Graduate to Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Student and Teacher Edition and let your intellect shine. We took what we learned from thousands of Mac users to design groundbreaking new features that can help you manage, create and share ideas with ease and confidence.

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Express your ideas with more brilliance and clarity using the innovative new tools in Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac. The gold standard in word processing works harder than ever for you with improved reference tools, dynamic reviewing capabilities and enhanced views for organizing your thoughts.

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A curvy new interface, which echoes the elegance of the upcoming Mac OS X, reveals improvements in each component. Word's versatile editing tools now include instant access to Encarta dictionary definitions; and Excel now imports FileMaker databases, sorts and manages lists, and sports a new calculator that simplifies formula creation. PowerPoint's new Tri-Pane interface and text AutoFit feature make it easier to build presentations. Plus, the ability to save PowerPoint documents as QuickTime movies makes it easier to share them.

The most significant addition to Office 2001 is the new personal information manager. Dubbed Entourage, it will handle your e-mail (AutoFormat and AutoCorrect features that are borrowed from Word nicely refine composition), address book, to-do list, and calendar. Entourage can filter your e-mail and tasks quickly with color-coded categories and custom views, and sync seamlessly with your Palm OS device, which helps to keep you organized.

Entourage's presence is felt throughout Office 2001--every application will let you flag documents for follow-up and pass the reminder on to the calendar, and the address book is accessible at any time, which is invaluable if you use Word for mail-merge tasks.

This integrated approach is key to Office 2001's appeal. A new Formatting Palette automatically shows tools that are relevant to the task at hand; the Office Clipboard palette keeps track of multiple items that have been copied from different Office applications; and the ubiquitous Office Assistant is always on hand with tips and how-to advice.

Our advice? With features as wide-ranging as these, Office 2001 makes it easy for you to create, manage, and present your documents like a real pro. --Jack Gardiner

Move up to Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Standard Edition and let your ideas take flight. Its groundbreaking new features, created with input from thousands of Mac users, are designed to help you manage, create and share ideas with ease and confidence.

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The modern user interface within Office v. X has been completely redesigned to include a bold new Aqua visual appearance--a perfect representation of what an application running on the new Mac OS X should look and feel like. Communication is a snap. E-mail is made even easier in Entourage X by allowing connections to Microsoft Exchange servers, Hotmail, and Mac.com so users can more efficiently manage e-mail online and off. With the integrated and improved Entourage calendar, you can easily organize your schedule and set reminders for important events and projects.

Office v. X is compatible with Office 2001 for Mac, Office 98 Macintosh Edition, Office for Microsoft Windows, AppleWorks 6, and FileMaker Pro 5.5., so you can share files with anyone, whether they use a Mac or a PC. Keep track of contacts with the comprehensive Address Book, which stores all of your contact information and lets you locate an address on a map or find driving directions from Expedia.com. Improved task reporting, calendar functions, and international time zone adjustments make time management even easier. Easily access customizable templates for résumés, catalogs, newsletters, calendars, and more from the Project Gallery. The Clip Art Gallery, including hundreds of images, provides tools to make working with graphics quick and easy.

Note to users attempting to install Office v. x for Mac on new Apple hardware systems: Customers that have the Office v. X Test Drive Installed when attempting to install Office v. X may experience installation failure. The Test Drive is currently pre-installed on the PowerBook 12- and 17-inch models, as well as the 15- and 17-inch LCD iMacs. To facilitate successful installation, it will be necessary to remove the Test Drive by quitting any Microsoft Office applications and running the Remove Test Drive application located in /Applications/Microsoft Office X/Remove Test Drive. For more information on the Test Drive and its effect on your new Mac PC, please visit the Mactopia website at www.microsoft.com/mac.

Word's AutoCorrect fixes typos on the fly, and its spelling and grammar checkers combine with elegant editing and versioning tools to become a sophisticated document creation package. More subtle, but no less handy, is the font menu that shows you what the fonts really look like, the control-click that pops up a selection of synonyms, and the new table drawing tools. For number-crunching tasks, Excel will check your formulas for common errors, give multiple users the ability to access and edit shared workbooks simultaneously, and let you build equations using natural language. An improved, centralized chart wizard and custom cell formatting help make your numbers look their best. PowerPoint, Office's popular presentation tool, features redesigned templates and new transitions as well as the flexibility to create multiple customized presentations from a single PowerPoint document.

Office 98 also includes support for drag and drop--so moving content from one program to another is easy--and QuickTime, wizards that help you quickly create standard office documents from templates, an Assistant that can give you step-by-step instructions for most tasks, and the key ability to undo multiple changes. The only thing Office 98 lacks is a Mac version of Microsoft Access, which leaves the suite without a database program. --Jack Gardiner

The modern user interface within Office v. X has been completely redesigned to include a bold new Aqua visual appearance--a perfect representation of what an application running on the new Mac OS X should look and feel like. Communication is a snap. E-mail is made even easier in Entourage X by allowing connections to Microsoft Exchange servers, Hotmail, and Mac.com so users can more efficiently manage e-mail online and off. With the integrated and improved Entourage calendar, you can easily organize your schedule, and set reminders for important events and projects.

Office v. X is compatible with Office 2001 for Mac, Office 98 Macintosh Edition, Office for Microsoft Windows, AppleWorks 6, and FileMaker Pro 5.5, so you can share work and files with anyone, whether they use a Mac or PC. Keep track of contacts with the comprehensive Address Book, which stores all of your contact information and allows you to locate an address on a map or find driving directions from Expedia.com. Improved task reporting, calendar functions, and international time zone adjustments make time management even easier. Easily access customizable templates for résumés, catalogs, newsletters, calendars, and more from the Project Gallery. The Clip Art Gallery, including hundreds of images, provides tools to make working with graphics quick and easy.