Microsoft Office v. X for Mac

5 Responses to “ Microsoft Office v. X for Mac ”

1. Luis
   December 7, 2009 at 6:10 pm

   Who I am? A professional writer that bought and Imac, 17’screen, 1 GZH, with all the ORIGINAL software.
   The computer is WONDERFUL. Then, I decided to buy the Office Package. That was the GREATEST MISTAKE!
   I wanted word processor for my writings. Then, I would explain what happens. I charged the program in the Apple. Then, the word processor starts to fail. how? Simple at random, when you are working in a window, or open a word document, the message appears:
   WORD QUITS UNEXPECTLY, THE SYSTEM HAS NOT BEEN DAMAGED
   I contacted Microsoft for help. They told me that it was a kind of crashing because of fonts interfering? What fonts? That of the Macintosh? It is supossed that the Office is suited for the Mac, isn’t? They offered me upgrades, None of them work.
   I have to write a novel this summer. How can I be sure that, when I get the chapter 25, then, the message WORD QUITS UNEXPECLTY. THE SYSTEM HAS NOT BEEN DAMAGED, appears?
   All what I did was:
   First, buy the Imac
   Second, buy The office.
   Third, Install the Office
   Four. garbage as a Result!
   Do not believe any of the other reviews, or otherwise, loose your money. This program is pure garbage. I put one star because it has no option to put ZERO stars.
   Rating: 1 / 5
2. Dr. Trevor Hutley
   December 7, 2009 at 9:08 pm

   I still use Office 98 for the Mac. Why ? Because the newer versions of Excel are retrograde. Valuable keystrokes (eg Apple-D to fill down) are gone. Yes, I agree that versions 9 and 10 of all Office applications have an improved “appearance”, but WHY do they take OUT useful features for USERS ???? Newer versions are supposed to advance the effectiveness of the users. Did M$T forget this principle?
   Rating: 2 / 5
3. Paul Carr
   December 7, 2009 at 11:19 pm

   Microsoft has run every other major player out of the Mac Office market, and so why should they sweat it? Most Mac users need Office because they’re outnumbered by Windoze machines at work and have to be able to read files generated by these apps… don’t get me started. If we ever needed an example of why open, non-proprietary standards are important, you need look no further than office.

   Excel is actually a pretty decent spreadsheet, but it has some deficiencies. For example, the default templates don’t work with imported files, like HTML or Filemaker tables. People overuse Excel, and spreadsheets in general.

   Word is an aggressively mediocre word processor, and isn’t really suited for serious technical publication – use Adobe Framemaker for that. It’s Ok for little memos, letters and suchlike. It would be better if people used it right – for example, using styles to designate space before a paragraph instead of hiting retrun to insert a blank line….

   Powerpoint is an inhuman curse. Years ago, Symantec had an app called “More” that far superior, but the usual herd mentality favored Powerpoint. Get rid of Powerpoint and productivity would go up across the board. In fact, get rid of 90% of viewgraphs and the associated chartsmanship that clouds our communications so badly.

   Entourage is a good idea in broad concept, but is very poorly executed, won’t synch with PDAs properly, and doesn’t really interoperate with Exchange and Outlook as promised. It’s very buggy and its junk mail filter isn’t adaptable and doesn’t really work at all (uss SpamSieve if you’re stuck with Entourage, or switch to the OS 10.2 Apple mail app, which has a kickin’ spam filter). Its support of Applescript is poor, and it fails to empty its trash when asked to do so. For some reason, you can’t schedule the application of rules. Many other deficiencies.

   Unfortunately, there aren’t many alternatives to Office on the Mac. OpenOffice is still pretty primitive, but if it fulfills its promise, it could rock. Appleworks is nicely done but underpowered, and only comes bundled with the iMac and iBook. We’re stuck with monopoly and mediocrity for now.
   Rating: 2 / 5
4. Prajesh Panicker
   December 8, 2009 at 12:41 am

   Really Great! Microsoft did it. Feature rich software. It really works well than its Windoze counterpart. Price is a bit high, but once you start using it, you won’t regret for that. A must have product for Mac fans.
   Rating: 5 / 5
5. Anonymous
   December 8, 2009 at 1:38 am

   Basically like the program – Word is particularly useful in a world where anyone who wants to send or receive a document from you probably already uses it. Entourage is a more usable organizer than the Palm desktop in terms of material you can record in the various tasks, appointments, etc. (Palm’s is prettier, but only a bit.) The big problem as of this writing (6/10/02) is that we STILL can’t sync Entourage to Palm. As far as I’m concerned, that makes Entourage not-yet-usable, since daily syncing with a Palm is, for me and probably most users, an absolute must! So basically I’ve bought a word processing program with a convenient but, for the foreseeable future, useless (albeit elegant) desktop organizer. Wish it had a database program, too… in theory, Excel can do that, but it’s nowhere near as friendly as Appleworks’ database program.
   Rating: 4 / 5