Progent's Apple-certified Mac consultants can help you set up Microsoft Office 2004 for Macs on a mixed-platform network so that that Mac users take advantage of the new features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage in order to share information and network resources with colleagues who use Windows.

Features of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac has been enhanced to provide deeply integrated tools to help you manage, create and share information effectively. The Standard Edition of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac productivity suite includes Word 2004 for Mac, Excel 2004 for Mac, PowerPoint 2004 for Mac, and Entourage 2004. The Professional Edition of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac also includes Virtual PC for Mac.

Major new features of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac include:

• Project Center
  You can manage your projects more efficiently by accessing all of your project-related email messages, files, notes, contacts and schedules in one convenient place.

• Toolbox
  You can quickly access Compatibility Reports, your Scrapbook and the Project Palette from Word, Excel or PowerPoint 2004.

• Compatibility Reports
  You can seamlessly share files and project information with almost anyone on a Mac or PC. Now you can quickly identify and resolve version- and platform-related compatibility issues.

• Project Gallery
  You can quickly find the documents you’ve worked on recently in the Project Gallery, and use the new Learn tab to find instructive sample documents.

New features of the office productivity programs included with Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac include:

• Word 2004 for Mac
  Word's new Notebook Layout View allows you to flag important entries, search for key words and phrases, and record time-stamped audio into your notes as you type. An improved Track Changes feature makes it easier to track edits and allows you to accept or reject changes from the comment balloons. Enhanced Reference Tools let you access a dictionary, a thesaurus and a link to the Microsoft Encarta online encyclopedia right from the Office Toolbox. The new Navigation Pane lets you quickly scan and navigate through your document with the improved document map and thumbnail view.

• Excel 2004 for Mac
  Excel's new Page Layout View lets you review and manipulate on screen what will appear on paper, easily scale your data to fit the right number of pages, and insert headers and footers by simply double-clicking in the document. Charting improvements provide new color schemes and allow you to use the Formatting Palette for quickly updating your chart type, options, data, colors, weights, fills and special effects. Smart Buttons let you instantly track down and fix spreadsheet formula errors and control how the AutoFill feature applies formatting to your data. Editing/function improvements allow you to view the correct syntax for more than 140 functions to ensure that calculations work every time, and simply click and drag to change ranges with the updated Range Finder. XML file support allows you to use Extensible Markup Language (XML) to share complex data with ease.

• PowerPoint 2004 for Mac
  PowerPoint's new Presenter Tools let you keep your presentation well timed and allow you to make adjustments on the fly as you respond to your audience with the tools in the presenter’s view window. New animation and transitions allow you to experiment with new 3D transitions and vivid custom animations to make your presentations richer and more dynamic. New template designs offer more than 100 new design templates. Font formatting improvements let you quickly set font spacing, size and transparency with the new Format Font dialog box.

• Entourage 2004 for Mac
  Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac is a personal information manager (PIM) that helps you handle email messages, contacts, schedules, notes and documents from a central location. Learn more about the features of Entourage and how Progent's Entourage consulting experts can help you upgrade your Mac email to work seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange Server so that you can collaborate with Windows users running Microsoft Outlook.

• Virtual PC for Mac
  Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac Version 7, included with the Professional Edition of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, makes it possible for you to access PC-only software, files, networks and devices from your Mac. Find out more about the features of Virtual PC for Mac and how Progent's Mac and Virtual PC consulting experts can help you configure upgrade your Mac email to work seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange Server so that you can collaborate with Windows users running Microsoft Outlook.

How Progent's Consultants Provide Office 2004 for Mac Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants, Cisco partners and Mac experts can help you integrate your Mac computers and applications into a robust and secure IT network, configure your Microsoft Exchange Server to support the collaborative features of Entourage, and provide Mac training for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Progent can also provide a full range of Microsoft Exchange consulting services including integration, support, security, remote access, performance tuning, spam blocking and virus protection.

If you are looking for a Macintosh consulting specialist, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or send email to apple-help@progent.com.