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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition |  | From: Microsoft Software
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Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Mac, Mac OS X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Special Media
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Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: MSCD52653MC
Model: 45586G
UPC: 882224526531
EAN: 0882224526531
ASIN: B000XHE0Q0
Release Date: January 15, 2008
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| • | 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 | | • | Drag-and-drop digital asset management, batch conversion and tagging, and built-in archiving and backup capabilities help you manage over 100,000 files and hundreds of format types across multiple storage devices | | • | 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 | | • | Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage, Microsoft Server Exchange Support, Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office |
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Product Description
Microsoft Office Mac Media Edition 2008 English DVD: the power of the Office 2008 applications plus Expression Media, the powerful asset management tool to visually catalog, organize and present all of your digital assets. Simplify your work and visualize your success.
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition. The power of the Office 2008 applications plus Expression Media, the powerful asset management tool to visually catalog, organize and present all of your digital assets. Simplify your work and visualize your success. | Five Great Reasons to Upgrade to Office 2008 Special Media Edition: Universal Binary Support: Office 2008 Special Media Edition runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs. Streamlined user interface: You'll quickly build professional, complex documents using Word 2008 Document Elements. With a visual gallery of document components in the new user interface, cover pages, tables of contents, and citations are just a click away. Your Mac, more compatible: Office 2008 Special Media Edition and Windows-based 2007 Office products share the Open XML file formats, the OfficeArt graphics engine and other compatibility tools. You'll be confident when sharing ideas and documents with colleagues across platforms. Media-rich documents in minutes: Great design is a click away with hundreds of new templates, SmartArt graphics, Publishing Layout View, and professional quality clip art and photos. Your media, well managed: Drag-and-drop digital asset management, batch conversion and tagging, even built-in archiving and backup capabilities help you manage over 100,000 files and hundreds of format types across multiple storage devices. Expression Media gives you more power to work and manage your digital assets. 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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 Highly Recommended! November 27, 2008
Jason (NC, USA)
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
I can't believe I'm going to say this, but, Microsoft Office 2008 for the mac, is a must buy if your even remotely interested in office suites.
I run a few different online businesses, as well as doing some consulting, freelance work, and other such practices. Microsoft office deeply changes how I function, and operate in the world. Talk about improved efficiency.
I'm honestly considering no longer buying the yearly iwork suites.
Some new features in MS Word:
Publishing Layout View (this lets you create brochures, flyers, etc, etc) Very easy. This is similar to using Apples Pages. You can get to this view by clicking file -> project gallery and choose one of those kinds of views like Flyers, or Newsletters.
Word's new "Publishing Layout" view lets you create documents off templates similar to those from pages. You can add new pictures just by dragging and dropping your data into the various placeholders found in the template.
Publication Templates - appears at the top of publishing layout view, and lets you change the document into a different type of template (such as a different newsletter) (you can also customize any template when you create a theme using your own pictures, and elements (so much easier than in pages!).
Document Elements - this lets you easily create table of contents, cover pages, Header, Footer, and Bibliographies, you can access these features when you are in Print Layout view.
Excel offers up some new features:
Ledger Sheet (brand new!) - these are preformatted sheets, that let you do things like balance checkbooks, create expense reports, and many other things. This is really cool, and almost pays for itself for buying 2008.
In the project gallery (my favorite office feature) when you have excel open, click Ledger Sheets (off on the left) and you can click Accounts, Budgets, Invoices, Lists, Portfolios, Reports.
If you click one of the ledgers with the green excel bar at the top, it is one of the new ledger features, and as such, already has data, formulas, etc.
Formula Builder - you can now create formulas step by step. You can search for what your trying to do, and you can also scroll through and see all the functions. This is great for when you know, but your not sure which function exactly.
When you double click the function, you then "build it" at the bottom, this is very easy.
Auto Complete Formula - This is similar to when your using dreamweaver in the code view, and start typing in html. In excel when you type = then a letter like S and it will auto complete to sum or show you other options that you can choose. This is very cool and helps to make sure you get the right syntax and the right command each time.
Powerpoint 2008 also has some great new features I will talk about here:
Powerpoint now has Themes which give your slide presentations a unified theme, so everything looks the same (fonts, colors, special effects), and even better, these "themes" translate into other office products (such as word)
You can also now create your own custom layouts inside of powerpoint, which lets you choose where you want your images, text, charts, etc.
Powerpoint now lets you share your presentations to iphoto (which you can then sync on your ipod/iphone) Basically it turns your presentations into images. This is great if you want to share you presentation with someone who does not have powerpoint, or if you prefer to not lug your laptop around, and prefer to just your ipod/iphone as your presentation device.
