What is Live Window Resizing in Numbers or Excel?

Question

The reviews of Mac Word 2008 say it, like Numbers, will still now allow live window resizing in Excel 2008 (like it did not in Office 2004), although it will in Word. Stupid question- exactly what is live window resizing and what are the implications in using Excel 2008 or Numbers?

Answer 1

In the Windows version of word you can very easily. I have lots of docs that have large numbers of tables using excel. It is a lot easier to click insert, then it opens up a new spreadsheet in the document to create the table (kind of like in pages where you can add a table directly in the word processor page, then do all the math in your table there. The alternative of having to create a spreadsheet outside in Excel and then import it in takes lots of extra steps when you are using lots of tables in a report.
The huge flaw in Word 2004 for Mac is that although you can pull down Insert, then Object, then a blank spreadsheet directly in the document and add to it, you cannot then easily resize it in the document and see easily how it will look and where you want to place, whereas in Office WIndows you easily can. I can see where the ability to use tables (which can do all the math) in a pages document directly would be superior to Word Mac.