Still the best-selling software suite for Mac users, Microsoft Office has been improved and enhanced to take advantage of Mac OS X features the latest. You will find many new features in Office 2008 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, but not the pages printed instructions to guide you through the changes. Office 2008 for Macintosh: Missing Manual provides an introduction, comprehensive friendly you need, whether you are a beginner who can not do more than point and click, or power users who are ready to cope with some advanced techniques. To cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, this guide gives you four outstanding books in one - a separate section each for program! Office 2008 has been redesigned so that the windows, toolbars, and icons of other applications that blend better with your Mac. With it, you'll learn how to: Navigate the new user interface with toolbar its larger and more graphic Use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage separately or together Keep track of appointments and manage daily priorities with the My Day feature Create newsletters, flyers, brochures, and more with Word Layout Publishing See document Building a finance such as budgets and invoices with Excel's Ledger Sheets Get quick access to document all the templates and graphics with the Elements Gallery Organize all your projects Office use Entourage's Project Center Scan or camera import digital pictures directly to one of the programs Customize each program with power-user techniques With Office 2008 for Macintosh: Missing Manual, you get objective and entertaining instruction to help you utilize all the features of this powerful suite, so you can get more done in less time. Why Should I Upgrade to Office 2008 for Macintosh? Author Jim Elferdink talking about what a Macintosh? S new in Office 2008 for. If you? Back still using Office 2004, you? Will find some great reasons to upgrade. Jim also fills you in some cool features that Office for Windows can? T match, and why you may not need to invest in iWork! What are the best new features that will make people want to upgrade to Office 2008? Publishing Layout view. If you use Word to create formatted documents like letters and brochures you? Will find it much easier to do now in the new Publishing Layout view than in the old Page Layout view. Not? S does not resemble MyDay in Office for Windows) Central Project .. It takes extra effort to learn, but once you've got? It's up and running, if you go back to do whatever project that involves Office documents or even files from other programs, it sa great time saver?.? (Office for Windows also does not exist such as the Center Project.) Formula Builder,. In Excel one of the biggest new feature is the builder formula. It helps you get things created and working much faster than you could do before. Elements Gallery. Elements Gallery concept is really great because it brought more than one program to another, giving the program was consistent. So, is there any shortage to upgrade to Office 2008? Publishing Layout view can be desperately slow on G4 Macs, especially if you? re trying to move layout elements around the screen. Office 2008 uses the same new, XML-based file formats with Office 2007 for Windows. This? S great to not have to worry when someone with Office 2007 on a PC to send anything. Office 2008 can open documents properly. After you upgrade to Office 2008, you? Ve must realize that not everyone else has, and (unless you have a real need to use XML format) set the Save option (in Preferences) to the older format so there won? t there is a problem with your attachment. Any macros you wrote in earlier versions of Office use the Visual Basic programming language (VBA), and they won t work Office 2008? If you have written? Many macros for yourself, you? Will have to stick with Office 2004 until you have time to rewrite them in AppleScript.