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Microsoft Office for Mac Integration and Support
Progent's macOS and OS X specialists can help your company to configure Office 365 for Mac on a mixed-platform network so that Apple Mac users are able to benefit from the familiar capabilities in Microsoft Office Word, Office Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook for Mac to share information and network resources with colleagues who run Windows-powered computers. Progent can also assist you to evaluate the benefits of moving to Microsoft Office 365 for Mac from a prior version of Office for Mac and assist your company to design and carry out a smooth upgrade plan. Progent provides integration support for all programs that come with Microsoft Office 365 for Mac and Office 2016 for Mac including:
- Word for Mac
Office 365 Word for Mac and Word for Mac 2016 include a new Design Tab that allows immediate access to design elements and makes it simple to control layout, colors and typography across a Word document. A new Insights Pane automatically searches for and shows relevant information from the web to deliver rich context for authors and readers. Another new feature is threaded comments, which promotes teamwork by tracking conversations and displaying them adjacent to the associated content. Enhancements include easier tools for inviting colleagues to proof and edit documents, concurrent coauthoring of documents, and more powerful Mail Merge capabilities that use Word, Excel and Outlook. As with newer editions of Office Excel and PowerPoint for Mac, Office 365 Word for Mac allows you to navigate documents with familiar Multi-Touch gestures.
Microsoft Office 365 Word for Mac simplifies layout management and teamwork Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 features improvements in the areas of document viewing, template control, desktop publishing, image editing, typography, document search, collaboration, and automation. The new Focus View feature allows you to eliminate non-essential content to increase the screen area dedicated to viewing your document. The Word Document Gallery streamlines access to standard and customized templates as well as recent documents. Enhanced publishing capabilities include a better Publishing Layout view, the ability to reorder layers dynamically, and more comprehensive image editing tools including background removal.
Microsoft Word for Mac 2008 introduced an updated user interface that offers an extensible toolbar and incorporates a basic desktop publishing toolset through the Publishing Layout View that offers more precision over layout of words and graphics and allows users to chain text overflow from one area to a specified text box on another page. Other capabilities available in Word for Mac 2008 include support for OpenType ligatures for more professional-looking type, and reference tools that allow a variety of citation formats. Word for Mac 2008 works with AppleScript but doesn't work with VBasic for Applications. Progent's Mac consultants can assist your business to determine if this limitation might impact your decision to upgrade to Word for Mac 2011.
Word for Mac 2004 introduced a Notebook Layout View that enables you to flag critical sections, search for specified terms, and add time-stamped voice recordings into your notes as you type. The Track Changes tool makes it easier to trace updates and enables you to approve or ignore changes from the comments. Reference Utilities permit you to refer to a dictionary or a thesaurus right from the Office Toolbox, although there is also a link to Microsoft's now discontinued Microsoft Encarta online encyclopedia. The Navigation Pane enables you to scan through your document using the improved document map.
- Excel for Mac
Office 365 Excel for Mac and Excel for Mac 2016 introduce PivotTable Slicers to enable you to discover patterns within large volumes of data. A new add-on, the Analysis Toolpak, facilitates complex statistical and engineering analyses. Interchangeability with PC versions of Excel is improved through support for common keyboard shortcuts and for most of the functions included with Excel 2013 for Windows. Additional improvements include an enhanced Formula Builder Pane and the ability to print to a single PDF file.
Office 365 Excel for Mac enhances interchangeability with Windows spreadsheets Excel for Mac 2011 includes improvements in the areas of data analysis and visualization, performance, image editing, programmability, security, and sharing. The innovative Sparklines capability provides an immediate visual representation of Excel data by means of tiny charts that are displayed within a cell next to the summarized data. Conditional Formatting has been enhanced to make it simpler to format data using icon libraries, data bars, and colors. You can now sort and filter information by color and use multiple- selection filters and new fast filtering options. Excel Tables (before called Lists) allow you to create multiple groups of associated information for easy editing and analytics.
Excel for Mac 2011 PivotTables have enhanced performance and closer compatibility with Windows editions of Office Excel. Improved editing tools and SmartArt images allow you to create polished-looking graphics without the use of outside photo-editing software. As with Word for Mac 2011, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support has been resumed, enhancing compatibility with Excel for Windows and offering new features such as IntelliSense, watch windows, and a new VBA debugging utility. You can control access to workbooks via Information Rights Management and share secure workbooks across platforms. To improve sharing, Office Excel for Mac 2011 permits you to create platform-independent workbooks and transfer dates among workbooks without being required to differentiate between 1900 and 1904 date systems.
Excel for Mac 2008 manages the same number of cells as the Microsoft Windows edition of Excel and includes the Formula Builder for streamlining the creation of complicated calculations. Microsoft Excel for Mac 2008 also includes an Elements Gallery with templates for popular applications including company payroll. Just like the 2008 version of Microsoft Word for Mac, Excel for Mac 2008 doesn't support VBasic for Applications. Progent's Mac OS X consultants can assist you to evaluate whether this restriction justifies an upgrade to Office for Mac 2011.
