[Update 15-Mar-08: An improved version of script below appears in “Updated Paste Plain Text AppleScript for Word 2008,” 2008-03-15. -Joe Kissell] Don’t get me started on Word 2008. Suffice it to say ...

When Microsoft released Office 2008 for Mac, they did something that I must applaud -- they joined the ranks of Mac developers creating Automator-able applications. When you do a search in Automator ...

Reader Jim Harper feels like Word 2008 has severed his ties with the past. He writes: I’m running Tiger and when I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2008 from Office 2004 I cannot open Word files created ...

My co-hort David mentioned yesterday Microsoft's Mac BU just released the Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update which contains suite-wide stability, security and performance improvements. I've been having ...

Is Apple’s iWork a viable alternative to Microsoft Office? To find out, we asked Jeffrey Battersby—our go-to expert on word processing programs—to use Word 2008 and Pages ’08 to create the same ...

So here we are faced with another version of Microsoft’s behemoth and I’m not terribly excited. I’ve been using Microsoft products since Works, back in the day, and I’ve got to say that with the slow ...

The subject of Microsoft Office for Mac has the potential to be a touchy one with Apple fans. There is a contingent of Mac users for whom Microsoft is the enemy, and any alternative to their products ...

Reports concerning Microsoft's new Office 2008 suite are beginning to trickle in. MacFixIt reader Bud Clark reports repeated crashes from Word 2008 -- a problem since the installer deletes Office 2004 ...

Nobody likes losing a document, especially if they've invested a great deal of time and effort in its creation. If your company has a Mac computer running Microsoft Word 2008, the software has an ...