Office 2008 for Mac boasts inexcusably ugly clipart graphics

[spironox]

err guys i think i beg to differ ..

i use i works and Pages is one of my fav being a follower for MS for long i got pissed out of the word . simply bcoz i dont need so much funtions that word offers !

so i am now using Pages for a long time ..say for 6+months i am comfortable in using that bcoz in SHO scenarion i need a privacy stuff of things that i am working upon .. so pages comes handy .. No Network guys can acess and open .Pages files .. i make exports to .doc/(what so ever format) for the rest of the window users! and hey it doesnt crash !

so bottom point i stick to Iworks ...

regards
Nixon

 

[ray|raven]

+1 for that. OOo is very customisable, and there are mods available to make it look like M$O-2007, iWork, or anything you like.

Interesting, could you point me to a few?

 

[gary4gar]

IMHO, For word processing, MS Office is the best. but my huge concern is of compatibility among different offices suites, and the biggest worry is even the doc made on one version of suit are not rendered correctly on other version. like Ms office 2007 & 2003.

so still there is a need for a de facto standard which every software maker follows, maybe Open Document format can be a answer, but then will software makers accept ODF as a standard or make their own format and press it as standard.

as the later would made the task of standardization more worse!


Regards
Gary

 

[gxsaurav]

so i am now using Pages for a long time ..say for 6+months i am comfortable in using that bcoz in SHO scenarion i need a privacy stuff of things that i am working upon .. so pages comes handy .. No Network guys can acess and open .Pages files .. i make exports to .doc/(what so ever format) for the rest of the window users! and hey it doesnt crash !

Hmm...last time Word 2003 crashed here was in .........2003

OOXML & ODF both are good & co-exist, it's just that ODF people are scared of competition.

Grudge, you said U don't need 90% of the features Word provides, then why r u even using it???/ Just stick to Pages

 

[x3060]

its been a long time i have touched ms word . . abby word and notepad works fine with me

 

[aryayush]

Grudge, you said U don't need 90% of the features Word provides, then why r u even using it???/ Just stick to Pages

Monopoly.

He has to use a lot of Word documents and they are best compatible with Word itself.

 

[NucleusKore]

Have any of you tried OpenOffice on your Mac?

 

[drgrudge]

Have any of you tried OpenOffice on your Mac?

I don't think anyone will use that. Mac users have Neo Office which is OOo with Aqua UI and has integrated dozens of native Mac features.

AFAIK, all the Digit Mac users either use iWork, MS Office or both. None use Open source office suites.


gx_saurav -
Please read what I posted. Like Aayush said, compatibility issues. I'm not using Office 2008:Mac out of choice.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

@saurav and zeeshan:

Please understand that your idea of "neat and revolutionary" UI is entirely M$ Windows Software based. You are dealing with a Macintosh Issue here. Macboys(and girls) have different intrests when compared to windows users because they are used to something different. The same applies to linux users. I find myself frequently (rather unconciously) pointing my mouse at the top right corner of the windows screen, expecting a shutdown button there. But its no excuse for me to critize windows(there are numerous other ways, but this is not one) because these are just different things.

Weather you are comfortable with something or not depends on how used to something you are. I for example, found linux extremely confusing. I was revolted in the begening when I saw that gnome has two taskbars istead of one. But now, I am so used to it and so fond of it, that I expect it from windows as well.

 

[goobimama]

The Mac version of Office is not as good as the Windows version of Office. But iWork kicks the rear end of both those suites. Mac:Office is only required if one needs to interact with a lot of Windows users (Read: Doc), which is a mighty lot I might add. So yes, my dad uses Macffice, while I use iWork.

It's an attempt to Implement a Ribbon-Like interface for the Mac Version .

@Zeeshan: This just goes to show that Microsoft can't even make a good copy of their own software

 

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

@Goobi , i totally agree Office 2008 for Mac UI is nowhere near Office 2007 Windows Interface .

Maybe implementing Ribbon for the Mac was taking long and they just shelved it , or else they thought that mac users needed something else(after all they are a different breed )

 

[gxsaurav]

Ribbon UI will not fir to the Apple Mac Interface, which asks for pallates for different options, that's why this is how the interface of Macffice is made.

Windows Interface means one interface Window for the whole app, Mac is different

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Interesting, could you point me to a few?

sry 4 late reply :
the KDE Open Office, the Gnome Open Office and the Neo Office are good examples of custom UIs.