So... Office 2011 Mac, final decision = yea or nay?

[PeterB]

Title pretty much says it all...

Mostly what I'm kind of sick of is the frequent beachballing I get with Office 2008...

[OWC Jamie]

What app in 2008 is beachballing. If it's Entourage, it's a database issue most likely.

[jardster]

Since Macro's will be back in Excel, I probably will. Currently I'm on 2004, so I'd like to step to in Intel product.

[rjmacs]

Meh. I'm not a fan of the Office 2010 interface, from a usability perspective. But this is M$, and my dragging my feet isn't going to change it back, so.... I've gone ahead and moved to 2011. I've been disciplined over the years into submission - if you must use M$ products, it's best to do as the Leviathan would have you do, and not hurt yourself resisting or thrashing about to no avail.

Performance-wise, it seems fine so far. I don't use M$ for email, because honestly, i've always thought they sucked at that. If you're part of an Exchange-based system, it might be worthwhile, but in general, their clients leave a lot to be desired IMO. Word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation stuff seems fine so far. I've been using it on a non-unibody 2007 15" MBP 2.6 C2D, 4GB RAM.

[PeterB]

Jamie, it's mostly Powerpoint and Word. There are even a few documents that I can try opening which will cause Word to lock up and I have to force quit. Also I'm noticing that there are formatting differences in documents between v.X, 2004, and 2008...

[testcase]

What, no Poll?????



Office 2011 Mac....



Big thumbs down.



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[IronMac]

rjmacs wrote: I've been disciplined over the years into submission - if you must use M$ products, it's best to do as the Leviathan would have you do, and not hurt yourself resisting or thrashing about to no avail.

Wow, you could be describing Apple there!

I will be upgrading and I thought that I would choose Outlook as my new email client since TB has been really acting up over the last few months. Unfortunately I have read that you cannot export easily email from Outlook.

As for the beachballing, the new Word might solve that. I know that on a few occasions, Word 2008 would simply crash on me, even on small docs.

[OWC Jamie]

Peter, how much memory do you have in your machine? Entourage would always beachball on me, but I'm abnormal with a darn-near 30GB database it was having to access.

And I'll admit I don't use either Word or PowerPoint much at all, just Entourage and Excel.

(I'm still getting used to Outlook again. But I will say this, it's SO much faster than Entourage you'd never get me to go back!)

[sunfalcon]

I say it's a yeah since I got it for free at my wife's university

[sekker]

PeterB, the problems you are having with Office 2008 are not normal. There are some plugins that can make those apps suffer - I think Endnote makes a mess of Office, for example. Might be worth uninstalling and then reinstalling.

Office 2010 has some major negatives, like failure to integrate/sync with iCal. I finally have that stable here, so I'm going to wait to upgrade until that feature is added back.