Office 2008 for Mac - Home & Student
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
Microsoft Office 2008 helps you build professional-looking, compatible and complex documents quickly and with ease. Share documents with friends and colleagues whatever system they're using - Mac OS X or Windows.
And with hundreds of new customisable templates, you can present your content in documents that look professional and work intuitively. Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is great for any skill levels, whether you're producing personal documents at home or working on a student project.
Word 2008
The powerful new tools in Word 2008, bring together a range of view options and more than 100 designer templates that let you create exciting, colourful documents in a few simple steps.
Design media-rich newsletters and brochures in minutes in Publishing Layout view, or colour code your notes for easy reference in Notebook Layout view. All the tools are at your fingertips, allowing you to present your vital information in the most appealing way possible.
Excel 2008
You create and manipulate charts or graphs more easily than ever before in Excel 2008. Whether you're new to Excel or a seasoned pro, you can quickly manipulate your data using a multitude of high-quality design layouts, to better illustrate your important facts and figures.
Whether your inputting accounts information or presenting detailed experiments, Excel lets you get the most out of your raw data, calculating with complex formulae so you don't have to. And with a range of customisable templates you can present you're a totally unique picture based on your results or figures.
PowerPoint 2008
What's more, all of the tools in the office suite are fully compatible with PowerPoint 2008 - from Word documents to Excel Spreadsheets. Capture the attention of your audience and lead people through a truly engaging and visually rich presentation.
Drag and drop design elements and charts to bring a blank slide to life with stunning visuals, superb transition effects and sounds - all at the click of a button.
Entourage 2008
Entourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps you to manage your day smoothly, one job at a time. Schedule tasks and prioritise your workload in one clear, stand-alone interface. Send and receive emails and filter out the junk, so you stay on top and in sync throughout the day.
Messenger for Mac
Communicating with family, friends and colleagues is simple with Messenger for Mac 7. It offers a quick, hassle-free way to contact people in different locations or time zones, send small files or just simply chat. Messenger includes interoperability with Yahoo!, a spelling checker and secure messaging for your safety.
Most Recent Reviews
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home & Student
Dissapointing
Written by ND from Holbæk
28-May-2009
Office 2008 is quiet dissapointing, it is not complete and especially Excel is hard to use because of the poor user interface.
(5 of 19 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home & Student
good enough...
Written by SR from Brønshøj
30-Apr-2009
After years upon years of being forced to use a Windows OS (for work purposes) in line with Microsoft Office, it is nice to find t…Read morehat the flaws of the software are not as prominent in a Mac OS version.
My primary point being that the Office software (on Windows & Mac) itself is flawed (unfortunately without too many alternatives) and maybe...as suggested by a number of reviewers...apps such as Frontpage are not included because there ARE better apps available on the Mac.
I think that Office 2008 for Mac is worth every penny...
(well at least they deserve it more than Microsoft)(27 of 40 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home & Student
good but needs more
Written by JP from BRACKNELL
06-Apr-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 :)
(35 of 45 people found this review useful)
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Most Useful Reviews
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home & Student
Buyer Beware.....
Written by PO from NORTHAMPTON
29-Jan-2008
The first Excel workbook that I tried to open (written using MS Office 2000 for Windows) resulted in the following message - "This…Read more file contains Visual Basic macros. Visual Basic macros do not work in Office 2008 for Mac."
So treat with a little caution the wording on the Apple.com webpage for this particular product that says ".....so you can confidently share documents with friends and colleagues whatever system they're using."
The price of this software is very attractive (especially since it allows up to three Macs in a household to run the software simultaneously), but for me, because of the 'Visual Basic macro' problem, its back to my old Windows-based laptop!(1086 of 1327 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home & Student
An improvement
Written by IS from FALKIRK
06-Feb-2008
It's definitely better than previous versions of Office for Mac, and is arguably better than its Windows counterpart. However, I s…Read moretill find it very difficult to justify the cost for what you get, but if what you need is maximum Word/Excel/PowerPoint compatibility then Office 2008 is your only real option, as iWork, while great, still has some compatibility issues.
So, if you want it just to create nice documents, spreadsheets etc, then I'd recommend iWorks for the sheer value for money and ease-of-use. But if you need compatibility then 2008 is your best-bet. Microsoft are however showing that they can innovate and improve their software though, and Office 2008 is a definite step in the right direction.(751 of 929 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home & Student
microsofts usual (sub) standard
Written by BS from Manchester
30-Jan-2008
Installation was easy enough, but since installing i have had so many problems!
Office 2008 will not open, 2004 will not open eit…Read moreher.
Fonts have been messed up (not just in office but in other applications), and printers within quark now have issues.
I cannot comment on compatibly issues with previous versions (inc cross platform issues) as i cannot open any office documents.
Microsoft have a habit of making substandard software which requires several updates to make it fully functional.
I would suggest waiting until a major update is released until you install.
I have now removed it and returned my mac back to normal.(769 of 1022 people found this review useful)
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