Too bad they didn't add visual basic macros back. Its still not compatible with its own counterpart with excel or word macros that were encoded with the Windows Office VB macro set. I have lots of excel and word macro loaded workbooks and document forms from my job created with Office 2003 and 2007 for Windows and none of them work in Mac Office 2004 or 2008 which truly sucks. Thats the only reason I spent the money was to see if they would work at home where I wouldnt have to lug the office Windows laptop back and forth. The interface in excel and word is different. Not really better, just different. Functionality is basically the same as 2004 unless there is something hidden that I haven't found yet. I definitely will not be wasting my money on Office 2012 for Mac.
I've been using Entourage for a few days now and so far it has crashed on me 4 or 5 times. I have it setup for IMAP with Gmail and I have several thousand emails dating back about 3 years. Entourage 2008 just isn't stable and when it crashed I get the dreaded Send Error Report to M$ message. I'm going to switch back to Mail which by the way has it's own issues and doesn't always notify me with an audible alert when new mail arrives. What is with these flaky OS-X apps? Makes me wonder if I made the right choice to switch from Windows..........
You might want to check out Thunderbird. It's been rock stable on my machine since I installed it.
I would hope Thunderbird supports IMAP, otherwise I have three accounts in Thunderbird that must have some pretty sick POP3 features ;P
Well I assure you that IMAP works great in Thunderbird. Definitely give it another try.
Btw, the email account you're setting up, does it happen to be a free email service like Gmail?
Well I assure you that IMAP works great in Thunderbird. Definitely give it another try.
Btw, the email account you're setting up, does it happen to be a free email service like Gmail?
Which is better is really a matter of opinion.
But neither are that great if you don't have money. I vote NeoOffice ^_^
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Basically iWork (pages and keynote especially, probably not numbers so much) has a nicer interface with more or less same features as in MS office '08 but they are presented in a simpler way. Typical Apple vs Microsoft.
Different people, different opinions. I just find pages easier to work with than Word. And this is not just coming from a macboy. I honestly feel that way. Maybe cause I'm very used to it. I just know that I never got good looking output from Word, the way I do with pages. The way you can drag and drop images, move them around, move text boxes, access iLife Media, it all just works for me.
I disagree. First, iWork does not have equal features to Office. It has enough for the average home user, but it is far from equal.
Secondly, "simpler" is certainly opinion. I find Pages to be a nightmare to figure out compared to Word. Same with Numbers vs Excel. About the only app I'd give the nod to over its Office equivalent would be Keynote.