Compatibility issue for Office 2004 for MAC with Office 20..

External Since: Mar 21, 2008 Posts: 2

Hi, newcomers to Office 2008 and oldies on Mac's should carefully read the psoting by John - se above - with this conclusion for especialy "more advanced users". Myself thinks it was a waste to pre4order the Office 2008 package, as I do not not see any reason why I should install it after carefully reading all the posting on the problems and shortcommings of Office 2008 - especially on the interoperationality with the "dos" version on Windows.

"Such users are better advised to sit this release out. Office 2008 has
limited functionality. Office 2004 is still a supported product.
Professional users and power users can afford to wait for the next version,
and in most cases, they should."

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External Since: Apr 09, 2008 Posts: 1

Thanks for that heads-up regarding the limited functionality of Office 2008 John, good to know for sure! I consider myself an in-depth advanced user of Office, particularly Excel. I work in Office 2007 here in the office (IT guys won't get me a mac, haha) and my wife has Office 2007 at home, but I have Office 2004 on my MacBook at home. I downloaded the "patch" onto my Mac last night and installed it, but it still won't allow me open a .docx file from my wife's computer. Any suggestions? Are they planning to re-release the patch? Has anyone else had success with it??