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Progent's Apple-qualified Apple Mac OS X consultants can assist your company to set up Microsoft Office for Macs on a mixed-platform network so that Mac users can benefit from powerful features in Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage for Mac to share data and network resources with fellow workers who use Microsoft Windows-based systems.
Office productivity applications included with Microsoft Office for Mac include:
Word for Mac Word for Mac 2004's Notebook View enables you to tag important entries, find key terms, and record time-stamped audio into your notes whiles you type. The Track Changes tool makes it easier to follow edits and enables you to approve or reject edits from the comment balloons. Enhance Reference Tools allow you to refer to a dictionary, a thesaurus, or a hyperlink to the Microsoft Encarta online encyclopedia directly from the Microsoft Office Toolbox. The updated Navigation Pane allows you to navigate through your document with the improved map and thumbnail view.
Word for Mac 2008 includes an improved user interface that has an extensible toolbar and incorporates a rudimentary desktop publishing toolset via the Publishing Layout View that provides more precision in the positioning of text and images and enables you to chain text overflow from a given area to any text box on another page. Additional improvements built into Word for Mac 2008 include support for OpenType ligatures for better looking fonts, and reference utilities that allow a variety of citation formats. Word for Mac 2008 works with AppleScript but doesn't work with Visual Basic for Applications. Progent's Apple Mac OS X consultants can assist your business to determine if this restriction might impact your decision to upgrade to Microsoft Word for Mac 2008.
Excel for Mac 2004 and 2008 Excel for Mac 2004's Layout View allows you to review and manipulate on screen in WYSIWYG mode, quickly scale data to fit the right page count, and add headers and footers with a click. Charting enhancements provide new color schemes and enable you to use the Formatting Tool for instantly updating your chart class, content, fills, typography, and special effects. Smart Buttons allow you to find and fix spreadsheet problems and control how AutoFill applies formatting to your content. Editing/function improvements permit you to view the proper usage for over 140 functions, and to click and drag to alter ranges with the enhanced Range Finder. XML support permits you to utilize Extensible Markup Language to collaborate on data.
Microsoft Office Excel for Mac 2008 can now support as many spreadsheet cells as the Microsoft Windows edition of Excel and introduces Formula Builder for simplifying the creation of complex formulas. Excel for Mac 2008 also includes an Elements Gallery with templates for common tasks such as company payroll. As with the current version of Word for Mac, Excel for Mac 2008 doesn't support VBasic for Applications. Progent's Mac OS X experts can help your business to determine if this restriction might reduce the usefulness of Excel for Mac 2008 for your company.
Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac's Presenter Tools enable you to keep your slide show well paced and let you make on-the-fly adjustments via the controls displayed in the presenter’s view window. Animation and transitions permit you to make more dynamic slide shows. The enhanced Format Font dialog box provides increased control in specifying typography options such as spacing, style, and opacity.
Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2008 introduces Smart Art for easily converting bulleted displays into a variety of diagrams or flowcharts. The convenient Object Palette utility consolidates formatting options for fast updating. A zoom slider makes it simple to alter the size of elements. A command for exporting to Apple's iPhoto allows you to view slide shows using an Apple iPod. Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2008 also is compatible with an Apple Remote,
Entourage for Mac Microsoft Entourage for Mac is an information manager that make it easy for you to handle messages, addresses, schedules, notes, and documents from a central application. Microsoft Entourage can access messages via IMAP protocol, POP, and Microsoft's WebDAV. Entourage enables collaboration between Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows clients by permitting workers to access their data on Exchange Server to manage messages, look through Exchange's global address list (GAL), sync schedules and contacts, and set up meetings.
Entourage for Mac 2008 features an Out of Office assistant that allows you to customize out-of-office messages based on who receives it. Entourage for Mac 2008 also provides better filters against spam and phishing and provides To Do lists that can be read via the new My Day tool, which allows you to see your day's schedule and To Do List on your Mac desktop. Entourage 2008 also offers tighter integration with Exchange Server and a more powerful scheduling capability. Find out more about the capabilities of Microsoft Entourage and ways that Progent's Microsoft Entourage experts can help your company to enhance your Mac messaging to work seamlessly with Exchange so that you can collaborate with fellow workers running Microsoft Outlook.
Additional Features of Microsoft Office for Mac
Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac include powerful utilities to assist you to produce, organize, and distribute business information efficiently. Additional capabilities of Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac include:
Project Center allows you to manage your projects efficiently by centralizing control over all of your project-related email, files, notes, contacts, and schedules.
Toolbox supports quick access to Compatibility notes, your Scrapbook, and the Project tool from Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
Compatibility Reports let you seamlessly share files and project information with colleagues who run either Mac or Microsoft Windows computers. You can in addition rapidly identify and repair many compatibility issues.
Project Gallery makes it simple to locate recent items in the Gallery, and utilize the new Learn tool to find instructive sample documents.
How Progent's Consultants Can Support Your Business with Office for Mac
Progent's Microsoft-qualified consultants, Cisco-certified network experts, and Apple Mac support professionals can help your company to integrate your Apple Mac OS X systems and applications into a robust and protected IT network, configure your Microsoft Exchange Server to work with the collaborative capabilities of Entourage, and offer Mac Training for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Progent can also provide a wide range of Exchange support services such as system design and deployment, troubleshooting, protection, remote access, performance tuning, fault tolerance, plus spam and virus filtering.
Word for Mac 2004's Notebook View enables you to tag important entries, find key terms, and record time-stamped audio into your notes whiles you type. The Track Changes tool makes it easier to follow edits and enables you to approve or reject edits from the comment balloons. Enhance Reference Tools allow you to refer to a dictionary, a thesaurus, or a hyperlink to the Microsoft Encarta online encyclopedia directly from the Microsoft Office Toolbox. The updated Navigation Pane allows you to navigate through your document with the improved map and thumbnail view.
Excel for Mac 2004's Layout View allows you to review and manipulate on screen in WYSIWYG mode, quickly scale data to fit the right page count, and add headers and footers with a click. Charting enhancements provide new color schemes and enable you to use the Formatting Tool for instantly updating your chart class, content, fills, typography, and special effects. Smart Buttons allow you to find and fix spreadsheet problems and control how AutoFill applies formatting to your content. Editing/function improvements permit you to view the proper usage for over 140 functions, and to click and drag to alter ranges with the enhanced Range Finder. XML support permits you to utilize Extensible Markup Language to collaborate on data.
Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac's Presenter Tools enable you to keep your slide show well paced and let you make on-the-fly adjustments via the controls displayed in the presenter’s view window. Animation and transitions permit you to make more dynamic slide shows. The enhanced Format Font dialog box provides increased control in specifying typography options such as spacing, style, and opacity.
Microsoft Entourage for Mac is an information manager that make it easy for you to handle messages, addresses, schedules, notes, and documents from a central application. Microsoft Entourage can access messages via IMAP protocol, POP, and Microsoft's WebDAV. Entourage enables collaboration between Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows clients by permitting workers to access their data on Exchange Server to manage messages, look through Exchange's global address list (GAL), sync schedules and contacts, and set up meetings.
