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Back to 10.4 and Office 2004. Life is Good - chopper - 12-27-2008
For a myriad of reasons I found OS 10. 5 and Office 2008 (especially Entourage) distasteful. I was running out of space on the old drive and purchased a new 500 gig unit. I have now installed my old 10.4 and office 2004. And I will not upgrade again.
Re: Back to 10.4 and Office 2004. Life is Good - Doc - 12-27-2008
Umm. Okay.
Good luck with that.
Re: Back to 10.4 and Office 2004. Life is Good - Tommie Milwaukee - 12-27-2008
Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
I have heard lots of bad things about Office 2008. That's why we still use 2004. Seems to work fine with Leopard, though.
Re: Back to 10.4 and Office 2004. Life is Good - rgG - 12-27-2008
I am still using Office X on a machine running Leopard and one running Tiger. I see no compelling reason to upgrade on either one.
Re: Back to 10.4 and Office 2004. Life is Good - N-OS X-tasy! - 12-27-2008
rgG wrote:
I am still using Office X on a machine running Leopard and one running Tiger. I see no compelling reason to upgrade on either one.
After running both Office X and 2008, the only one I can come up with is 2008's support for file names more than 32 characters long (also available in 2004, IIRC).
Re: Back to 10.4 and Office 2004. Life is Good - Sam3 - 12-27-2008
Office 2008 and 2004 handle unicode fonts better than Office X. Major reason for me to go to the newer versions.
Re: Back to 10.4 and Office 2004. Life is Good - SDGuy - 12-27-2008
I used Office 2008 for about a half hour. Couldn't stand it and went back to 2004. I thought new versions of software were supposed to be better than their predecessors?
Re: Back to 10.4 and Office 2004. Life is Good - Doc - 12-27-2008
> I thought new versions of software were supposed to be
> better than their predecessors?
The Formatting palette is a f-ing awesome improvement in Office '08. No more struggling to remember which Toolbar to enable for what feature.
That alone was worth the $9 bucks.
Re: Back to 10.4 and Office 2004. Life is Good - MysteryGuest - 12-27-2008
Microsoft has long since run out of any new ideas. As far as I'm concerned, every upgrade of Office has been more dismal than the last.
Running Office X and Tiger. I'd like to upgrade to Leopard, but that might be a while. Seems Adobe wants full price for Photoshop, since I've got Photoshop 7. I'm a little surprised I missed that warning last year.
Re: Back to 10.4 and Office 2004. Life is Good - Grumpyguy - 12-27-2008
SDGuy wrote:
I used Office 2008 for about a half hour. Couldn't stand it and went back to 2004. I thought new versions of software were supposed to be better than their predecessors?
Guess you don't remember Microsoft Word 5 versus Microsoft Word 6
http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2004/02/26/80193.aspx
People still use Word 5 because it was that good!
Word 6 was a stinky Windows port.