Office 2008 for Mac

Office 2008 Evaluation
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Typical
challenges in a
business
environment
Why choose Office 2008
Increasing
individual
productivity
Office 2008 helps maximize productivity by providing tools that users can use
to prioritize and manage daily activities, e-mail, calendars, and tasks. With its
results-oriented interface, Office 2008 helps users quickly assemble and create
high quality documents, presentations, and workbooks. The following is a list
of some sample features that help users increase their productivity:
• Automator support - Automator is a Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger)
application that helps automate commonly performed and
repetitive tasks. All Office 2008 applications come with several
sample Automator workflows. For example, a workflow in Word
converts text to audio and sends the audio to an iPod. In
Entourage, users can use a sample workflow to print selected e-
mail messages.
• To Do Lists and My Day in Entourage - Users can manage time and
tasks more efficiently by using the new To Do List feature. The To
Do List displays all To Do items in one place. My Day is a widget-
like application that allows users to display their day's events and
To Do List on the desktop. Users don't even have to open
Entourage to use My Day and view their To Do List.
• Entourage Calendar - The redesigned Calendar interface makes it
easier to manage events and tasks. Users can color-code events by
using categories, quickly create new events by dragging, and view
the To Do List next to the Calendar.
• Toolbox and Object Palette - The Office Toolbox provides a one-
stop destination for some of the most useful tools in Office 2008. It
consolidates the Formatting Palette, Object Palette, Compatibility
Report, Scrapbook, Reference Tools, and other application-specific
tools in one convenient interface. The new Object Palette gives
quick and easy access to shapes, Clip Art, symbols, and photos
(including iPhoto).