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On 5/15/09 3:21 PM, "John Wolf" <jwolf6589@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I know its better, but is it MUCH better?

Randy Singer posted this on the Mac-L list recently:

<http://lists.listmoms.net/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?sub=950106&id=401083267>

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:09:20 -0700
Author: "Randy B. Singer"
Subject: Re: Office 2008
Body: On Apr 18, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Claudia wrote:

What is the advantage of upgrading to 2008, if they are planning on
bringing
VBA back in 2010? Is there something I am missing - more along if
not broke
don't fix it??

I rarely use any other component of Office other than Word, so my
comments are based on this.

I probably wouldn't have switched from Office v.X if I hadn't gotten
a great deal on Office 2008, as Word v.X was still working great.

That said, Word 2008 has some nice advantages over previous
versions. The biggest one is speed. Word 2008 is fully native.

The second is compatibility. Word 2008 is 100% compatible with the
new Microsoft XML-based file formats...no add-ons required. (You can
still open and save to the old file formats if you prefer.)

The third is the improved interface. I follow the blogs of the folks
in the Microsoft Mac Business Unit, and I know that they took all of
the complaints of Mac users about Word's interface to heart. They
went out of their way to make it as easy as possible to find
features, and to reverse actions or turn off features if you don't
like them. Compare Word 2008's interface and Word 2007 for Win's,
and you will see that the Mac version has a different, and much
better interface.

Finally, not everyone needs Visual Basic. In fact, of the large
number of Word users I know, just about none use VB. You can still
do Macros in Office 2008, but they need to be based in AppleScript or
Automator. Even my favorite Word add-on, MacSimplePrompter, was
ported from VB to AppleScript.

So, the advantage is that you get to use a better, faster, nicer,
more compatible application for the next two years...or more (MS is
known for slipped release dates.) None of that is critical, but it
*is* very nice.

___________________________________________
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
___________________________________________

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