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microsoft office 08 for mac ?

  • 30-12-2007 11:52pm
    #1
    ant043
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    will this program be released in the new year ? Was going to buy the student edition now for college but do you think i should wait.


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
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    January 16th. Don't touch the current version, it's not even Universal/Intel mac compatible.


  • #3
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    I've used the beta of Office 2008 and it's ok - really more of a face lift and a little bit of catch-up with it's Windows counterpart.

    Unless there's something specific you need that only MS Office can provide why not try NeoOffice out - it might do everything you need for free or will at least tide you over until MS Office 2008 is released.

    ZEN


  • #4
    ant043
    Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭ant043


    Thanks guys

    Think i will wait now and probably use openoffice or as you say neooffice for the time being


  • #5
    DadaKopf
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    NeoOffice doesn't 'autocorrect' inverted commas into 6's and 9's. What's that about?


  • #6
    ethernet
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    DadaKopf wrote: »
    NeoOffice doesn't 'autocorrect' inverted commas into 6's and 9's. What's that about?
    Neither does Word when you copy and paste from a web browser ;)


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  • #7
    ZENER
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    My version of Word (Office 2004) won't auto-correct anything - says it doesn't understado da lingo I is usin' man !! I have to set the computer region to Britain and the keyboard to UK English to make it work :(

    ZEN


  • #8
    SouperComputer
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    Sad Professor wrote: »
    January 16th. Don't touch the current version, it's not even Universal/Intel mac compatible.


    Huh? Its compatable, just not optimal. You can still run PPC code on Intel Macs.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_%28software%29


  • #9
    Sad Professor
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    I meant to say native not compatible. :o


  • #10
    xebec
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    ZENER wrote: »
    My version of Word (Office 2004) won't auto-correct anything - says it doesn't understado da lingo I is usin' man !! I have to set the computer region to Britain and the keyboard to UK English to make it work :(

    ZEN

    That's the aspect of Word on a mac that I find extremely frustrating, thought I had found a solution a few months ago, but can't remember it now and it still doesn't recognise my misspellings unless I select the language for that particular doc. :confused:


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