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Progent's macOS and OS X specialists can help your company to configure Microsoft Office 365 for Mac on a cross-platform network so that Apple Mac users can take advantage of the familiar features in Microsoft Word, Office Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook for Mac in order to share information and peripherals with colleagues who run Microsoft Windows-powered systems. Progent can also assist your company to evaluate the benefits of upgrading to Office 365 for Mac from an earlier version of Office for Mac and assist you to plan and carry out an efficient upgrade plan. Progent offers integration support for all applications that come 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 provides immediate access to design elements and makes it simple to manage layout, colors and typography across a document. A new Insights Pane automatically searches for and shows relevant information from the web to provide useful context for authors and readers. Another new feature is threaded comments, which facilitates collaboration by tracking conversations and displaying them next to the related text. Improvements include simpler tools for inviting people to review and edit documents, concurrent coauthoring of documents, and more powerful Mail Merge capabilities that utilize Word, Excel and Outlook. As with current versions 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 includes enhancements in the areas of document viewing, template control, desktop publishing, graphics editing, typography, search, collaboration, and programmability. The innovative Focus View feature enables you to remove non-essential content to increase the screen space dedicated to displaying your document. The new Word Document Gallery simplifies management of standard and custom templates as well as recent documents. Enhanced publishing functions include a better Publishing Layout view, the dynamic layer order, and additional graphic editing tools that include a background removal tool.

  Word for Mac 2008 introduced an improved user interface that has a customizable toolbar and introduced a rudimentary publishing capability via the Publishing View that provides increased precision over layout of words and images and allows users to link text overflow from one page to any text box on another page. Other capabilities available in Word for Mac 2008 include support for OpenType ligatures for better looking type, and reference tools that support a variety of citation formats. Word for Mac 2008 works with AppleScript but does not work with VBasic for Applications. Progent's Mac experts can help your business to determine whether this limitation should affect your decision to upgrade to Microsoft Word for Mac 2011.

  Word for Mac 2004 introduced a Notebook View that allows you to flag critical sections, find specified words and phrases, and add date-stamped voice recordings into your notes as you type. The Track Changes tool makes it more efficient to trace edits and allows you to approve or ignore edits from the comments. Reference Tools permit you to refer to a dictionary or a thesaurus directly from the Microsoft Office Toolbox, although there is also a link to Microsoft's discontinued Microsoft Encarta web encyclopedia. The Navigation Pane enables you to browse through your work with the improved document map.

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

  Excel for Mac 2011 includes enhancements in the areas of data analysis and charting, performance, image editing, scripting, data protection, and collaboration. The innovative Sparklines capability provides an immediate graphical summary of Excel information via miniature charts that fit inside a spreadsheet cell adjacent to the associated data. Conditional Formatting has been enhanced to make it easier to format data with icon sets, data bars, and colors. You can now sort and filter information by color and use multi- selection filters and new quick filtering options. Excel Tables (before called Lists) enable you to create multiple groupings of related information for efficient editing and analysis.

  Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011 PivotTables have enhanced performance and closer compatibility with Windows versions of Excel. New and enhanced editing tools and SmartArt graphics permit you to make professional-looking graphics without the use of extra photo-editing software. As with Office Word for Mac 2011, Visual Basic for Applications support has been resumed, improving compatibility with Office Excel for Windows and offering advanced capabilities including IntelliSense, watch windows, and a new VBA debugging utility. You can manage access to Excel workbooks by using Information Rights Management and collaborate on secure workbooks across operating systems. To enhance sharing, Office Excel for Mac 2011 permits you to produce cross-platform workbooks and exchange dates among workbooks without being required to differentiate between 1900 and 1904 date systems.

  Excel for Mac 2008 supports the same number of cells as the Windows edition of Excel and introduced the Formula Builder for streamlining the creation of complex calculations. Microsoft Excel for Mac 2008 also comes with an Elements Gallery with templates for popular tasks including company payroll. As with the 2008 version of Word for Mac, Excel for Mac 2008 doesn't support VBasic for Applications. Progent's Mac OS X consultants can assist you to determine whether this restriction justifies an upgrade to Office for Mac 2011.

  Excel for Mac 2004 introduced a Layout View that permits you to read and edit on screen exactly what will print, conveniently zoom data to match your desired number of pages, and add headers and footers with ease. Charting improvements offer additional color schemes and enable you to use the Formatting Palette for instantly revising your chart type, content, fills, typography, and effects. Smart Buttons enable you to find and fix spreadsheet formula errors and manage how AutoFill formats your content. Additional tools permit you to see the correct usage for a library of functions, and intuitively change ranges with the enhanced Range Finder. XML file support permits you to employ XML to collaborate on complex data.

• Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac
  Microsoft Office 365 PowerPoint for Mac and PowerPoint for Mac 2016 include the new Theme Variants feature that makes it easy to change the style of a presentation by switching the color scheme. As with current editions of Word for Mac, a new Threaded Comments feature supports collaboration by showing full conversations adjacent to associated content. Teamwork is also improved with strong coauthoring features. An enhanced Presenter View shows the speaker the current and subsequent slide, presentation notes, plus a timer while showing the audience only the current slide. An enhanced Animation Pane facilitates creating and editing professional-looking animations, and an enhanced Conflict Resolution View shows different updates to assist you to choose which edits to keep.
  
  Office 365 PowerPoint for Mac makes it easier to create and deliver pro-quality presentations

  PowerPoint for Mac 2011 includes new and improved functionality in the areas of template management, image touchup, video support, animations and transitions, layer and slide control, timing, collaboration, security, search, performance, and programmability. PowerPoint's Media Browser allows convenient access to a broad selection of media libraries including Apple iPhoto albums, iTunes playlists, and iMovie libraries plus Clip Art and other visual data. The Presentation Presentation Gallery streamlines control of pre-built and specialized templates as well as recently opened presentations. Improved image editing features include a background deletion tool plus powerful utilities for touchup, coloring, and trimming. You can also embed and format videos from inside PowerPoint to make them a part of a show, making it simpler to share and control sophisticated presentations. You can also add 3-dimensional transitions and are provided with an expanded library of animations, extensible themes, enhanced chart tools, and additional SmartArt graphics with new layouts for organization charts and image diagrams.

  Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2008 introduced Smart Art graphics for easily turning bulleted lists into a selection of diagrams or flowcharts. The Object Palette in the Toolbox consolidates formatting controls for fast updating. A slider makes it simple to alter the size of elements. An option for sending to iPhoto enables you to watch slide shows using an Apple iPod or iPad. Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Mac 2008 also is compatible with an Apple Remote,

  Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2004 introduced Presenter Tools that permit you to make your presentation properly paced and allow on-the-fly changes via the controls in the presenter's window. Custom animation and transitions permit you to make more engaging slide shows. The font formatting tool offers more precision in specifying 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 like support for push email to keep your inbox up to date, online archiving to free up mailbox storage, the ability to suggest an alternative meeting time in response to a meeting invitation, and the ability to see multiple calendars concurrently. In addition, navigation has been simplified for moving between Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks, and Notes. Additional enhancements include the display of message threads in your inbox plus message preview to help you decide quickly how to handle new emails. If you have an Office 365 subscription, Full Screen Mode enables you to have multiple open messages or to operate two instances of Outlook in split-screen view.
  
  Office 365 Outlook for Mac supports side-by-side calendars for easier scheduling

  Office Outlook for Mac 2011 replaces Entourage and has been redesigned to deliver substantial enhancements in the areas of usability, scheduling, backup and restoration, search, Windows integration, sharing, speed, video conferencing, voice mail, mobility, IM, and rich presence. The Office Outlook for Mac database for email messages, contacts, and calendars is now stored in individual text files, making them simpler to control. Outlook 2011 for Mac is also directly Spotlight searchable and able to be copied and recovered with Time Machine. Configuring accounts has been simplified so you can easily add either Exchange-based accounts or accounts from major services such as Google Gmail, Hotmail, MobileMe, Yahoo!, Windows Live, and AOL.

  Office Outlook for Mac 2011 now automatically puts your email, draft messages, sent mail and erased messages for all of your mailboxes into consolidated folders so you no longer have to check individual accounts and multiple folders. The new Conversations capability groups related messages to simplify tracking and managing threads. The new Quick Look feature allows you to view file attachments including Microsoft Office or Acrobat PDF files, photos, and movies. The new Contacts Search panel enables you to search your contact data from within any Outlook view by specifying any element in any field.

