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Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / December 2005Obvious Q about Microsoft and iBook
This is probably a really obvious question, but if anyone can let me know i'd be v happy. I have an iBook G4 with Mac OSX system. I want to get Microsoft Office for Mac - will it work if I get it? Or is there a particular edition I need to get? > This is probably a really obvious question, but if anyone can let me > know i'd be v happy. I have an iBook G4 with Mac OSX system. I want > to get Microsoft Office for Mac - will it work if I get it? Or is > there a particular edition I need to get? Provided you get the Mac version, then yes, it will work. I suggest Office 2004 over Office X, simply because I have 2004 and I know what it's like, but either should work. PhilD -- <>< On 22.12.05 8:56, in article 1135238179.691995.111620@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "PhilD" <phildeaves@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> This is probably a really obvious question, but if anyone can let me >> know i'd be v happy. I have an iBook G4 with Mac OSX system. I want [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > -- > <>< Also, your iBook will come with a Test Drive of Microsoft Office 2004, which is a 30-day trial version. If you decide to buy Microsoft Office 2004 together with your iBook, you should delete the trial version before you install the full product, simply to avoid problems and confusion later on. Should you decide to try Office first and you decide to buy it later on, you should also remove the trial version (with the official Remove Office tool) before installing the full product. On 23/12/05 2:45 AM, in article BFD0889A.10183%m_bintener@hotmail.com, > On 22.12.05 8:56, in article > 1135238179.691995.111620@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "PhilD" [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > should also remove the trial version (with the official Remove Office tool) > before installing the full product. Michel's advice is really important, Mary: in both cases he mentions you need to use the Remove Office tool (it's on the Install CD) and empty the Trash as well. But my main point in replying is to very strongly recommend Office 2004 ahead of Office X, which was designed to work on a very early, pre-release version of OS X. OS X has moved on a lot since then, and Office 2004 has a huge number of things that work better. Cheers, Clive Huggan ============ On 12/26/05 1:58 PM, in article BFD6B2A2.16973%REMOVETHISoffice@ANDTHISstrategists.com.au, "Clive Huggan" <REMOVETHISoffice@ANDTHISstrategists.com.au> wrote: > But my main point in replying is to very strongly recommend Office 2004 > ahead of Office X, which was designed to work on a very early, pre-release > version of OS X. OS X has moved on a lot since then, and Office 2004 has a > huge number of things that work better. Actually Office v. X was designed to work on OS 10.1, which was not pre-release. But it was not particularly pleasant, either, and still had lots of hitches and stumbles. (It was a free upgrade from 10.0, which really ought to have been "pre-release", but wasn't either.) Or perhaps you mean it was designed for 10.1.0, mostly before 10.1.0 was released. True. Furthermore, Office v. X had hardly any new advances (not even bug fixes) from the previous version 2001: it was almost entirely just a re-coding for OS X, with new icons, done as quickly as possible to help Apple get users over to OS X. Mind you, Office 10.1 (SR-1) had improvements, including some specifically for later updates to the OD (OS 10.1. and 10.1.5), and Office 10.1.2 had a few improvements specifically for Jaguar (OS 10.2), which helped. Nevertheless, as Clive says, Office 2004 is streets and streets ahead of v. X, and far preferable to it. It works great in OS 10.2.8, 10.3.x and 10.4.x (even though it was first released before 10.4 saw the light of day. Its SR-2, Office 11.2, was designed for Tiger as well as Panther.)  SignaturePaul Berkowitz MVP MacOffice Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be ignored. PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. |
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