Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Just if REALLY NEEDED
Written by MC from Santa Lucía del Camino
Jun 3, 2009
Well, if you just migrated from Windows, this software is pretty far from Office 2007 for Windows. I must say it has a better interface, but it still has a lot of bugs.
If your a Mac OS 10.5 user, BEWARE! This sotfware IS NOT COMPATIBLE with Spaces.
Sometimes it crashes, it is pretty slow and has a lot of stability problems.
As always, the Microsoft standard: Great idea. Poor development.
But, it might get better in further actualizations. More than a year and a half have passed since the release of Leopard (and Spaces) and still no fix...(14 of 17 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
O Ye Gentle Haters of Word, Chill
Written by SS from Hillsdale
May 30, 2009
This addresses only MS Word 2008.
I have used this software more or less exclusively for one year, 8 hours a day, on two long book projects. During that time, the program crashed / hopelessly beach balled once. All I did was run Time Machine (which rocks, needless to say), then force quit - I recovered the whole document without issue.
The one issue that is real is that the first time you open MS Word, it can be a bit slow. Not horrendous, but slow for a MBP with 4gb RAM. After the first opening, however, it opens subsequent times almost instantly. I can live with this. I also gained some wisdom from one of the mac forums about disabling (in Preferences) the font thing-a-ma-gig that runs on startup of the program. This helps too.
I'm sure Pages is nice, but MS Word has done everything I wanted it to do, and compatibility has been perfect with the PC world. In short, I'm happy, and I thought I would let you all know after reading some of the other reviews.(47 of 47 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Dissapointing
Written by ND from Holbæk
May 29, 2009
Office 2008 is quiet dissapointing, it is not complete and especially Excel is hard to use because of the poor user interface.
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Office 2008 Word crashes frequently
Written by MH from Redwood City
May 27, 2009
I am very disappointed with the lack of stability in this version of Word. It crashes frequently. While it offers to recover my lost data, I can often do better by carefully copying the backup files just before re-launching Word. Also, it carefully forgets the correct recovered filename upon recovery, so I have to retype it.
In my view (having worked with founding members of the Microsoft Word team 30 years ago) this is a disappointing and unprofessional piece of commercial software, not worthy of its brand name.(81 of 85 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
iWork is Better for Most Users
Written by SA from Orlando
May 25, 2009
Do yourself a favor and try Apple's own iWork before buying this. Not only is iWork much less expensive (especially if you can use the family pack) but it contains several applications that are much better than the Office equivalents. In particular, Pages is an incredible program, which blows the doors off Word and Microsoft Publisher combined. It's great for both word processing and page layout, fully integrates with iPhoto and other Mac apps, and is 100% compatible with Office file formats. Its import and export of Word files works great, even when using complex features such as markup and outlining. Keynote is also a fine presentation app, and Numbers, while less powerful than Excel, is a completely serviceable spreadsheet. They're both also fully compatible with Office file formats, so there's no problem exchanging files with those still stuck using Microsoft Office, on either PCs or Macs. Frankly iWork is so inexpensive it's silly not to try it first, and Pages alone justifies its acquisition.
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
same problems follow to MAC
Written by WD from Waynesboro
May 24, 2009
New to MAC, I looked forward to not having software crash in the middle of an application - losing whatever hadn't been saved. This is true but for Microsoft Office. More than I care to count, in the middle of Excel, some catastrophic event unleashes, and the application closes itself. This is the maddening stuff that drove me to MAC.
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Horrible!!!!
Written by BR from lutz
May 23, 2009
This version of office has no controls and half of them are pointless.
Get iWork instead.(5 of 11 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Disappointed
Written by MH from Crystal Beach
May 21, 2009
I just purchased the full version of Office 2008 for Mac. I'm very disappointed as having been an MS Office user for years the Mac version just can not compete. It's not the same, it's formulated for the Mac; therefore anyone expecting the same format as Windows will be greatly disappointed.
The only good feature was that being a student I was able to purchase the full version for less than $100. Definitely not worth the $399 price. I would strongly advise seeing this product in action before purchasing it.(39 of 56 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Good Product
Written by WM from Clearwater
May 15, 2009
Reading the other reviews I don't understand how anyone can have problems with this. I enjoy using this and have experienced absolutely no problems. I'm using a Macbook Pro and I keep my updates up to date. I also have a PC using Home & Student and there is very little difference. It is not difficult to get use to. I use mainly Word program and use it a great deal.
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Good, but not great.
Written by RH from Bellingham
May 15, 2009
Office works well - I've been using it since October and have had none of the spontaneous errors mentioned in some of the previous reviews. It's relatively easy to use, and poking around the four corners of the window will allow you to find the majority of features.
Two things bug me about Office, however. One is that the toolbox (which contains everything you need to edit the font, document margins, themes, etc.) is a separate window, and thus if you use Expose to switch between open windows it pops up as an extra _aw_window. Also, when working with large spreadsheets in Excel the toolbox covers part of the data. In Excel, the toolbox is also where you locate all of the built in functions, like correlations. It's not really an option to have the toolbox closed, but neither is it helpful to have it cover the data I'm working on. I'm forced to open and close the toolbox repeatedly instead.(40 of 48 people found this review useful)
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