Why?? WOULD I want EXCEL 2008 ? - HAH !

[yendell-vini]

AS a long time and heavy user of MS Excel - mainly for business, I thought I
was being so clever switching to the Mac for home. So, use MS at work, Mac
at home.

Yes I LOVE the hardware - but otherwise, I have never been so stressed out in
my life. It is great to have less worry about virus issues but who has the
time to figure out all the many many differences that come along with it all.
No I am not a computer geek, nor a game player, I just want a machine that is
sleek, tidy and yes that is the Mac.

I purchased Office 2004 - all kinds of things are different and inefficient
in comparison to MS Excel...simple easy things, edit using F2 for instance.
So I adapt..so far not too bad. OK life goes on.

Along comes Office 2008 - oh it is just like Office 2007 I am told.... yea !
I thought they have seen the light and maybe we are just not going to be
punished any more for using Apple. I rush off buy the 2008 version. Install
it.

Oh my God ! - what Hell has happened now ? - I can't open existing files I
was using in 2004 and as we see from the other comments PRINT PREVIEW is no
longer there.

Those of you ranting - well - RANT ON because I am joining your chorus. This
is so Micky Mouse - I cannot believe it. We are getting all kinds of sweet
workarounds being offered by members of this blog to deal with being royally
screwed by the software vendor. ANGRY does not even begin to describe how I
feel. I would love to take the software back to the vendor, but I highly
doubt that will get me anywhere. ANY SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE APPRECIATED TO
ENABLE ME TO GET MY MONEY BACK.

The suggestion that I use the Apple Preview process seems to be a joke to me
as I often use it when on the web but I have never seen how I can print
directly from that. Anyway why use that very clumsy process when the MS
print preview was extremely efficient.

MY ANSWER IS PARALLELS AND MS PRODUCTS FOR MY EXCEL, TAX AND ACCOUNTING NEEDS
AND THEY CAN STUFF THEIR OFFICE FOR APPLE WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE.

No offence intended to any readers of this thread. Only the purveyors of the
garbage we are being sold.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

AS a long time and heavy user of MS Excel - mainly for business, I thought I
was being so clever switching to the Mac for home. So, use MS at work, Mac
at home.

Yes I LOVE the hardware - but otherwise, I have never been so stressed out in
my life. It is great to have less worry about virus issues but who has the
time to figure out all the many many differences that come along with it all.
No I am not a computer geek, nor a game player, I just want a machine that is
sleek, tidy and yes that is the Mac.

I purchased Office 2004 - all kinds of things are different and inefficient
in comparison to MS Excel...simple easy things, edit using F2 for instance.
So I adapt..so far not too bad. OK life goes on.

Along comes Office 2008 - oh it is just like Office 2007 I am told.... yea !
I thought they have seen the light and maybe we are just not going to be

punished any more for using Apple. I rush off buy the 2008 version. Install
it.

Oh my God ! - what Hell has happened now ? - I can't open existing files I
was using in 2004 and as we see from the other comments PRINT PREVIEW is no
longer there.

Those of you ranting - well - RANT ON because I am joining your chorus. This
is so Micky Mouse - I cannot believe it. We are getting all kinds of sweet
workarounds being offered by members of this blog to deal with being royally
screwed by the software vendor. ANGRY does not even begin to describe how I
feel. I would love to take the software back to the vendor, but I highly
doubt that will get me anywhere. ANY SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE APPRECIATED TO
ENABLE ME TO GET MY MONEY BACK.

The suggestion that I use the Apple Preview process seems to be a joke to me
as I often use it when on the web but I have never seen how I can print
directly from that. Anyway why use that very clumsy process when the MS
print preview was extremely efficient.

MY ANSWER IS PARALLELS AND MS PRODUCTS FOR MY EXCEL, TAX AND ACCOUNTING NEEDS
AND THEY CAN STUFF THEIR OFFICE FOR APPLE WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE.

No offence intended to any readers of this thread. Only the purveyors of the
garbage we are being sold.

Hi yendell-vini,

I don't know why the Windows Excel group decided to change the keyboard
shortcuts and function keys when they ported Excel from the Mac to
Windows, but they did. It does cause confusion when PC folks use the
original (the Mac version) after using the changed (Windows) version.
When I use Excel on Windows I experience the same frustration that you
did when you switched to the Mac. If only the Windows team had kept true
to the Mac version.

The keyboard shortcuts for Mac are listed in Excel's help. Just search
Help for Keyboard shortcuts.

In Mac Excel you can customize keyboard shortcuts easily by using Tools

Customize > Customize Keyboard. I don't think Windows Excel offers

this flexibility. Score 1 for Mac Excel.

Print-Preview is in Excel 2004, but not Excel 2008. Excel 2004 = tie
with windows.

Microsoft has a 45 day guarantee on their products. Return it to the
vendor from which you purchased, or follow the instructions here:
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/productrefund/refund.mspx

Windows and Mac Excel are mostly the same, but there are differences.
There's stuff in Mac Excel that's not in Windows and vice-versa. The
newsgroups is the place to go when you run into obstacles (you obviously
found some!).

IMHO overall Excel 2004 is the best spreadsheet ever made, and that
includes Excel 2003 and 2007 on Windows as well as OpenOffice, Excel
2008, and Google spreadsheets.

So keyboard shortcuts and print preview got you down, but XL 2004 has
both of these covered. What other things got in the way?

-Jim