Comments on: Monthly Meeting 0208 http://www.wamug.org.au/2008/02/monthly-meeting-0208/ The online presence of the Western Australian Macintosh User Group Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:51:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Neil Houghton http://www.wamug.org.au/2008/02/monthly-meeting-0208/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Neil Houghton Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:41:10 +0000 http://www.wamug.org.au/2008/02/26/monthly-meeting-0208/#comment-9 One thing to shout about (and not in a good way!) is that in the new version of Excel they have done away with macros. I have several spreadsheets where I use macros - so if I were to update these macros would stop working. I have a LOT of time invested in various Excel spreadsheets that I use constantly - so I cannot contemplate either updating Excel or changing to Numbers (it doesn't handle Excel macros either). The problem for me goes deeper than that - MS don't support Office/Excel 2004 for Leopard - so even though my new iMac came with a Leopard upgrade disc, I'm still running Tiger - at the moment I'm up to my eyeballs in accounts spreadsheets and I can't afford to find out the hard way any incompatabilities between Excel 2004 & Leopard. Bit of a bummer really :( One thing to shout about (and not in a good way!) is that in the new version of Excel they have done away with macros.

I have several spreadsheets where I use macros – so if I were to update these macros would stop working.

I have a LOT of time invested in various Excel spreadsheets that I use constantly – so I cannot contemplate either updating Excel or changing to Numbers (it doesn’t handle Excel macros either).

The problem for me goes deeper than that – MS don’t support Office/Excel 2004 for Leopard – so even though my new iMac came with a Leopard upgrade disc, I’m still running Tiger – at the moment I’m up to my eyeballs in accounts spreadsheets and I can’t afford to find out the hard way any incompatabilities between Excel 2004 & Leopard.

Bit of a bummer really :(

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