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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / February 2006Word 2004 question
How good is it and how many more features does it have over Office98? Office98 was nice in the 8.x days, but has not been the best in the OSX days running classic mode for me. It works, but I hope I win this ebay auction for the 2004 version. I notice one new feature it has is a audio notetaker. Considering the ibooks weak mic can I expect much from this featuren during a school lecture, or is the problem with the ibooks mic a software and not a hardware limitation? I mean what audio quality can I expect from this mic in a lecture hall? My tape recorder works okay, but a digital works better. However digital files are huge and burning them to a CD is a much bulkir alternative to a micro tape. Thanks, John  Signature1 Pet 3:15-But sanctify the Lord God[a] in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear CERM-Church Education Resource Ministries Founder and director http://johnw.freeshell.org/bible > How good is it and how many more features does it have over Office98? > Office98 was nice in the 8.x days, but has not been the best in the OSX days > running classic mode for me. It works, but I hope I win this ebay auction > for the 2004 version. Verily verily, I say unto you in meekness and fear that thou shouldst not count upon thy fingers the number of extra features. Yea, many are but eye-candy. However 2004 is a far more solid product than 98 in Classic. It will repay your investment quickly. > I notice one new feature it has is a audio notetaker. Considering the > ibooks weak mic can I expect much from this featuren during a school > lecture, or is the problem with the ibooks mic a software and not a hardware > limitation? Thou can expect nary a mote of functionality. None but the most dim would consider using the IBook built-in mic, nor Word to record a lecture. It pointeth the wrong way, and has little sensitivity. 'Tis almost certain that, while taking notes, you will break the recording. It is far simpler to record to a separate device. > I mean what audio quality can I expect from this mic in a lecture hall? My > tape recorder works okay, but a digital works better. However digital files > are huge and burning them to a CD is a much bulkir alternative to a micro > tape. Fear too the wrath of thy lecturer, lest you record without prior permission. Place thy recorder on the lectern, then ensure you are among the swift to retrieve it at the end of the lesson. SignatureTo de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 Well its why I use my Sony Tape recorder for lectures. The built in mic on my Jornada 720 is much nicer than the one on my ibook. Its amazing that a PocketPC can outdual a full blown notebook. John Signature1 Pet 3:15-But sanctify the Lord God[a] in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear CERM-Church Education Resource Ministries Founder and director http://johnw.freeshell.org/bible > >> How good is it and how many more features does it have over Office98? [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > permission. Place thy recorder on the lectern, then ensure you are > among the swift to retrieve it at the end of the lesson. > How good is it Oh, great. Listen, everyone: Don't Feed The Trolls. m. Signaturematt neuburg, phd = matt@tidbits.com, http://www.tidbits.com/matt/ Tiger - http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/tiger-customizing.html AppleScript - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596005571 Read TidBITS! It's free and smart. http://www.tidbits.com Hi John: I won't try to emulate Elliott's style, clever though it is :-) The Audio notes in Mac Word 2004 work quite well, but you need to be aware of a couple of "issues". The first is that they embed the audio recording into the document. If you choose to do that, please don't come back here later asking why your "Document that contains only a few pages of text" is now over 650 MB :-) Audio files are HUGE... If you DO embed audio in the document, chances are you will not be able to get the document open in Word on the PC. Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't. You won't be able to "play" the audio on the PC. You "can" extract the audio from the document using Word on the Mac. do that before you send it anywhere :-) What gets recorded is exactly what comes out of the microphone. I find that the microphone on the iBook works really well for talking to Beth using iChat. for anything else: use a decent microphone. As an elderly broadcast recording engineer, I can tell you that in a modern building, using a microphone that costs less than $400, or any microphone small enough to carry, any sound you get further than 12 feet from the speaker will NOT be worth having. At my local electronics store they sell little radio microphones for 12 bucks each. Small enough to leave on the lectern, and cheap enough to get stolen :-) Cheers >How good is it and how many more features does it have over Office98? >Office98 was nice in the 8.x days, but has not been the best in the OSX days [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >John SignaturePlease reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410 |
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