[Macpartners] Office 2004 release announcement

[Deb Bowser]

Date: Tuesday, 15 March 2005
To: MIT Community: itpartners at mit.edu, macpartners at mit.edu, 
sw-release-announce at mit.edu
From: Office Release Team <office-release at mit.edu>
Subject: Office 2004 release announcement
Cc: is&t at mit.edu, itag at mit.edu
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Good day:

IS&T is pleased to announce the release and support for Microsoft Office 
2004 for Mac OS X.  The Office suite, consisting of Word, Excel and 
Powerpoint has been available since November 2004 and is part of the 
Microsoft Campus agreement at MIT.  For more information on the campus 
agreement, please see:
	http://web.mit.edu/ist/services/software/msca.html

It is recommended that Office SP1 and current Office updates be applied 
immediately upon installation. Microsoft Autoupdate is installed with 
Office 2004 and can be used to receive Office SP1 and other Office updates 
as they become available.

Retiring older versions
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As a reminder, Office v.X will be retired on June 30, 2005.

Virtual PC 7
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Virtual PC 7, an emulation of standard PC hardware and operating systems, 
is not a recommended or supported product.  Virtual PC 7 has been optimized 
for the G5 and testing has shown the application to be memory intensive and 
performs at an undesirable speed.


Notable Features
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Microsoft Auto Update
By default, AutoUpdate keeps your software up-to-date automatically. 
AutoUpdate delivers updates directly to your computer as long as you have 
an internet connection. You can specify when you want AutoUpdate to check 
for updates, and/or do so manually each time you want to check for updates.

Compatibility Reports
With the new Compatibility Report feature in Microsoft Office, you can 
check documents that you create in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and 
Microsoft PowerPoint for compatibility with other versions of Office 
programs to ensure that your documents look the way you want when they are 
opened.

Project Gallery
You can quickly find the documents you've worked on recently in the 
gallery, and use the new Learn tab to find instructive sample documents.

For a complete list of new features, see Mactopia's Office 2004 Highlights 
page:
	http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/office2004.aspx?pid=highlights


Known Issues
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Adobe Acrobat 6.0
Upon quitting an office application, users may encounter the error message: 
"Compile error in hidden module: AutoExec".

PDF Creation
In order to create .pdf files, from Office applications, use the Print 
command to print to "Adobe PDF" or use the Mac OS X built-in save as a pdf 
command.

Citrix
If you are connected to Citrix and utilize the cut or copy function within 
a Word or Excel document, Citrix will crash.

For more information on these known issues or to find solutions, please see 
the known issues page:
	http://itinfo.mit.edu/article.php?id=7562


Where to get Office 2004
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If your Department, Lab or Center is participating in the Microsoft Campus 
Agreement at MIT, you can obtain the media from their departmental Software 
Liaison:
	http://web.mit.edu/ist/services/software/msca-liaisons.html#2

Otherwise, Office can be purchased through the Select Agreement online from 
Govconnection. For more information, see the Microsoft Campus Agreement at MIT:
	http://web.mit.edu/ist/services/software/msca.html


Where to get Help
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The Office 2004 page is located at:  http://itinfo.mit.edu/product?vid=656
If you need assistance with installing or using Office 2004, please contact 
the Computing Help Desk at computing-help at mit.edu or (617) 253-1101.

All the Best,
The Office Release Team:

Bill Brids
John Fothergill
Bronwen Heuer
Al Willis
Esther Yanow

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Deb Bowser
IS&T Customer Support Services
Software Release Team
W92-176
617-253-3879