How's Office 2008 on Snow Leopard?


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Hi,

I'm thinking of buying Office 2008 for my Mac, as I need it for Uni work. I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and was wondering is there any incompatibility issues/bugs with it? I currently have Office 2004 installed (which runs under Rosetta) and it seems to be very slow/laggy.

Thanks.

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Better than Leopard, it has Spaces issues fixed.

Not for me :/ Clean install here.

However, speed wise it's like day and night using the latest service pack. The vanilla install speed it's horrendous.

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Something for the OP to bear in mind is that Office 04 was still compiled only for PowerPC processors. Office 08 is native on Intel, so just in that regards, you will see improvements. It doesn't not require Rosetta to dynamically translate the binaries.

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Something for the OP to bear in mind is that Office 04 was still compiled only for PowerPC processors. Office 08 is native on Intel, so just in that regards, you will see improvements. It doesn't not require Rosetta to dynamically translate the binaries.

But oddly the installer requires Rosetta :/

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But oddly the installer requires Rosetta :/

Does it really? That is friggin lame. I have been trying to get by without Office at home. Considering that most of my files are now saved as .pages and .numbers, I haven't needed it in more than 6 months.

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But oddly the installer requires Rosetta :/

Some versions do while others don't. I'm using the English version of Office 2008, the Installer of which requires Rosetta. However, my mom uses the Dutch version and its Installer doesn't require Rosetta at all. Go figure.

I used this method to install the English version without having to also install Rosetta:

http://forums.mactalk.com.au/46/72330-inst...ut-rosetta.html

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If you buy the student version (you are in uni, would be cheaper for you) of 2008, it doesn't need rosetta for the installer like the normal on.

But other than that it works perfectly fine for mr. :D

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Just curious; does Office 2008 have something that iWork doesn't?

A majority market share, and WAY higher corporate compatibility.

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A majority market share, and WAY higher corporate compatibility.

iWork's export/import functionality isn't perfect, but it's very capable for most real-world scenarios.

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Quite a lot, actually.

Numbers is a joke compared to Excel, for one thing.

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Excel for Mac? No.

Excel for Windows? Maybe, but Numbers is not a "joke" compared to that

The only really big thing that I found missing so far is the solver for operational research.

Numbers 2.0 caught up with Excel a lot compared to the 1st version.

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iWork's export/import functionality isn't perfect, but it's very capable for most real-world scenarios.

No it isn't, it's bloody terrible. You ever tried to play a neatly formatted Keynote presentation in Office 2007? It's terrible. If you're at a school/college/university that deals in Office formats, you need Office.

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No it isn't, it's bloody terrible. You ever tried to play a neatly formatted Keynote presentation in Office 2007? It's terrible. If you're at a school/college/university that deals in Office formats, you need Office.

Yea, I have, but I know where my limits are in Keynote if I have to export for Office 2007/2008. Keynote can't magically make Office 2007 have features and fonts it doesn't have.

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