Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
With its streamlined user interface, hundreds of new themes and templates, and better compatibility with your Windows-based colleagues, Office 2008 for Mac simplifies your work and helps you achieve more.
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Overview
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 Power-Point® 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.
Word 2008
Powerful new tools, more than 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive user interface will help you make your ideas look as good as they are. The Publishing Layout View workspace lets you create incredibly rich documents such as newsletters and brochures without a degree in design.
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. This now can be done through prebuilt functions that tackle the most common tasks and make creating error-free complex formulas as well as charting improvements artfully that convey the message your data is telling.
PowerPoint 2008
Your presentation is a story that PowerPoint will illustrate exquisitely. Its compelling visuals and engaging layouts will inspire your audience's imagination. SmartArt graphics let you bring a blank slide to life with stunning charts, maps, and diagrams at the click of a button.
Entourage 2008
Your emails 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 with schedules, tasks, and priorities in one clear, stand-alone interface.
Exchange Server support
If your organization has Exchange Server, Office 2008 for Mac offers a variety of features that help make business as usual even easier. 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 cleanly. And managed folders help your IT managers meet archival requirements with a minimum of stress.
Messenger for Mac
Convenience is the name of the game when you want to communicate with family and friends from one place. This Universal application gives you more ways to share what's on your mind. Includes interoperability with Yahoo! Messenger, a spelling checker, and secure business messaging.
Full versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage
Universal Binary support for Intel and PowerPC-based Macs
Mfr. Part No.: 731-01727
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Most Recent Reviews
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Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
totally bad
Written by DM from Thousand Oaks
Apr 14, 2009
Just "upgraded" to 2008 - Excel quits with a "not enough memory" message (on a Mac Pro with 4Gb installed !). Powerpoint will not…Read more launch at all, says "unexpectedly quit", no other information. Word launches OK new UI looks OK but I don't trust it. Searched Microsoft support site - no help at all. Be careful and don't delete the prior version!
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Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
Good software
Written by TS from Ucon
Apr 9, 2009
I work in the financial services industry. I held off on buying Office 2008 given the reviews. I honestly don't know what the pr…Read moreoblem is. I haven't had any problems. I can't stand anything Microsoft, but I like this software.
(13 of 19 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
Very Nice
Written by MB from Renton
Apr 6, 2009
As someone who uses Macs and PC's I have a fairly balanced opinion of both. The Office MAC 08 is extremely nice, upgraded with a l…Read moreot of MAC features but with the PC tools and things you may be used to or prefer. Very clean, user friendly, and nice interface. The Entourage is very nice and upgraded to Mac stylings as well.
(14 of 18 people found this review useful)
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Most Useful Reviews
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Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
POOR EXCHANGE SUPPORT!!
Written by ET from Hillsborough
Jan 18, 2008
I bought this hoping to have real Microsoft Exchange support on the Mac. Sadly, this does not deliver. Entourage 2008 adds very li…Read morettle over Entourage 2004. Major problems include: 1) Tasks do not sync with Exchange; 2) Notes do not sync with Exchange; 3) There is no ARCHIVE feature as with Outlook; 4) You cannot work with or even import your Windows .pst files; 5) Entourage does not support complex HTML so forwarding or replying to complex HTML emails sends gibberish HTML tags to your recipients.
After four years, I had hoped that Microsoft would deliver an Office product that had the equivalent of Outlook. It has not. Entourage 2008 is all very nice from a usability standpoint, but the lack of full Exchange functionality as well as the lack of full HTML support cripple it.
Microsoft needs to commit to delivering Outlook-compatible functionality ASAP. It has not. Be warned: while the other applications are on par with Windows, the one that most of us use ALL the time and rely on -- email -- is seriously, seriously lacking if you are an Exchange server user.(1374 of 1640 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
Schools left out this time!
Written by SP from Lancaster
Jan 19, 2008
The previous education versions of Office for Mac (Office 2004 and Office X) supported exchange server and allowed 3 (or 4) instal…Read morelations. Now the "Home and Student" version does not support exchange server. Schools like mine benefited from the previous design, but now we have to buy the full version, and get just one install. Cash-strapped educators valued the previous package more than I can tell you. Seems like Microsoft has forgotten something here ...
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Office 2008 for Mac - Standard Edition
Removed VB from Word makes it useless for Academic users
Written by SY
Jan 19, 2008
Beware! Word 2008 removed the VB support so EndNote will not work with it! You cannot cite while you write. Basically all function…Read mores of EndNote is gone. And because there is no alternative built in, I have no idea how and when EndNote will upgrade with support. Word 2008 is basically useless for Academic users. Maybe Microsoft did this on purpose to restrain high Mac usage in schools.
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