PC - MAC compatibility

[John McGhie]

Yeah Regrettably, most Microsoft "templates" offer an object lesson in
how NOT to do things. Largely because the people who put the templates site
together didn't have the first clue about what templates are or how
professionals use them.

In many cases, the garish "shock and horror" colour schemes remain, and the
coding is often cheap and nasty.

However, some of the Office 2007 templates are being supplied by outside
companies which are hoping to get repeat business. Templates produced by
companies that make a living selling templates are a little bit better.

Cheers

Well thanks for that, John. ;-)

I never go there because I've never been impressed by the Microsoft
templates.

But I feel *much* better now that I know the Nine Steps! ))

Cheers,
Clive
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[little_creature]

Good, thanks John.

Yeah Regrettably, most Microsoft "templates" offer an object lesson in
how NOT to do things. Largely because the people who put the templates site
together didn't have the first clue about what templates are or how
professionals use them.

In many cases, the garish "shock and horror" colour schemes remain, and the
coding is often cheap and nasty.

However, some of the Office 2007 templates are being supplied by outside
companies which are hoping to get repeat business. Templates produced by
companies that make a living selling templates are a little bit better.

Cheers

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

Just to interject an observation that this thread focuses on PC to Mac
variations.

If you go from Mac to PC there's an equally robust list of things that Mac
has that's missing on the PC side.

-Jim

I recently bought a MacBook Pro for business use in a PC environment and I
will be sharing EXCEL and WORD files remotely with a person who has a PC.
Before buying I was unaware of compatibility problems between Microsoft
Office for MACs and PCs. I have transferred many years of files to this
computer from my PC, which is on its last legs. Yesterday I encountered a
problem with dates, which depending upon how they originally were entered,
may or may not have been corrected by changing a setting. I called Microsoft
tech support about this problem and also to ask about what other
incompatibilities I might encounter, and he suggested this newsgroup. I
would be interested in hearing from others who use Macs in a business
environment with PCs. What compatibility problems can I expect if I run
Microsoft Office for Mac? Should I partition my hard drive and install XP
and Office? What has been others' experience with Bootcamp or Parallels? Do
I need to replace this computer with a PC? I need to have confidence about
the accuracy of the information in files that I open, use, save, and send,
and I need to be able to work in EXCEL and WORD on a stable,reliable
computer. Thanks for any help.

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