Entourage New Features:
You can now create to do lists (and flagging). When your in entourage, click To Do List (which is next to your calendar) and you can add stuff that you need to do, you can also set due dates.
From an email, you can choose if / when you want to follow up with the email and flag it by clicking (tomorrow, next week, or choose one on a certain date), you can also choose a reminder. (to remind you at a certain time)
If your not going to be at the office for a while, you can setup an automatic rule, that can automatically reply to your incoming emails, telling them that you are away, and you will be back ___ and you can contact someone else, or if its important, call me at this number ___
To set it up go to Tools -> then click on Rules. Give it a name, and set up the function.
When you get back, all you need to do is go to Tools -> rules -> and uncheck whatever you named the rule to stop it for now (you can always reenable by clicking that box)
My favorite new feature quite easily is Entourages My Day.app.
My Day lets you manage your to do lists, and your calendar (and you no do not have to have entourage running) it shows what you need to do, the timeline, it is so cool, and is another one of those lovely features that make this a no-brainer purchase. If you have an appointment later on in the day (say you have a meeting at 8), it will show at the top that you are "free until 8) which is such a nice feature. You can skip around to other days and see what you need to do, (or what you previously did). You can add new tasks (to do) from within the my day.app so you do not have to open up entourage to add a quick task.
Another great feature is the Calendar, which is now very useful, looks much better, and is more functional.
The main difference between Special media and the regular edition of 2008 is Expression Media 2 (which you will need to download from Microsoft's website) This is a very nice, high end organizational software to manage you digital files (including raw images) Search is very fast, and tagging is quick and easy. One of the benefits for me with using this software is the ability to create different contact sheets, and online photogalleries. If you do not currently have a program capable of managing your digital assets, you cannot go wrong with Expression media. It is very robust, and powerful. It does not (for me) replace my current workflow (Adobe Lightroom) but for the price, it is very much so worth it. I highly recommend it if your into digital photography, or even just image creation. I'm using it now to organize files that I create (opposed to digital photography), and it works very well. It increases productivity, is beautiful, and helps me keep track of everything very quickly.
In conclusion, my productivity has greatly increase since getting Microsoft Office. Entourage alone eliminates so much hassle, that in an of itself is worth getting. No longer do I need Mail.app addressbook, ical, stickies, all open at the same time. I can open up entourage, set my schedule, close it, and have my day.app open telling me what to do and when keeping me on track and on schedule.
The new features in word / excel / and powerpoint do give serious fight to the iwork suite. I look forward to the next office release, and the next iwork release (to see how apple fights some of these cool and exiting features)
Easily a 5 out of 5. The only downside to 2008 is you loose macros, and you loose VBA scripting. (but you can use applescript and automator, and VBA is supposed to be back soon, which will give us macros back).
Strong Upgrade!!! February 2, 2008
M. Smith
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
Office 2008 Special Media is a strong upgrade. The new interface is extremely user friendly and logical. It looks very similiar to the 2007 version on the PC side. I cross platforms with my company everyday and it is seamless to work with PC files. The media package is a great addition that is more than worth the small price difference above the standard edition. Buy this with confidence and ENJOY the much needed update from Office 2004. I use a MacBook Pro, 2.4ghz, 2GB Ram.
Great To Have Office Running on Intel Without Rosetta November 24, 2008
Jerry Palmerino Jr (United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Like my long title says, its great to be running Office on Intel Macs without having to rely on Rosetta. Running Office 2004 with Rosetta worked well. Rosetta is an awesome technology, but it did translate into slow application launch times. Once the application started, everything was fine.
With this version, it runs natively on both Intel and PowerPC chips. It is fast and stable. IT is Office. We all know and love/hate Office, so you probably already know what it can do. It is missiing VBA support though. This may be a problem for some. I haven't experienced any of the negatives that other have reported. The interface is a bit different, but easy to understand in just a few minutes of use.
I highly recommend Office 2008 if you need Microsoft Office. Even if you have Office 2004, it is worth the upgrade just to get off of Rosetta.
As for the "Special" part of this particular version, it includes Microsoft's Expression Media. This is a great addition to the package, but I doubt Expression Media will gain traction against Apple's iLife suite and other Apple branded media applications, such as Aperture. It is worth trying though, as you may find them more intuitive if you are a long-time Microsoft user. It is similar to Aperture, in that, you can manage your media even if it is stored offline on CDs or DVDs. Its a nice digital media organizer.
Works Just Fine for Me December 9, 2008
Maggie Mae (Memphis, Tennessee)
5 out of 5 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.
A Must Have Program if You Have a Mac June 11, 2009
Vesta Irene (the Pacific Northwest)
4 out of 4 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.
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