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Progent's Apple macOS and OS X specialists can help you to configure Office 365 for Mac on a cross-platform network so that Mac users are able to take advantage of the familiar capabilities in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook for Mac in order to share information and peripherals with fellow workers who run Microsoft Windows-powered systems. Progent can also help you to assess the advantages of upgrading to Microsoft Office 365 for Mac from an earlier release of Office for Mac and help you to design and carry out an efficient migration strategy. Progent offers integration support for all applications supplied with Office 365 for Mac and Office 2016 for Mac including:

• Word for Mac
  Office 365 Word for Mac and Word for Mac 2016 feature a new Design Tab that allows immediate access to design elements and makes it simple to manage layout, colors and fonts across a document. A new Insights Pane automatically retrieves and displays relevant information from the web to provide rich context for authors and readers. Another new feature is threaded comments, which promotes collaboration by allowing conversations and displaying them next to the related text. Improvements include simpler tools for inviting colleagues to proof and edit documents, simultaneous coauthoring of documents, and integrated Mail Merge capabilities that use Word, Excel and Outlook. As with current versions of Excel and PowerPoint for Mac, Office 365 Word for Mac lets you to navigate documents with familiar Multi-Touch gestures.
  
  Microsoft Office 365 Word for Mac streamlines layout management and teamwork

  Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 includes enhancements in the areas of document viewing, template control, desktop publishing, graphics editing, typography, document search, sharing, and automation. The new Focus View feature enables you to eliminate distracting content to increase the screen area available for viewing your document. The Word Document Gallery streamlines access to built-in and custom templates as well as recent documents. Enhanced publishing capabilities include a more powerful Publishing Layout view, the ability to reorder layers dynamically, and additional graphic editing tools including background removal.

  Microsoft Word for Mac 2008 introduced an improved user interface that has an extensible toolbar and incorporates a rudimentary desktop publishing toolset via the Publishing View that offers increased precision over layout of text and graphics and enables users to link text overflow from a given area to a specified text box on another page. Other capabilities built into Word for Mac 2008 include support for OpenType ligatures for more professional-looking type, and reference utilities that allow a variety of citation formats. Word for Mac 2008 supports AppleScript but does not work with VBasic for Applications. Progent's Mac OS X consultants can help you to evaluate if this restriction should affect your decision to migrate to Word for Mac 2011.

  Microsoft Word for Mac 2004 introduced a Notebook View that enables you to tag important entries, find key terms, and add date-stamped voice recordings into your notes as you type. The Track Changes feature makes it more efficient to trace updates and allows you to accept or reject edits from the comment balloons. Reference Utilities permit you to access a dictionary or a thesaurus directly from the Office Toolbox, although there is also a hyperlink to Microsoft's now discontinued Encarta web encyclopedia. The Navigation Pane enables you to navigate through your document using the convenient document map.

• Microsoft Excel for Mac
  Office 365 Excel for Mac and Excel for Mac 2016 introduce PivotTable Slicers to allow you to detect patterns within massive volumes of data. A new add-on, the Analysis Toolpak, facilitates complex statistical and engineering analyses. Compatibility with Windows versions of Excel is enhanced through support for familiar keyboard shortcuts and for the majority of the functions included with Office Excel 2013 for Windows. Additional improvements include a better Formula Builder Pane and the ability to print to a single PDF file.
  
  Microsoft Office 365 Excel for Mac enhances compatibility with PC spreadsheets

  Excel for Mac 2011 includes improvements in the areas of data analysis and charting, performance, graphics editing, programmability, data protection, and collaboration. The innovative Sparklines feature provides an instantaneous graphical summary of Excel information via miniature charts that are displayed within a cell next to the associated data. Conditional Formatting has been enhanced to make it easier to format information with icon sets, data bars, and color scales. You can now sort and filter data by color and can access multi- selection filters and convenient fast filtering options. Excel Tables (before known as Lists) enable you to make multiple groupings of related information for easy editing and analysis.

  Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011 PivotTables have improved performance and closer compatibility with Windows editions of Office Excel. Improved editing capabilities and SmartArt graphics allow you to create professional-looking graphics without requiring outside photo-editing tools. As with Office Word for Mac 2011, Visual Basic for Applications support has been resumed, enhancing compatibility with Office Excel for Windows and introducing advanced capabilities including IntelliSense, watch windows, and a new Visual Basic debugging utility. You can manage access to Excel workbooks by using Information Rights Management (IRM) and share protected workbooks across platforms. To improve sharing, Excel for Mac 2011 permits you to create cross-platform workbooks and exchange dates among workbooks without having to differentiate between 1900 vs. 1904 date systems.

  Microsoft Excel for Mac 2008 supports the same number of spreadsheet cells as the Windows version of Excel and introduced the Formula Builder for simplifying the writing of complex formulas. Microsoft Excel for Mac 2008 also comes with an Elements Gallery with templates for common tasks including company payroll. Just like the 2008 version of Word for Mac, Microsoft Excel for Mac 2008 doesn't support Visual Basic for Applications. Progent's Mac experts can assist you to evaluate if this limitation justifies a migration to Microsoft Office for Mac 2011.

