Blake Burris took time this week to show me the latest version of Office 2004 for Mac.
Having resisted the desire to buy one more version of Office, I went out and bought a copy for myself. Perhaps I should blame the translucent formatting palette for the purchase. Although, I don't have buyer's remorse.
There are plenty of new features in Office. Here's one I'm using -- Word's Notebook document. A Notebook has tabs along the side of the page that allows you to move from section to section with ease. Great for keeping notes on research or projects.
And if you use PowerPoint, you'll probably love its presentation tools. If you have two screens, PowerPoint will display your presentation on one screen. And on the other screen it displays a presentation dashboard – this dashboard shows the current slide, the next slide, and the notes section.
I can hear some of you thinking, "I own an Intel machine, how is Office for the Mac going to help me?"
That's where a Hawaiian programmer and 37,000 lines of software emulation code comes in. Wired reports that Arben Kryeziu wrote the code that allows a PC to run OS X, and now the company he works for wants to sell the software. Of course, the proof lies in the coding.
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