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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $399.95
Buy New: $125.00
You Save: $274.95 (69%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 207
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 73101727
Model: 73101727
UPC: 605433009974
EAN: 0605433009974
ASIN: B000WR2F2M
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 70 more reviews...
 Works great on Mac - if you really need it January 1, 2009
If you need to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations on a Mac with OS X, you have at least three options. If you're not already fluent with Microsoft Office or are willing to learn something new, I highly recommend Apple iWork '08. It's cheap, intuitive, powerful and compatible with Office files, but it operates quite a bit differently from Office. If you really want to stick with a more Office-like look and feel then the two major options are NeoOffice for Mac or Office 2008 for Mac (this product).
NeoOffice ([...]) is a free, open-source application that looks and feels a lot like Microsoft Office and is capable of opening and saving Microsoft Office files. The downsides (for me) are 1) it's a little slow, especially launching and opening files, and 2) it feels so much like Office that I'm always thrown off when I encounter things that work differently. On the other hand, it's free.
That brings us to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. It follows a very similar look and feel as previous versions of Office for Mac, but it does not work like Office 2007 for Windows. Most notably it does not utilize the ribbon, instead sticking with the more standard (for Mac) drop-down menus, toolbars and palettes. It does add a number of useful pre-built elements like title pages, tables, charts and graphics, but if you have to go back and forth between Office on a Windows machine and on a Mac, don't expect them to feel all that similar.
If you do choose Office 2007 for Mac, here's what you can expect when you install it. The initial install from DVD was pretty quick, about 15 minutes, but the updates take much longer. It prompted me to check for updates after the initial install, at which point it updated the updater. After that I had to keep checking for updates manually until it finally said there were none. First it installed update 12.1.0, which took 5 minutes to download (broadband) and another 16 minutes to install. Then it installed 12.1.3, which was another 5-minute download and 10-minute install, and finally 12.1.4, which went much quicker. The annoying part was that I had to keep manually telling it to check for updates and click through all the "agree and go" screens.
Final word:
If you use and like previous versions of Office for Mac, there are some nice goodies that may be worth the upgrade, and if you're an Office power-user this version on the Mac is quick, stable and full-featured enough to please. Otherwise I'd choose NeoOffice (free) or iWork ($70) over spending $230 for Microsoft Office.
 I'm not "wowed" December 23, 2008
This latest version of Office for Mac gave me what I needed: the ability to open those damn "docx" and "xlsx" files that users of Office 2008 make with no thought for those who haven't ponied up the cash. So, I got what I wanted out of it.
But if no one saved files in those formats... if folks thought about backwards compatibility... I wouldn't have bothered with Office 2008 for Mac. The only real bonus (to me) is its smaller HDD footprint.
Otherwise, the programs all load slower and eat just as much RAM... if not more.
If you have an older version of Office for Mac, or if iWorks does the trick for you... don't bother with Office 2008 for Mac. (At least until Microsoft comes out with some serious updates.
Works Fine, But Not Needed with iWorks December 22, 2008
I mostly use Word and PowerPoint periodically. I recently upgraded to Mac. I find that I really like iWorks. I got this software as I have years and years of Word documents on my old Windows computer. I was worried that translating those files from Windows to Mac OS was going to be a problem.
I shouldn't have worried. iWorks has handled the translation fine so far.
Although I use word processing software on a daily basis, I wouldn't consider myself a "power user" as some of the other reviewers are using this phrase. I don't require a great deal from my word processing as I have my layouts done in InDesign.
If you've recently switched to Macs, I'd suggest buying iWorks. It's far less expensive and works fine for shifting your Word documents to an Mac OS environment.
Cheers!
Tim Warneka, author
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Not bad, but unnecessary for the average user... December 18, 2008
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Let me preface this by saying that I've never used any version of Office on the Mac. I've been using Macs since the G4 days, but I just never saw much of a need to fork over the cash for an M$ product when there were so many viable, less-expensive alternatives. I'm also not a big Office "power user." I need to put the occasional document or paper together, edit some spreadsheets from time-to-time and maybe put a presentation together when the event arises, but that's the extent of it. For me, it gets the job done. Compatibility with the Windows versions (I use 2003 & 2007 at work) is good, and while the program feels a bit bloated, it performs well enough, even on older hardware (tested this on my eMac).
Word works well, and it's what I use more than anything else. The interface is intuitive, and while I'm not a big fan of the "Vista" look, it's not a bad match for the Mac aesthetic. There's not a lot more that I can say about it than that...I was able to open my .doc files, edit them, save them, etc. without any notable issue. There's something to be said for cross-platform, cross-version invisibility, and it's implemented here far better than it was on the Windows platform (where you needed a converter simply to open many files on a particular version). My experience was much the same with Excel, with one big exception: VB Macros. If your spreadsheet uses Visual Basic Macros, they will not function with an out-of-the-box install, but this can be remedied now with an additional (FREE) download. It's kind of a nuisance, but at least it's not a permanent one. I didn't delve into PowerPoint much other than to open a few presentations that I already had done, and guess what? It opens them like a champ!
Sarcasm aside, Office 2008 does what it needs to do and does it well. Power users might have some legitimate gripes, but I'm not a power user (and most of the people buying it through Amazon aren't either). For the average person who just needs to open and occasionally edit a Word or Excel document, there's not much of a reason to purchase this if you have a previous version. If on the other hand you don't already have Office on your Mac and have to use it (and open-source offerings aren't to your liking), then Microsoft Office 2008 is certainly a functional productivity suite, albeit a pricey one.
Looks Pretty, BUT... December 18, 2008
...you better not be a VBA user!! That's right with 'Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac' the look is pretty and slick but VBA support that had been available for real power users of Office for a loong time along is G-G-GONE. Along with the loss of this power ability performance hits are a plenty and this is just not a great upgrade. For basic users that want to use Office on their Mac this serves the purpose well but to ignore these major issues would be impossible.
If you are a regular Office user that wants the basics and isn't used to the 2004 edition you will be pleased. If you are looking for an 'upgrade' you will be disappointed.
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