
670 office x for macintosh: the missing manual
Advanced chart options
Choosing Chart→Chart Options brings up the Chart Options dialog box, where
you can control your chart’s title, axes, gridlines, legend, data labels, and data table.
It’s essentially the same as Excel’s Chart Options window, which is detailed on page
503.
Tip: To import an Excel worksheet (or a tab- or comma-delimited text file) into Graph, choose Edit→Import
File.
Windows Media Player
On the Macintosh, the standard movie- and sound-playing software is QuickTime
Player. On Windows, it’s Windows Media Player.
Thanks to a bizarre intersection of Microsoft corporate strategies, there’s now a pro-
gram called Windows Media Player (WMP) for Macintosh (Figure 18-16). You have
to install WMP from the Value Pack (see page 681), or, if you can’t bear to dig out
that CD again, you can download it from www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx.
WMP combines some of the features of iTunes and QuickTime Player. Unlike iTunes,
however, WMP for the Mac can’t play MP3 files or burn music CDs—in fact, it can’t
even play CDs.
Still, WMP is the only game in town if you want to experience streaming audio and
video that are available only in Windows formats (.asf, .asx, .wm, .wmp, and so on).
A Fall 2003 version called Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X brings even more
formats to the Mac, including WMP 9—Microsoft’s latest and greatest video and
audio format. ...