Customer Reviews

Microsoft Word 2004 (Mac) [Old Version]

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Despite all the touted improvements in this latest version of MS Word for the Mac, experienced Word users should consider carefully before plonking down for it. The chances are that if you are comfortable running an earlier version on your Mac, then there is little need to migrate.

Though I'll grant that one new feature is appealing. The ability to avoid the automatic corrections and numbering does indeed give you more fine grained control over the document.

Overall, consider skipping this version.

I give this product a big fat D minus! It is so slow and clunky, that It's hard to believe! Where shall I begin?
I've been creating tables of six columns, each has some text in it. It is NOT POSSIBLE to lock the column widths, so that during the writing and edit process, the columns are not accidently resized, which happens a lot, because of the inaccuracy of the program.

Secondly, it's SO unbeliveably slow. I can type faster than the application can put the characters on the screen. It doesn't even smoothly scroll, which is a nuisance. And, I'm using a computer that plays full frame high definition video for editing without a problem, so I know it's not that. (These problems happened on two seperate machines.)

There are LOTS of bugs that don't make sense. Several times, I've gotten automatic page breaks, which become embedded in the text, and the only way to remove them, is to unformat the text in a clean document, then re-import it.

Oh yeah, it crashes A LOT.

99% of the features make no sense, and are not intuitive. They are hard to set up and use properly, and usually makes a big mess of everything.

Did I mention that it's SLOW and crashes a lot?

It is hard to find anything bad to say about this program, except that it is slow as molasses on my G3 iBook. However it zips along on my gal pal Sara's G5 iMac. I mean it flies. And there is nothing you cannot do with it, from formatting a book (who needs PageMaker or Quark anymore), to writing a screen play. You can change the menus to anything you want, for example Sara has four font menus. You can save your stuff as a pdf document and your pdf opens exactly like it was in Word and I mean exactly.

But, as I said, it's too slow on my older iBook, so I use the previous version of Word instead and the excellent NisusWriter WP (for Mac only). Word will open anything. The dictionary is pretty good, but the thesaurus could maybe be better. No, it could definitely be better. But here I'm nitpicking, probably because it's hard for way left leaning me to admit that Microsoft got something right. And about my iBook being too slow to run this elegant program, maybe, just maybe it's time I sprung for one of those new nifty PowerBooks with the glow in the dark keyboard. Whoohoo.

I was disappointed with MAC's iNotes (or whatever their word processor is called) because I write a lot. So I bought WORD for MAC and it is just as good as what I have on my PC. It is so much more powerful than the iNotes.

I use word since as a MAC owner I get a good number of messages from PC users, and using word is quicker than using a decoder such as MacLink

Excellent software product for MAC OS. Just as good or better than the Windows program.

Although the installation process is a bit slow, I have no complaints about Word for Mac. Runs swiftly on my black Mac Book. Besides, there is no other word processor that I know of, compatible for both Mac and Windows.

Word program is excellent. It has many easy to use features, including tool bars.
However, I had to wait for quite a while to receive the rpoduct. After checking my order status, which showed that it had been delivered, I had to wait another 5 days before I actually received it. I would order this product directly from Macintosh.