Microsoft Excel for Mac 2004 introduced a Layout View that enables you to review and manipulate on screen in WYSIWYG mode, conveniently scale data to fit your desired page count, and add headers and footers with ease. Charting improvements provide additional color combinations and allow you to use the Formatting Tool for quickly revising your chart type, data, colors, weights, and effects. Smart Buttons allow you to track down and fix spreadsheet formula errors and manage how AutoFill formats your data. Editing/function tools enable you to see the proper syntax for over 140 functions, and to click and drag to alter ranges with the enhanced Range Finder. XML file support allows you to use Extensible Markup Language to share data.
- Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac
Office 365 PowerPoint for Mac and PowerPoint for Mac 2016 include the new Theme Variants feature that makes it simple to change the style of a presentation by altering the color scheme. As with new versions of Word for Mac, a new Threaded Comments feature supports collaboration by displaying complete conversations adjacent to associated content. Collaboration is also improved with strong coauthoring support. An enhanced Presenter View shows the speaker the current and next slide, speaker notes, and a timer while showing the audience just the projection of the current slide. An enhanced Animation Pane simplifies designing and editing professional-looking animations, and an enhanced Conflict Resolution View shows different edits to assist you to decide which edits to retain.
Office 365 PowerPoint for Mac makes it easier to design and deliver professional-looking presentations PowerPoint for Mac 2011 includes new and improved capabilities in the areas of template organization and customization, picture touchup, video support, animated effects, layer and slide control, timing, sharing, protection, search, speed, and automation. PowerPoint's Media Browser allows easy access to a wide range of media libraries such as iPhoto albums, iTunes playlists, and iMovie collections as well as Clip Art and other visual data. The PowerPoint Presentation Gallery simplifies control of pre-built and custom templates as well as recently opened shows. Improved image editing features include a background removal tool plus tools for correction, color, and trimming. You can also incorporate and format movies from inside PowerPoint to make them an integral part of a show, making it easier to distribute and control sophisticated presentations. You can easily include 3-D transitions and are provided with an extensive collection of animations, extensible themes, improved chart tools, and more SmartArt graphics with new layouts for org charts and image diagrams.
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Mac 2008 includes Smart Art graphics for easily converting bulleted lists into a selection of diagrams or flowcharts. The Object Palette utility organizes formatting controls for fast detailing. A zoom slider makes it easy to alter the size of elements. An option for sending to iPhoto allows you to view presentations with an Apple iPod or iPad. Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2008 also works with an Apple Remote,
Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2004 introduced Presenter Tools that permit you to keep your presentation well timed and let you make mid-show adjustments by means of the tools in the presenter’s view window. Animation and transitions permit you to make more engaging slide shows. A font formatting dialog box gives you increased precision in specifying typography options including positioning, style, and transparency.
- Microsoft Outlook for Mac and Entourage
Office 365 Outlook for Mac and Outlook for Mac 2016 include a variety of new features such as support for push email to keep your inbox current, online archiving to conserve mailbox space, the ability to suggest a new meeting time in answer to a meeting invitation, and the ability to see multiple calendars concurrently. In addition, navigation has been simplified for switching between Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks, and Notes. Additional enhancements include the convenient display of conversation threads in your inbox plus message preview to help you decide immediately how to handle new emails. With an Office 365 subscription, Full Screen Mode allows you to have multiple open messages or to operate two instances of Outlook in split-screen view.
Office 365 Outlook for Mac allows side-by-side calendars for easier scheduling Microsoft Office Outlook for Mac 2011 replaces Microsoft Entourage and has been re-architected to provide substantial enhancements in the areas of usability, scheduling, backup and restore, search, Windows compatibility, sharing, speed, voice and video conferencing, voice mail, mobility support, Instant Messaging, and rich presence. The Microsoft Outlook for Mac database for email messages, contact information, and calendars is now saved in individual text files, making them simpler to control. Microsoft Outlook for Mac is also Spotlight searchable and able to be copied and restored via Apple Time Machine. Setting up accounts has been simplified so you can quickly add either Exchange-based accounts or accounts from major services such as Google Gmail, Microsoft Hotmail, Apple MobileMe, Yahoo!, Windows Live, and AOL.
Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 now puts your email, drafts, sent mail and deleted items for each of your mailboxes in unified folders so you no longer need to check separate accounts and multiple folders. The new Conversations feature automatically groups related messages to save time tracking and managing threads. The new Quick Look function enables you to view single or multiple file attachments that can include Microsoft Office or Acrobat PDF files, photos, and movies. The new Contacts Search panel enables you to search your contacts from within any Outlook 2011 view by entering any item in any contact field.
