Star Office 2008 SP1 Released, VBA Support To Return
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th May 2008 20:34 UTC
Features, Office Microsoft has released the first service pack to Microsoft Office:Mac 2008. The company also said that sales of Office:Mac 2008 have "soared", and that it is "selling faster than any previous version of Office for Mac in the past 19 years". Microsoft also had a surprise announcement about Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support.
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Marcin
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2007-06-06

He is scared that if he prepares something in OpenOffice, send it to someone else, who is using Office, it won't work or formating will not work, etc.


Your Boss possibly runs a bigger risk of this by using a different version of Office than "someone else" happened to be using.

Exactly. We have problems with different version of MS Office. One person is using MS Office 2003, another is using 2007 and someone else has Office XP and I have Office 2008 for Mac. Adding OpenOffice to this mixture would introduce additional confusion.

I don't know if there are no problems between different versions of OpenOffice?

Edited 2008-05-15 09:20 UTC

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lemur2 Member since:
2007-02-17

Exactly. We have problems with different version of MS Office. One person is using MS Office 2003, another is using 2007 and someone else has Office XP and I have Office 2008 for Mac. Adding OpenOffice to this mixture would introduce additional confusion.

I don't know if there are no problems between different versions of OpenOffice?


If you were to introduce OpenOffice into this mixture, there suddenly becomes a single standard that could allow interchange that all parties could easily install at no cost.

There is no reason why you cannot put OpenOffice and MS Office on a machine at the same time. OpenOffice could provide a common format.

Finally ... Microsoft gets additional money if people have to upgrade their copy of MS Office because they are having trouble interchanging documents because they have different versions.

OpenOffice typically only gets installed if it is a way to solve such problems.

So ... which software provider do you think would introduce incompatibilities between Office versions, and which would be trying to solve that issue?

Follow the money ... and you have your answer.

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