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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition | 
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Category: Software
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Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
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Edition: Home & Student
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Dimensions (in): 87.6 x 64.8 x 15.6
MPN: GZA00006
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UPC: 882224526302
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ASIN: B000X86ZAS
Release Date: January 15, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Streamlined user interface runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs | | • | Open XML file formats, the Office Art graphics engine, and other features that result in compatibility and file fidelity | | • | Professional design is within your power with hundreds of new customizable templates and suite-wide themes, SmartArt graphics, and the new Publishing Layout View in Word 2008 | | • | My Day keeps you connected to all of the day's action. Command your calendar, tackle your tasks, and simplify your day | | • | Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage |
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Homework and Home Work will be easier than ever with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition. Get better results faster and create high-quality documents you can be proud of, with less frustration and more enjoyment. | Five Great Reasons to Get Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition: Universal applications: Office 2008 runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs. Intuitive interface: Reduce the time and frustration of learning new software and creating documents with visual galleries that present the right tools when you need them. Your Mac, more compatible: Office 2008 for Mac and Windows-based 2007 Office products share the Open XML file formats and features like the Office Art graphics engine, so you'll be confident when sharing documents with colleagues, friends, and family across platforms. Beautiful documents: Good design is a click away with hundreds of new templates, Smart Art graphics, Publishing Layout View, and professional quality clip art and photos. Priced for home users: Don't need Microsoft Exchange Server Support or workflow management? Home and student users pay for just the features they need. Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition comes with three licenses of non-Exchange-enabled Office 2008 licensed for noncommercial computers. Which Version of Office 2008 is right for you? View this comparison chart. | Simplify Your Work
Your presentation will make an impact. Your documents will be professional. Your analysis will be insightful. And Office 2008 will be there.
The latest version of the industry standard for productivity software on the Macintosh platform, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is more powerful and easier to use. Office 2008 combines Microsoft Word for Mac, Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac, Microsoft Excel for Mac, Microsoft Entourage for Mac, and Microsoft Messenger for Mac and lets you easily create high-impact documents and seamlessly share your ideas with others, whether they are on the Mac or Windows platform. What's New in Office for Mac?
- Universal versions of the most popular productivity applications on the Macintosh platform (Universal applications run natively on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.)
- Microsoft Office for Mac natively supports the Open XML file formats for compatibility with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products.
- A redesigned user interface and powerful new tools for simplifying work, creating great looking documents, and exchanging ideas and information with others.
Highlights of Office 2008 for Mac
- Office 2008 is a Universal Binary, was built by Mac users for Mac users, and includes many features which take advantage of underlying technologies of the Macintosh platform.
- Office 2008 uses Open XML file formats for compatibility with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products. XML file formats help reduce the risk of lost information due to damaged or corrupted files and also result in smaller file sizes--up to 75 percent smaller than comparable binary documents. Office 2008 for Mac is backward-compatible with earlier file formats and users can continue to use the older .doc, .xls, and .ppt binary formats.
- Elements Gallery is the foundation of the new user interface, and gives easy access to the most commonly used tools and templates. With the new UI, you'll harness the capabilities of Office for Mac more easily than ever before.
- Office 2008 includes OfficeArt, the powerful graphics engine also used in the Windows-based Office 2007 products. You get great cross-platform file fidelity and easy access to stunning visual and graphic effects.
- Your words will make an impact with the modern styling of SmartArt graphics, which makes transforming text and bulleted lists into professional diagrams and graphics one-click easy.
- A new Themes capability simplifies the process of applying a consistent look and feel across documents. Easily apply a complete set of colors, fonts, and effects to your Office 2008 documents, and change them as easily as changing your mind.
- Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office enables you to automate Office 2008 with more than 70 pre-defined actions built to simplify your work and extend your productivity. (Available in Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition.)
 Entourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps it to happen, one task at a time. |  Enjoy powerful new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive user interface in Word 2008. | Entourage 2008
Your e-mails will spark ideas, you'll schedule meetings where creativity abounds. Entourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps it to happen, one task at a time. - My Day keeps you connected to the action. Schedules, tasks, and priorities in one easy, standalone interface. Time will have no choice but to be well-managed.
- Use color-coded categories, status indicators, and flexible To-Do list management humble even the most hectic schedules.
- Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2008 Special Media Edition enable users to access their Microsoft Exchange server accounts with Entourage.
- Improved Junk E-Mail filtering capabilities and phishing protection tools help shield your inbox from the scourge of junk. Your inbox will breathe a sigh of relief.
- Projects submit to your superior management skills when you unleash the power of Project Center, With project details like e-mail messages, documents, schedules, and contacts in one convenient place, Project Center helps keep your information--and your stress--under control.
Word 2008
Powerful new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive user interface in Word 2008 will help you to make your ideas look as good as they are. - When you turn blah into brilliant, Publishing Layout View will elevate the way you think about Word 2008. This new specialized and customizable workspace lets users create incredibly rich documents such as newletters, flyers and brochures without a degree in design.
- Great looking document construction won't require a hard hat. New Templates, Themes, and Document Elements like cover pages and bibliographies make creating professional-looking output a snap.
- Your words will make an impact with the modern styling of SmartArt, which makes transforming text into high-quality graphics and diagrams as easy as one click.
- Dynamic Guides will help you keep all of your words and graphics in line and on point.
- Mass mailings will have a personal touch and Word 2008 Mail Merge Manager will guide you step by easy step.
 Inspire your audience's imagination with compelling visuals and engaging layout in PowerPoint 2008. |  Analyze, share, and manage your data, and easily create persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for powerful results with Excel 2008. | PowerPoint 2008
Your presentation is a story. PowerPoint 2008 will illustrate it. Inspire your audience's imagination with compelling visuals and engaging layout. - Great ideas will get their graphic due with SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint 2008. Start with a blank slide or a bulleted list, and, with a click of a button, you'll have a stunning chart, table, map, or diagram.
- Designer Themes help you give your presentation a creative look, simply and quickly.
- The new Object Palette allows quick access to all your shapes, art, symbols, and pictures--including iPhoto files--in one easy-to-access space.
- Dynamic Guides will help you place and resize your graphic element to create professional-looking presentations in a snap.
- You'll lay out custom designs to showcase your unique content with custom layout capabilities in PowerPoint 2008.
- PowerPoint 2008 integration with Apple Remote Control lets you concentrate on your words, not your keyboard. Now control your presentation and engage your audience unleashed from the podium.
Excel 2008
It's a numbers game. With Excel 2008, analyze, share, and manage your data, and easily create persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for powerful results. - Ledger Sheets in Excel 2008 make tracking finances, inventories, even invoices and portfolios easy with preformulated spreadsheets and automatic calculations.
- Charting improvements artfully convey the message your data is telling. You'll see your numbers in a whole new way.
- The new prebuilt functions tackle the most common tasks and make creating error-free complex conditional formulas easier.
- Quick access to formulas makes functions more functional with Formula Builder in Excel 2008.
- Your data will know virtually no limits. Excel 2008 now supports over 16,000 columns and over 1 million rows.
- Whether you're an Excel expert or a complete novice, Excel 2008 Formula AutoComplete simplifies your calculations by providing a dynamic pop-up menu so you can select and complete your formula.
Messenger for Mac
Convenience is the name of the game for Mac users who want to communicate instantly with family, friends and colleagues from one convenient place. Messenger for Mac is now a Universal application, and gives you more ways to share what's on your mind or on your plate. Use Messenger for Mac to instantly check the status of project team members, streamline workflow by sending documents directly from Word, or offer questions or comments on document changes instantly. - Yahoo! Interoperability will allow personal users to connect and message with Yahoo! Messenger for Mac users.
- Your intentions will never again be in doubt when you create your own custom emoticons in Messenger for Mac.
