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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition
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Product Details
  • Binding: DVD-ROM
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  • Brand: Microsoft
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  • EAN: 0882224526302
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  • ESRB Age Rating: Mature
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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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  • Format: DVD-ROM
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  • Is Autographed Specified
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  • Is Memorabilia Specified
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  • Label: Microsoft Software
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  • Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
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  • Model: GZA-00006
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  • Platform: Macintosh, Mac OS X
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  • Product Group: Software
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  • Publisher: Microsoft Software
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  • Release Date: 2008-01-15
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  • Studio: Microsoft Software
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  • Title: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition
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  • UPC: 882224526302
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Avg Customer Rating: 3 stars

Product Description: 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

1 stars Stay away, the patch fixed none of the major problems
Word remains incompatible with Spaces. The window jumps randomly from desktop to desktop and hides behind other windows. Word is terribly slow to open. The suite is missing a Onenote type functionality, which was addressed partially by a "notetaking view" in Word which (theoretically) incorporates some onenote-type functionality. Unfortunately, it does not work. Anything in the notetaking view has constant glitches: formatting disappearing and reappearing, crashes...it is terrible. Entourage is similarly terrible. I switched over from Mail to Entourage, and it (by default) erased all the historical messages I had stored in my Imap account by changing the time left on server before deleting setting...without my input. I didn't even know the settings were changed until I went to look for an old message and it was gone.

I had high hopes for fixes for these items in the patch: no joy. STAY AWAY! They by mistake sent me an extra upgrade copy...it is so bad I refuse to sell it or even give it away.

The only good news: Vista on OSX in a Fusion virtual window with office 2007 runs better than on any of the 3 PC's I tried to run Vista on (thats why I switched back to Mac, Vista drove me insane...but it runs great on a MacBook Pro for some reason).

Good luck.


3 stars No Macros--APPALLING!
This is a significant upgrade to prior versions of Office for Mac for several reasons. 1) It's significantly faster, 2) the interface is cleaner, and 3) IT DOESN'T SUPPORT VISUAL BASIC!!!

If you don't use macros, I recommend this product without hesitation. If you do use Macros, avoid this product like the plague. I don't know if Microsoft intends to support Macros at a later date, but it's pretty appalling to leave them out of Excel, given macro usage is very common when dealing with large data sets.


3 stars It's not the same as 2007 for windows, but...
It's not the same but it works well. I must say that they need to improve a lot. It's not as practical as M. Office 2007 for windows, but what else can you get for your mac? in my case, I need office, so I just hope that microsoft will improve this!


1 stars Prefer Older Version
I was fairly satisfied with MS Office 2004 for Mac. At least I knew its foibles. Made the assumption (silly me) that MS would address some of its failings and bring us a better product. I do not believe that this is true. There are specifically Clip Art problems which never existed before but do now and make using and especially adding to old Clip Art essentially futile. The Clip Art program crashes. Thus far, MS has not fixed this problem and I have sent them record of the crashes repeatedly.

I also have reverted to saving all of my files at "compatible with the older version" because it is a hassle trying to share files with others on PCs or at other levels. I would not advise purchase of this package until MS sees fit to make at least another update available and fix a lot of their problems which they introduced!


3 stars Microsoft Office for Macs...hmmmm.
I'm a new Mac convert, and I just purchased a beautiful new macbook pro. I LOVE everything that microsoft office does and did for my old PC, and I'm a student, so I knew that this was a necessary purchase. I was thrilled by Microsoft Office 2007 for PCs (it's really fabulous), and I was sure that they'd come out with something even more stellar for macs (seeing as everything Mac seems to be newer, flashier, easier, and more versatile for computer-simpletons like me).

Alas, it was not to be. Mac Office 2008 is really a pain in the neck to use. The menus are a pain to access, everything is hard to find, there are tons of windows everywhere, and it's hard to transition between PC microsoft office and mac microsoft office, which is most annoying to me. On the other hand, Microsoft entourage is GREAT. If you need an incredibly annoying/helpful electronic planning system, entourage has it all - it has a great reminder system, it has a wonderful to-do list, and it's just all-around great & well made. However, I'd still recommend thinking twice, and maybe even three times before purchasing this. Maybe try it out on someone else's computer, or in a store. It seems like one of those necessary evils, and while I have heard that it's better than whatever alternative mac puts out, it's more expensive, and office for mac is just not as good as office for PCs.

I would not advise that you jump to buy this.