Product Description

OFFICE MAC 2004 UK

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1178 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: 731-00994
• Released on: 2004-05-28
• Platform: Mac
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 7.00" h x 4.00" w x 10.00" l, .79 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Microsoft unveils a host of ground-breaking features and essential tools for the Mac. So users can enjoy robust functionality, integration among applications and cross-platform compatibility with Microsoft Office users. Office 2004's new and improved features enable users to more effectively manage information, create with confidence and share ideas across platforms and around the globe. Here's a look at some of the latest and greatest. By giving quick access to all of a project 's related e-mails, files, contacts, and schedule info, the Project Center in Office 2004 for Mac keeps users ' most important information on demand. It is one of the easiest, most elegant ways to stay on top of a multitude of projects. Entourage is the home base for the Project Center. Text, logos, pictures and other tidbits can now be kept right at users' fingertips in the Scrapbook. The Scrapbook allows users to store, search, and input clippings right into their document, spreadsheet, presentation, or e-mail. Compatibility Reports allow users to seamlessly share information and ideas with nearly anyone on the Mac or Windows platform. The report details issues that may be problematic on another platform or older version of Office and gives users the option to fix them. Thanks Unicode Support Office 2003 offers better font and language support, so Office applications more accurately display emoticons and correctly input and display non-Roman fonts with ease. Users can even name their files up to 255 characters.

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.