The cheapest version is £ 99.99 for families and students, formerly for students and teachers, which does not support Exchange and Automator. Your Mac needs 1.5GB of free hard disk space, requiring at least OS 10.4.9 with 512BM of RAM memory and a 500MHz Intel or PowerPC processor. But surely the documents edited on the new Office suite will be smaller and more secure than the previous editors. Although Microsoft has released many free conversion software, we can still see that Office 2007 has had more complicated procedures. This means that from now on you should store the work in Open XML format, if you use the old version of the software, you will not be able to open the file. However, free file conversion tools will not be valid after 10 weeks or 8 weeks after the applications have been archived. You don't have to worry about these default options, you can even save work with older file formats like DOC, XLS and PPT. Office for Mac saves files in the same Open XML format used by Office 2007 on Windows. It is very convenient if you trust Entourage but do not want to always activate it. The new My Day tool for Entourage to manage icons on Mac screens, widgets, calendar display items and to-do lists.

There are also significant changes, now you can save PDF files, and Automator activities are also supported. For example, Mac's Office features also have templates and Smart Art graphics like Windows components, including 3D and other designs. Most changes focus on every effort to help users create more compelling documents. The 2007 applications for Windows rearrange functions within tabs, while the Mac 2008 software still largely puts functions inside drop-down menus such as File, Edit and View. This is good news for users who don't want to get used to the location of the function. Unlike Microsoft Office 2007, the new version for this Mac is basically different from the 2004 version. There is no Microsoft Access database application on Mac, in return FileMaker is being introduced to Mac users by Bento as a new option. Office for Mac suite includes Word, Excel for tables, PowerPoint presentations and Entourage for email and time management.

Microsoft tested beta versions of new applications last month without any problems. After a series of delays, Microsoft plans to release Office 2008 for Mac to officially announce on January 15, this is the first upgrade in the last 4 years.

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