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Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / May 2008Downgrading to Office for Mac 2004
I am a recent convert from Windows to Mac (Just purchased a Macbook Pro) and I just purchased Office 08 for Mac. It sucks, specificially Excel. Is Excel 2004 a better program? Should I uninstall 08 and purchase Office 04? Can you only have Excel 2004 running when the rest of office is 2008? Also, in excel for windows, I would just hit F2 to edit a cell that had text in it already. How do I do that in Excel 08 for Mac? On 4/21/08 1:58 PM, in article ee991be.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "AKay" <u43065@uwe> wrote: > I am a recent convert from Windows to Mac (Just purchased a Macbook Pro) and > I just purchased Office 08 for Mac. It sucks, specificially Excel. Is Excel [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Also, in excel for windows, I would just hit F2 to edit a cell that had text > in it already. How do I do that in Excel 08 for Mac? I have no idea what you should do, you have to make that decision. Excel 2004 and 2008 will both run fine on the same machine. So, yes, you can use Excel 2004 with the rest of Office 2008, including Excel 2008. I think Control-U is what you want. Look in Help for keyboard shortcuts for more.  SignatureBob Greenblatt [MVP], Macintosh bobgreenblattATmsnDOTcom > On 4/21/08 1:58 PM, in article ee991be.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "AKay" > <u43065@uwe> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > I think Control-U is what you want. Look in Help for keyboard shortcuts for > more. If you need to use items from the PC world in which you need Items such a Solver, or VBA, or Macros written in VBA. Then a resounding YES!!!. You u would be far better off with Office2004. If you can buy a new copy of 2004. Do so! The only real dis advantage now would be being able to save docx., xlsx. and pptx files. It doesn't hurt to have both loaded on the same hard drive. the only thing because of a bug that people are touting as feature. You will have to open and Doc, xls, ppt files by opening the application first, then locate the file and open. Or go to open file from find and choose open with and choose word2004,Excel2004, or PowerPoint2004 to open the document. (after you click once to highlight desired file). Double-Clicking is out. trying to set in get info to open with a specified application will not work for office files if Office2008 is loaded on the hard drive. Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phillip M. Jones, CET |LIFE MEMBER: VPEA ETA-I, NESDA, ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112 |pjones@kimbanet.com, ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto:pjones@kimbanet.com <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/90th_Birthday/index.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Fulcher/default.html> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Harris/default.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Jones/default.htm> <http://www.vpea.org> > I am a recent convert from Windows to Mac (Just purchased a Macbook Pro) and > I just purchased Office 08 for Mac. It sucks, specificially Excel. Is Excel [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Also, in excel for windows, I would just hit F2 to edit a cell that had text > in it already. How do I do that in Excel 08 for Mac? My only reply is that Mac sucks, period. I'll never buy another one. |
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