It does take a long time to open, it makes strange noises at random times(like when you turned off email notification and it is idle). Can it finally take them down? The answer is no. PowerPoint is good, and I think that Apple will need to push the limits with the next version of Keynote.Įntourage is Microsoft’s answer to Mail, iCal, and Address Book. Good Job Microsoft, you have implemented another new feature in a wrong way! You have to do it several times before actually knowing what the transition did. When choosing a transition, you can select the transition, and it does this short preview that is already over before it started and it had told me nothing about the transition. I think that this is much better than the old 2004 PowerPoint Method of doing things. You can choose from Slide Themes, Slide Layout, Transitions, Table Styles, Charts, SmartArt Graphics, and WordArt. Now all the effects and themes from one area. PowerPoint has gained a lot of functionality with the Gallery. PowerPoint now is more user Friendly, and is taking advantage of the Gallery in all Office 2008 Applications. They have gained some ground back with PowerPoint 2008. Microsoft had some competition when Apple released Keynote 4.0. While I don’t have much more to say, I can say this: I much prefer Numbers over Excel. Regarding performance, Excel’s Gallery was slow and choppy, while Word’s was nice an flowing. The Ribbon UI uses the exact same icon for the Galleries that involve selecting a certain elements in the Gallery. Excel needs some work, from what I can tell. Excel is almost the exact same as where Microsoft left it in 2004, with the addition of the Gallery, which is almost the same as it is in Word. While I am not an avid Spreadsheet user, I will try my best to cover all the new features that are in Excel. If you have used Microsoft Word before, you will get the feeling of refreshment, and comfort, because it feels very familiar. Other than the ones mentioned, there really aren’t that many new features to be told of. Finally, from WordArt, you can choose between Simple, Elegant, Bold, Enhanced, and Elegant. In SmartArt Graphics, you can choose from Recent, List, Process, Cycle, Hierarchy, Relationship, Matrix, and Pyramid. In Charts, you can choose from All, Area, Bar, Bubble, Column, Doughnut, Line, Pie, Radar, Stock, Surface, and X-Y Scatter. From Quick Tables you can choose from Basic and Complex, each having a range of Tables you can choose from. Under Document Elements you can choose from Cover Pages, Table of Contents, Header, Footer, and Bibliographies. The Gallery is almost the exact same as it is in Pages. Also, saving can take up to 4 seconds, rendering the application useless until it is done. It almost seems to be worse than on the 2004 version of Office. One thing that is annoying is that the keys seem to be lagging behind the words that I am typing on the keyboard. On my aging PowerBook, I was happy to find that all the effects were happily bouncing along on their path until they got to where they were supposed to be with no jerkiness at all. It could also be because Word has gained almost every single feature that Pages had. Maybe it is because I have used Office since Mac OS 9 and just recently switched to iWork. I could already tell this was a Microsoft Product.Īs I am writing this review in Word, everything is different, but it all seems so similar. After the “Identity” was created, the Office Applications put themselves in my dock without asking me, and Office Gallery Launcher opened itself. At first I closed the application, but then realized that I had to register myself in order to use the Office ’08 Applications. After the simple 5 minute Installation, an “Identity Creator” opened itself and asked me for my Name, Company, Phone Number, and email address. The Steps for the Installation are as follows: Introduction, License, Product Key, Destination, Installation Type, Installation, Remove Office (older versions), and finally Summary. On both of the computers, the Installation went very smooth. Both computers have the latest Leopard Build on them (559). For this review, I will be using a MacBook Pro with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo and 4GB of RAM and a 12” PowerBook with a 1.5GHz G4 and 1.25GB RAM.
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