I¹m with you, Barry. When you consider the loss of Macros, with the odd and troublesome behavior and slowdown, with the loss of Sync features, it¹s a net minus that I paid for!
When I write something in Word and paste it into Entourage (non HTML for emailing to lists), I get hard returns entered! Just one more new feature¹ I¹d call a bug. There is a certain amount of trust¹ that a consumer makes when paying for an upgrade. MS is lost a fair amount of my trust with Office 2008. David On 5/7/08 8:57 AM, "Barry Rosenbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I had it to do over again, I wouldn¹t. > > However, my issues may be very user-specific; the loss of support for direct > synching with Treo has changed my life for the much worse. I am still in limbo > attempting to have one good PIM on my computer and another one mobile. > Switching to iPhone doesn¹t replace the Treo functionality, and switching to > iCal doesn¹t replace the Entourage functionality, and Sync Services makes sure > I spend more time on administration than on use. > > That¹s not the only issue for me, but it¹s the biggest. I am also extremely > displeased with the slow speed of all the 2008 apps, although I admit I > haven¹t yet tried Diane¹s latest suggestions about moving files around, and I > will do so shortly. > > I am also still fighting with the changes that Office 2008 made to my > preferences. I still can¹t get Word to behave the way it used to, and Excel > isn¹t much better. I know I can spend a few hours and find all the changes, > but this is the first experience I¹ve ever had where an upgrade reset so many > preferences. > > Entourage does seem to crash less. Other than that, I can¹t personally > recommend the upgrade. > > Barry > > > on 5/6/08 8:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> >> >> From a user perspective on this list, is Office 2008 a recommended upgrade >> from 2004? >> >> (From the Office apps, I rely on Entourage and Excel daily for my workflow, >> use Word hardly ever and PP never. I run 2004 on a new Intel iMac, a G4 >> Powerbook and occasionally on G3 Powerbook.) >> >> Many thanks for your input - >> >> Tobias >> >> >> Tobias Kaiser, MS, CIPS -- David Morganstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
