Microsoft Office X vs 2004 differences

[Mike Johnson]

While we're on the subject, does 2004 hog the processor as much as v.X? My wife and I use fast user switching, and if she has so much a single simple word document open under her account, it'll take up to 20% of the cpu even when my account is the active one.

[Drew]

The Track Changes feature set in Word is much worse in 2004 than X, IMHO. I hope it's improved in the new version.

[Buzz]

had to get 2004 for Baby Buzz so as not to conflict w/ X on our home network, since we often add more machines than we remove, and M$ stuff barks if too many copies are open on same network; same users, just an extra machine, or two, hangin' out... it would be much nicer if copies were tied to an activity monitor, rather than just being open on the network... have the most recently active copy disable the least recently active copy, rather than having to to physically go and close it. we have more licenses than we have people, but more computers than licenses. life is an inconvenience some times. got 2004 because it was what was available, no concern over features other than it came w/ 3 licenses...

[Drew]

[quote ka jowct]Is there any way to fix a corrupted Entourage mail database file?

Entourage in X seems buggy ro me. It often quits unexpectedly if it has to fetch a lot of messages.
First, quit all Office programs. Then, launch Entourage while holding the Option key. You'll see a list of options.

Here's a great resource of Entourage questions and problems:
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/

[ka jowct]

Thanks, Drew.

[Robo]

2004 is quite a bit slower than v.X (which is not 2001-that's OS9 only). I remember at the time some benchmarks showed that Excel 2004 ran slower natively than did Excel 2003 running in Virtual PC. I haven't bothered going to 2004 and will keep using v.X as long as I can.