Navigating back and forth to different open documents can bring the program to an extremely slow crawl which can last anywhere from 1-4 minutes If there are column filters in a document to do a search I have to click to select the topmost cell in a column (the cell containing a filter), having any other cell (or no cell) selected will result in 0 search results Sometimes when clicking on a random cell I get a beachball cursor which lasts for a minute or two. That being said, Pages (at least, prior to Apple's current hack job) showed that a word processor can be good at allowing mere mortals to do basic layout with minimal frustration there's a lot the MacAPEX™ (and the whole Office team, Windows and otherwise) could take from what Apple achieved with Pages '09. So I'm at an advantage: I can use the right tools for the job. But, I'm also a professional designer, so those programs are as comfortable to me as Excel is to an Accountant.
If I need to build a one-off work document that has a lot of mixed elements, I'll always do it in InDesign or Illustrator. my letterhead and a lot of other corporate flotsam is constructed in Word and Excel-but those are all build once, use over and over again without adjustment). outside of highly structured templates (e.g. That means in Word, no complex layout, etc. So much so that it may yet convince me to move all my work accounts from Google Work to Office 365.Īlthough, I think part of this may be because I don't ever try to make the Office programs do what they weren't intended for. In general I'm reasonably impressed with all of Microsoft's Office efforts-the web versions are so much more capable than Google Docs it's not even funny.
Not to be a contrarian or anything, but I really rather enjoy Mac Office, despite it being a little long in the tooth.
Laying out tables and images in Word remains terrible, but that's a Word thing not a Mac Office thing. I'm not a huge fan of the ribbon as implemented in Office 2011, but I don't run into document compatibility problems any more and it doesn't generally feel sluggish.
Office X and 2004 were absolute dogs, 2008 was a big improvement but with annoying limitations, and 2011 is quite good. I'm an English professor and nothing works like Excel. I moved to Keynote because of the more granular graphic control - which, sigh, has been made somewhat problematic in the new version - and I drifted from Word because Scrivener was so much better for long docs and I've grown indifferent wo what I use for short docs (Nisus, Pages, even Google Docs sometimes), but Excel. It's a bi gt sluggish with some documents, but so was every PC version as well. I must not use Office 2011 heavily enough (even though I use it daily) but I don't find it totally horrible.
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