If you intend to use Microsoft Office at home to work on documents or files
you create or share with Windows at work, then you should install Office
2004.
Office 2008 can't do that. Regardless of the new features it has, the
ability to share documents back and forth with Windows at Work is not
amongst them.
You will get away with it for very simple documents, particularly if you do
not make any changes to them in Office 2008. But editing complex work
documents from Office 2003 or Office 2007 in Mac Office 2008 has some
serious issues right now, not all of which can be worked around.
Office 2004, on the other hand, works very nicely. Sure it has some
limitations and irritations, but generally you can get your work done, and
there are no real show-stoppers. I do, and have been since ‹ oh ‹ 2004
Hope this helps
I will soon be making the switch to Mac from Windows at home only and I am
quite interested as to what the general feeling is for everyone?
- Very impressed
- So-so
- Terrible (reasons? - slow, bloatware, etc)
Also, how does it compare to Office 2004 or Neo Office? Appreciate any
feedback
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