![]() ![]() hell, maybe they need to just make a new Pro App, combine everything like Entourage does, provide iCal’s wonderful Push, Sync, and Subscription support, and charge a “nominal fee.” but i agree: its a bit arcane to not at least have some sort of option to combine all three into one App. I can still see some of Apple’s reasoning for keeping Mail, iCal, and Address Book as separate entities… kind of. thankfully i caught this error before i went ahead and sent anything off. this becomes a problem as many companies now allow for Word doc uploading. I am completely content leaving Office for iWork but have noticed that when i’ve created a resume’ with Pages, the gorgeous formatting gets trashed by MS Word. and with little to no “professional” support in Entourage (push Calendars or even subscription support), its been enough to just say “thanks but no thanks” to Entourage. trying to sync the two has just been an abomination they just don’t talk well together. ![]() ![]() I’ve really been struggling with the Entourage v. If we can crowd source good answers to these two, I’m happy to give swearing off MS Office a full quarter in the name of science. Is there some single Calendar, Mail and Contacts solution that is exchange compatible for OS X of which I’m not aware? Is there a way to get a better grammar checker to replace the built in one? It is certainly possible, and even pleasurable, to live quite nicely without MS Office assuming you’re not an illiterate forced to use Exchange. Why they were locked in the first place: Corporate IT didn’t want my job to be too easy.Īll in all, I’m giving my experiment a 75% pass rate. Numbers had no problem opening the spreadsheets, it stripped the offending VBA code right out, and even went so far as to Unprotect the worksheets so I could do my own sorts and such. Oh sure, it’d open it read only, but what good does that do me?Įnter Numbers, the best thing to happen to spreadsheets since Visacalc. This is just an anecdotal observation but there were a number of MS Excel documents forwarded to me from Corporate IT that had embedded VBA that Excel 2008 was simply unable to open for editing. Did you know that iWork is more Office compatible than Office? Who’dathunkit, right? It appears that Microsoft’s removal of Visual Basic for Application (VBA) from Office for Mac has creates all order of compatibility problems (note: this removal also obviates most, if not all, the viruses identified in my May 11th article). My favorite: my usage of “antidotally” instead of “anecdotally” as pointed out by reader Paddy. Redmond’s word processor was able to identify nearly all of the goofy little errors that my co-workers now refer to as “Leigh-isms”. It was enough that I took one particularly illiterate article and pasted it into Word, Pages, and Scrivener to see the results. I didn’t really notice the difference until I started to use Pages to compose posts for the Cult in lieu of Word –œ honestly I didn’t notice the difference then either, but a whole lot of you all did. If you’re reading this before one of the guys has a chance to clean up the mess that I call writing, it likely comes as no surprise that I’m dyslexic, and I really rely on those green and red squiggly underlines to tell me when I’ve made some bone-head mistake. This issue is pervasive in applications that use OS X’s built in spelling and grammar checking (the problem even occurs in my new favorite writing tool: Scrivener). My only gripe: the built in grammar checker. iWork’s speed, as well as its ability to make documents that just sparkle really won out. In fact, I found that producing professional looking deliverables for clients was actually easier in iWork than in MS Office. ![]() I found no instances where I was offered an Office document and was unable to work on it. When it came to living without Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, life was a whole lot easier. Sadly, Thunderbird and Sunbird both overtly fail to support the mail server that 95% of people who don’t have to wear nametags to their jobs are required to use (I say overtly, because you try and raise the notion of Exchange support in the Thunderbird forums, and see how hard you get flamed –œ go ahead, I double-dog-dare you). Just as I know there are plug-ins for iCal which will enable some measure of Exchange integration, but this is 2008, three separate applications for scheduling, contacts, and email is just arcane.Įven Mozilla has decided to party like it’s 1996 and finally add PIM-like features to Thunderbird through the Sunbird plug in. The Achilles heel of this whole project, as I suspected back on the 11th, was going to be email and calendaring. ![]()
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