5/30/06 at 5:53pm
I agree. Would love to see something in a spreadsheet in iWork. If it had something comparable to Excel, I would not have a need for MacOffice any longer.
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post #19 of 23
6/9/06 at 12:57pm
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Originally Posted by Kakaze
I believe that, once iWork gets at least a spreadsheet as part of it's suite that it will replace Appleworks on new installs. Appleworks right now offers a spreadsheet and, I believe, a database.
And a paint/draw program. It was a very nice program until Steve came along, decided it wasn't cool enough, and stopped updating it. Now we're stuck with an incomplete suite that you have to pay an extra $80 for.
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post #20 of 23
6/12/06 at 11:43am
the only problem I've encountered is that when sending a document to someone on a windows machine there is no .doc or .xls extention, so unless you tell the reciever what kind of document they might go into a guessing game as to what kind of document you are sending them if you are sending them a word, exel, ppt at the same time.
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