Office 2008 for Mac...

[bogeyman]

These guys still sell it. I bougfht mine from Apple when I bought the Mac.

Otherwsie a quick google gets some results

Thanks Dave, but it would break my heart to have to shell out another £205+VAT. Back to Office 2007 under Fusion. Blast!

[Peter Loew]

MS Software is crap and for the Mac it's even worse.

[Moscow Mule]

You're not wrong. The latest update in itunes seems to have reliability issues with the airtunes link through my BT hub. Resetting the hub seems to do the trick but it's becoming rather annoying now.

Have you changed the security on the hub to WPA? My Airtunes wouldn't work at all with WEP.

As for Office 2008, I'm still on 2004 (or whatever) - but have you downloaded all the updates? It doesn't do it automatically, you have to run the crappy MSoft Updater thing.

[scooterscot]

Have you changed the security on the hub to WPA? My Airtunes wouldn't work at all with WEP.

Always using WPA. I can play about 10 minutes worth then it cuts out. Hit reset and everything is OK. I've heard similar reports blaming the hub.

As for Office 2008, I'm still on 2004 (or whatever) - but have you downloaded all the updates? It doesn't do it automatically, you have to run the crappy MSoft Updater thing.

Was not aware of that... just checking....

[Cowboy Bob]

Office 2004 here, even though it's not a universal binary it's still faster than 2008 - though it's still probably the least stable software on my system with a regular beach ball when trying to scroll documents longer than 10 pages.

[scooterscot]

How does Pages compare to office? Anyone use it?

[bogeyman]

How does Pages compare to office? Anyone use it?

It's ok, but doesn't really stand up to Word.

Export to .doc was a bit of a nightmare last time I looked.

[Peter Loew]

I actually maintain my company books etc, in NeoOffice because it can do things much better than Excel for Mac can. I also use it for other small tasks and whenever I can't figure something out in Excel, I know NeoOffice will be more intuitive; how's that for free software vs Microsoft software?!

Most times I use Excel where I can though, simply because everyone else does and compatibility is (more or less) guaranteed, particularly on the formatting side of things.

I use Word all the time, and it seems to be fine for my purposes. I think NeoOffice is a serious candidate for consideration though.

P

[bogeyman]

I actually maintain my company books etc, in NeoOffice because it can do things much better than Excel for Mac can. I also use it for other small tasks and whenever I can't figure something out in Excel, I know NeoOffice will be more intuitive; how's that for free software vs Microsoft software?!

Most times I use Excel where I can though, simply because everyone else does and compatibility is (more or less) guaranteed, particularly on the formatting side of things.

I use Word all the time, and it seems to be fine for my purposes. I think NeoOffice is a serious candidate for consideration though.

P

As I said, I do use NeoOffice for general wordprocessing and simple spreadsheets. On the whole it's good, but contrary to your experience, I find NeoOffice's spreadsheet a bit flakey.

I sometimes encounter Excel-generated spreadsheets that it just won't open (pinwheel of death/ force quit, once again). Nothing fancy about those spreadsheets, no VBA, not huge, just something that about them that sends NeoOffice mental.

[bogeyman]

Have you changed the security on the hub to WPA? My Airtunes wouldn't work at all with WEP.

As for Office 2008, I'm still on 2004 (or whatever) - but have you downloaded all the updates? It doesn't do it automatically, you have to run the crappy MSoft Updater thing.

Thanks for the tip on Updater. Will give it a shot and see if things improve.

[edit]

It does auto-update but for some reason was set to 'manual' so it wasn't checking for updates.

It is now busy installing 12.1.1 Update. Yikes!

[further edit]

Didn't fix my problem

If anything, added even more randomness. Seriously Peed off with this.