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
good but needs more
Written by JP from BRACKNELL
Apr 7, 2009
the programs are good and work very well and its easy to transfer data to windows and office however it needs programs like frontp…Read moreage publisher and access or apple need to release competition programs for them. anyway the programs there are good and easy to use :)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Ehh.
Written by JB from Roslyn Heights
Apr 6, 2009
This is a completely unbiased review. Although Word is a big improvement over TextEdit, it is not worth it. Like others have said,…Read more it is glitchy. I'll give you an example. If I have Safari open and in my top left space (in Spaces) and Microsoft Word in the bottom left space. After switching back and forth a few times, I'll go to Spaces, click the space with Word, and when it opens, nothing will be in that space. Then when I go back to spaces, Word will have jumped to the top right, the top left, etc. I don't have much experience in Excel, and don't use it, so I won't get into that. Powerpoint is OK but I haven't used it that much. Then I got curious. I ordered iWork '09. I am very impressed. Everything is fast, easy, and intuitive. I love the preset templates, especially in Pages and Numbers. Save yourself the money and hassle, and go buy iWork.
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Not a total Piece of ... but...
Written by PC from Pointe-Claire
Apr 6, 2009
I would not say that Office 2008 is a total piece of ... because of the nice features and the interface. I like to work with it b…Read moreut what annoys me is that it crashes at least 2-3 times a day. Amazingly enough ( ;o) ), this is the only application written by Microsoft I use and this is the only one that crashes and/or chokes my system when it is open. Why am I not surprised? It seems like said the same thing when I had a pc... Even though this is very frustrating sometimes, I will live with it because of the interesting features it has. If you are just typing simple texts and spreadsheets, it is not worth it, use an alternative from mac. If you still want yo use Office, well, be patient and save you work often. And for Entourage? Don't base you purchase on this. I am using it but I am not sure if I like it or not, in fact I am not that impressed. There is enough built-in application in MacOS and there are other freeware that can do the job well enough .
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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.
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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(2932 of 3628 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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