Review: Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
- Article 5 of 53
- iCreate, June 2004
If it went away, the Mac would be dead. Question is, should you buy Microsoft Office just to keep the Mac going or is it actually worth the money?
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Other additions are minor. Smart buttons are a useful little Office-XP acquisition that highlight possible tasks and problems. More Aqua graphics and transparencies are scattered throughout the suite, sometimes gratuitously rather than for any real reason. That embarrassing inability to deal with long filenames has now been expunged. And printing is improved in both Entourage and Excel.
The standard edition and the teacher and student edition are undoubtedly worth the money. A professional edition that includes Virtual PC 7 should be out in a few months: since that includes both a Windows licence as well as Virtual PC for roughly £80 more, that will prove even better value than the standard edition if you need to run PC programs.
But although there are some good, solid improvements over version X, Office 2004 isn’t totally compelling as upgrade. Consider your needs carefully to see whether Office meets them – and if they justify spending £200.
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