Word 2008 -- equations

[John McGhie]

I *used* to have one... AND a beard... For several years.

I grew them to make me look "older", which I thought would improve my score
with the ladies.

It took me some years to discover that it was having the reverse effect.
After all, when the score is "0" it's difficult to detect that you've made a
backwards move...

Anyway: The current compatibility seems to have improved. However, OS 10.6
is only months away, so why bother? OS 10.6 reportedly concentrated on bug
fixes and performance fixes.

There are several reports that Apple fixed their bug with Spaces in the most
recent update, which allowed the Microsoft fix for their bug ‹ that came in
Office 12.1.0 ‹ to work.

But I am staying with OS 10.4 until 10.6 comes out. I can't think of a use
for spaces, so I am not spending $160 to find out whether it works or not


Hope this helps

Now that's a question for the man with the mustache. (John, I know you
don't have a mustache -- at least not as of the last photo of you I've
seen -- but you ought to have one.)

Bob

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[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

You do know (or it least I have heard) X.5 is the last one to work on a
PPC machine. That X.6 will be Intel exclusive.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Phillip:

Yes, I believe I have heard something similar — can't be sure, though.

I don't see that as a big issue: Office 2010 will bring to the Mac most of
the functionality of Office 2007 for the PC. I don't think most PPC
machines have enough grunt to perform well with that.

I suspect most users would find it too slow. There are quite a few
functions that were stripped out of Mac Office because they were too
power-hungry for the processors that were in use when those decisions were
made.

An example is hyperlinks in the TOC. We don't get the new TOC generator,
because it sucks too much power. Some of the nicer bits of the OpenType
typesetting won't happen. It's one of the issues getting in the way of
right-to-left languages. Etc etc....

Anyway, OS 10.4 works fine on a PowerPC, and Office 2008 works fine on OS
10.4.

Cheers

You do know (or it least I have heard) X.5 is the last one to work on a
PPC machine. That X.6 will be Intel exclusive.

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[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Haven't check to see but X.5 will work on PPC Machine with enough power.
but with my PowerBook 17" with just 1.67GB Processor and 2 Gb Ram just
don't know whether it would work.

With mother in Nursing home for a Broken Rib now I can't get a new Mac
book Pro 17"

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Phillip:

That's bad news about your mother! I hope she recovers well, and soon...

Yeah, I would think OS 10.5 would run OK on that machine. It will be a bit
slow, but it should be useable.

Office 2008 might not be a good idea: that might be too slow for comfort.
Download the Test Drive and try it out before you buy it

Cheers

Haven't check to see but X.5 will work on PPC Machine with enough power.
but with my PowerBook 17" with just 1.67GB Processor and 2 Gb Ram just
don't know whether it would work.

With mother in Nursing home for a Broken Rib now I can't get a new Mac
book Pro 17"

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[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Already have office 2008 running on it under X.4.11.

Run pretty zippy under OSX.4.11

As for mother she fell getting off elevator at the mammogram center at
Hospital, Door closed too fast. She 84. Now in nursing home for Rehab.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Phillip:

Yeah, I have 2008 running on a fairly limited machine in 10.4.11 too. I
believe 10.4 makes less demand on the system than 10.5.

If you remember: 10.5 bought lots of extra eye-candy with it, and all of
that stuff tends to be very power-hungry. In Vista, speed improves ten
times if you switch the eye-candy off

Those elevator doors can be a real pain for elderly people. Some of them
are just set way too short. The building I used to live in was like that:
the door dwell time was set to two seconds, and the building was full of
elderly residents!

They soon learned to stick either your bum or your shopping bag into the
damn door before you tried to walk through!

But it's dangerous: Elderly people get stressed out and confused, and
accidents like this are an inevitable result. Sue the bar-stewards for
every cent they've got — you could use the money

Cheers

Already have office 2008 running on it under X.4.11.

Run pretty zippy under OSX.4.11

As for mother she fell getting off elevator at the mammogram center at
Hospital, Door closed too fast. She 84. Now in nursing home for Rehab.

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