Office software under Apple Mac system

Office software under OS X system

Apple's platform for Office software production company is a strong lineup. The famous Microsoft, in addition to making Office series for its own Windows platform, is only tailored for office on Apple's OS X system. And again and again two or three of updates, from the initial Officex to the latest office2008. Whether in the function or the interface, whether it is compatibility and fluency, there is no one to bring surprises. Apple made its own iwork series, although only after two generations, but performance, vaguely beyond office trends, whether it is the simplicity of the interface, or the efficiency of production, is a winner, but also the most gratifying is in the latest iWork08 inside the office format can be exported files, Compatibility is better. Of course, the ubiquitous free version of open Office is even more unlikely to let go of Apple's system, with a lot of people who are enthusiastic about free software working together to maintain it. There is free Office available for everyone to MSOffice. Here's a look at the super masterpiece.

One, Office series:

Microsoft's Office series is famous, faint is the industry standards. The current office environment, to avoid Microsoft's world format, is basically unlikely. Microsoft has a history of the Office series tailored to Apple's system, and Microsoft has been providing office software for Apple Systems since 20. The Office2008 series, especially after four years of silence, is even more exciting. Gorgeous interface, convenient template function, at the same time with two new highlights:

First, it was the first Office software designed specifically for Apple's new Mac based on Intel chips, launched two years ago. Although Office2004 can also be run on newer models, startup and some operations are slow to run.

Second, Mac Office2008 is able to read and write the new file format that Microsoft introduced in its latest Windows version of Office2007 a year ago. Previously, users using Mac had to deal with this format by using clumsy file-switching software alone.

The actual operation shows that the Office2008 starts and runs much faster than Office2004 on the Intel Architecture Mac computer, and runs more smoothly.

Today, Mac version Office2008 can handle a variety of old and new formats of Word,excel and PowerPoint files, regardless of whether the operating system you create is Windows or Macintosh, and does not affect its performance. Users no longer need any translations or conversions, which are opened and saved exactly as they were when they were running on a Windows computer.

Office2008 can also quickly open a new Office file that adds suffix x (first introduced in the Windows version of Office2007) without any problems.

As with the Windows version, Office2008 also lets users choose whether to automatically save your files in a familiar old format, when the Word file, Excel file, and PowerPoint file extension are doc, xls, and PPT. If you want to convert to a new format, or use a file created in a new format, it's easy to implement.

Like Office2004, there is a significant difference between Office2008 and the window version: The former does not have the very famous outlook for the software that handles e-mail, calendars, and contacts. However, Office2008 has a new version of Entourage, which is a match for Outlook, but does not use the latter's file format. Entourage can also be as Outlook, compatible with Microsoft Exchange servers used by the enterprise, and connected to the e-mail system of individual users. However, Mac version of Office software also contains a new user interface, called Elementsgallery. It is a narrow strip placed at the top of the file, making it easy for users to use and insert preset file layout functions. For example, in Word, you can quickly insert a pretty cover. In Excel, you can also quickly add a preset specific chart or spreadsheet, such as an invoice. In PowerPoint, you can easily add customized slide themes and layouts.

There is also a publishinglayoutview feature in Word that allows you to quickly create a file such as a newsletter; Excel also includes the Ledgersheet feature, which allows you to create budgets for your home and small businesses.

Office2008 's launch is truly revolutionary, and most importantly its performance on the Mac of Intel's architecture is an essential part of Apple's Office software.

Second, iwork series

As opposed to the Office series, it can be said that the little brother, but this guy is lonely, whether from the ease of use or the friendliness of the interface, is to let people love. The new version of the iWork08, is added to the original form of the production function, convenient and efficient form function, should let those who sit in the office every day a lot easier. The compatibility issue is also not to worry, now IWORKE08 can directly open Office documents and export Office documents directly. So let's take a iwork of the three series

1, Pages

is one of our most common word processing software, and his role is the same as the world, the pages changed to a new conditional format, meaning that the Format menu will change as you edit the object category. For example, when you select a picture in the pages, the Format menu becomes transparent, shaded, and positioned to adjust items. New features called Instant Alpha allow you to quickly remove unwanted colors from your pictures. , at the same time the pages built a lot of templates, to facilitate you in any environment to quickly find suitable for their own types of templates.

2, Number

Numbers is the most recently integrated table tool, with many templates built into it. When you open these templates, you will find that they are stuffed with sample data and images, and you can replace them later. Numbers can place multiple separate spreadsheets in a single file. Allows you to more flexibly adjust the position of individual tables, the width and height of rows and columns, and insert a variety of files, annotations, images. Follow the Microsoft excel,numbers to place function calculations below the toolbar, display the selected data in rows and columns, and add a variety of operational symbols. Just shot at this level, Apple is worthy of a company that can compete with Windows.

3, Keynote

Keynote is a tool similar to PowerPoint, and its smart builds is used to set the presentation of a single slide and the effect of a cut between two slides. Eynote has a total of 28 special effects, including dazzling 3D scenes. You can add sound to the slide. You can now easily add a movie file to the keynote slide. Various special effects.

In short, without very specific requirements, you can implement all the functions you can achieve under office in iwork. and faster and more convenient. And iwork also have Chinese version, we have any reason to use that Leviathan?

Third, OpenOffice series

OpenOffice's predecessor is a German company star produced an office software, to the German rigorous, OpenOffice indeed in the Office software has a decent performance, more importantly, he is completely free, open code, His idea is to develop Office software that reaches office level, support languages, and provide a full set of open software. After using, we do find that Opneoffice is good both in terms of running speed and compatibility.

OpenOffice includes 1, instrument processing software (Writer) 2, Trial table software (CALC) 3, Presentation software (Impress) 4, drawing Software (Draw) 5, Web page making software (HTML Editor) 6, Math editing software (mathematics)

Advantages of OpenOffice.org

Good compatibility: Can read Web pages, MS office all files (including templates), general text or RTF files. Excellent liquidity: free legal installation, Cross-platform, support languages, and in the form of XML as the basis, but also visual requirements to save as a Web page, MS office all the files (including templates), general text ... And so on in different formats.

High degree of integration: Each software interface is similar, and highly integrated, as long as learning a set of other software has also learned half.

Fast update: Features and performance improvements are fairly fast and can be upgraded to new versions at any time.

Small volume function: The original software files only 57MB, complete installation of 115MB hard disk space, memory 64MB above can operate smoothly, with the full office of the required software, there are database can be used, some functions even better than MS Office.

Good scalability: Open code, you need to modify the development of the visual. Funds province: LGPL copyright, can be legally installed and used, no use restrictions, save a lot of money!

The disadvantage of OpenOffice.org

Windows98, Chinese fonts need to be simple to read and write normal (Windows2000 above, Linux ...) is not required). OpenOffice.org impress is missing a template. Some printers print out the wrong word, and some small places still have bugs. Overall OpenOffice still have many aspects to improve, but think of his prospects and background, we still have reason to expect him, after all, he is free and open source Oh.