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1. #Microsoft office 2008 lion compatibility for mac#
2. #Microsoft office 2008 lion compatibility mac os x#
3. #Microsoft office 2008 lion compatibility software#

Over the weekend Microsoft published a knowledge base article that outlines some known issues with Office for Mac on OS X 10.7.

#Microsoft office 2008 lion compatibility software#

As with any software package there are going to be some bugs that will need to be ironed out by the developers, and while most bugs are likely minor, a few of them may be enough cause a disruption in your work flow.

Just be advised that Word loads much more slowly than Excel and Powerpoint.While some of the new features in OS X Lion such as Autosave, Fullscreen, and Versions may be enticing to people who regularly run Office, for those who rely on some features of the suite you may want to consider the known compatibility issues between the various Office versions and Lion before upgrading your OS. Starting Word seems to go OK, and in the few days Ive used it, Ive had no problem editing and saving files using the new and much more attractive interface. Microsoft seems to know that an older application can cause problems, but their deinstallation portion of the new installation apparently doesnt clean out everything it should. On my MacBook that demo version of Word was never run, so those files didnt exist. I suspect its related to the fact that on my iMac, the demo version of Word 2004 loaded several times, creating the files Word creates when it first runs. Installed on my MacBook under the three installations license, it works fine. Installed on my iMac, it pops off a bug report to Microsoft every time I quit and sometimes gets lost in a spinning rainbow wheel and has to be force quit. I prefer Mail (I know it has shortcomings, I like to read and write mail, with good spotlight searches and Mail.app is perfect for it).įrankly if I were to spend about 300 (either up or down), I would give it to the NeoOffice folks and you bet they could use the money to produce better software and make it available free to all. I prefer NeoOffice and the Spreadsheet is cool, has options for NeoOffice Basic (compatible with Microsaft Office), Python and JavaScript (compatible with OpenOffice). OpenOfficeNeoOffice is promising VBA support soon, amazing how they can offer it but MS cant, with all their professional MacBU developers.īut the loss of VBA support makes Office 2008 unusable for me and no doubt many others in the Mac-based publishing industry whose productivity relies on myriad macros to prep manuscripts, edit them, and code them for typesetting. This alone pretty much renders Mac Office 2008 as NSFW (Not Safe For Productive Work).Ĭross-platform scripting CAN be made to work, if you want to. Only alternative is develop TWO entirely different scripting solutions.Īny of your companys critical spreadsheets that use VBA Sorry, Mac users, no way to use them (except running ParallelsWinXPOffice2007 on Windows). So there will never be any cross-platform scripting solution: Macs would have to use AppleScriptAutomator, while Windows users can still use VBA.

#Microsoft office 2008 lion compatibility mac os x#

In PowerPoint, its possible to open the same presentation in both PowerPoint 20, and have both open as fully writable Finally, if you use (or are trying to use) AppleScript and Automator in Office 2008, one final known issue will affect you: Running Automator workflows and AppleScripts from the Office script menu is not currently supported under Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard). Microsoft Office 2008 Mountain Lion Mac OS X In Word, for instance, you cant see equations created in Word 2007 for Windows.