Product Description

OFFICE STUDENT TEACHER MAC 2004 EN

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #575 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: BD6-00001
• Released on: 2004-05-28
• Platform: Mac
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .79 pounds

Features

• OFFICE MAC STUDENT TEACHER 2004 MAC ENG
• OFFICE MAC STUDENT TEACHER 2004 MAC ENG CD

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

Office 2004 - an excellent upgrade!
Office for the mac has lagged behind the pc version for years now. Office VX was a definite improvement, but still, it was easy to feel like a poor relation compared to the pc package.

Office 2004 changes that in my humble opinion.

The suite comes with the usual applications, word, excel, powerpoint and entourage (no access database in the mac version).

Entourage is a mac outlook-like application and although a touch flakey in office vx, it looks VERY nice indeed in 2004. Some of the touches from the pc version such as a translucent mail notification window and a new display which puts email in the right hand side pane giving more room to view the email than the traditional view (although you can select the old view if you like).

In many ways, entourage is the emerging star of this package. It integrates mail/addressbook/calendar/notes/tasks and the new in 2004 project center.

Word/excel/powerpoint have all been updated and their features now leapfrog the pc version in many respects although apparently no XML which MS made a big deal of for the windows version 2003.

All the applications look and feel much more macosx and are fast and stable.

The student/teacher version is particularly good value since it allows installation on upto three machines at only around £100. A bargain for all this software and a must have for any macosx box.

Essential Programme for Students With Macs
I have never once regretted abandoning Windows PC's for Apple Macs but it has always niggled me that all of the computers at college run windows and that we were expected to present a lot of our work in powerpoint. I had to use my girlfriends laptop for all my work which kind of defeated the point of splashing out the extra money for a Mac. Then I realised that I could buy Microsoft Office for Mac at a reduced price because I am a student. I can't recommend it enough and it looks like Microsoft have really listened to what Mac users want when designing the programme. It features Word, Powerpoint, Excel and the handy Entourage for e-mail. Of course all files produced on a Mac can be opened on PC's and there is a very handy compatibility report which tells the user as they work that a particular font or background may appear slightly differently on Office 2000 or whatever so you don't get a shock when you are delivering that important presentation and the slides look different.

It works, what more do you want
I was a regular user of the PC version of Office, so when I migrated to Mac I bought the same. If we drop all the sales hype, basically it works. I use Word a lot (but mostly its basic functions for writing things such as this review), and Excel and Powerpoint quite a lot, and so far I have never lost a document, nor had any software failures. It works perfectly with OS X, and the update function works fine. I have not tried Project Centre or Entourage, and I'm not a big user of advanced features. So I don't see much difference with the PC version, which is fine by me. One thing that I really like, and need, with this version is the effortless importing of files from older versions of Office. I also embed lots of photos into documents - I only wish the file size would not keep exploding. But it is nice that OS X appears to handle Word files of 50MB with ease, whereas on my old (and slower) PC portable it took for every and sometime bombed out.