Making text and other elements fly around the screen adds a little pizzazz to presentations, but it is hardly the kind of sizeable advance in product features I expected. Also new in PowerPoint is the ability to add path animation to a slide. I was able to change the default theme in PowerPoint, but that’s just a basic boon for presentation buffs. Microsoft Entourage for Mac 2008-the suite’s much-maligned e-mail client-gains automated features for connecting to Mobile Me and Windows Live Hotmail accounts, while SharePoint users will be able to use the new Document Connection tool to ease file access. Microsoft has made some bug fixes to Word, and has tweaked Word and Excel for improved performance.Ĭompared with Keynote, Apple’s slide presentation application in its own iWorks suite, Office for Mac PowerPoint just barely keeps up. Office 2008 for Mac SP 2 focuses on the PowerPoint component of the suite. However, there is no uninstall option, so I advise thorough pre-deployment testing in environments that use heavily customised Word templates, forms and Excel workbooks. IT managers should have little problem deploying the SP indeed, during my tests, installation was no problem. Microsoft’s service packs for Office are primarily evolutionary, and this one is no exception. Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 is a no-cost upgrade that provides only modest improvements to the productivity suite.

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