  Microsoft Excel for Mac 2004 introduced a Layout View that enables you to review and manipulate in a window exactly what will print, conveniently scale content to match the right number of pages, and add headers and footers with a click. Charting improvements offer new color combinations and enable you to use the Formatting Tool for quickly revising your chart type, data, fills, weights, and special effects. Smart Buttons enable you to find and fix spreadsheet formula problems and control how the AutoFill feature applies formatting to your content. Editing/function tools permit you to see the proper syntax for over 140 functions, and to click and drag to change ranges with the updated Range Finder. XML file support enables you to use XML to share complex data.

• Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac
  Office 365 PowerPoint for Mac and PowerPoint for Mac 2016 include the new Theme Variants function that makes it easy to alter the style of a presentation by switching the color scheme. As with new editions of Word for Mac, a new Threaded Comments feature supports collaboration by displaying complete conversations adjacent to related content. Teamwork is also improved with strong coauthoring support. An enhanced Presenter View lets the speaker see the current and next slide, speaker notes, plus a timer while showing the audience only the projection of the current slide. An improved Animation Pane facilitates designing and editing professional-looking animations, and an improved Conflict Resolution View shows alternative updates to help you to decide which edits to keep.
  
  Office 365 PowerPoint for Mac makes it easier to design and deliver professional-looking presentations

  PowerPoint for Mac 2011 includes enhanced functionality in the areas of template management, picture touchup, movie support, animations, layer and slide management, pacing, sharing, security, search, performance, and automation. PowerPoint's Media Browser allows convenient access to a wide selection of media libraries including Apple iPhoto albums, iTunes playlists, and iMovie libraries plus shapes, Clip Art and other visual data. The PowerPoint Presentation Gallery simplifies management of pre-built and specialized templates plus recent presentations. New picture editing capabilities include a background deletion tool plus powerful utilities for touchup, coloring, and trimming. You can also embed and format videos from within PowerPoint for Mac to make them an integral part of a show, making it easier to distribute and manage sophisticated slide shows. You can also add 3-dimensional slide transitions and have access to an expanded library of animation effects, customizable themes, enhanced chart tools, and more SmartArt graphics with new sets of org charts and picture diagrams.

  Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Mac 2008 includes Smart Art for easily turning bulleted displays into a variety of diagrams. The Object Palette utility organizes formatting options for quick updating. A zoom slider makes it simple to alter the size of objects. An option for exporting to Apple's iPhoto enables you to watch presentations using an iPod or iPad. Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Mac 2008 also works with an Apple Remote,

  PowerPoint for Mac 2004 includes Presenter functions that permit you to keep your slide show well timed and allow mid-show changes using the tools displayed in the presenter’s view window. Animation and 3D transitions allow you to make more engaging presentations. A font formatting tool gives you more control in selecting font characteristics such as positioning, size, and transparency.

• Office Outlook for Mac and Entourage
  Microsoft Office 365 Outlook for Mac and Outlook for Mac 2016 include important new features such as support for push email to keep your inbox up to date, online archiving to conserve mailbox space, the ability to propose an alternative meeting time in response to a meeting request, and the ability to see multiple calendars concurrently. In addition, navigation has been modernized for moving between Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks, and Notes. Other improvements include the convenient display of conversation threads in your inbox plus message preview to help you determine immediately how to handle new emails. With an Office 365 subscription, Full Screen Mode allows you to have several open messages or to operate two instances of Outlook in split-screen view.
  
  Office 365 Outlook for Mac supports side-by-side calendars to simplify scheduling

  Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 takes the place of Entourage and has been re-architected to deliver substantial improvements in the areas of usability, calendar management, backup and restoration, search, Windows coexistence, sharing, speed, video conferencing, voice mail, mobility, IM, and rich presence. The Office Outlook for Mac database for email, contact information, and calendars is now stored in individual text files, making them simpler to manage. Outlook for Mac is also Spotlight searchable and able to be copied and restored with Time Machine. Setting up accounts has been streamlined so you can easily add either Exchange-based accounts or accounts from popular email services including Google Gmail, Hotmail, Apple MobileMe, Yahoo!, Windows Live, and AOL.

  Office Outlook for Mac now places your email, drafts, sent mail and deleted items for all of your mailboxes in consolidated folders so you don’t need to check separate email accounts and multiple folders. The new Conversations feature automatically groups related messages to simplify tracking and managing threads. The Quick Look function enables you to view file attachments that can include Microsoft Office or PDF files, graphics, and videos. The Contacts Search panel enables you to search your contact data from within any Outlook for Mac view by entering any element in any field.

