Microsoft Office 2004 Shipping

[sososowhat]

Integrating Entourage & Mac Address books?

I've also just installed OS Office 2004. Is there a way to keep its address book & my OS X address book in sync so I can use both?

Other First impressions:
* I love "notebook view" in word. Big improvement over outline view. However, can one actually print pages with the lines on them? I don't see how.
* mail folder management & views & etc seems better than OS X mail. I like the way you can see mail by date nicely delineated, and also using mail views to pick specific groups of mail.
* Project Center is awesome. However, is there a way to load a mail attachment as a project document without first saving the attachment outside of mail?

 

[andiwm2003]

I just installed Office 2004 for Mac and I must say I am impressed with the software. I find it much improved over Office v.X. I know it is made by Microsoft, but I have to give them a lot of credit. I have never used Entourage, actually never even opened it before and I can tell you I already took Mail, Address Book, and iCal off my Dock. I find it a much better solution being totally integrated. Word is about the same with a few new perks, Excel looks good and I notice several improvements in PowerPoint. I find PowerPoint hard to beat and when you are working in a Windows world (military) I find compatibility excellent. I have never been a Microsoft fan at all, but this is a great piece of software that seems to really work with OSX. It it totally worth the money if you need a good office suite.

i also like office 2004 a lot although its made by the evil empire. i don't use entourage, i prefer to use the programs as individual applications (i know i'm old fashioned).

two negative points:

there is still no way to transfer archived mails from outlook/exchange server to the ms mail program (i'm sitting on 3 GB archived mails).

of course when you change a 2004 powerpoint presentation it is not compatible with older powerpoint version anymore. you always loose some images or so. but that is marketing, i guess.

but in general it is stable, fast enough on my 15" PB, user friendly (in MS terms) and i love the presenter tools in powerpoint. using my pda with the salling clicker bluetooth software also works great.

i never thought i write a good review for MS. i right now go to my apple store and buy keynote............

 

[DakotaGuy]

i never thought i write a good review for MS. i right now go to my apple store and buy keynote............

IMO Keynote still has a ways to go before it becomes a better program then PowerPoint. With that said, I also do not care for MS, but I have to give credit where credit is due and this is an awesome program. It seems the people at the MacBU of Microsoft really have a feel for OSX and how to make software for it. It is very well thought out and performs well. I have just had it for a day, so I will give more reports as I use it. If you have a .mac account, Entourage will automatically set it up to receive and send mail when you first open it. You can also set up other email accounts. The notebook view in Word is awesome. I have not tried recording the voice notes yet. I am going to start working on an Excel project today as well. For all the people that say Apple must come out with an Office type suite, I don't see why...these programs are about as good as you can get. (I can't believe I just said so many nice things about MS...)

 

[itsa]

I don't see why...these programs are about as good as you can get.

try droping a .mov or a flash file in powerpoint and play the show.. You wont like that so much.
I'm told they are working on a bunch of fixes. I can not use PP right now. I wish I never upgraded.
I have to say... keynotes is becoming easier to work with the more I do with it. It's just lacking so many options I used in pp.