Microsoft Word 2004 (Mac) review:5 stars (Microsoft has Done Word Processing Right) - It is hard to find anything bad to say about this program, except that it is slow as molasses on my G3 iBook. However it zips along on my gal pal Sara's G5 iMac. I mean it flies. And there is nothing you cannot do with it, from formatting a book (who needs PageMaker or Quark anymore), to writing a screen play. You can change the menus to anything you want, for example Sara has four font menus. You can save your stuff as a pdf document and your pdf opens exactly like it was in Word and I mean exactly.

But, as I said, it's too slow on my older iBook, so I use the previous version of Word instead and the excellent NisusWriter WP (for Mac only). Word will open anything. The dictionary is pretty good, but the thesaurus could maybe be better. No, it could definitely be better. But here I'm nitpicking, probably because it's hard for way left leaning me to admit that Microsoft got something right. And about my iBook being too slow to run this elegant program, maybe, just maybe it's time I sprung for one of those new nifty PowerBooks with the glow in the dark keyboard. Whoohoo.

Jack Priest, Sailor Home from the Sea3 stars (incremental improvements) - Despite all the touted improvements in this latest version of MS Word for the Mac, experienced Word users should consider carefully before plonking down for it. The chances are that if you are comfortable running an earlier version on your Mac, then there is little need to migrate.

Though I'll grant that one new feature is appealing. The ability to avoid the automatic corrections and numbering does indeed give you more fine grained control over the document.

Overall, consider skipping this version.
Microsoft Word 2004 (Mac) Features:
Computer software (programs)
Word Processing (Processor)
Text Editors
Spell Checkers (Spelling Check)
wordprocessing (wordprocessors)
Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple
CD
Soft drop shadows; decline auto corrections, numbering, and bulleting
Search and flag relevant info; record audio into documents
Word processing with innovative new tools
Improved reference tools; dynamic reviewing capabilities
Keep text, pictures, logos, and other important info right at hand

Microsoft Word 2004 (Mac) is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around 197.99USD.