Word also has an issue with quitting, apparently when it tries to write the Normal file that saves defaults. OpenOffice/NeoOffice is promising VBA support soon, amazing how they can offer it but MS can't, with all their professional MacBU developers.īut you do get nice Gallery eye-candy, so Mac Office 2008 is not a total loss! Cross-platform scripting CAN be made to work, if you want to. Why can't MS instead use something like JavaScript? It works great for InDesign and Acrobat, and Adobe even includes *three* scripting options: AppleScript, JavaScript, and Visual Basic. This alone pretty much renders Mac Office 2008 as *NSFW* (Not Safe For Productive Work). Only alternative is develop *TWO* entirely different scripting solutions.Īny of your company's critical spreadsheets that use VBA? Sorry, Mac users, no way to use them (except running Parallels/WinXP/Office2007 on Windows). Use the VBA spreadsheets on your Mac? Nope. Try to share your AppleScripted spreadsheets with PC users? Nope. So there will never be any cross-platform scripting solution: Macs would have to use AppleScript/Automator, while Windows users can still use VBA.
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You can read the full list of issues on Microsoft's support site, where they have a page of known issues for each program: Word įinally, I uncovered one more issue while posting this hint - the Help window can become unresponsive or just disappear all together while trying to clip out known issues!Īs reported on since last year, the biggest problem (and 100% deal-breaker for us) is the lack of *any* VBA support for Excel in Mac Office 2008. Some of them are fairly significant, and may explain some troubles you may be having with Office 2008. Perhaps someone has already noted this, but Microsoft lists (in the Help file) a number of known issues with Office 2008.
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