This report is not meant to be a comprehensive product review of Office 98, but instead focuses on the cross-platform issues. Office 98 applications use the same file formats as Office 97 for Windows. This means Mac users can open and edit Office 97 Win files, and Windows users can open and edit Office 98 Mac files. Excel shared files. Mac Excel and Windows Excel users can simultaneously work on the same file over a network.
Users can enter data, change formatting, and edit formulas at the same time.
Visual Basic for Applications. There is also now a Visual Basic development environment with a code editor. QuickTime and QuickTime VR movies can be used in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel. However, Office 97 for Windows does not support QuickTime movies, which show up as unrecognizable pictures types in Windows. The Mac version follows the Apple Platinum guidelines for the colors and shapes of windows, buttons, and other interface objects, but otherwise uses an interface very close to that in Office 97.