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***NOTE to Office 2004 Customers: Office 2008 has a new file format. To read more about the new file format, see
Information On Format Changes For Microsoft Office.
If you are using Office 2004 and need to read documents with the new format, you will need to install the
Office 2008 Compatibility Pack.
Purchasing Information
The Office of Information Technology's (OIT)
Software Licensing Office distributes authorized software to the University of Maryland community.
For
more information on purchasing, please visit the OIT's Software Licensing unit at
http://www.oit.umd.edu/slic/products/microsoft/office2008mac.html
Comparison Guide
| Edition |
Office 2004 Professional |
Office 2008 Standard |
| Included Software: |
Excel 2004
Entourage 2004
PowerPoint 2004
Word 2004
MSN Messenger
Virtual PC 7
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Word 2008
Excel 2008
PowerPoint 2008
Entourage 2008
Exchange Support Automator Actions
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| System Requirements: |
- 700 MHz native PowerPC G3, G4 or G5
- Mac OS X version 10.2.8-10.3; Mac OS X version 10.3 is required for the Power Mac G5
- 5122 MB of RAM
- 3 GB of available hard-disk space
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- Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (500 MHz or faster) processor
- Mac OS X version 10.4.9 or later
- 512 MB of RAM or more
- 1.5 GB of available hard disk space
- HFS+ hard disk
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Reasons to Upgrade
- Publishing Layout view.
If you use Word to create formatted documents like letters and brochures, you
will find it so much easier to do it now in the new Publishing Layout view than in the old Page Layout view.
- MyDay.
The Entourage MyDay feature helps to keep track of appointments and schedules.
- Project Center.
If you
are doing any kind of a project that involves Office documents or even files from other programs, it
is a great timesaver. It lets you keep shortcuts to all these documents, plus email related to the project, in one window. The Project Center makes it
easy to categorize email, contacts, notes, and documents.
- Formula Builder.
If you use Excel for formulas much at all, especially more complicated ones, Formula Builder really a timesaver. It helps you get those things
created
and working much faster than without it.
- Elements Gallery.
The Elements Gallery concept is really great because it carries over from one program to the other, giving programs a consistent feel. If you
are using a lot of templates or AutoShapes, you
will find it a quick way to get to everything. Yes, you could do all these things; but it was a lot harder to find for what you were
searching.
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