I was forced to "upgrade" to the newest Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac because some businesses don't know how to change the default Microsoft Office setting. This setting allows all documents to be viewed by people who do not want to shell out over $500.00 for a "new and improved" software that is totally non-user friendly or see no point of upgrading for unwanted new "features". The setting is only a click away. Nonetheless, after have to re-saving documents for iron-wife all the time and some "downgraded" documents could not be edited, I broke down. Thank you Microsoft! I bought the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. It works great and the User interface is 1000% better than the Windows version. But that's pretty much the end of it. Apparently, Microsoft has taken away the most useful piece of feature from the product. NO Visual Basic (VB). This means I cannot do programming right on the Excel spreadsheet. This programming language provides automation and cross-platform coding. No VB, no streamlining for me to get some invoicing system going here.
Now, I have to download OpenOffice. It is a FREE full features Office product. Actually, more stable than MS-Office. And if your Excel spreadsheet crashes for some strange reason, do not panic. You can use the Spreadsheet program from the OpenOffice to recover. For FREE!!!
As I am typing this out, my Macbook Pro is downloading OpenOffice from the Net thru the ever preying eyes of the commie firewall.
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