Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
Office 2008 for Mac helps you create beautiful documents and multimedia presentations with ease, so you can manage your time more effectively and share content with your Mac and Windows-based colleagues. With its streamlined user interface and hundreds of templates, this suite of tools simplifies your workload and helps you achieve more, quickly.
- Full suite of tools to maximise productivity
- Produce fully Mac and Windows compatible docs and presentations
- Hundreds of template to inform your designs
- Great for all knowledge levels - novice to pro
Overview
Microsoft Office 2008 helps you build professional, compatible and complex documents quickly and with ease. Share documents with colleagues whatever system they're using - Mac OS X or Windows.
And with hundreds of new customisable templates, you can present your content in documents that look professional and work intuitively. Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is great for anyone from students to businesses owners alike.
Word 2008
The powerful new tools in Word 2008, bring together a range of view options and more than 100 designer templates that let you create exciting, colourful documents in a few simple steps.
Design media-rich newsletters and brochures in minutes in Publishing Layout view, or colour code your notes for easy reference in Notebook Layout view. All the tools are at your fingertips, allowing you to present your vital information in the most appealing way possible.
Excel 2008
You create and manipulate charts or graphs more easily than ever before in Excel 2008. Whether you're new to Excel or a seasoned pro, you can quickly manipulate your data using a multitude of high-quality design layouts, to better illustrate your important facts and figures.
Whether your inputting accounts information or presenting detailed experiments, Excel lets you get the most out of your raw data, calculating with complex formulae so you don't have to. And with a range of customisable templates you can present you're a totally unique picture based on your results or figures.
PowerPoint 2008
What's more, all of the tools in the office suite are fully compatible with PowerPoint 2008 - from Word documents to Excel Spreadsheets. Capture the attention of your audience and lead people through a truly engaging and visually rich presentation.
Drag and drop design elements and charts to bring a blank slide to life with stunning visuals, superb transition effects and sounds - all at the click of a button.
Entourage 2008
Entourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps you to manage your day smoothly, one job at a time. Schedule tasks and prioritise your workload in one clear, stand-alone interface. Send and receive emails and filter out the junk, so you stay on top and in sync throughout the day.
Exchange Server support
If you're organisation has Exchange Server, Office 2008 for Mac offers a variety of features that help make business flow more freely. Out of Office messaging lets you keep everyone in the loop while you're away, Kerberos Single Sign On Authentication allows users to set up email accounts more easily and managed folders help your IT managers meet archival requirements with a minimum of stress.
Messenger for Mac
Communicating with family, friends and colleagues is simple with Messenger for Mac 7. It offers a quick, hassle-free way to contact people in different locations or time zones, send small files or just simply chat. Messenger includes interoperability with Yahoo!, a spelling checker and secure messaging for your safety.
Most Recent Reviews
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Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
Not good…
Written by NG from Manchester
Feb 4, 2009
I bought and installed this, but went back to MO 2004 for Mac as 2008 version proved to be totally unreliable. I need reliability …Read morefor work, this doesn't have it! DO NOT BUY. (Read 1 star as NONE)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
less functionality more price
Written by SA from PULBOROUGH
Nov 21, 2008
I know that we're all using this just to be compatible with pc users at work. OK, but Microsoft could have done so much better wit…Read moreh MS Office than this lame effort. Specifically -
Powerpoint: It is like a stripped down version. It even uses a separate toolbox menu, instead of a toolbar. You might not think this is an issue - but it is so awkward once you start using it. Everything takes so much longer.
Excel: not great - you even have to click to view the formula bar. What where they thinking?
Entourage: stripped down outlook. Too stripped down.
Word - OK this is fine.
All in all, it is a disappointment, and hard to justify at this price - but what's the alternative to avoid using a pc? MS has us over a barrel.
(23 of 25 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
It's rather good!
Written by PB from Walton-on-Thames
Nov 14, 2008
I read many of the reviews of Office2008 for Mac which made me think twice about buying it. I'm glad I did.
Most of the problem…Read mores the other reviewers complained about seem to have been fixed in the latest updates - it starts quickly (except after first install when it takes a bit longer), compatibility with Windows files works fine, all the features I would expect are present (such as the chart tool in Excel - someone said it had been taken out) and it all works reliably.
