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I tried it and the The Office database reminder / daemon crashes the system when the system comes back from sleep (by accessing wrong memory address). Entourage is so annoying with it's splash screen and with it's automatic addition of Office Database to Login Items (even if you remove it, it still comes back next time you launch Entourage). Since I uninstalled it my system is fine. I do not recommend using Entourage.

(37 of 43 people found this review useful)

"Office 2008 for Mac- Home and Student Edition"- You would think since it says "Home and Student Edition", it would includes some simple and essential templates, like maybe a RESEARCH PAPER, come on, how many students make business cards, and shipping invoices? Stop worrying about the irrelevant templates and functions and get the basis ones which are needed on there!

(61 of 76 people found this review useful)

As a math and engineering professor two of the most used items in Excel are the "solver" and "data analysis" tools. Unfortunately MS has elected to NOT include these with the new Office 2008 version. Additionally they dropped many of the "symbols" that contained Greek characters used in math.

I must keep an older version of Excel on my computer just to use the symbols and data analysis. I wonder how much money they saved by deleting these items? And if it is worth it to their marketing efforts. I have owned every version of MS Office but this will be my last.

(42 of 50 people found this review useful)

Word 2008 is terrible. It doesn't even rate as a beta. Unfortunately I am stuck with it by corporate policy. It crashes frequently, and I just lost an entire afternoon's production of reviewing and commenting another person's work because all the files I saved are corrupt.

Stay away from Office 2008. Word is far too unstable for productive use; 2004 is much better.

(29 of 37 people found this review useful)

I use this primarily for lab reports, english essays, and other various papers I need to write on a weekly basis for school. A lot of my lab reports have computer generated pictures, graphs with a lot of data, and obviously a lot of text. With too many pictures, or too much other miscellaneous stuff, Word 2008 becomes nearly unresponsive. I have to wait almost a minute before the program responds to me going to the next page or inserting a page break.

For smaller projects, it's fine. I haven't really noticed much. As a college student I'm going to have to suffer with this due to a lack of money, but as soon as I get the funds for iWork, I'll wait for the latest version of iWork to come out and buy that.

(20 of 23 people found this review useful)

There are lots of things to like about this program—and certainly lots of improvements—but Office2008 has some very weird behavior with Spaces and with second/external monitors. I get the impression that every time the screen layout is redrawn by the system, it causes some glitch in the window positioning that causes Spaces to freak out, the cursor to appear in a different Space than the document, or the document window to jump between screens and resize. It's infuriating and it prevents me from making good use of the program.

(6 of 7 people found this review useful)

I got my first mac (macbook) a month ago, and tried the 30 day iWork trial. It was ok, but it didn't mesh well with the Office 2007 that I use at school. After it expired I bought office 2008 for mac and so far I like it. It is easy to use, and an easy switch from Office 2007 for PC. If you are doing some of the crazy things that the people who leave bad reviews are doing, then maybe it isn't for you. Otherwise I am a science student and so far haven't run into anything I can't do.

(45 of 48 people found this review useful)

I Office 2008 on my computer for almost 24 hours before I threw it in the trash can and went back to 2004.

I was using Word and Excel to do a Case Study for my aircraft materials course. Excel wasn't too bad, but the new Word was terrible. The new Word doesn't even open up Office 2007 equations! It can't even view them as images! Word 2004 can. Also, it wasn't letting me have two docs open in two windows.

Word 2008 does have a better layout, for heading numbering and table and figure numbering with captions I had to transfer the file to a PC on Word 2007 because 2008 couldn't do it.

Don't waste money on this. I'll admit that Microsoft did improve the interface with 2007, but 2008 is a flop. Get 2004 with a file converter if you want a more dependability.

(19 of 20 people found this review useful)