Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Screenshot of Microsoft Word 2004 on an Intel-based Mac in Mac OS X v10.4 'Tiger' through Rosetta
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseMay 11, 2004; 16 years ago
Stable release
License
Websitemicrosoft.com/mac/products
IOW, you cannot apply an Office 2004 update if Office 2004 isn't installed. Having upgraded your OS you need to upgrade your software accordingly. An upgrade is a newer version/release of the actual software. Office 2011 is the most recent release of Mac Office & will operate on any current version of OS X, 10.5.8 or later. Important: Some items that were created using new features in Office for Mac 2011 or Office 2016 for Mac might behave differently when the document is saved in the file format used by Office 2004 for Mac or earlier. Use the Compatibility Report to avoid using new Office features that might behave differently with earlier versions of Office.
Updates
System requirements
CPUPowerPC G3 or higher
Operating systemMac OS X v10.2.8 through v10.6.8
RAM256 MB
Free hard disk space450 MB
Office 2004 for Mac is a version of Microsoft Office developed for Mac OS X. It is equivalent to Office 2003 for Windows. The software was originally written for PowerPC Macs, so Macs with Intel CPUs must run the program under Mac OS X's Rosetta emulation layer. For this reason, it is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 and newer.
Office 2004 was replaced by its successor, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, which was developed as a universal binary to run natively on Intel Macs. However, Office 2008 did not include support for Visual Basic for Applications, which made Microsoft extend the support period of Office 2004 from October 13, 2009 to January 10, 2012.[3] Microsoft ultimately shipped support for Visual Basic in Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, which also dropped PowerPC support altogether. Support for Office 2004 ended January 10, 2012.[2]

Editions[edit]

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 adds Virtual PC. The Student and Teacher Edition cannot be upgraded, which means when a later version of Office is released, people who purchased the Student and Teacher edition must buy a new package.

Features[edit]

Word 2004[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Microsoft Entourage is an email application. Its personal information management features include a calendar, address book, 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[edit]

Microsoft PowerPoint is a popular presentation program used to create slideshows composed of text, graphics, movies and other objects, which can be displayed on-screen and navigated through by the presenter or printed out on transparencies or 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[edit]

Included with Office 2004 for Mac Professional Edition, Microsoft Virtual PC is a hypervisor which emulates Microsoft Windowsoperating systems on 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 as PowerPC-based Macintoshes are no longer manufactured.

Criticism[edit]

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]

See also[edit]

Microsoft Office 2004 For Mac 11.6.0 Update

References[edit]

  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. ^ ab'Microsoft Support Lifecycle'. Support. Microsoft. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
  3. ^Tedesco, Mike (October 12, 2009). 'Office 2004 Mainstream Support Has Been Extended'. Mactopia. Microsoft. Archived from the original on October 17, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
  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. ^Morgenstern, David (August 8, 2010). 'Microsoft boosts languages, proofing tools in Office 2011 for Mac, Unicode right-to-left support missing'. ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
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  • By Richard H. Baker
  • Published Aug 12, 2004 by Sams. Part of the Sams Teach Yourself series.
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  • Copyright 2005
  • Edition: 1st
  • Book
  • ISBN-10: 0-672-32669-8
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-672-32669-1
As a Mac user, you may often feel like you are in a unique world and that the programs you use are even more unique. Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac is no exception and Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac In a Snap covers all of the innovative program features. A unique random-access format makes all of these nuggets of information and advice easily and instantly accessible. Packed with more than 160 essential tasks, tips and techniques for the new Mac version of Microsoft Office 2004, this book will help you zero in on the task you're most interested in so that you can learn and get back to work.

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Table of Contents

1. Start Here.

The Office Applications.

2. Project Management and Scrapbooking.

Set Up a Project.

Share Project Resources.

Keep a Scrapbook.

Search for Clips.

Retrieve Clip Art.

Add Your Artistic Touches.

Add Text to Artwork.

4. Shaping Your Work with Templates.

Adapt a Template to Your Needs.

Use an Old Document to Create a New One.

5. Managing Documents.

Live with Older Files.

Save Quickly and Automatically.

6. Writing and Editing.

Expand Abbreviations.

Apply Automatic Numbers.

Select Multiple Items.

Clear Unwanted Formatting.

7. Formatting Your Work.

Select a Gallery Template.

Apply a Style to a New Paragraph.

Set a Section in Multiple Columns.

Place Graphics.

Wrap Text Around a Graphic.

8. Arranging Tables.

Apply an Automatic Format to a Table.

Add and Delete Rows and Columns.

Add Numbers in a Column.

Generate a Form Letter.

Use an Address Book List As the Data Source.

Send Letters by Email.

Set Up a Notebook.

Record Audio Notes.

Note a Task to Be Done.

Flag Important Information.

III. EXCEL 2004.

Enter a Formula.

Make an Advanced Calculation.

Automatically Format a Worksheet.

Build a Decision-Making Formula.

Display the Page Layout.

Print Only What You Need.

12. Charting Data.

Format the Text in a Chart.

Add Color and Texture.

Track Multiple Tasks.

Rotate a 3D Chart.

13. Managing Database Lists.

Sort Records into a New Order.

Filter by Multiple Criteria.

Find Relationships Between Data.

Add Data to a PivotTable.

Format a PivotTable.

Calculate Payments on a Loan.

Calculate the Return on an Investment.

Measure Deviations from Average.

Set and Meet a Goal.

IV. POWERPOINT 2004.

Select a Presentation Type.

Outline a Presentation.

Apply a Slide Master.

Format Bullet Points.

Insert Artwork into a Presentation.

Animate a Chart.

Print Your Notes.

Add Sound to the Picture.

Put Controls on the Slides.

Put Your Presentation on the Web.

Make a Movie of the Presentation.

17. Project Management.

Assign Categories.

Add a Contact.

18. Managing Your Mail.

Automate Your Inbox.

Receive “Executive Summaries” of Your Messages.

Sign Your Work.

Manage Email on Two Computers.

Personalize Your Address Book with Pictures.

Synchronize Two Address Books.

Enter an Event.

Note a Recurring Event.