Excel 2008 For The Mac

[JimmiOO]

I think i have made a mistake installing Office 2008 on my new Mac. I have done some searching and have just realised Excel 2008 does not support Macro's,If only they had mentioned that when i was thinking of upgrading to Office 2008.

I have been a PC user but decided to change to Mac, I was told that everything would work the same once i had the programs installed, or if they didn't a simple fix or patch would sort it out, oh gullible me.

The problem i have now is i have a whole load of spread sheets, most contain Macro's that i can not use when i use my Mac. This is not a great problem YET as i still have my PC but it may be if my PC packs up.

I am told Office 2004 for the Mac does allow Macros and the Next version of Office for the Mac will allow for Macro's whenever that is out. Does anyone know if there is a quick fix for 2008? or if there is anyway around this? Or is there an easy way to covert all my Macro's to AppleScript?

Any help appreciated.

[DonkeyOte]

mikerickson and romperstomper are probably the two best known Mac experts on this forum but whilst we await their intervention I will chip in with my basic grasp of the situation (how correct that is remains to be seen of course):

a) yes XL2004 supports VBA

b) the next Mac version of XL should support VBA

I believe that Mac VBA is a subset of VB5 rather than VB6 as per PC versions XL2000 onwards so there may still be compatibility issues in terms of getting your existing code to run on 2004.

Regards Quick Fixes and tools for AppleScript conversion for 2008 I'm afraid I've no idea.
It might be an idea to post to a Mac help forum - I'm sure this will have come up before and they will have more people able to answer specifics.

[David Huang]

I'm running Windows on my Mac using bootcamp, which is really easy to install, and Office 2007 for windows. I also have Office 2008 for Mac, but even disregarding the lack of VBA, I don't like Office for Mac, the layout, fonts etc.

Even if I were running only windows, I'd still love my Mac (MacBook) for its size and features.

[JimmiOO]

Thanks for the advice guys, i will give bootcamp a go.