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

  Entourage for Mac 2008 features an Out of Office assistant that permits you to adapt out-of-office messages based on who receives it. In comparison with Entourage 2004, Entourage 2008 offers improved defense against junk mail and phishing and provides To Do notes that can be accessed by means of the My Day utility, which enables you to see your day's events and To Do List on your Mac desktop. Entourage for Mac 2008 also offers closer interaction with Microsoft Exchange Server and offers more sophisticated scheduling capabilities. Progent's Entourage for Mac 2008 specialists and Office Outlook for Mac 2011 engineers can help your company to upgrade your Mac messaging solution to work seamlessly with Exchange Server so that you can collaborate with fellow workers running Outlook.

  Microsoft Entourage for Mac 2004 makes it easy for people to handle email, addresses, schedules, notes, and documents from a central location. Microsoft Entourage 2004 can connect to messages using IMAP, POP, and Microsoft's WebDAV. Entourage 2004 facilitates teamwork between Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows users by permitting workers to access their accounts on Microsoft Exchange Server to manage email, search Exchange's global address list, sync calendars and contacts, and set up meetings. Progent can assist you to manage your Entourage for Mac 2004 environment or migrate smoothly to Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011.

Other Components of Microsoft Office for Mac
Office for Mac 2011 provides additional utilities to help you to create, manage, and share business information productively. Other powerful Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 tools that Progent can help you to configure and support include:

• Microsoft Messenger for Mac 8 is part of Office for Mac 2011 and is integrated into Word for Mac, Office PowerPoint for Mac, and Outlook to enable IM, presence, file sharing, plus voice and video conferencing. Features include the ability to transmit to any computing device set up with MSN Mobile; support for as many as 15 people to take part in a conversation; message and presence blocking determined by permitted, blocked, or unfamiliar status; the ability to exchange, display and annotate images and documents; emoticon support; and customizable display pictures. Messenger for Mac users need to have a Windows Live ID account.
• Remote Desktop Connection, available with Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 and designed for operation with Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Leopard, offers simultaneous access to multiple remote Windows-based PCs or to a remote server session to execute hosted programs and access files. With Remote Desktop Connection for Mac 2 you are able to print from Windows applications to any Mac-accessible printer. An advanced protocol enhances performance and integration with Windows 7 and an automatic reconnection feature recovers a remote session if the Internet connection is lost. Network Level Authentication enhances protection by authenticating users prior to establishing a full Remote Desktop Connection. To learn more about Remote Desktop Connection and about how Progent can help you to set up and maintain a system for driving Windows-based PCs from Mac OS X, visit Remote Desktop Connection consulting.
• Web Apps are online companions to Office for Mac Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook 2011 that allow you to use any full-featured web browser on virtually any computer or smartphone to display, exchange, and lightly edit documents and files stored online on Windows Live SkyDrive or on a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 site. This permits cross-platform collaboration and helps mobile users. For business use, Web Apps require Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. Security enhancements for Web Apps 2011 include Data Execution Prevention support, file validation to guard against file fuzzing exploits, expanded file block settings, and support for a locked-view sandbox environment. To learn how Progent's Microsoft-certified SharePoint experts can assist you to build and maintain a SharePoint site to support Web Apps for Mac Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for co-authoring from virtually any computer, visit Microsoft SharePoint consulting.
• Lync for Mac takes the place of Microsoft Communicator for Mac as the enterprise-level IM, rich presence, conferencing and voice client included with Office for Mac 2011. Rich presence awareness indicators can be determined by calendar information, login status, or established by the user. Microsoft Lync for Mac runs in conjunction with Microsoft Lync Online or Lync Server 2010, which has replaced Office Communications Server and Microsoft Live Communications Server. Lync allows users to invite contacts to attend conferences or initiate a meeting directly from Microsoft Outlook for Mac or Microsoft Lync for Mac. Enhanced conferencing features include desktop sharing. For more information about Microsoft Lync Server 2010's capabilities and the support services offered by Progent's Lync technology experts, see Lync Expertise.

How Progent's Consultants Can Support You with Microsoft Office for Mac
Progent's Microsoft-premier support professionals, Cisco-Certified network engineers, and macOS and OS X specialists can help you to incorporate your Mac computers and software into a robust and secure IT network, configure your Microsoft Exchange Server to support the collaborative capabilities of Office 365 Outlook for Mac, and offer Mac Training for Microsoft Office for Mac Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Progent can also provide a broad array of Microsoft Exchange support services such as system design and integration, troubleshooting, security, remote connectivity, performance optimization, fault tolerance, and spam and Virus protection and email encryption.

Get in Touch with Progent If You Need Microsoft Office for Mac Consulting
If your organization is looking for Mac technology support professional, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.