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Originally Posted by fangpyre  If you are using alternatives than it makes sense to stick with them.
However, if you are using Office then do it.
THis version is more of an Mac Office than any other MS Office.
It has better integration on many levels.
It handles graphics in a better way (but not as well as iWorks)
It also has some good graphing capabilities.
I also like that PowerPoint handles Arabic properly.
And of course, MS Word remains the best word processor, and for some people/projects there are no substitutes. |
I use Office heavily -- (1) Word for word processing (there is no substitute if you are in a business environment, since 96% of the world uses Windows and the vast majority of Windows users use MS Word), (2) Entourage for business email because I like the projects and categories, and I like syncing my calendar across my server, (3) Excel for those rare occasions when other people send me a spreadsheet, and (4) Power Point for presentations.
I own iWorks, and it's true that you can do some cool stuff with it but I actually find it much harder to use than MS Office. And, since the whole point of being a Mac user is the overall user experience, I see no reason to punish myself just to prove an anti-MS point.
Two questions about Office 2008 (both Entourage questions):
1) Does Entourage 2008 support the request of read/deliver receipts? Neither Mail nor Entourage 2004 allow this; so far Thunderbird is the only email client for Mac I've found that supports this function.
2) Does Entourage 2008 open .msg files created in Outlook? Entourage 2004 does not; in order to open these I need to use MS Office for Windows running under Parallels.