Printing to a network printer is slower than I would expect, but that's the only minor niggle I could find.(21 of 21 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
Don't upgrade from 2004 just yet
Written by RP from St. Ives
Mar 18, 2008
Microsoft have not done themselves or the purchasers any favours with this upgrade. I bought MSO 2008 when it was first released a…Read morend have tried to persevere with it for 2+ months but have now switched back to MSO 2004, except for Entourage which works OK but is no great improvement over 2004. Overall it seems as though MS had to get a universal version out and decided to cut back on core functions due to resource and time limitations, the most significant of which is omitting VBA from Excel. Probably, the most useful things about MSO 2008 is the ability to easily save files in PDF format and a new function in Excel called SUMIFS which replaces the conditional SUMIF wizard in MSO 2004.
Key issues encountered:
Excel: Multiple problems, regular crashing on saving, no print preview (use Page view instead), no page break preview or an alternative, no VBA or VBA support, can't run VBA scripts in existing files, no analysis tool pack, no chart wizard, dual axis charts very cumbersome to produce, the default XLSX format files are twice the size of XLS files, , no custom error bars, doesn't recognise Years in a table to be used for an X axis (unless you go in and format the cells as Dates). (See Mactopia Excel forum for further details on "missing Features in Excel 2008"). Excel 2008 is a huge disappointment.
PowerPoint: No major improvements over 2004. However, some very niggling problems. "Snap to Grid" can't be turned off and hence positioning objects where you want them is a real pain, if not impossible. When inserting an Excel 2008 table as a picture, the fonts in the table are blurred making them hard to read. PPT is also unstable and crashes when saving but not as bad as Excel. I've also encountered problems with PC folks being able to open and read the files as they were created - in both .pptx and .ppt formats.
Word & Entourage: No major improvements over 2004, just some cosmetics. People are reporting a lack of compatibility with Exchange for Entourage 2008 but I haven't used this function. There are also some stability issues with Word, as per Excel and PPT.
When Microsoft billed MSO 2008 as the upgrade that enables users to easily do more with what is already there, they forgot to mention that they have taken away some key functions, especially in Excel and hence there are things that are impossible to do in MSO 2008 but were possible in MSO 2004!
For business users (home or corporate) I would advise people to stay with MSO 2004 and wait until 2009 before even considering changing to MSO 2008. Keep a watch on postings in Mactopia to see if and when problems are being resolved. Note that the MS business unit know of the overall dissatisfaction with MSO 2008 and say that they are prioritising their limited resources to sorting out the problems. So expect a wait!(211 of 248 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
Overpowered for home perhaps; not ready for business.
Written by NK from Bracknell
Feb 28, 2008
I use windows based office and vision at work (product management).
This I need for using at work:
* Compatibility - this in…Read morecludes our document templates that have macros (even our expenses are excel based with macros).
I have heard (from a friend) that MS will be dropping VB support in the normal version of office and replacing with something inline with their current development tools. Whichever way I don't care - the key to business is communication and the mismatch between the windows and OSX versions is something I view as a serious problem.
This prevents me from using the mac version of office with work without doing alot of manual operations and having access to the windows version.
* visio - the lack of a compatible drawing package of this calibre is another nail in the coffin for using at work.
* Reliability - I'm under enough pressure and stress without word and excel adding to it by quitting unexpectedly taking my work with it. Not sure I'll be trusting a client presentation to mac:PowerPoint either..
* Exchange access - ok it's a selling point but it's nothing to get excited about.. It works.
For home, this may be a bit over powered however knowing all the button presses and not having to relearn iWorks way is a boon.
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Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
Great Update apart from crippling Exchange Access in Home Edition
Written by SC from CORBY
Feb 19, 2008
This is a first class update of the time old suite. The interface is sleek and easy to understand, brought in line with the OS X …Read moreinterface feel. The extra functionality is superb and being an Intel application runs natively and faster.
My biggest gripe is why have they crippled exchange access in the home version. I am a home user but used Entourage via the VPN to check on my work email which is on an an exchange server. Office 2004 home edition allowed it and for me it meant I did not have to bring the work laptop home and could have a PC free environment. Now I have to. This is wrong. I can see Microsoft trying to prevent business users from buying the cheaper home edition but lets face it how many business users use macs and exchange?
Microsoft have marred what should have been a great product launch with stupid penny pinching.
(116 of 181 people found this review useful)
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