Software : Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition

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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0882224526302
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Microsoft Software
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
Model: GZA00006
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Sales Rank: 2
Studio: Microsoft Software

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.
Customer Reviews

Average Rating:

Rating: - Not perfect but...
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.

Rating: - Has its problems, but good overall
I have mixed feelings about this version of Office. On the positive side, I feel that the graphical capabilities are outstanding. The first day I worked in Word 2008, I created a very visually satisfying piece of Smart Art for my communications class, with little to no experience doing this before. Also, from my limited usage of the feature, I think the publishing layout view is very useful.

Now for the not-so-positives... I know not everyone is a fan of it, but I miss the ribbon interface from Office 2007 for Windows. I wish they could have created a preference where you could select the standard or ribbon view. In my opinion, the ribbon was the most significant interface update since word processors went WYSIWYG in about 1988. I loved that I could hover the mouse over the ribbon area, scroll up or down to pick my menu, select my command, and have the menu remain. This makes repetitive (but not identical) formatting and document creation tasks an absolute breeze.

Also, unless I am missing something, there is no way to use the mouse scroll-wheel to zoom in and out of a document. In previous versions (and many other mac text editing/word processing apps), a Control-Scroll was the absolute easiest way to zoom in and out. In fact, I never realized how often I was zooming my document until I got this version and wasn't able to in the same manner.

Finally, why does the formatting palette float instead of anchor to the window? It drives me nuts that the tool palettes seem to almost operate independently of the applications themselves. Again, refer to my opinion on the omission of the ribbon interface to understand my frustration.

Rating: - Ok Product but why bother?
The single best thing about the Mac version of Office 2008 compared with the PC version of Office 2007, is that users aren't burdened by the Tool Bar Ribbon that radically changed the interface for PC users.
The second best thing is that this Student version comes with 3 licenses that allow you to put it on 3 Different machines.

Anyone who is familiar with Office already, will like this product, and it does make exchanging files with someone who is using Office 2007 easier, since it is compatible. That would be about the only reason I would get this product.

The other drawback from an email standpoint, is that Entourage (The Mac version of Outlook) on this version can not connect to an Exchange server, so forget about using this with any corporate email account that runs Exchange on the backend.

Overall the program functionality, and operations haven't changed much from previous versions, but you can get all the same power from Neo Office, which can create most of these same documents, and can read and edit older versions of Office documents. (not sure if Neo Office for the Mac can read PC versions of Office 2007 documents). Neo Office is a freeware or shareware program, that can be supported for a nominal donation.

Rating: - My first Office on a mac - not bad!
I just got my wife a macbook and she was upset the Microsoft Office Trial that comes with it expired, so we got this version. Being a PC and Linux Guy, I had no issues with this version of office for Mac. She was able to use powerpoint and Word just like she would on a pc. It is a tad bit different than then PC version in looks and function, but essentially the same thing. I installed the Service Pack as well, so DO NOT FORGET TO INSTALL OFFICE SP1 for Mac as soon as you install the product.
Nice price, Nice product.

Rating: - Average
I'm not a Mac user so here's my father's comments: Pretty good product once he got it running. Not user friendly or intuitive. Seems to have some bugs that freeze it but they seem to have resolved after a few days. Too soon to tell. Has this software been fully tested before marketed?

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