Re: Office 2008 - Excellent

"David Fritzinger" <dfritzin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dfritzin-F090F6.15535416012008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <eI-dndWtPIbZMxPanZ2dnUVZ_oimnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As long as you don't need VB that is. Overall the programs seem to
work quite well with no obvious bugs found. I like the interface much
better than Office 2004. And it is A LOT easier to learn and access all
features than it is with Office 2007. The Automater actions must have
been designed by a dumbshit though. Simply silly. Another really great
thing is Microsoft did not incorporate the irritating activation
requirements like it does on its Windows products. Overall I am happy
with it even if it is from Microsoft.

Apparently, there are other shortcomings in Excel, at least. If you go
to the microsoft.public.mac.office newsgroup, you will see a discussion
where Excel appears to be missing the Data Analysis Toolpack Add in,

hmm, that's probably because most (all?) add-ins were written in vba, which as most people know was axed... this was a consequence that i hadn't thought of, and hadn't heard mentioned... bummer.

as
well as certain ways to add error bars to graphs. The latter is a
dealbreaker for me, at least.


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