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#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2004 MAC WONT WORK SOFTWARE#

The other killer new feature is in PowerPoint, the slide-show software that's loved or loathed by corporate presenters the world over. But the more you work with it, the more it becomes Grand Central Station for work-related information of every kind, almost like a tiny operating system unto itself. Project Center isn't exactly a breeze to understand. You can also tell the program to ''watch'' a certain folder on your hard drive the Project Center lists whatever is in that folder, saving you a lot of switching back and forth from your e-mail to your desktop. You can set it up, for example, so that all relevant e-mail correspondence winds up listed here. Its ambitious goal is to consolidate all the e-mail messages, deadlines, phone numbers and even files (not just Microsoft documents) that pertain to a certain project.

#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2004 MAC WONT WORK WINDOWS#

In fact, two of the new features are so compelling, if they don't show up in the next Windows version, I'll eat my hat.įirst, Entourage has sprouted a new view called the Project Center. Not all of the new features in Office for the Mac came from Office for Windows. Fortunately, you can turn off this feature on a folder-by-folder basis unfortunately, thousands of Mac fans won't realize that and will simply assume that Entourage 2004 is a dog-slow program. In large e-mail collections, however, this feature slows Entourage to a crawl - 12 seconds to open a folder containing a year's worth of messages, for example - and no ''please wait'' cursor appears to let you know what's going on.

#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2004 MAC WONT WORK FULL#

This layout option acknowledges two inescapable facts of computing life: Most screens are wider than they are tall, and text is easier to read when the column isn't the full width of the screen.Įntourage can also group your lists of e-mail into neatly labeled subheadings, either chronologically (Today, Last Week) or by sender, subject, size and so on. From Outlook 2003, the new Entourage inherits a clever three-column layout: one column lists your folders (Inbox, Sent, and so on), the next lists the messages, and the third and widest shows the message itself. But Smart Tags put ''Undo'' and ''Stop doing this'' commands right in front of you where you can't miss them.īut the most far-reaching and useful 2004 overhaul was given to Entourage, a better-designed, far more pleasant cousin of Outlook for Windows. You've always been able to turn off these intrusions in a dialog box or undo individual changes by pressing Command-Z. For example, one appears whenever Word auto-formats something you've typed (a chronic sore spot with Microsoft customers): turning a Web address into a difficult-to-edit Web link, for example, or automatically numbering a list. Smart Buttons, descended from a similar feature in Word for Windows, are tiny pop-up menus that appear in your text whenever Word has something to offer you.

Later you can play back a certain audio segment just by clicking the corresponding spot in your notes. Best of all, if you click a Record button, your microphone records the proceedings. In situations where fast note-taking is essential - lectures and interviews come to mind - this view presents a tabbed on-screen notebook and keystrokes that make it easy to type an outline. After years of seeing its own good ideas adopted by the Office for Windows team, Microsoft's Mac designers apparently decided that two could play that game.įor example, the new Notebook view in Word, the word processor, is a delightful rip-off of OneNote for Windows, a note-taking and organizing program. Once again, Microsoft added few big-ticket features, preferring to focus on a motley collection of nips and tucks.Ī strategy isn't the only thing the Mac team borrowed from the Windows gang, either. Yesterday, Microsoft's Macintosh software division unveiled Office 2004 for Macintosh, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, an e-mail and calendar program.

#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2004 MAC WONT WORK UPGRADE#

Last year, Office 2003 for Windows revealed the company's latest strategy: Add very, very little, and hope that people upgrade anyway.

Driving these meetings, no doubt, is a painful question: ''How on earth will we come up with more features that we didn't think of last year, or the year before that - especially when most people consider Office too bloated already?'' SHORTLY after Microsoft releases a new version of its Office software, its designers begin to discuss what to put into the next version.