Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student 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 Mac and Windows-based users. With its streamlined user interface and hundreds of templates, this suite of tools makes producing personal documents and student projects quick and easy.
- 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
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. Exchange Server is not supported in Home and Student Edition.
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 - Home and Student Edition
Generally very good
Written by AD from Hastings
Jul 8, 2009
The software is generally very self explanatory, rather useful and universal in terms of file transfer.
My main complaint is Ento…Read moreurage's inability to deal with hotmail accounts. Rather disappointing, as the software itself looked very promising.
Also why no webcam support on personal Windows Live Accounts? I don't know if it's the petty rivalry or bitterness on Microsoft's behalf, but it seems ridiculous that webcam is available on the business accounts (I don't know any local businesses that use Windows Live ) and not on personal accounts, where it would most commonly be used.Was this useful?
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
It's not bad
Written by BB from Ponchatoula
Jul 6, 2009
I'm a college student and I've even taken business classes exclusively for Office 08, and after buying Office 08 for mac all I can…Read more say is that its NOT the same thing. First off if your at all knowledgeable with the real (windows based) Office 2007 there is a trademark toolbar called "the ribbon" which Office for mac simply doesn't have. Now they have all the same things but the mac application is NOT the same as the windows program (office 2007), It just seems misleading. Lastly I have never had Office for mac crash and I like the ability to save your documents in multiple formats. Over all its a bit more expensive then I think its worth, but its way more practical then iwork though I'm sure Mac did a fantastic job with iwork, but if you intend on moving your documents to different computers Office for mac is sadly your only option. Unless you just buy Vista and Office 2007 for your mac which is just seems to be a real waste of money for a program that is basically the same.
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
MS office 2008 works well
Written by CK from Austral
Jul 3, 2009
This software works very well it has opened all my word 2007 and excel 2007 documents perfectly if you are used to the office 2007…Read more layout on PC you will need a few minutes to adjust to the layout and menus in office 2008 but every thing is exactly where you would expect to find it.
I found it did some things better than office 2007 and other things not so well but after using iwork09 if compatibilty with PC is your main concern you cant go past this package.
both word and excel are much more powerful in my opinion than their counterparts in iwork09.
I have experienced no crashes and no real bugs or glitches.
one of my spreadsheets with over 16 sheets and up to 60 vlookup functions per page searching an array with over 100 records runs quite fine with the only noticable slow down when also running a vista virtual machine, the slow down is merely a slight fraction of a second lag while calculatiing the sheet.
the package also includes messenger for mac which was a pleasant suprise and the wireless mouse that came for free made the software price comparable with iwork.Was this useful?
Most Useful Reviews
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
No VBA, great interface
Written by GL from Sacramento
Jan 16, 2008
There's some pronounced pluses, but a big minus for power users like me.
Plus #1 is that it's Universal. As someone who runs a…Read more MacBook pro, I found that to be a huge plus. The speed improvement is noticeable.
Plus #2 is the interface. It's REALLY smooth, intuitive, and well-done.
Plus #3 is PowerPoint. The makeover is just right.
The big minus is no VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). If you use VBA to automate processes in Office, it's gone from 2008. Not coming back.
But if you don't need VBA, and have never used it, it's well worth it.
(3468 of 4124 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Major Glitches
Written by JP from Portland
Jan 18, 2008
Often times when other applications like Safari or iTunes are open in conjunction with word or powerpoint, the office application …Read more"unexpectedly closes."
Great new features, but still waiting for an update from apple that will fix this extremely obnoxious problem(3250 of 4003 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Excel 2008 not for power users
Written by RJ from Sierra Madre
Jan 19, 2008
The elimination of VBA from Excel 2008 means that users who depend on features like Solver, histograms, extended statistical analy…Read moreses (such as ANOVA), and custom VBA enhancements are left out in the cold. We are left with two options: (1)stay with Excel 2004 or (2)buy the Windows version (Excel 2007). The first option penalizes Intel-based Mac users with reduced performance. I've reluctantly gone with the second option - which requires Vista or XP and Parallels (or similar program). The other problem with this approach is the new "Ribbon" interface to the Office products. Expect to lose a couple of weeks of productivity as your learn how to locate your favorite functions.
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