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It lets you export contacts and addresses to Entourage (the e-mail/scheduling app) directly from Word and lets you add addresses to Word documents. We're pretty impressed by Word's slick Contact toolbar as well. This saves you the trouble of having to choose one text block, apply the format, and then repeat the process for every area you want to change. Now, if you need to, say, format and spell-check unconnected blocks of text, simply hold down the Command key and use your pointer to select all the appropriate sections in one fell swoop.

Whereas Word 2001 made fantastic and necessary improvements from Word 98, Word X makes even greater improvements from 2001. To access telephone tech support, you'll have to pay for one of several standard Microsoft packages, available Monday through Friday from 5 a.m. Responsive online tech support is available at Mactopia.

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But, unlike Office 2001, Office X now contains a helpful, 164-page manual in the form of a PDF file, called the Getting Started Book. As with Office 2001 for Mac, Office X doesn't ship with a printed instruction manual.

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Service Release 1 improves the quality of the antialiasing, for Mac OS X 10.1.5 or later, but doesn't add antialiasing to these jaggy areas.įortunately, Office X's extensive online help is antialiased. Entourage, for example, doesn't antialias text in new e-mail messages, and while Excel smoothes out text in the row, column, and formula field headers, it leaves text within the cells rough around the edges. But some other text still appears jagged. Office X applies antialiasing to icons, buttons, Excel chart text, and all the text in Word. We'd gladly trade these graphical features for antialiasing, an important OS X feature. Control-click a button, choose Properties, then click the button graphic image. SR 1 also adds the somewhat extraneous ability to edit toolbar buttons. There's no way to turn the genie effect off, and the animation is slow, though Service Release 1 speeds this up to a tolerable level. For example, when you close and open the Formatting palette, the palette slides in a goofy, animated, morphing way, called 'genie,' to and from the toolbar.

True to form, Microsoft has gone a bit overboard with some new Office X gewgaws.

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Microsoft will not ship this update on Office X CDs.

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Be sure to download the free Service Release 1, however, for snappier performance and bug fixes. But if you've been waiting for top-notch, Mac-specific business programs before switching to OS X, Office X is for you. The Office X apps are fully Carbonized (that is, they've been ported to OS X from an older version of the Mac OS), but unlike most Carbon apps, they don't run in Mac OS 9. Fortunately for Apple, Office X ships with a well-conceived and well-implemented collection of Mac OS X applications that make the most of OS X's new Aqua interface and features. And whether you like it or not, Microsoft Office is about as mainstream as it gets. It doesn't matter how great an operating system is, it isn't useful to most people unless it can run mainstream business software. No application is more important to the fate of Mac OS X than Microsoft Office. Microsoft will not ship this update on Office X CDs.(Updated 6/11/02) We have updated this review to reflect changes made in the service release. On June 3, Microsoft released an Office X update called Office X Service Release 1.