Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - Announcing Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2

Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - Announcing Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 http://www.officeformac.com/ms/blog Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 is what the marketing folks call it. Engineers call it Mac Office 12.2.0 or “SP2” for short. No matter what you call it, it’s available today from <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx">Mactopia</a> and Auto Update. MacBU put a lot of love into SP2. Of course SP2 contains the usual roll-up of security, stability, and performance enhancements that you expect from a Microsoft service pack, but we also went further with SP2. Take PowerPoint for example, an application near and dear to my heart. SP2 adds top features requests that we’ve heard from our customers, including the ability to author custom path animations (PowerPoint 2008 could always play back existing path animations), and the ability to set your own default theme (including custom themes!) to replace the black on white Office theme that you get each time you create a new presentation. We didn’t stop there. With SP2, you can double-click anywhere on a slide and just start typing; you can turn off PowerPoint 2008’s default behavior of mirroring displays when you switch from PowerPoint slide show directly to another application such as Finder; animated GIFs once again animate in PowerPoint slide show; and dynamic guides are now easier to use in all new presentations. We took a bite out of start up and scroll speed in Word – for example in Word’s Outline View scrolling is now up to 10 times faster! We also improved calculation performance in Excel with an increased speed of up to 24%. We love SP2 and we think you will too. But don’t take our word for it: try Office 2008 yourself with our 30-day <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/Office2008/trial-download.mspx">free trial</a>. The trial download will be refreshed soon to include SP2. In the meantime, update your trial or non-trial Office 2008 to version 12.2.0 today! One more thing. It wasn’t that long ago that my colleagues and I were envisioning the concept of a desktop application for working with SharePoint and Office Live Workspace and integrated with Office for Mac. Well now it’s here: it’s called Document Connection and it comes with Office 2008 SP2, free and available today. It’s been a real pleasure watching Document Connection come together, and it’s been an even greater pleasure adding Document Connection to my daily workflows. Office 2008 SP2 with Document Connection makes it a breeze to find, review, and edit documents from the places I use most, and improved Safari support from the SharePoint and Office Live teams mean it’s never been a better time to be productive on your Mac.   Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:08:39 GMT Web Crossing(r) Unix-v6.4 built Jan 14 2010 18:50:13 (source:1372 2010-01-14 15:39:31 -0800)/Unix-6.4 (http://webcrossing.com/) http://backend.userland.com/rss