With a full interface makeover and a heartier database, Entourage X is a big improvement on Entourage 2001. The new Clear Formatting command resets the text selection to the default style for that paragraph it can be a real time-saver.
This is hardly a new idea Nisus Software’s Nisus Writer has boasted noncontiguous text selection since its early days, but this a welcome addition for Word users. Your next operation, such as text formatting, is applied to all selected text. Just select the first block of text, hold down the 1 key, and select another block. Word X’s primary new feature, besides interface changes, is noncontiguous text selection, which enables you to select one or more separate blocks of text in a single operation (see “Separate Selections” below). With the exception of Entourage X, you won’t find many new features in the Office v. Interestingly, Word does not antialias document text, because if it did, the smoothed on-screen text would not look like the same text on the printed page. Similarly, if you drag a tool palette to an edge of your screen to make it a tool bar, the document window and other tool bars slide politely out of the way.Īll the Office applications take advantage of Mac OS X’s Quartz drawing technology to set the opacity of drawing objects or pictures, and PowerPoint uses Quartz’s superior text manipulation to antialias text on slides for clearer presentations. For example, when you show or hide the sections of the Formatting palette, the sections slide smoothly into view, rather than simply appearing, as in Office 2001.
In keeping with Aqua’s more active interface, the Office applications now draw more attention to themselves when an interface changes. The Office programs’ Save dialog boxes take advantage of Aqua’s sheets, so they don’t have to be dismissed before you can work in another document or application (see “Saved by Sheets” below) however, Print dialog boxes do not appear as sheets. All of the controls and icons sport the more colorful, rounded Aqua look. X’s embrace of Aqua as soon as you open any of the suite’s programs. For example, apple-M previously sent and received all e-mail in Entourage 2001, but Aqua reserves that keystroke for minimizing the current window to the Dock, so in Entourage X, the Send And Receive All command is apple-K. Most of these changes are due to Office’s compliance with Apple’s Aqua user-interface guidelines. Longtime Office users will have to get used to changed keyboard commands throughout the suite. X as in Office 2001, and many are faster some tasks, such as searching through Entourage’s mail database, are significantly faster.
Operations are at least as fast in Office v. Even on a 400MHz G4 machine, the Office programs opened quickly, usually in 5 or 6 seconds. X shows that when Carbonization is done well, you don’t have to sacrifice speed. Unfortunately, OS X users have become accustomed to seeing Carbonized applications lag behind classic versions of the same programs, as with the recent Painter 7. Microsoft has Carbonized the entire Office suite, and its developers have done an excellent job of implementing new technologies such as Aqua sheets the Quartz drawing environment and Carbon Events, OS X’s architecture for efficient multitasking. X demonstrates Microsoft’s strong support for Apple’s transition to Mac OS X. X requires OS X 10.1 or later to run, and future Office development will happen only for OS X. Office 2001 will remain available for people still running Mac OS 8 and 9, but Microsoft will be releasing only bug fixes (not updates) for that version. With its superior integration into the OS X environment, nicely reworked Entourage X, and improved overall performance, Office v. X is far more than a mere port of Office to OS X. ), provides the mainstream productivity programs Mac users have been waiting for.
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X, the eagerly awaited upgrade to Office 2001 (4.0 mice. The trickle of applications rewritten for Mac OS X is turning into a flood, and Microsoft Office v.
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