Well, just to confuse, Bruce: OS X has come so far since the beta 10.1
version on which Office X had to be designed >4 years ago that it's almost a
different operating system now. Leopard will take that further. Remember all
the re-jigs that software companies had to put out when Tiger came out?
Maybe Leopard will be more benign in its changes; maybe not. The problems I
hear of with Office X on recent OS X versions aren't going away, although
many people using Office X are still on the original OS or updates of 10.1,
and problems are thereby reduced for them. Personally, I would not want to
trust Office X to OS X 10.5 -- but then, I rely on Word almost entirely,
other than what's between my ears, to push work out of the door and dinner
on the table.
In your shoes I'd buy an online auction licensed copy of Office 2004, or a
heavily discounted retail copy, and use that when you upgrade to Leopard...
Re your question: This newsgroup is the best place to ask; I'd be very
surprised if you got anything more [maybe delete "more"] from a level 1 help
desk operator contracted to Microsoft.
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Microsoft MVP volunteer (Mac Word)
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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