Office for OS X Sucks

The new Microsoft Office for OS X is terrible: it's faster than the old version, but still slow, and it drags like OpenOffice when you have a big document open in Word. The Ribbon is a flaming turd: it's not the awesome all-in-one changing menu like in Windows. It's just a cheesy set of extras like templates that nobody uses. You can turn it off in Word, but not in Excel. It's terrible, and a waste of $200.

The formatting palette in Word and Excel is minimally customizable: you can turn off crap, but you can't even resize it to show more than 4 styles at a time, so if you don't you the top 4 default headers, you constantly scroll up and down. And, of course, the palette scroll bars don't obey your mouse wheel.

In Windows, Excel kind of learns whether to move to the right or move down after you press enter, depending on the dimensions of your data range. OS X Excel makes you choose in the preferences whether to always move right or down. I thought this was just a holdover from the dark OS 9 days, but it's still here, in 2008.

And just like most OS X stuff, there aren't keyboard shortcuts for most things. Ctrl-H doesn't replace? F2 doesn't edit? No VBA, so none of my macros work?

Even the preferences dialog is different: it has the lame Windows 'okay' and 'cancel' buttons, contrary to every other OS X app ever made.

In Word, if you turn on the style area on the left of your document to see which style is applied to which section, and then scroll right on your page, the style area makes copies of itself next to each other when you scroll back left, so you end up seeing six style areas and none of your typing. You can get those copies to disappear by scrolling down your doc and scrolling back up. That's crap you see in Windows 3.1 shareware programs, not $300 worth of office suite

The frickin installer doesn't even ask what you want installed--it installs everything. That's right, zero install options. And it dumps random files in the Office folder, while every other OS x app puts its files into bundle covered by the program icon.

WTF? You suck Microsoft, like an overpaid consultant, for grossly under-delivering on substance, but garnishing with shiny vacuity.

Why did I buy a Mac just to use Zoho Sheet and TextEdit?