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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac |  | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $399.95
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Rating:  136 reviews
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Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Mac, Mac OS X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
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Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
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MPN: 73101727
Model: 73101727
UPC: 605433009974
EAN: 0605433009974
ASIN: B000WR2F2M
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, Microsoft Server Exchange Support |
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A streamlined user interface, hundreds of new themes and templates, and better compatibility with your Windows-based colleagues--with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, you'll simplify your work and achieve more with less effort. | Five Great Reasons to Upgrade to Office 2008 for Mac: Universal applications: Office 2008 runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs. Easier interface: You'll quickly build professional, compatible and complex documents using the simplified user interface and new tools like Document Elements. With a visual gallery for selecting elements like cover pages, bibliographies, and citations, you're one-click from finished. Your Mac, more compatible: Office 2008 for Mac and the Windows-based 2007 Office System share the Open XML file formats, the Office Art graphics engine, and many other features that result in compatibility and file fidelity. You'll be confident when sharing ideas and documents with colleagues regardless of which platform they're on. Great documents: 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. Your day, well managed: My Day keeps you connected to all of the day's action. Command your calendar, tackle your tasks, and simplify your day with this easy to use but powerful little tool. 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.
Product Description
Simplify your day at work. Achieve more with the power of reinvented Office for Mac. Easy-to-use, powerful tools make it easy to create fantastic looking documents--from dynamic presentations to stunning reports and engaging communications. Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage, Microsoft Server Exchange Support, Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office.
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 Working in Office I Get My Work Done June 9, 2009
Zachary Hackett (Reno, Nevada)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Microsoft Office for the Mac 2008 contains Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Entourage and is a must have program. Word is very intuitive and easy to use. I've written several letters in Word and have found it to be fast, though not as fast as that old (and I guess bare bones) software I'd been using. I do use Office for Windows on a Dell, so I really didn't have any problems at all with the Mac Version. The interface for the two programs is a bit different and I like the Mac version better, probably because I'm a Mac person at heart.
The Windows version of Office arranges the functions with tabs, however the Mac version puts the functions in drop down windows, but the templates and Smart Art Graphics are the same for both versions and that's convenient and I really like the My Day widget for Entourage that floats on top of the desktop. Having all my to do lists right there, that's convenient too. I really feel like I've taken a step into the new Millennium with this program.
No Longer the Enemy December 11, 2008
Ophella Paige (Reno, Nevada)
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
Right off the bat there is a couple things you want to do right after you install Office for Mac 2008 and you can do them both in Office's preferences. One, you want to change the program so it's save your Word docs in, well, the .doc format, instead of Words new, not compatible with anything else format, docx. Second you want to set the prefs to get rid of that annoying as all get out Project Gallery. Go the the settings tab and uncheck the "Show Project Gallery at Startup" box. You'll be glad you did.
I guess I'm one of those rare people who really likes Vista, so I don't object at all to the Vista like icons which ride on top of the Word documents in the new interface, but if all that stuff on top of your document bothers you, don't worry, you can turn them all off as all of those commands can be accessed via the menu items or the tools palette.
Like the Vista version there is now a toolbox which is a separate window which has seven tools palettes in it which let you manage things like Fonts and Styles or Alignment and Numbering or Margins or Borders. And one thing I really like about this version of Word is how easy it is to add pictures. Just drag `em onto your document and there they are. What could be simpler. Okay, you could do that before, but heck, it's nifty as all get out. You can also use the object palette to add clip art and the program comes with lots of it.
Word also now has new layout modes which makes publishing a newsletter or making flyers for your local PTA event easy peasy.
This program is very, very Mac like which you'll see and appreciate once you open the preferences panel. Amazing, it looks just like and works just like the systems preferences. I know a lot of this might be hard for a lot of Apple fans to swallow (and I am an Apple fan), because many of them (us) view or have viewed Microsoft as the enemy and they'd (we'd) go searching for anything we could find to replace a Microsoft program. Well, I'm here to say you (we) don't have to do that anymore. Microsoft is no longer the enemy. It's true, Microsoft has become the Mac's new best friend.