- Spelling Checker is now included in Messenger for Mac.
- Let the world know your tastes when you display your iTunes selection with the new "What I'm listening to now" feature.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 286 more reviews...
 Really great December 4, 2008
I read that this product wasn't worth the money, but I disagree!! I bought this because I have iwork and nothing formatted correctly to .docx or.ppt the right way for school and I was frustrated. This product is so much better than iwork and easier to use than regular office for windows. Great graphics and fonts too.
Good features, seems unstable December 4, 2008
Unlike a lot of people, I've always been an admirer of Microsoft products. Granted, they tend to be expensive, overpriced even, but they typically do what they're intended to do with a fair amount of ease. The 2008 version of Office for Mac is more of the same -- the familiar suite of office programs with some spiffed up new features -- only it suffers from the problem that causes many users to loathe Microsoft: instability. The program is generally reliable, but it still had enough problems, including an overall slowness, to be frustrating for me. I like the features, like the ease of use. But overall I kept wishing that the platform was just a little more stable.
Upgrading on an old machine December 4, 2008
I installed Office 2008 on my 1.25GHz G4 iMac, running System 10.4.11 . Since many other reviewers have discussed the features of each Office application thoroughly, I am focusing this review on my experience of upgrading from Office v.X to Office 2008 on a PowerPC iMac.
Background:
*I have experience with several versions of Mac Office, beginning with version 4.2 . I also have used Office 98, Office 2001, and as mentioned above, Office v.X before upgrading to Office 2008.
*The way I use Office has changed over time. I made extensive use of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in graduate school and in various professional settings through Office 2001. Now I mostly use Excel to do basic financial analysis and Word to write personal documents.
Installation:
*Installation is straightforward, using Apple's familiar Installer mechanism. I prefer this method to the old drag-and-drop installation method because OS X is so sensitive to where things are installed.
*The installer program automatically finds older versions of Office and allows users to delete them easily.
*Many customized settings can be transferred from previous Office installations, including dictionaries, autocorrect lists, and proofing tool settings.
*Once Office 2008 is installed, several updates must be downloaded and installed. Microsoft should have made this process more user-friendly. Users must manually shut down other applications, including the Office 2008 Installer, before running the update installer.
Pros:
*Office is now a Universal Binary so the same program will run on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
*The Home & Student Edition provides three user licenses. This is great for families or households with multiple computers.
*An Uninstaller is placed in the Office folder automatically.
*Office will check for updates automatically on a schedule chosen by the user. No more messing around on the Microsoft website, hoping you didn't miss a Service Pack or Critical Update.
*Users can now turn the feedback sounds on and off. If hearing a chime, a popping bubble, or some other "cute" noise every time you did something drove you crazy, you will greatly appreciate this long overdue feature.
*Speaking of unnecessary cuteness, Clippy the Paperclip is gone! Yesssssss!
Cons:
*All the applications startup and quit slowly on a G4 machine. Office v.X applications started and quit virtually instantaneously (yes, I realize v.X was written specifically for PowerPC processors). Saving files is slow as well.
*Office 2008 uses a new file format that is not compatible with other versions of Office. If you send documents to people who are not fully up to date, you have to save a second version or limit yourself to working with the older file format.
*It's good that Microsoft no longer just ports Windows Office to the Mac. Nonetheless, there are user interface inconsistencies both within and across the applications which keep Office from feeling 100% Macintosh.
*Silverlight, Microsoft's attempt to compete with Macromedia Flash, is installed by default.
*No macros in Excel! Bad, bad, bad move. And no support for Visual Basic.
Bottom line: Office 2008 doesn't hold any surprises for experienced Office users. For the most part, everything still operates in the way to which you are accustomed. If you own a PowerPC Mac and use an older version of Office, you should carefully consider whether you want to upgrade or not. The benefits of the new features may be outweighed by the inconvenience of the slower performance and/or the need to adjust your workflow.
3.5 stars, rounded down to 3 due to the removal of macros and Visual Basic from Excel.
