The second thing to look for is people who’ve been there. Almost all the training providers Desktop spoke to for this article assured us their lecturers and teachers have industry experience, so the fact that it seems to be standard is be a good thing.

Functionally, there are pluses and minuses across the board. The find facility in Entourage 2004 was easy, now it’s been remodelled on the needlessly complicated interface of Outlook’s search tool. But for the first time, Spotlight search covers Entourage emails.

FontAgent Pro acts as slickly and leanly as it looks, steadily and beautifully processing everything. It creates a My Fonts folder in the Documents folder of your user account and arranges all the files alphabetically so it’s easy to back up.