Reference Utilities permit you to access a dictionary or a thesaurus right from the Office Toolbox, although there is also a link to Microsoft's discontinued Encarta online encyclopedia. The Track Changes tool makes it more efficient to follow updates and enables you to approve or reject edits from the comments.
Microsoft Word for Mac 2004 introduced a Notebook Layout View that enables you to flag important entries, search for specified terms, and record time-stamped voice recordings into your notes as you type. Progent's OS X consultants can help your business to evaluate whether this limitation should impact your decision to migrate to Word for Mac 2011. Microsoft Word for Mac 2008 works with AppleScript but doesn't support VBasic for Applications. Other capabilities built into Microsoft Word for Mac 2008 include support for OpenType ligatures for more professional-looking type, and reference utilities that allow various citation styles. Word for Mac 2008 introduced an updated user interface that offers an extensible toolbar and introduced a rudimentary publishing capability through the Publishing Layout View that provides increased control over positioning of text and images and enables you to link text overflow from a given area to any text box on another page. Improved publishing capabilities include a better Publishing Layout view, the ability to reorder layers dynamically, and additional image editing features including a background removal tool. The new Word Document Gallery simplifies management of built-in and customized templates as well as recently opened documents. The new Focus View tool enables you to eliminate non-essential elements to increase the screen area available for displaying your document. Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 features enhancements in the areas of document viewing, template control, desktop publishing, image editing, typography, document search, sharing, and automation. Microsoft Office 365 Word for Mac simplifies layout management and teamwork
As with current editions of Office Excel and PowerPoint for Mac, Office 365 Word for Mac allows you to navigate documents with Multi-Touch gestures. Improvements include simpler tools for inviting colleagues to review and edit documents, concurrent coauthoring of documents, and more powerful Mail Merge tools that use Word, Excel and Outlook. Another new feature is threaded comments, which promotes teamwork by tracking conversations and displaying them adjacent to the related content. A new Insights Pane automatically retrieves and displays relevant information from the web to provide rich context for authors and readers. Office 365 Word for Mac and Word for Mac 2016 feature a new Design Tab that provides instant access to design elements and makes it simple to control layout, colors and typography throughout a Word document. Progent provides consulting expertise for all programs that come with Office 365 for Mac and Office 2016 for Mac including:
Progent can also help your company to assess the advantages of moving to Office 365 for Mac from an earlier version of Office for Mac and assist your company to plan and carry out an efficient upgrade plan. Progent's Apple macOS and OS X experts can assist your company to configure Microsoft Office 365 for Mac on a mixed-platform network so that Apple Mac users are able to take advantage of the familiar capabilities in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook for Mac to share data and peripherals with fellow workers who run Windows-powered systems.
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