Product Description

Office 2004 for Mac Student and Teacher Edition gives you all the leading presentation, spreadsheet, word processing, and e-mail software found in Office 2004 for Mac Standard Edition in one convenient, specially priced package. Available for non-commercial use only. Get acquainted with the collection of groundbreaking new tools included in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac. Record audio while taking notes in Word; save pictures and text in a scrapbook; handle all of your project details in one location, and m...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #671 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: BD6-00001
• Released on: 2004-05-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Platform: Macintosh
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Graduate to Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Student and Teacher Edition and let your intellect shine. Groundbreaking new features in this release can help you manage, create, and share ideas with ease and confidence. For qualified educational users running Mac OS X version 10.2.8 or later, this is a must-have application suite that offers full compatibility with Windows versions of Microsoft Office applications, plus many new features that are only available to Mac users. When you're ready to get down to business, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac provides the intuitive, intelligent tools you need to transform your ideas and opportunities into action. Put Office 2004 to work for you, whether you use your Mac for home, school, or business.

Work with Tools That Work Like You
The new features in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac aren't constrained by boundaries--in fact, many of them are designed to give you access to your ideas and information from every program in the suite. Thanks to input from thousands of Mac users, Office 2004 contains tools that are more integrated and intuitive than ever. The new Project Center allows you to consolidate all of your project-related details and easily access them from Word, Excel, Entourage, and PowerPoint 2004. Quickly view all of your project-related e-mail messages, files, notes, contacts and schedules in one convenient place. Plus, the new Project Gallery lets you quickly find the documents you've worked on recently while offering the new Learn tab to find instructive sample documents. Meanwhile, the new Compatibility Report tool helps you resolve platform- and version-related compatibility issues before they arise. The tool identifies potential compatibility issues and offers ways to avoid them. Lastly, the Office Toolbox lets you quickly access compatibility Reports, your Scrapbook and the Project Palette from Word, Excel or PowerPoint 2004.

Word 2004
Express your ideas with more brilliance and clarity using the innovative new tools in Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac. The gold standard in word processing works harder than ever for you with improved reference tools, dynamic reviewing capabilities and enhanced views for organizing your thoughts. The new notebook layout view allows you to type right onto ruled notebook "paper." Manage different sections with tabs and quickly search for key ideas using this new view. Plus, with the improved track changes system in Word 2004, you can view changes in comment balloons next to your text, quickly identify the reviewer with colour-coded comments and initiate instant message conversations about comments with MSN Messenger for Mac. Access a dictionary, a thesaurus and a link to the Microsoft Encarta online encyclopaedia right from the Office Toolbox, or quickly scan and navigate through your document with the improved document map and thumbnail view.

Excel 2004
Organize, analyze and present your data with precision and panache. The new tools in Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac give you more control over your spreadsheets, and the enhanced charting tools give you more dynamic ways to display your information. The new page layout view lets you review and manipulate on screen what will appear on paper. Now you can easily scale your data to fit the right number of pages, and insert headers and footers by simply double-clicking in the document. Meanwhile, punch up your numbers with vibrant new colour schemes. Use the Formatting Palette to quickly update your chart type, options, data, colours, weights, fills and special effects. Smart buttons let you instantly track down and fix spreadsheet formula errors, control how the AutoFill feature applies formatting to your data, and more. And editing and functioning improvements mean that you can view the correct syntax for more than 140 functions to ensure that calculations work every time. You can also now simply click and drag to change ranges with the updated Range Finder. Lastly XML file support is integrated in Excel 2004, so you can share complex data with ease.

PowerPoint 2004
Incorporate rich movies, animations and transitions into your presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 for Mac. Keep the show running like a pro with features such as the on-screen timer, notes, navigation and more. New presenter tools help you keep your presentation well timed, and make adjustments on the fly as you respond to your audience with the tools in the presenter's view window. You can also experiment with new 3D transitions and vivid custom animations to make your presentations richer and more dynamic. Choose from more that 100 new design templates and quickly set font spacing, size and transparency with the new Format Font dialog box. Plus, the expanded clip gallery helps you get creative with updated illustrations and new clip art.

Entourage 2004
If your day revolves around connections and ideas, use Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac to pull it all together. Consolidate your e-mail, contacts, calendar, notes and project details in one easy-to-access place. The new three column view option lets you blaze through your inbox with new features such as the preview pane, message threading and improved junk e-mail protection. With new Message Grouping you can easily group, view and search for messages based on project, sender, date or other criteria. Calendar printing has been improved, too and now you can experience more flexibility and control over calendar formatting and printing options. Meanwhile, managing accounts and contacts has never been easier: Access messages and contacts from multiple e-mail accounts and take advantage of integration with MSN Messenger for Mac version 4.0. And now, for the first time ever, Entourage features Exchange server support, so you can easily integrate Macs with an Exchange email system. Another great feature, archiving, allows you to export personal information manager (PIM) data--such as e-mail messages, contacts or schedules--into an Entourage archive package to keep your PIM database clean and secure.

Eligibility
*IMPORTANT NOTE:You can only purchase this product if you are a qualifying student, parent, guardian or teacher as described below. Please note that all software is for the educational use of the qualifying user and is not for any commercial use. Usage rights end as soon as the qualifying user ceases to be eligible through graduation or change of educational status.

