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 Beyond Pathetic, 2008-07-14
The new version of Office 2008 is totally dysfunctional. Problems:
1. No data analysis tools in Excel.
2. Crashes every 5 minutes.
3. Documents scroll very slowly even when running on a new iMac. Editing graphs is so slow it's like running office on a 10-year old computer.
4. Graphing functions in Excel are incredibly hard to find graphing functions like adding labels to axes.
5. Default view and graph styles in Excel are different than previous versions.
6. XML graphics generation is buggy and produces artifacts.
All I have to say to Microsoft is thanks a lot. Thanks for the most dysfunctional pos you have ever put out. There is good news however. OpenOffice can be downloaded for free and it's very user friendly and reads and writes all office document formats.
 So buggy, even in July 2008, 2008-07-07
The primary reason I switched to the mac about 8 months ago was because Microsoft produces incredibly buggy, terrible software. Unfortunately, I sometimes need to use Microsoft Office, so I got Office for the mac. Office not only sucks on the pc, it sucks on the mac too.
My primary problem today is that it does not play nice with Spaces. My Word document is constantly zooming around to difference Spaces, without my asking it to. So, about every 10 minutes, I save and close the document, then reopen it. And it's ok for a bit, then the zooming starts again. Just ridiculous.
Office 2008 is so bad I'm reinstalling 2004, 2008-07-01
I was happy to upgrade to Office 2008 for Mac (I have a new macbook with Leopard) but its so bad I am going to reinstall the old office. Never done that before. Powerpoint is an amazing memory hog. 2G of RAM for a 40mb presentation? Get real. Word is ok except for the "new" standard, which means documents must be saved in two formats (what were they thinking?). Excel is the worst. The menu forces one to select from projects and elements galleries that are ridiculous, not useful and impossible to work around. And no more macros? Was there no beta testing? I actually paid microsoft $50 more for phone help to find hidden menus. Type "chart label" into the Help menu and get No Results Found. I could go on, but my bottom line is don't upgrade.
Microsoft screws up copy and paste, again, 2008-06-22
Yes, its slow, and they left out VBA support. And it not very stable, either. But the biggest problem I have with the new Office is that MS has once again managed to screw up copy and paste.
I've often used PowerPoint as an archive for graphics, text and equations. I paste stuff into it, and later, when I need it, copy it back out into other documents. I've recently discovered that in Office 2008, things go in, but they don't come back out.
For instance, you can create an equation in MathType and paste it into PowerPoint. It looks fine. But you can't copy it and paste it anywhere else. I was trying to copy it into Adobe Illustrator, but also found that you can't even copy it back into MathType to edit it. Wow.
You can copy text in PowerPoint, but when you paste it into other programs, it loses its formatting. This worked fine in Office 2004.
Besides the copy and paste problems, I've also noticed that some graphics seem to get changed to lower resolution when opened in Office 2008. These are from files created in Office 2004.
The one thing in Office 2008 I do like is the ability to import EPS files and display them. It was about time! But that feature alone is not enough to save this release.
WORST OFFICE EVER!!!, 2008-06-14
This software is significantly slower than Office 2004, despite that 2004 ran under Rosetta, and this one is Universal. There are a number of bugs (try dragging a chart in Excel, it will likely disappear... was there in 2004 also). Even after the first service pack/update, it is still garbage. Entourage is still as bad as it was in 2004, if not worse. Word is so slow, that an person of average typing speed can type a few sentences before it actually shows up on the screen (or an entire paragraph if you have Parallels running). There are few new features, most of this is interface change. They also removed macros, which won't affect the vast majority of users. They should have added a Formula Review button/screen as they've had in Excel 2003 for PC (it may have existed earlier). They should have also tested it to see how slow it would go (which maybe they did - make Office as painfully slow as possible to try to get Mac owners to buy PCs just to get fast Office).
This "upgrade" follows the Vista pattern - Office 2004 was better.
A better choice would be to buy Parallels, XP Pro, and Office 2003 or iWork, or something - anything - else. Heck, even Office 2004 is better.
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