Hi,
re: Excel 2004 Mac
I've been using Office since the mid '80's on Mac's. Been using Excel intensely for the last 10 years.
After 10 years of torment and frustration with this good, but flawed product, I'm wanting it to be pushed beyond the beta testing stage and am very willing to help in any way I can.
I push Excel fairly hard and it is just such a glass-jawed, weak-kneed, clay-footed application. I'm locked in a constant battle trying to outwit it, because it constantly does silly things and falls over, and over and over. I'm constantly manually backing up every few minutes, because like as not it will chuck a hissy-fit and all my data will be trashed.
I must have spent several hundred extra hours over the decade, that I shouldn't have had to salvaging, redoing, outwitting. It's just horrible. But for the fact that I need Excel to administer my teaching - sometimes I feel I'd happily throw it off a bridge.
One example, if you accidentally use Exposé on a Mac while Excel 2004 is running it will eventually crash that session and could corrupt your work. You have to Quit and reopen or suffer the wrath of the fates.
I'd love to upgrade but can't as VBA was removed from Excel 2008. I'm desperately hoping that things have improved in what I hear is to be Excel 2011 which is rumoured to be released in June. In this version, VBA is included.
I would dearly love to correspond with your Office for Mac Excel team, to provide error logs and detailed descriptions to improve the product. It has such potential, and that is the frustrating part.
Is there any way I can do this?
Regards,
Peter C
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