To facilitate moving from Windows to OS X, Microsoft Outlook for Mac now allows you to import Windows .PST files without the need of third-party utilities. For enhanced collaboration, Microsoft Office Outlook for Mac can superimpose shared calendars so you can quickly uncover scheduling conflicts. You can also add multiple categories to a calendar event. In conjunction with Exchange Server 2010, Office Outlook for Mac can transform voice messages to readable text messages and put them into your inbox to save time during the task of reviewing voice mail. Support for offline contact data gives mobile users 24x7 access to contact information. Running Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8 or Communications Server with Microsoft Communicator for Mac 2011, you can view presence information in the Outlook for Mac contact card and launch Instant Messaging, a voice or video conference, or a voice call without leaving Microsoft Office Outlook for Mac 2011.
Entourage 2008 includes an Out of Office utility that allows you to adapt out-of-office messages based on who receives it. Compared to Entourage 2004, Microsoft Entourage 2008 offers improved filters against spam and phishing and provides To Do lists that can be read via the My Day utility, which allows you to view your day's schedule and To Do List on your Mac desktop. Entourage 2008 also offers closer interaction with Microsoft Exchange and provides more sophisticated calendaring functions. Progent's Entourage 2008 experts and Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 consultants can assist you to enhance your Apple Mac email solution to work seamlessly with Exchange Server so you can collaborate with colleagues using Microsoft Outlook.
Microsoft Entourage for Mac 2004 helps people to manage email, addresses, schedules, notes, and documents from a central location. Entourage 2004 can connect to messages using IMAP protocol, POP, and WebDAV. Microsoft Entourage 2004 enables teamwork between Mac OS X and Windows clients by allowing workers to connect to their accounts on Microsoft Exchange Server to handle messages, look through Exchange's global address list (GAL), sync calendars and addresses, and set up meetings. Progent can help you to manage your Entourage for Mac 2004 system or upgrade efficiently to Microsoft Office Outlook for Mac 2011.
Additional Features of Microsoft Office for Mac
Office for Mac 2011 includes other utilities to help you to create, manage, and share business information productively. Additional Office for Mac 2011 tools that Progent's consultants can help you to integrate and support include:
- Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8 is part of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 and is incorporated into Office Word for Mac, Office PowerPoint, and Outlook for Mac to support IM, presence awareness, file sharing, and conferencing. Features include the ability to send messages to any computing device set up with MSN Mobile; support for up to 15 participants to take part in a conversation; IM and presence filtering based on permitted, blocked, or not familiar status; the ability to share, display and comment on images and documents; emoticon support; and customizable display pictures. Microsoft Messenger for Mac users need to have set up a Windows Live ID account.
- Remote Desktop Connection, available with Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 and designed for use with Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Leopard, offers simultaneous access to multiple remote Microsoft Windows-based personal computers or to a remote server session to execute hosted applications and exchange files. With Remote Desktop Connection you are able to print from within Windows applications to any Mac-configurable printer. A new protocol improves speed and compatibility with Microsoft Windows 7 and an auto-reconnect capability recovers a remote session in case the Internet connection is interrupted. Network Level Authentication improves protection by verifying users before establishing a full Remote Desktop Connection. To find out more about Remote Desktop Connection and about how Progent can help you to set up and maintain a system for driving Windows-based computers from a Mac, visit Remote Desktop Connection for Mac 2 consulting.
- Office Web Apps are companions to Office for Mac Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook that enable you to use any full-featured browser running on virtually any computer or smartphone to display, exchange, and lightly edit files stored remotely on Windows Live SkyDrive or on a SharePoint 2010 web site. This permits cross-platform collaboration and supports mobile users. For business use, Web Apps should be run on SharePoint Foundation 2010. Security enhancements for Web Apps 2011 include Data Execution Prevention (DEP) support, file validation to protect against file fuzzing exploits, additional file block settings, and the ability to create a locked-view sandbox solution. To learn how Progent's certified SharePoint experts can assist your business to build and maintain a Microsoft SharePoint web site to work with Web Apps for Mac Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for collaboration from virtually any computer, visit SharePoint support.
- Lync for Mac takes the place of Communicator for Mac as the enterprise-grade Instant Messaging, rich presence, conferencing and voice calling solution included with Office for Mac 2011. Real-time presence awareness indicators can be determined by calendar data, login status, or specified by the user. Lync for Mac works in conjunction with Lync Online or Microsoft Lync Server 2010, which has taken the place of Microsoft Office Communications Server and Live Communications Server. Microsoft Lync technology allows users to ask contacts to attend conference calls or initiate a meeting directly from Outlook for Mac 2011 or Microsoft Lync for Mac 2011. Advanced conferencing features include descriptive roster results. For more information about Microsoft Lync Server 2010's capabilities and the support services available from Progent's Lync platform specialists, see Microsoft Lync Server Consulting.
How Progent's Consultants Can Support Your Business with Microsoft Office for Mac
Progent's Microsoft-expert support professionals, Cisco-Certified network experts, and macOS and OS X support professionals can assist you to integrate your Apple Mac computers and software into a dependable and protected information network, configure your Microsoft Exchange Server to support the groupware features of Office 365 Outlook for Mac, and offer Mac Education for Microsoft Office for Mac Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Progent can also provide a wide array of Exchange support services such as system planning and installation, maintenance, protection, wide area access, performance tuning, fault tolerance, and Spam filtering and email encryption.
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