Opens a window displaying some legalese and, more importantly, the product ID for your copy of Office. A Microsoft representative may ask you for this number when you call a technical support phone number (which you can find by clicking the Support button).

The Reference Tools button doesn’t actually help with looking anything up; it just offers more legalese about any foreign language dictionaries you’ve installed.

In case you clicked Register Later when you first installed Office (see Appendix A), choose this command when you have the time to go through the registration process.

This command opens up the Preference window, which contains different panels for various types of settings (these are discussed throughout this book). Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-comma (,).

In Entourage, there are two main sections in the Preferences dialog box:

Opens the Tools → Accounts window, as discussed on Configuring Your Account Manually.

Disconnects Entourage from the Internet or network, so that you can you write email messages, reply to news messages, or work with tasks, calendar items, or contacts without being interrupted by Entourage’s automatic mail-getting schedule (which would otherwise remind you every 10 minutes, “Mail could not be received at this time”). Great for use on planes and in waiting rooms.

Tells the Office Reminders program (Office Reminders) to stop reminding you about events, tasks, and documents that you’ve set for follow-up; or if it’s already off, tells it you’d like to see your reminders.

Switches your Entourage identity, letting you (or another person using Office) use a different set of accounts (see Multiple Identities). Keyboard shortcut: Option-⌘-Q.

This is a standard Mac OS X menu, listing useful inter-program commands that mostly do nothing in Office. (That’s because Services generally work only in Cocoa programs—programs that were written from scratch for Mac OS X rather than adapted from earlier software, as Office was.) For the full story on Services, see Mac OS X: The Missing Manual.

Hides the current program’s windows from view without minimizing the program to the Dock. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-H.

Hides the windows of all other windows, including Finder windows, leaving only windows from the frontmost Office program visible. Keyboard shortcut: Option-⌘-H.

Brings back all hidden windows of the program you’re using.

Quits the frontmost program, but before doing so, gives you a chance to save any changes you’ve made. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-Q.