The ToolPak displays in English when your language is not supported. See Supported languages for more information. Some languages aren't supported by the Analysis ToolPak. See I can't find the Analysis ToolPak in Excel for Mac 2011 for more information. I truly hope that error bar functionality and add-ins will be reinstated through a subsequent software update because, as it stands now, Excel 2008 is not very useful to me (and perhaps, any other Scientist).The Analysis ToolPak is not available for Excel for Mac 2011. And Microsoft really wasn't advertising the removal of additional features on their web site.

It was touted has having a revamped graphics engine, but was also rated as being basically the same as Excel 2004. All the reviews I read prior to purchase made no mention of an additional drop in essential feature support (other than VBA). I think we were all led to believe that Excel 2008 was similar in functionality to Excel 2004. All of the new and fancy GUI-goodness has to come at a price.

Thanks for the suggestion, but this seems like something inherent with the new version of Word (likely all the new bells and whistles). Apple Mail and iCal in Leopard just suit my needs better. I used it for about 10 min and decided it wasn't for me. I was very excited at the prospect of abandoning Word v.X and Excel 2004, but it looks as though I'll be using them for much, much longer.

I've tested this out on 2 Macs - a new MacBook Pro C2D 2.4 GHz (4 GB RAM) and a Mac Mini C2D 1.8GHz (2 GB RAM). Over 700 MB!!! Word v.X displays the images faster than Word 2008 and still only uses a fraction of the RAM (it may rise to 120 MB when scrolling through the images). The same file under Word 2008 takes 200 MB!! And then it will jump to 700+ MB as soon as it starts to load some of the images in the file (JPEGs). and don't get me started on the lack of VBA support.Īnd why is Word such a RAM hog? Even running under Rosetta Word v.X uses only about 80 MB of real RAM when displaying a 200+ page report with embedded graphics. is Microsoft trying to water down Excel to appeal only to average consumers? The analysis tool pack and the ability to specify custom error bars are essential tools for any Scientist or Engineer (and students too). And did you happen to notice that the error bar functionality for charts has changed? In Excel 2004 I could specify a custom standard error term (located in the cell of my choice), but this feature is now gone from Excel 2008. As a Scientist, I rely on this quite a bit for quick and dirty analyses. I too was shocked to find this add-in missing.

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