Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac

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Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseMay 11, 2004; 19 years ago (2004-05-11)
Final release
v11.6.6 / December 13, 2011; 12 years ago (2011-12-13)[1]
Predecessor
Microsoft Office v. X
SuccessorMicrosoft Office 2008 for Mac
LicenseCommercial proprietary software
Websitemicrosoft.com/mac/products Edit this on Wikidata
System requirements
hard disk
space		450 MB

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac is a version of

Mac OS X 10.7
and newer.

Office 2004 was replaced by its successor,

Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, which also dropped PowerPC support altogether. Support for Office 2004 ended January 10, 2012.[3]

Editions

Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 is available in three editions: Standard, Professional, and Student and Teacher. All three editions include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage. The Professional Edition includes Virtual PC. The Student and Teacher Edition is not eligible for upgrade, which means if a later version of Office is installed, a full package license will be required.

Features

Word 2004

Main article: Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processor which possesses a dominant market share in the word processor market. Its proprietary DOC format is considered a de facto standard, although its successive Windows version (Word 2007) uses a new XML-based format called .DOCX, but has the capability of saving and opening the old .DOC format.

The new Office Open XML format was built into the next version of Office for Mac (Office 2008). However, it is also supported on Office 2004 with the help of a free conversion tool available from Microsoft.[4]

Excel 2004

Main article: Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program. Like Microsoft Word, it possesses a dominant market share. It was originally a competitor to the dominant Lotus 1-2-3, but it eventually outsold it and became the de facto standard for spreadsheet programs.

Entourage 2004

Main article: Microsoft Entourage

Microsoft Entourage is an email application. Its personal information management features include a

task list
, note list, and project manager. With Entourage 2004, Microsoft began offering a Project Center, which allows the user to create and organize projects. Information may come from within Entourage or outside the program.

PowerPoint 2004

Main article: Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint is a popular

slides
. It too possesses a dominant market share. Movies, videos, sounds and music, as well as wordart and autoshapes can be added to slideshows.

Virtual PC

Main article:
Microsoft Virtual PC

Included with Office 2004 for Mac Professional Edition, Microsoft Virtual PC is a

Mac OS X which are PowerPC
-based. Virtual PC does not work on Intel-based Macs and in August 2006, Microsoft announced it would not be ported to Intel-based Macintoshes, effectively discontinuing the product.

Limitations

Office for Mac 2004 has a number of limitations compared to Office 2003 for Windows.

Images inserted into any Office 2004 application by using either cut and paste or drag and drop result in a file that does not display the inserted graphic when viewed on a Windows machine. Instead, the Windows user is told "QuickTime and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture". Peter Clark of Geek Boy's Blog presented one solution in December 2004.[5] However, this issue persists in Office 2008.

There is no support for editing right to left and bidirectional languages (such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, etc.) in Office 2004. This issue has not been fixed in Office 2008 or 2011 either.[6][7]

Also, Office for Mac 2004 has a shorter lifecycle than Office 2003. Support for Office for Mac 2004 ended on January 10, 2012. As PowerPC software, it will not run on OS X Lion or any later versions of macOS.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Download Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.6.6 Update". Download Center. Microsoft. December 13, 2011. Archived from the original on July 5, 2012.
  2. Mactopia. Microsoft. Archived from the original
    on October 17, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
  3. ^ "Microsoft Support Lifecycle". Support. Microsoft. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  4. ^ "MS11-072: Description of the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2.1: September 13, 2011". Support. Microsoft. September 13, 2011.
  5. ^ Clark, Peter (December 6, 2004). "QuickTime and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture". Geek Boy's Blog. Archived from the original on May 10, 2013. Retrieved October 12, 2009. Alt URL
  6. ^ Heard, Chris (September 27, 2007). "It's official: no RTL support in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac". Higgaion. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
  7. CBS Interactive
    . Retrieved April 27, 2013.
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