  To support moving from Windows to Mac, Microsoft Office Outlook for Mac allows you to import Windows .PST files without third-party utilities. For improved collaboration, Office Outlook for Mac can superimpose shared calendars so you can quickly spot conflicts. You can also assign more than one category to a calendar event. In conjunction with Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 can transform voice mail into text messages and add them to your inbox to cut the time spent going through the process of checking voice messages. New support offline contact data gives mobile users 24x7 access to vital contact data. Running Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8 or Microsoft Communications Server with Communicator for Mac 2011, you can view presence data in the new Contact Card and launch IM, a video conference, or a voice call without leaving Microsoft Outlook for Mac.

  Entourage for Mac 2008 includes an Out of Office assistant that allows you to customize out-of-office messages depending on who receives it. In comparison with Entourage 2004, Microsoft Entourage 2008 offers better filters against junk mail and phishing and provides To Do lists that can be read by means of the My Day utility, which allows you to view your day's events and To Do List on your desktop. Entourage for Mac 2008 also offers closer interaction with Microsoft Exchange and offers more powerful calendaring functions. Progent's Microsoft Entourage 2008 specialists and Microsoft Office Outlook for Mac 2011 consultants can help your company to upgrade your Apple Mac messaging system to work transparently with Exchange so you can team up with colleagues running Outlook.

  Entourage for Mac 2004 allows you to stay on top of email, contacts, calendars, and notes from a single location. Entourage for Mac 2004 can access email using IMAP protocol, POP, and WebDAV. Microsoft Entourage 2004 facilitates collaboration between Mac OS X and Windows clients by allowing users to connect to their accounts on Microsoft Exchange Server to handle email, search Exchange's global address list, sync calendars and contacts, and set up conferences. Progent can assist you to maintain your Entourage for Mac 2004 environment or upgrade efficiently to Office Outlook for Mac 2011.

Additional Components of Office for Mac
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 provides other utilities to assist you to produce, organize, and share information efficiently. Additional Office for Mac 2011 tools that Progent can assist you to configure and support include:

• Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8 is part of Office for Mac 2011 and is incorporated into Office Word for Mac, Office PowerPoint, and Outlook 2011 to support Instant Messaging, presence, file sharing, plus conferencing. Functions include the ability to send messages to any computing device set up with MSN Mobile; the ability of as many as 15 people to join in a conversation; message and presence blocking determined by allowed, blocked, or unfamiliar status; the ability to exchange, display and annotate photos and documents; emoticon support; and custom display pictures. Messenger for Mac users must 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, provides simultaneous connections to multiple remote Windows-based PCs or to a remote network server to execute hosted applications and access files. With Remote Desktop Connection you can print from within Windows programs to any Mac-configurable printer. A new protocol improves speed and compatibility with Windows 7 and an automatic reconnection capability recovers a session if the network connection is lost. Network Level Authentication (NLA) enhances protection by authenticating users before establishing a full connection. To learn more about Remote Desktop Connection and about how Progent can assist you to configure and manage a solution for running Windows-based PCs from Mac OS X, see Remote Desktop Connection for Mac 2 support services.
• Office Web Apps are online companions to Office for Mac Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook that enable you to use any standard browser on almost any computer or smartphone to view, share, and lightly edit documents and files stored remotely on Windows Live SkyDrive or on a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 site. This allows platform-independent teamwork and helps mobile workers. For business use, Web Apps should be run on Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. Security improvements for Web Apps 2011 include Data Execution Prevention protection, file validation to guard against fuzzing attacks, expanded file block settings, and support for a protected-view sandbox environment. To learn how Progent's Microsoft-certified SharePoint consultants can assist your business to set up and manage a SharePoint site to support Web companions for Mac Word, Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook 2011 for co-authoring from any computer, see Microsoft SharePoint support.
• Microsoft Lync for Mac replaces Communicator for Mac as the advanced Instant Messaging, presence, conferencing and voice calling solution included with Office for Mac 2011. Real-time presence indicators can be based on calendar information, login status, or established by the user. Microsoft Lync for Mac runs in conjunction with either Microsoft Lync Online or Lync Server 2010, which has taken the place of Office Communications Server and Live Communications Server. Microsoft Lync allows users to invite contacts to attend conferences or initiate a conference from within Microsoft Outlook for Mac or Lync for Mac. Advanced conferencing features include desktop sharing. For details about Microsoft Lync Server 2010's capabilities and the support services available from Progent's Lync platform specialists, visit Lync Consulting.

How Progent's Experts Can Support Your Business with Office for Mac
Progent's Microsoft-premier support professionals, Cisco-Certified network experts, and macOS and OS X specialists can help you to incorporate your Apple Mac systems and software into a robust and protected information network, configure your Exchange Server to work with the groupware capabilities of Office Outlook for Mac, and offer Mac Education for Microsoft Office for Mac Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Progent can also deliver a broad range of Exchange support services including system planning and integration, maintenance, protection, wide area connectivity, performance optimization, fault tolerance, and Spam filtering and email encryption.

Get in Touch with Progent If You Need Microsoft Office for Mac Help
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