But Smart Tags put ''Undo'' and ''Stop doing this'' commands right in front of you where you can't miss them.īut the most far-reaching and useful 2004 overhaul was given to Entourage, a better-designed, far more pleasant cousin of Outlook for Windows. You've always been able to turn off these intrusions in a dialog box or undo individual changes by pressing Command-Z. For example, one appears whenever Word auto-formats something you've typed (a chronic sore spot with Microsoft customers): turning a Web address into a difficult-to-edit Web link, for example, or automatically numbering a list. Smart Buttons, descended from a similar feature in Word for Windows, are tiny pop-up menus that appear in your text whenever Word has something to offer you. Later you can play back a certain audio segment just by clicking the corresponding spot in your notes. Best of all, if you click a Record button, your microphone records the proceedings. In situations where fast note-taking is essential - lectures and interviews come to mind - this view presents a tabbed on-screen notebook and keystrokes that make it easy to type an outline. After years of seeing its own good ideas adopted by the Office for Windows team, Microsoft's Mac designers apparently decided that two could play that game.įor example, the new Notebook view in Word, the word processor, is a delightful rip-off of OneNote for Windows, a note-taking and organizing program. Once again, Microsoft added few big-ticket features, preferring to focus on a motley collection of nips and tucks.Ī strategy isn't the only thing the Mac team borrowed from the Windows gang, either.
#WORD ART POWERPOINT FOR MAC SOFTWARE#
Yesterday, Microsoft's Macintosh software division unveiled Office 2004 for Macintosh, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, an e-mail and calendar program.
#WORD ART POWERPOINT FOR MAC UPGRADE#
Last year, Office 2003 for Windows revealed the company's latest strategy: Add very, very little, and hope that people upgrade anyway.
Driving these meetings, no doubt, is a painful question: ''How on earth will we come up with more features that we didn't think of last year, or the year before that - especially when most people consider Office too bloated already?'' SHORTLY after Microsoft releases a new version of its Office software, its designers begin to discuss what to put into the next version.
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