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Progent's Apple-certified Apple Macintosh consultants can help you to configure Microsoft Office 2008 for Macs on a cross-platform network so that Apple Mac users are able to benefit from popular capabilities in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint Presentation Manager, and Microsoft Entourage in order to share data and network resources with fellow workers who use Windows-powered computers.
Office productivity programs supplied with Microsoft Office for Mac include:
Microsoft Word for Mac Microsoft Word for Mac 2004's Notebook View enables you to flag important entries, search for specified words and phrases, and add time-stamped audio into your notes as you type. The Track Changes tool makes it easier to follow updates and allows you to approve or ignore changes from the comments. Improved Reference Utilities permit you to refer to a dictionary, a thesaurus, or a link to the Encarta web encyclopedia right from the Microsoft Office Toolbox. The updated Navigation Pane enables you to navigate through your document with the convenient document map.
Word for Mac 2008 features an improved user interface that has an extensible toolbar and incorporates a basic desktop publishing capability via the Publishing View that provides increased precision over positioning of text and graphics and allows users to link text overflow from one page to any text box on any page. Additional improvements available in Word for Mac 2008 include OpenType ligatures for better looking fonts, and reference utilities that support various citation styles. Word for Mac 2008 supports AppleScript but doesn't work with Visual Basic for Applications. Progent's Mac OS X experts can help your business to determine if this restriction might affect your decision to upgrade to Microsoft Word for Mac 2008.
Excel for Mac Microsoft Excel for Mac 2004's Layout View allows you to review and edit in a window exactly what will print, conveniently scale data to fit your desired number of pages, and add headers and footers with a click. Charting enhancements provide new color combinations and enable you to use the Formatting Tool for instantly updating your chart class, content, colors, weights, and effects. Smart Buttons allow you to find and repair spreadsheet formula problems and manage how the AutoFill feature applies formatting to your content. Editing/function improvements permit you to see the correct usage for over 140 functions, and intuitively alter ranges with the enhanced Range Finder. XML file support permits you to use Extensible Markup Language to share data.
Microsoft Office Excel for Mac 2008 can now manage the same number of cells as the Microsoft Windows version of Excel and introduces Formula Builder for simplifying the writing of complicated formulas. Excel for Mac 2008 also comes with an Elements Gallery with built-in templates for popular tasks including payroll. Just like the current version of Microsoft Word for Mac, Microsoft Office Excel for Mac 2008 doesn't work with VBasic for Applications. Progent's Apple Macintosh consultants can help you to evaluate whether this limitation should reduce the usefulness of Microsoft Excel for Mac 2008 for your business.
PowerPoint for Mac PowerPoint for Mac's Presenter Tools permit you to keep your presentation properly timed and allow mid-show adjustments by means of the tools displayed in the presenter’s window. Animation and 3D transitions enable you to create more engaging presentations. The improved Format Font tool offers increased precision in selecting font characteristics such as positioning, size, and opacity.
Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2008 introduces Smart Art for quickly converting bulleted lists into a variety of diagrams or flowcharts. The new 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 iPhoto enables you to view slide shows using an Apple iPod. Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2008 also works with an Apple Remote,
Microsoft Entourage for Mac Microsoft Entourage for Mac is a personal information manager that helps people to handle messages, contacts, calendars, and notes from a consolidated location. Microsoft Entourage can access email using IMAP protocol, POP, and WebDAV. Microsoft Entourage facilitates teamwork between Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows users by allowing workers to access their data on Microsoft Exchange Server to handle messages, look through Exchange's global address list (GAL), synchronize schedules and contacts, and schedule conferences.
Entourage 2008 includes an Out of Office utility that allows you to customize out-of-office messages depending on who receives it. Entourage for Mac 2008 also offers improved defense against junk mail and phishing and offers To Do notes that can be read via the innovative My Day tool, which enables you to view your day's schedule and To Do List on your Mac desktop. Entourage for Mac 2008 also offers closer interaction with Microsoft Exchange Server and a more powerful calendaring function. Learn more details about the capabilities of Entourage for Mac and how Progent's Entourage for Mac consultants can help your company to upgrade your Mac messaging to work transparently with Microsoft Exchange Server so that you can team up with fellow workers running Outlook.
Other Powerful Components of Office for Mac
Office 2004 and 2008 provide powerful utilities to assist you to produce, manage, and distribute information productively. Additional features of Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac include:
Project Center enables you to manage your tasks productively by consolidating access to all project-related messages, files, notes, addresses, and events.
Toolbox supports quick access to Compatibility Reports, your Scrapbook, and the Project Palette from Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
Compatibility Reports let you share files and project data with teammates who run either Mac or Microsoft Windows systems. You can in addition quickly detect and fix numerous compatibility problems.
Project Gallery makes it simple to locate the latest documents in the Gallery, and utilize the new Learn tab to retrieve informative sample files.
How Progent's Consultants Can Support You with Office for Mac
Progent's Microsoft-certified support professionals, Cisco-qualified network experts, and Apple Mac support professionals can help you to integrate your Mac OS X systems and applications into a dependable and secure IT network, set up your Exchange Server to support the groupware features of Microsoft Entourage for Mac, and provide Apple Mac Education for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Mac. Progent can also deliver a broad range of Microsoft Exchange consulting services such as system design and installation, maintenance, protection, wide area access, performance optimization, fault tolerance, and spam and malware blocking.
Microsoft Word for Mac 2004's Notebook View enables you to flag important entries, search for specified words and phrases, and add time-stamped audio into your notes as you type. The Track Changes tool makes it easier to follow updates and allows you to approve or ignore changes from the comments. Improved Reference Utilities permit you to refer to a dictionary, a thesaurus, or a link to the Encarta web encyclopedia right from the Microsoft Office Toolbox. The updated Navigation Pane enables you to navigate through your document with the convenient document map.
Microsoft Excel for Mac 2004's Layout View allows you to review and edit in a window exactly what will print, conveniently scale data to fit your desired number of pages, and add headers and footers with a click. Charting enhancements provide new color combinations and enable you to use the Formatting Tool for instantly updating your chart class, content, colors, weights, and effects. Smart Buttons allow you to find and repair spreadsheet formula problems and manage how the AutoFill feature applies formatting to your content. Editing/function improvements permit you to see the correct usage for over 140 functions, and intuitively alter ranges with the enhanced Range Finder. XML file support permits you to use Extensible Markup Language to share data.
PowerPoint for Mac's Presenter Tools permit you to keep your presentation properly timed and allow mid-show adjustments by means of the tools displayed in the presenter’s window. Animation and 3D transitions enable you to create more engaging presentations. The improved Format Font tool offers increased precision in selecting font characteristics such as positioning, size, and opacity.
Microsoft Entourage for Mac is a personal information manager that helps people to handle messages, contacts, calendars, and notes from a consolidated location. Microsoft Entourage can access email using IMAP protocol, POP, and WebDAV. Microsoft Entourage facilitates teamwork between Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows users by allowing workers to access their data on Microsoft Exchange Server to handle messages, look through Exchange's global address list (GAL), synchronize schedules and contacts, and schedule conferences.
