In short, Office 98 applications virtually maintain themselves. Drag and Drop Installation Users simply drag the Office folder from the CD-ROM or network volume to their hard drive. Installation can also be customized for certain groups of users. Tear-off menus and customizable toolbars give users easy access to frequently used features. Thesaurus in Contextual Menus Being delivered first in Office 98 for the Macintosh, the Thesaurus is now easily accessible through Contextual Menus.
Users can quickly replace words as they work.
98 Edition is designed to provide the ultimate in cross-platform compatibility. It shares the same file formats and core functionality as Microsoft Office 97 for Windows. Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition and Word 97 for Windows saves files in exactly the same format. A user of Word 98 Macintosh Edition can open, edit and save changes to any file that a user of Word 97 for Windows creates, and vice versa. The same is true for Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows and Macintosh.