I've been troubleshooting my Entourage (Office: Mac 2004) with Microsoft Mac Support with number of sessions on the phone in the last couple of weeks.
At issue were the number of spontaneous crashes (Entourage quits and automatically restarts) I had been experiencing.
In the process of troubleshooting the problem, I was told to rebuild the database and ended up switching back and forth through the several Identities that I ended up with.
In one Identity I found an unusual feature, instead of the alerts appearing sequentially (one in front of the next) they were all shown at once in a tiled format. I liked this so much that I decided to call MS tech support to see how to set this as a preference.
Turned out there was no information available on how to do this, so it remains a "hidden" feature
While I was asking about this feature, the next version of Office for Mac came up and I was informed that the tech support people were told it was coming in about three months.
Apparently, it was going to be released sooner, but because Microsoft wanted to make sure of complete compatibility with the new Intel Macs they went back to the drawing board.
It will be interesting to see what the changes/improvements will be.