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Okay, just came back from class so I'm going to reply to all the questions:

1) No, I didn't get VPC 7, and now that I have Office 2004 with aMSN installed, I don't think I'll need VPC ever again:D.

2) I haven't tried doing filenames with different characters of other languages, maybe later;).

3) The blue theme is mine, I think it's called Simplex by swizzcore, but yes, I'm using shapeshifter.

Anyways, I'm really tired and have Rawles paper to write for tomorrow... but if you guys need anymore questions answered or screenies, just reply with the request and I'll get back to y'all...
 
More reports!

Strange how all the rumour sites, including this one, still have not reported much on the Office 2004 Preview release. For such a major productivity app...???

So what's it like? Stability? Performance? Compatibility? Major bugs? (yes, I am aware it's still "preview")
 
nspeds said:
Okay, just came back from class so I'm going to reply to all the questions:

3) The blue theme is mine, I think it's called Simplex by swizzcore, but yes, I'm using shapeshifter.

I just wish you could take one screenshot without the theme on... so I can see if they changed the standard window appearance at all.
 
SoGood said:
Strange how all the rumour sites, including this one, still have not reported much on the Office 2004 Preview release. For such a major productivity app...???

So what's it like? Stability? Performance? Compatibility? Major bugs? (yes, I am aware it's still "preview")

Stability: Haven't really encountered any bugs, but a minor quirk is that Outlook doesn't remember what view I was in (ie. Inbox) so it keeps on referring back to the "home" page when I unhide it...

Perfomance: It's a little slow, just a little!

Compatibility: Interesting, now in every save box, there is a description as to what your file will be compatible with and there is something called a "compatibility report".

Surprisingly, this software is VERY stable. But then again, Office 2003 was also stable in Beta 2! But then again, Office 2003 was goooood!
 
buwahahaha

nspeds said:
Exchange support is there, however, since I don't use Exchange, I barely see any difference between the Exchange implementation in Entourage 2004 and Entourage v.X

haha. you obviously don't know much about Exchange.

in other words, for those who know what REAL Exchange Server implementation is... it still isn't in Office 2004! smtp is NOT Exchange Server support, kids. i guarantee Entourage will still be a JOKE when it comes to real Exchange Server support. you don't get my upgrade $.
 
crazzyeddie said:
I just wish you could take one screenshot without the theme on... so I can see if they changed the standard window appearance at all.

Ask and ye shall recieve...
 

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I do not care for the new Office suite, but I would like to have those icons. Would you be kind enough to send me the new Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Entourage icons? The current Office v.X ones look horrible.

Thanks in advance.
 
I have office 2003 for my PC and I love the new outlook. I have been waiting for the office 2004 for mac to come out, I will definitly buy it as soon as it comes out. I had a beta of Microsoft OneNote and I loved it, but I'm not paying $200.00 for just that program. That's why I'm glad you said WSord 2004 is just like it. Could you post a screen shot of the notebook ruled pages view with the tabbed sections.

Thanks in advance...
 
GetGo said:
I have office 2003 for my PC and I love the new outlook. I have been waiting for the office 2004 for mac to come out, I will definitly buy it as soon as it comes out. I had a beta of Microsoft OneNote and I loved it, but I'm not paying $200.00 for just that program. That's why I'm glad you said WSord 2004 is just like it. Could you post a screen shot of the notebook ruled pages view with the tabbed sections.

Thanks in advance...


Sorry, I just found your screen shot of what I requested, looks like just what I was looking for.
 
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GetGo said:
I have office 2003 for my PC and I love the new outlook. I have been waiting for the office 2004 for mac to come out, I will definitly buy it as soon as it comes out. I had a beta of Microsoft OneNote and I loved it, but I'm not paying $200.00 for just that program. That's why I'm glad you said WSord 2004 is just like it. Could you post a screen shot of the notebook ruled pages view with the tabbed sections.

Thanks in advance...

Here it is!
 

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phreaker57x said:
I do not care for the new Office suite, but I would like to have those icons. Would you be kind enough to send me the new Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Entourage icons? The current Office v.X ones look horrible.

Thanks in advance.


I'll see what I can do!!
 
nspeds said:
Anyways, I'm really tired and have Rawles paper to write for tomorrow... but if you guys need anymore questions answered or screenies, just reply with the request and I'll get back to y'all...

John Rawles, the defender of liberalism?

You are my hero.
 
in telling us not to ask you how you got it, means we are bound to ask you how you got it! so... how did you get it! :D
 
russed said:
in telling us not to ask you how you got it, means we are bound to ask you how you got it! so... how did you get it! :D

I would, but I don't think these boards would permit such rhetoric! If you want, just IM me and I'll "do my best to accomodate your request"

MSN: rodugal@hotmail.com

Yes, Rawles is badass... Nozick too:D.
 
LimeiBook86 said:
I can't seem to get excited about a bunch of Word Processing Suit programs... :rolleyes:

Good for you, obviously, you don't care about the mechanisms one usually utilizes for making reports, doing work and regular everyday tasks that are assigned to us from the workplace. These mechanisms are seeing a possible improvement which could make doing work easier, that's something to drool over...

Maybe you don't do work but just look at macrumors.com all day, so you have no use for such "word processing suit programs". I don't know, just throwing it out there...
 
Hello, everybody, I’m new on this forum.

One feature I terribly miss with Entourage X is the possibility to receive return receipts. Do you know if this feature is integrated in the 2004 version?

Thanks!
 
wdlove said:
I thought that MSN messenger didn't work with the Mac. At least that is what it says in the advertisements by Verizon.

of course it does. there is a mac version of the app. a linux client called amsn is now ported to osx and is about equal to the pc version in features.
 
Arnold said:
Hello, everybody, I’m new on this forum.

One feature I terribly miss with Entourage X is the possibility to receive return receipts. Do you know if this feature is integrated in the 2004 version?

Thanks!
Receipts are a non-standard mail feature that is provided by the SERVER (Exchange, in this case), not the CLIENT (Entourage). Therefore, unless you happen to be using an Exchange server and Entourage 2004 PROPERLY supports Exchange, then no.
 
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