ACCESS FEED: Re: [MS_AccessPros] Re: [OT] Upgrading to Office 2010

Jumat, 16 September 2011

Re: [MS_AccessPros] Re: [OT] Upgrading to Office 2010

Thanks, Bill! I know nothing about the site except that it came up through
PriceGrabber.com, one of the first places I check. Guess I should search for
reviews or complaints somewhere. There are 1,110 reviews of them on the
PriceGrabber site, and only 16 of them (in the three years they have been on
there) are either neutral or negative with the rest being positive.

I'm thinking I might forget the trial and go with the full version. I just
wanted to see how the interface worked and what kinds of changes had been
made. I have actually switched over to the Mac and am running my Windows and
Access in a virtual machine, which works very well. I have installed a trial
of Office 2011 for Mac and really like the interface for Word and Excel and
thought I might buy it and keep my old Access 2007 as that will be the only
Windows "must have" program left. But despite the slight inconvenience of
working in the virtual machine, I'm thinking that the full Office 2010 Pro
is my best bet. Even found a Mac blog that recommended the same because the
Mac Outlook must really be weak compared to Windows. I don't use outlook any
more, so that won't make any difference. Plus, the Excel Analysis ToolPak
and some Pivot Table features aren't available in the Mac version, and I'll
always wonder about complete VBA compatibility between the two platforms.
And though it's a picky detail, some of the shortcuts I'm used to in Excel
and Word don't appear to have equivalents in the Mac versions.

To hear those of you who are real experts say good things about 2010 gives
me a lot of confidence, too. I really appreciate the comments!

James
www.james-mc.com
Words To Live By

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Bill Mosca <wrmosca@comcast.net> wrote:

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>
> James
>
> That site has a really good price. MS charges around $500 for the same
> suite. Have you checked the site to see if you are getting the real deal and
> not some pirated thing?
>
> Now back to your questions...
>
> I have Win 7 Enterprise 64-bit with Office 2010 32-bit installed. All is
> good. On my personal PC I have Win 7 professional 32-bit with the same
> result.
>
> You can install both versions on the same machine (except for Outlook -
> that's a one-version-only thing). Switching between 2007 and 2010 Access
> will cause a registry update. Not as bad as switching from 2003 to 2007.
> That is what we call the coffee break switch.
>
> But I have dabbled in 2007 and 2010. 2010 is far better in all products. I
> used to have all versions of Access installes on one machine but it really
> isn't worth the pain. I dumped 2007 as soon as 2010 came out. The file
> format is the same. The only thing I miss is acc 2007's Themes. They
> included some really cool graphics for forms. 2010 has themes but sans
> graphics.
>
> One of our MVPs put it perfectly when she referred to 2007 as Microsoft's
> redheaded stepchild. MS listened to us MVPs when we complained about a lot
> of shortcomings in 2007 (like non-customizable Ribbon) and fixed most of
> them.
>
> As to saving the downloaded file, yes, you should be able to copy it to a
> DVD provided the file you get is not one of those .exe files that just
> connects to the internet and downloads cab files for installation.
>
> Bill
>
>
> --- In MS_Access_Professionals@yahoogroups.com, James McAlister <forums01@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm considering upgrading to Office 2010 from 2007 and have some
> > questions. I do, by the way, use Windows 7 Pro 64-bit if that makes
> > any difference in the answer.
> >
> > 1. Can I install the trial version of Office 2010 without messing up
> > my current installation of Office 2007? Since all is working well now,
> > I don't want to waste a lot of time trying to fix something that the
> > trial might cause to go awry.
> >
> > 2. Is there any drawback from getting the full version as a download?
> > I see it here, and it supposedly activates on two computers. I'm
> > assuming that if I download I would be able to burn the downloaded
> > file to DVD for safekeeping.
> >
> > http://www.discountmountainsoftware.com/miofpr20doon.html?cmp=pg
> >
> > Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!!
> >
> > James
> > www.james-mc.com
> > Words To Live By
> >
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