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Excel crashes all the time, esp when doing pivots.

Powerpoint is nowhere near as good as Keynote.

Word is OK but Pages will do 99.9% of what you need and is, in fact, MUCH better that Word if you are using graphics a lot.

I also had to buy FileMaker Pro as MS do not do a database on the Mac OS.

Most people I know have gone back to the 2004 version. A waste of money.

(0 of 1 people found this review useful)

I don't understand what the other reviews are on about. This WORKS! And very well too.
I type up work, and make a presentation from time to time, but am not a very 'serious' user. So I can't comment on any advanced features (or lack of) which other reviewers have complained about, and consequently gave the overall product a bad rating.
No crashes etc, and everything has run smoothly so far. only complaint is file size, which is roughly 1.5GB at the moment, with possible further updates,.
All in all, Office has the COMPATIBILITY which unfortunately iWork hasn't solved with the save as .doc/.ppt feature, which is rubbish.

(13 of 15 people found this review useful)

I bought this product after buying my first macbook a few months ago. I first tried the iWork trial, but it was terrible. So i tried the Office trial, and it was brilliant. I then bought it. I looks nicer than its windows counterpart, quite applish. This is a great piece of software that integrates nicely with my school (all windows), it is a must for students, but then i need the compatibility and iWork just doesn't offer that.

(15 of 18 people found this review useful)

We have it. it came with the job! It is the only software we ran that crashed, so we gave up on it and and now use the excellent and free NeoOffice or the relatively cheap iWorks. Neither cause any problems with opening .doc, something that could not be said for Office! Office is very long in the tooth very full of redundant coding and far to complex for what is needed. The massive student discount is there to lock you in to using it in preference to the vastly superior programmes now available

(19 of 29 people found this review useful)

I am a big fan of Microsoft Office for Windows; I consider Excel an excellent piece of software and Outlook is by far my favourite e-mail client. When I bought my MacBook Pro, getting MS Office seemed like a reasonable thing to do - I could read my old files and I would have no problems exchanging documents with colleagues.

While all this is true, MS Office 2008 is not a marketable product. Installation is very easy indeed but trying to use the product proves very challenging:

- The user interface is not as intuitive as MS Office 2007 for Windows
- The floating "toolbox" becomes erratic when moving between Spaces
- Entourage crashed in more than one occasions for no apparent reason
- Entourage lacks features; one can not even set a default character set! It is stuck to "Automatic" which does not work
- One can not immediately import emails, calendar entries, contacts and rules from Outlook; Entourage is not compatible with Outlook!!! (I couldn't put enough exclamation marks here)

I could go on with the list but there is no point; MS Office 2008 seems as if it was made on a budget by five people in-between projects. Frankly, I can not understand why the MS Office 2007 interface could not have been carried over or why Entourage is not compatible with Outlook.

I can't advise against MS Office 2008, the benefits of this suite are too important to me, but it seriously lacks quality. I'm hoping Microsoft will replace the clearly inadequate development team and release an updated version worthy of the price tag.

(6 of 8 people found this review useful)

My father bought this for our iMac (our first mac) a few months ago. Having used both iWork and Office, I strongly advised him to buy iWork. To my dismay, he bought Office because he was familiar to the Office brand (he uses Office 2003 at work).

Microsoft Office 2008 For Mac is even worse than Office 2007 for Windows (which is TERRIBLE). The menus are completely illogical, nothing is in the right place and even doing simple tasks requires you to navigate through an endless maze of menus and sub-menus.

My father admits that it is terrible and we have decided to buy iWork 09 instead, which is far easier to use.

In conclusion, DO NOT BUY THIS! You will seriously regret it.

(4 of 7 people found this review useful)

Office 2008 for Mac is not a very elegant piece of software, but it is a business standard. Rather than waste time trying to make this work correctly with any confidence, buy VM fusion, an OEM XP Home and MS Office 2007 for windows. It's not a cheap option coming in at about £180 for the lot, but is does work well and is completely compatible with work place documents and spreadsheets. You can do away with the stress of using MS products, because they actually work better on a Mac VM than on a PC.
Invest a little more and get your life back. MS is simply appalling software, superbly marketed. You just got to live with it.

(5 of 7 people found this review useful)

Buy iWork instead! I bought a macbook as my first mac and thought i would buy office as i am familiar with it. Big Mistake! Word doesnt let me insert any kind of graphic (crashes when I try) when i close any document in word, it crashes the whole thing. So if you have any other documents open, gone!

I am now going to have to buy iWork aswell.

Complete waste of time!

(55 of 66 people found this review useful)