6 office x for macintosh: the missing manual
• Output as PDF. Because Acrobat technology is integrated into Mac OS X, you
can convert your Word or Excel documents, PowerPoint presentations, or even
Entourage documents (such as an email message or calendar month) into PDF
files for emailing or printing.
What Was New in Office 2001
Not everyone is a Bill Gates drone, dutifully spending another few hundred dollars
for every Office upgrade that Microsoft dishes up. It’s entirely possible, in fact, that
youre coming from Office 98 or even an earlier version, having sprung for the up-
grade to Office X only because you had to survive in Mac OS X.
Heres a recap of the new features that debuted in Office 2001, on which Office X is
closely based; some of them may be new to you.
Best of the New Features: Word
Automatic typo corrections. When Word is absolutely, positively sure what word
you intended (as when you type baeutiful or teh or gramar), it corrects the typo
instantly and silently, without any action on your part.
Definitions. Theres now a definitions dictionary available in all four programs,
so that you can look up the meanings of words you encounter (or are thinking of
using in your writing). You can check the meaning of a word, in fact, just by
Control-clicking it in a Word document.
Live Word Count. Instead of choosing from a menu to get a word count, you can
just glance at the continuously updated word count at the bottom of the screen.
Click and Type. In Word’s Page Layout or Online Layout views, you can double-
click anywhere in the document window and just start typing. (You don’t have to
press Return over and over again, or Tab over and over, to move the insertion
point first.)
Best of the New Features: Excel
List Manager. Excel’s List Manager (see page 464) facilitates the process of using
worksheets as database-like lists. The List Wizard and List Manager help auto-
mate tasks such as sorting and summarizing list data.
Formula Calculator. This onscreen calculator is the easiest way yet to build and
design formulas for the cells in your spreadsheet. It shows you placeholders for
the various formula chunks you need to fill in.
AutoComplete. As you begin typing into a cell, Excel offers you a pop-up list of
guesses as to what you might be in the process of typing. It creates its guesses by
studying the other entries youve typed so far in the same column.
Tiny tweaks. Most of Excel 2001’s new features were smaller blessings, all of which
are welcome. It introduced the euro currency, a Font menu that displays your
font names in their actual typefaces, four-digit year displays; and so on.
What’s New in
Office X

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