Microsoft Office 2004 Professional [Mac]

There's time for fun and time to focus. 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. Whether you use your Mac for home, school, or business, Office 2004 offers full versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage 2004 designed exclusively for Mac OS X. The Professional Edition also comes with Virtual PC Version 7 for those who need to access PC-only files or applications.

Innovators cross-pollinate ideas and information, and so should their tools. The new features in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 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.

New Features:

• Project Center: manage your projects more efficiently by accessing all of your project-related e-mail messages, files, notes, contacts, and schedules in one convenient place.
• Toolbox: quickly access Compatibility Reports, your Scrapbook, and the Project Palette from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint 2004.
• Compatibility Reports: Seamlessly share files and project information with almost anyone on a Mac or PC. Now you can quickly identify and resolve version- and platform-related compatibility issues.
• Project Gallery: quickly find the documents you’ve worked on recently in the gallery, and use the new Learn tab to find instructive sample documents.

Additional Features: 

• Unicode support: now you can display most non-Roman fonts with ease and take advantage of the long file-name capabilities built into Mac OS X.
• Save image to file: save embedded graphics to a separate graphics file in GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, PSD, or AppleWorks Graphic format.
• Formatting palette transparency: make the Formatting Palette translucent so that it no longer obscures your underlying document.
• Error reporting: automatically generate and send an error report to Microsoft for analysis if an Office 2004 application crashes.

Office 2004 Professional takes advantage of the powerful Mac OS X system, offering animated buttons, sheets, dialogue boxes & more. Getting your important work done is easy as clicking and going! Features the latest versions of Outlook, Powerpoint, and Word - with great new Mac-only features. New Presenter Tools for Powerpoint - tools like the on-screen clock, notes pane and thumbnail viewer make changes and adjustments simple Entourage 2004 offers improved junk e-mail protection, better Exchange support, advanced Three Columns and more -- get through your inbox faster than before Compatibility Reports determine compatibility between projects in Windows and Mac formats Stay in touch with MSN Messenger for Mac Work with any native Windows application with Virtual PC for Mac Version 7

Requirements

• Mac OS X version 10.2.8-10.3 (version 10.3 is required for the Power Mac G5)
• 700 MHz native PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
• 512 MB RAM
• 3 GB available hard-disk space
• CD-ROM drive (or connection to a local area network if installing over a network)
• Mouse or compatible pointing device