 Sufficient for my basic usage of Office December 3, 2008
Before I received this product I was running Microsoft Office v. X for Mac Students and Teachers Edition on my home PowerBook laptop (which I have been using since it was released) and using Microsoft Office 2007 at work. I was pretty satisifed using Office X at home. However, I became frustrated when I started using Office 2007 at work because most files are automatically saved in the XML format making me unable to open them in Office X. Yes someone can save them in the old format before sending them to me, but I've noticed that some content does not show up at all and instead appears as a box with an x through it on my screen and other content can be seen but not edited. Overall this is a big problem for me since I would prefer to do work at home without always having to lug my work laptop back and forth. Microsoft has released a free reader to access these files, which would remedy the problem somewhat, but it is only available for Windows.
Because PowerPoint decks, for better or worse, are a big part of my job, this was something causing major aggrevation. Because of that, the ability to open and save files in XML format has been a big plus for me. It has greatly reduced the hassle of sharing files back and forth with co-workers and clients. From a high level perspective I agree with users that this is not a major overhaul, although it does provide some additional features and benefits, and those who are expecting much will probably be disapointed.
The positives:
-As already mentioned, compatability with XML.
-New PowerPoint features like SmartArt, a very easy way to organize information visually. This was especially appealing to me because I have found myself using SmartArt a lot on my Windows machine.
-Sleek interface that seems more consistent with the current look and feel of the Mac operating system.
-Interesting Word templates for things like posters, newsletters, or more that are pretty plug and play -- This is more of a 'nice to have' than a 'need to have' though as at this point in time I don't seem myself actually taking advantage of these templates.
The negatives:
-As others have mentioned certain features and functions being omitted like Visual Basic support. If there are specific features of Office that are integral to its usefulness for you I would read up before purchasing to see if they are still included. My use of Office is pretty basic so overall this hasn't affected the usefulness of office for me.
-You no longer have the ability to drag and drop images from the web into PowerPoint. This is actually the most frustrating change to Office for me because I frequently use images from the web in creating my presentations. Oddly enough it still works in Word so I am not sure why this feature is not available in PowerPoint.
-Program start up is surprisingly slower than Office X. This really surprised me. The programs seem to take a long time to start up and slow down other programs I have open (usually Safari).
Overall my experience has been positive, with the exception of the elimination of dragging and dropping photos in PowerPoint. However, as I have mentioned earlier in my review my primary interest in this program was in XML compatibility so if this is less of an issue to you or if you take advantage of some of the richer features of Office you may be disapointed.
Not perfect but... December 2, 2008
I read reviews and checked out the mactopia site so I knew what I was getting. I was trying to decide between iWork and MS office because of the better pricing on iWork. At my office I use office 2007 on a pc and I needed to be able to continue working on Word documents at home. Office 2008 for Mac allows me to do this but because it lacks support for VBA some functions do not work on the mac product. It is a minor annoyance that I work around and the same goes for Excel. In the end it allows me to easily create study notes and write great looking documents that are easy to read. iWork says that it is compatible with Office but after trying the demo and using it to open word documents it could not carry over a good amount of formatting. MS office for Mac gets the job done for me with relative ease and no compatibility issues between office 2007 for pc and 2008 for mac as long as I say away from VBA (data analysis add-ins, word's equation editor) in the PC version.
Coming from windows I was confused on what entourage is. After using it, Entourage is just iCal, address book, and Mail combined in one program that also allows you to create projects. Projects allow you to create a calendar with items only related to that project, invite others to collaborate, create notes and link documents related to a particular project. For home use i have not found this very efficient so I stick to the native mac apps.
After installing this I have not noticed my iMac preforming any differently that before. The only issue I have noticed so far is when I have an office program open and I switch spaces in leopard. Sometimes the program will switch spaces when I try to return to the space I opened it in. i think it has to do with the tool box which contains the formatting options, so i just close it before i switch spaces.
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