Better than Office 2004 and that's Really Saying Something December 11, 2008
Vesta Irene (the Pacific Northwest)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I don't understand, the people at CNET can say Office for the Mac 2008 doesn't have all the features that Office for Windows 2007 has. I don't agree. I use the Windows version at home and have the Mac version on three different computers. One at work now and a desktop (iMac) and a laptop (PowerBook G4) and to me the Mac version is every bit as robust and feature rich as the Windows version. I don't think Microsoft skimped a bit here, in fact I think they went all out.
In my opinion this is the best productivity software you can buy for the Mac, bar none. Sure, I suppose there are less costly ways to go to get a lot of the features here, but hey, you bought a Mac, so you've already paid a bit more than you'd pay for a Dell or an HP machine. I know, money is tight for a lot of people these days, but if you use your computer to earn a living, then this is a program that'll pay for itself. If you don't have Office on your Mac, you need it.
However, do you need it if you have the 2004 version. Maybe not. Seriously, the 2004 version does everything I want it to do and though it's not running natively on my Intel iMac, I'd swear you'd never know. The new (2008) version seems a little snappier, but not so much that I'd spring for the upgrade. Also the interface is gorgeous, much better than the 2004 version, but still, probably not worth the price of an upgrade.
I guess that's Microsoft's curse, they made the last version so doggone good, that you hate to leave it and leave it I did, because when you install the 2008 version it removes the earlier version. That kind of ticked me off at first, but I don't really need it anymore as the newer version is better. But, like I said, if you have the older version, you'll have to check the state of your wallet, before upgrading.
Finally, an Update! WooHoo! September 24, 2009
FLYingG0D (GLENDALE, AZ USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been waiting for the new update of the Mac version of Office. I have tried other alternatives, and they just don't work the way I would expect them to. Having used Microsoft Office for the PC in the past for all of my office needs, I could not find anything that worked quite the same on my Mac. Printing would be off, or text would not look right, and just a lot of small things that made me feel that I needed to keep looking for the right program to edit spreadsheets and documents on my Mac.
Behold: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac! This is the newest version of Office for the mac! The settings and options I am used to having are all there! Commands have the same name I am familiar with! Documents and text look the way I would expect them to when I create/edit them and even when I print them! I felt at home!
The menu system does take a bit of getting used to. Instead of being a traditional Menu Bar like Office 2003 (what I am familiar with) it has a style more like Office 2007 - but with the menus detached from the main document window. This takes a little getting used to, but actually is much better with my wide screen monitor. I still prefer the old Office 2003 style menus, but I would say these are a bit more useful then the ones present in Office 2007. Also, the update system can be annoying if you set it to always check for updates. I get a pop-up window every time, but would have preferred if it checked in the background and then just let me know when new updates were available.
Installation took a bit. Not too terribly slow, but it was a bit time consuming. All of this was well worth it though, as any Office program I run starts up very fast! I was impressed with the loading speeds. I expected fairly fast loading due to the major efforts put into the new Microsoft products to decrease loading times, but I still expected it to take a bit longer. Word or Excel load about as fast as Firefox or any other lean program! MUCH faster than an alternative I had been using previously.
After using alternatives, and having become accustomed to the PC version - I found Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac to be a wonderful and necessary software suite for all of my document needs. I would definitely recommend this program if you want a solid and fully featured Office program for your Mac!
Everything is Good December 9, 2008
Maggie Mae (Memphis, Tennessee)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
A lot reviews that I see in software magazines start out by listing the good, then the bad parts about a program or an upgrade. I could do that here, but so far, and I'm a month or so into the program, I haven't discovered the bad. The program installed without a hitch on my G4 last generation PowerBook and likewise on my Intel iMac.
I can't compare Office 2008 to prior versions on the Mac because until now, I've been using a program called Nisus Writer which I've been using for years and years. It's a very nice program and does everything you'd want a word processor to do. Well, not quite everything. It's supposed to be able to open Word docs, and it does, but the headers and footers come out all messed up.
Not so with this program (be sure to set the prefs to save in doc format). With Word in Office 2008 I can view all the docs I get as attachments as they were meant to be seen. Also, I've been working almost exclusively with Word since I installed it on my machines to see how it compares with both Nisus and with Word 2007, which I have on my iMac running on
Windows in emulation via fusion.
I like the new interface. I like the easy of use, of course I'm not a novice. Just the fact that Microsoft put so much time and effort into this program makes me feel that the Mac is going to be around for a long time to come. After all, If Microsoft believes in the Mac, then it's bound to survive.
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