Eligibility for student licence Students: Full or part-time student aged five or over enrolled on a course that will deliver an academic qualification publicly recognised by the Department for Education & Skills (DfES) or the Irish Department of Education (DOE)

Parents and guardians: Parents and guardians who have a child who is a qualifying student and wish to buy software for their child's educational use.

Teachers: Full or part-time registered to teach in a school, college or educational establishment recognised by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the Irish Department of Education (DoE), or the Higher Education Authorities (HEAs).

Customer Reviews

Still better than the recent editions!
Office Mac 2004 - Student and Teacher Edition is a fantastic package. I myself am a University student and obviously needed a copy of Word and PowerPoint respectively for lectures, and so bought a copy off ebay (seems to be the best place to find it cheap) for under forty quid.

In College 3 years ago, I had already familiarized myself with the 'full' version of Office Mac 2004 that contained all the features possible, and the slightly different interface. Following on from this experience, and after looking at the average feedback for the 2008 edition, I opted for the Student and teacher edition of 2004 to see if it was much different from the full version I had used.

In short, the answer is not very - you could pay a lot, lot more money just for a different interface and more programs, but I've found that 2004 S & T Edition is a lot more concise-a-program, and is better value for money, second hand of course. This S & T Edition features all the ideal programs for daily Uni/Educational life, including;

Word - For creating smart documents, making quick lecture notes using the Note-Pad feature, and composing long pieces of work.

PowerPoint - For creating visual and audible presentations via 'slides'. Used alot in higher education, so glad it's included.

Excel - For creating spreadsheet and consolidating numeric data, such as Charts, Graphs, and Tables.

Entourage - The email program that uses POP settings from your email provider so you can access your emails without going on the web browser (Safari/Firefox). Only compatible with certain providers though.

Messenger (MSN for Mac) - This is Version 4.0 so it's actually irrelevant, as a much newer version is already out. The same principles apply though; communicating your friends through instant messages.

The features in Word and Powerpoint appear the exact same as in the full edition, as does Excel. The only differences are the fact that the S & T Edition has a cleaner interface, with bigger tabs below the menu bar at the top, and in terms of productivity, it's actually much easier to select a type of document/project and just create it. This, for me anyway, is great because I can just get on with what I want to do quickly.

Drag and Drop installation is just over 600mb which is quite friendly on your MacBook, but if you do a custom install and do away with all the fancy languages and networking blurb, it can come down to 400+ no problem. The programs themselves react just as quick as most Windows versions of Office, so no differences there.

If you're new to the 'Office' packages or are new to the Mac versions, their are just a couple of things you should note. Firstly, this disc comes with 3 product keys, meaning it can only be installed on 3 different accounts, which is why you can find it nice and cheap if 1/2 keys have already been used. The second thing is the layout of the programs. Windows users may need time to get used to the 'box' look of these programs, particularly Word in which the Formatting bar (Fonts, Sizes etc) is actually a seperate small box which you can drag around, and fades away when not highlighted. This takes some getting used to, but it's not a problem, as it 'snaps' to the sides of your MacBook's screen to keep your desktop tidy. Entourage also has a different interface to it's equivalent 'Outlook Express', but I feel this Mac Office version is alot better. Just remember though that Entourage is only compatible with certain email providers... My Yahoo account for example won't work; I believe you have to pay them extra for this privilege? Pff...

Again as stated earlier, Messenger for Mac is quite irrelevant as the version on this disc is out of date. If you download the new version however, it's a really nice program and much the same, if not exactly, to the Windows Messenger Version 7.0 (BEFORE silly features!)

In terms of value, I couldn't be happier with my purchase, and it's really paying off for itself as I can save paper in lectures and just type my notes on the 'Note-Book' project of Word (it suddenly turns into a notepad with lines and bullet points). I'd recommend this for all Mac-Owner's who are fed up with the extortionate high prices of new Office packages, and the seemingly over-complication of Office 2008.

One final thing - this DOES indeed work with Mac OS X LEOPARD.

Warning: Obsolete! 2008 is newer and cheaper than 2004.
The Office 2004 for Mac product range is now obsolete. The new Office 2008 for Mac runs as a proper universal binary (i.e. you get Intel code installed on Intel Macs) and the licensing is much more affordable. The Home and Student edition of Office/Mac 2008 only costs about 100 pounds, and for that you get three serial numbers if I recall correctly.

Amazon should delete the Office 2004 product from the catalog, or at least tweak the settings so that it doesn't get promoted on the front page.

not the same as the PC version
I previously had the professional office, which includes Publisher but there is no equivalent of that for the Mac.

I had tried running some office documents in iWorks and found that particularly the excel documents didn't open properly so I decided to go for Office for Mac since I get a lot of Office documents sent from work.
The Word, Excel and Powerpoint versions work well enough and are easy enough to use. But Entourage (the Mac version of Outlook) is REAL pain. Being a microsoft office product, one would think that importing contacts, calendar,mail and tasks from Outlook would be perfectly simple but it is a nightmare. Entourage does not recognise .pst files and forget about tryig the tab or comma delineated import - it doesn't work. So expect to spend several days hunting through the internet for ways to import all that important information. Typical Microsoft, which is why I've moved to Apple in the first place.