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1. #MICROSOFT OFFICE 2004 FOR MAC REVIEW FOR MAC#
2. #MICROSOFT OFFICE 2004 FOR MAC REVIEW PROFESSIONAL#
3. #MICROSOFT OFFICE 2004 FOR MAC REVIEW CRACK#

There is a brilliant new Formula Builder tool in the Toolbox palette, which automatically suggests formulas that might be handy and writes them for you, so life has become easier.Īvid users of Excel on a Mac, on the other hand, who work with advanced macros to automate parts of their ledger sheets, are not so lucky.

#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2004 FOR MAC REVIEW FOR MAC#

As Excel 2004 for Mac can’t handle these files, people who send and receive files from Windows users are forced to upgrade, just to get along with their colleagues.įeature-wise, there’s nothing really new to learn. Microsoft has updated the default file format to XML, as with Office 2007 for Windows. The same XML argument that justifies upgrading to Word 2008 for Mac is also true for Excel 2008.

Things are different, however, for business folk on the Mac. This is a great app, but there are so few changes to Excel 2008 for Mac that we can’t see why the casual user needs to upgrade. Grumbles aside, we prefer Word 2008 to Word 2004, just because of the easy way of inserting charts and graphics.

To work effectively, we removed open toolbars, stuck with just Elements Gallery and had the Toolbox palette floating off to one side, but we needed to do this each time we fired Word up. Even if you switch Word to full-screen, which bizarrely doesn’t spread it over your entire Desktop, you still have Elements Gallery above a row of possible graphics inserts and a compressed space beneath it to type in.

Minimising the tools is possible, but the toolbar stays thick and weighty. You want those tools hidden until needed! You don’t need 30 tools standing by, just in case you need to cycle through SmartArt graphics options, or Track Changes, or alter the background colour behind the text. In comparison, Word feels bloated and a little clumsy. For pure text work without charts, we find it more Mac-like and intuitive. A floating tools palette called Toolbox removes the need for toolbars clogging up the header space, but you can still have toolbars if you want them (they just don’t float about any more).Īfter typing in Word for a few days, we reverted back to using Scrivener to type this review.

#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2004 FOR MAC REVIEW PROFESSIONAL#

There’s also a new Publishing Layout View, which pretends to have professional layout tools like InDesign or XPress. It now supports OpenType, which reduces those weird moments when your fonts change in size or type inexplicably after, say, cutting and pasting. Mercifully, font handling has improved, which has been the thorn in Word’s side. We liked the SmartArt tab too, which produces flowchart-style artwork for text to be added into. Input data and the chart in Word changes form to reflect your numbers. When you do enter charts, Excel comes to life with cells of formula, waiting for your data. Pages and Swift Publisher offer many more template backgrounds to choose from, but fewer charts and tables. You can clearly see elements like charts and tables laid out in the Elements Gallery, and double-click them to the page. Placing artwork in Word 2008 documents is much cleaner than before, thanks to the Elements Gallery. Plus, you would lose any dynamic elements of the document enabled by the XML format. docx is the default format in the Windows edition too, you would have to constantly nag Windows colleagues to do the same if you stayed with Word 2004 for Mac. Sure, you can choose to save files from Word 2008 for Mac as. We had more issues opening XML files from Word 2008 for Mac in Word 2004 for Mac than we did opening the same files in Word 2007 for Windows. This forces Mac users who often transfer files with Windows users to upgrade. Word 2004 for Mac can’t handle these files without a translator, which at the time of writing Microsoft had yet to release. Word 2008 for Mac supports the XML files that Word 2007 for Windows creates, and vice versa.

The only reason we can see for upgrading is to get better interoperability with Office 2007 for Windows. However, with the exception of Elements Gallery and a few minor points, the feature-set is almost intact. Word 2008 for Mac looks cosmetically different to Word 2004 for Mac.

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For now, let’s crack open the box and take an in-depth look at what’s new in the different apps. We’ll comment on the value of the different packages at the end of the review. Microsoft told us that most of the requests for new features were requests for tools that already existed in Office 2004 for Mac, but were hard to find. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage have not been massively overhauled, but have had tools repositioned and made more obvious.