Office 2011 still had pull down menus and the standard and formatting
toolbars from the Classic Office. They are still there. You set them to
show the formatting toolbar. My suggestion would be to try it in a store
and see if she likes it. Microsoft has a free 30 Office 2011 download
you can try. http://www.microsoft.com/mac/trial Might be worth a
download but it is a big one. Snow Leopard if she has MacBook from
2006-2010 or so. Might be worth just upgrading the OS.
George Crawford
Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Sep 17, 2012, at 3:09 AM, tedg wrote:
My partner needs a new Macbook and we will likely buy the fastest we can get.
But she does not want to upgrade from her Leopard/Word 2004 setup. I am pretty
sure I can get her to upgrade to Snow Leopard and the Word version may be
negotiable if the new version can look like the old (which I assume is true).
When it comes to MS software 'ass-u-me' :-/
Office 2008 is a not-unreasonable upgrade from 2004, but Office 2011 is the
full 'modern' office in all it's multi-tab clippy-esque glory. Has she tried
something like LibreOffice? More like the old Office than Office is....
So the question is, can we install SL on a current MBP?
On a 2012 MBP? very doubtful, especially if you get the Retina model.
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