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International Cyberscope.(Office XP)(Evaluation)

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UPGRADES

A New Look for the Office

When it comes to personal computers, change always comes at a price. That's why it's so difficult deciding whether or not to upgrade your PC's software. A case in point: an upgrade of Microsoft Office, one of the most widely used software products in the world, is due for release throughout the world later this year.Although the new Office XP offers many benefits and improvements, buyers have reasons to be wary.

Most of Office XP's improvements lie in its usability. Data-recovery enhancements make it possible to rescue that document you didn't have time to save before your computer crashed. Smart Tag icons that appear over words and numbers present a menu of options (allowing you to, say, correct Word's automatic spellcheck). he new Task Pane, a display panel loaded with commands, makes many jobs easier: in Word it allows you to create programs more easily, and in PowerPoint, the presentation program, it helps in formatting slides by gathering them all in one place. Outlook, the e-mail program, is finally catching, up, too: it automatically completes e-mail addresses you begin to type and deletes the irritating line breaks that inexplicably turn up in many e-mails. And speaking of annoyances, Microsoft has finally ...

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