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Well is the performance of Office 2004 a problem?

In my office we bought 2008 for the Office Macs (roughly 1/2 or more of the office is) for compatibility.  2008 so far has been the most "Mac-like" office that said. There's no deal makers other than compatibility I've found. I never had Office 2004 on my work iMac, or my MacBook and at home after Office 2004 for some reason disappeared on my G5 I switched Pages. So I can't comment on direct performance of Office 04 vs 08 on Intel Macs but...

Of the three, I prefer pages simply for the fact its a superior layout program and much more slim (performance wise) but I'm a designer not the Word warrior. I've toyed with 08 page layout mode, its an improvement but doesn't have the pick up and go zeal.

If word is the only reason to upgrade, I'd say skip it.
http://www.macworld.com/article/131559/ … d2008.html

If she's a professional of any sort that uses the Office suite, it'd be worth biting the bullet.  Depending on the word jockeying, Pages is an option. I use to write business letters and I've gotten compliments (The templates are beautiful minimalism) but then again my company thinks Comic Sans is perfectly acceptable. I'm starting to count the days until Grad School.