Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition

Introducing Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition

We invite you to enter a bold, new dimension in the realm of productivity suites for the Mac OS platform. Microsoft ® Office 98 Macintosh Edition is the premier desktop applications suite that lets you achieve results as brilliant as your ideas. From document creation, to online collaboration, to electronic presentations, Office 98 provides intelligent, user-friendly applications to help accomplish your objectives and goals.

Microsoft conducted more research than ever before to create a product that meets a broader range of customer needs. Web surveys, customer visits, and extensive phone interviews helped us fully understand the mindset of our more than 8 million users of Microsoft Office for the Macintosh. As a result of this massive research effort, we were able to obtain a spectrum of user feedback that allowed us to deliver significant product enhancements. We’ve focused on making Office 98:

• A great application for the Macintosh
• Easier to use, with features that are easier to find
• A powerful tool for communicating and collaborating

A Great Application for the Macintosh
Take a look at our online multimedia demo to see how these facets come into play. First, we've designed Office 98 to look and behave more like an application for the Macintosh, with a human interface based on the Mac OS 8 appearance specifications. Office 98 also significantly improves support for Apple technologies. One of the best examples of this is that QuickTime is now incorporated into the Office drawing tools so it’s easy to insert QuickTime VR movies and panoramas into any Office 98 document.

Office 98 Macintosh Edition also introduces Drag & Drop Install, providing simplicity by allowing users to simply drag the application right onto the desktop. To make Office 98 as easy as possible to manage, Microsoft introduced self-maintaining applications that will fix things and replace missing files—with no user intervention.

Easier to Use
In addition, we've crafted Office 98 to meet the customer need for an easy-to-use, intuitive desktop applications suite. Office 98 provides a powerful set of tools for creating and organizing a variety of information and tasks. The Office Assistant helps you discover the full functionality of Office 98, while IntelliSense® technology automates routine tasks (such as grammar and spelling checks) so that you can focus on content creation and get your work done faster. The new natural language processing allows you to work the way you want– you can ask questions in your own words and use plain English to create formulas in Excel.

Powerful Tool for Communication and Collaboration
Finally, Office 98 allows users to communicate and collaborate efficiently with other users, regardless of the operating system they use. When we found out that 91% of Macintosh Office users share files with Windows users, we knew it was very important to make the file formats in Office 98 identical to those in Office 97 for Windows. Office 98 seamlessly integrates Web technologies for today's businesses with innovative collaboration tools for creating, publishing, and sharing information interactively with others across networks.

Additional Resources
To learn more about Office 98, please visit our Macintosh Office Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/macoffice/. This Web site is your ticket to a plethora of online resources for Office 98 Macintosh Edition. Here, you'll find an interactive multimedia demo, the latest news and reviews, updates, software tips, and product datasheets. For a limited time, you can enter our Web Sweepstakes for a chance to win Office 98, a Power Macintosh G3, or a 20th Anniversary Power Macintosh!

So, again we invite you to enter this new dimension and experience the power and functionality of Office 98—a comprehensive desktop applications suite that embraces the heart of Apple's intuitive user-friendly operating system.