Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - Macworld: A Day At The Office

Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - Macworld: A Day At The Office http://www.officeformac.com/ms/blog On Monday, January 14, MacBU held a sold-out, day-long session at Macworld called “<a href="http://www.macworldexpo.com/conference_program/specialty-programs/day-office-microsoft-office-2008">A Day At The Office</a>” where we took the wraps off Office 2008. The goal was to show the breadth of Office’s capabilities and give customers deep, technical information about how Office 2008 programs and features work. We had a total of nine sessions, each led by a representative member of our Program Management team or an industry expert. Our session topics included: <ul>     <li>An overview of the suite, and a tour of our new user interface;</li>     <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/word2008/">Word 2008</a>;</li>     <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/excel2008/">Excel 2008</a>;</li>     <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/powerpoint2008/">PowerPoint 2008;</a></li>     <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2008/">Entourage 2008</a>;</li>     <li>Benefits and capabilities of our new Office Art engine;</li>     <li>How to work with Office in corporate environments;</li>     <li>Automating Office with AppleScript and Automator;</li>     <li>A ‘day in the life’ of a typical small-business customer, and how they use all of Office 2008 to save time and keep focused.</li> </ul> Obviously, these topics are of great interest to many of our customers and users. We are pleased to announce that these sessions were videotaped, and are now available through Mac Mojo. Below, you’ll find a list of the sessions – their titles, the name of the presenter, a high-level list of what was discussed, and a link to the video file. (All video requires <a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/">QuickTime</a>.) Office Reinvented: The New User Interface Presented by Kurt Schmucker Toolbars; Elements Gallery; Toolbox; Preferences; Automator; Help Viewer. <a href="http://www.officeformac.com/movies/OfficeReinvented.mov"> Click here to watch the video</a> (19.7 MB; 22:56). Word 2008: Great Looking Documents Made Easy Presented by Han-Yi Shaw Publishing Layout View (how it works, template customization, gallery customization, themes); Notebook Layout View (visual improvements, Entourage integration, live search, visual customization); using the Gallery to create a Table of Contents; the Bibliography tool; Mail merge. <a href="http://www.officeformac.com/movies/Word2008.mov">Click here to watch the video</a> (345.4 MB; 39:30). Excel 2008: Streamlined, Compatible and Results-Oriented Presented by Stuart DeSpain Excel’s new “big grid”; Formula Builder; modern charts; Office Art; XML file formats; Range Finder; Ledger Sheets; the Reference tool; importing and exporting data. <a href="http://www.officeformac.com/movies/Excel2008.mov"> Click here to watch the video</a> (53.3 MB; 1:12:43). PowerPoint 2008: Compelling Presentations with Point and Click Ease Presented by Marcus Aiu Architectural investments; improved compatibility with Windows; using the Gallery to apply themes or layouts; improved tables and table styles; improved animations; improved chart support. <a href="http://www.officeformac.com/movies/PowerPoint2008.mov"> Click here to watch the video</a> (39.5 MB; 58:10). Office Art: The New World of Graphics Presented by Derek Snook How to use themes; working with shapes, pictures and text; SmartArt diagrams & graphics. <a href="http://www.officeformac.com/movies/OfficeArt.mov"> Click here to watch the video</a> (27.2 MB; 33:40). Entourage 2008: Regaining Control of Your Day Presented by Andy Ruff Streamlining the Entourage interface; performance improvements; Entourage customization; the Favorites bar; new Calendar; Flagging; junk-mail and phishing filter improvements. <a href="http://www.officeformac.com/movies/Entourage2008.mov"> Click here to watch the video</a> (26.3 MB; 32:05). Working with Office in Corporate Environments Presented by Andy Ruff & Emma Grant Deploying Office; Entourage & Exchange; Messenger for Mac 7.0; Remote Desktop Conection 2.0; Browser-based solutions (SharePoint, OWA, Communicator Web Access, LiveMeeting Web Access). <a href="http://www.officeformac.com/movies/CorporateEnvironments.mov">Click here to watch the video</a> (17.4 MB; 33:01). Office 2008 and Automator Presented by Ben Waldie, President, <a href="http://www.automatedworkflows.com/">Automated Workflows</a> Overview of Automator; demonstration of how to build an Automator workflow to convert an e-mail message into a spoken-word file that is synched to an iPod/iPhone; AppleScripting Excel, iPhoto & Adobe InDesign. <a href="http://www.officeformac.com/movies/Office2008_Automator.mov">Click here to watch the video</a> (25.3 MB; 26:47). Office Integration: Tying It All Together Presented by Bart Chellis Creating brochures in Word; updating budgets in Excel; creating an investor presentation in PowerPoint; mastering MyDay. <a href="http://www.officeformac.com/movies/TyingItAllTogether.mov">Click here to watch the video</a> (258.9 MB; 31:55). We’d like to thank everyone who attended “A Day At The Office” for helping make it so successful – the audience had great energy, great questions, and we very much appreciated the opportunity to show off our new version of Office! Fri, 30 May 2008 20:05:52 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