Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Special offer: Save $15 via instant rebate when you purchase Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student by June 29, 2009. That means your price is now $134.95 rather than the original $149.95.
Homework and home work will be easier than ever with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition. Get better results faster and create high-quality documents you can be proud of.
- Full suite of tools to maximize 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
Special offer: Buy Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition between now and June 29, 2009, and get a $15 instant rebate. So instead of the original $149.95, your price is now $134.95.
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 - Home and Student Edition
Office 2008 Word crashes frequently
Written by MH from Redwood City
May 26, 2009
I am very disappointed with the lack of stability in this version of Word. It crashes frequently. While it offers to recover my …Read morelost data, I can often do better by carefully copying the backup files just before re-launching Word. Also, it carefully forgets the correct recovered filename upon recovery, so I have to retype it.
In my view (having worked with founding members of the Microsoft Word team 30 years ago) this is a disappointing and unprofessional piece of commercial software, not worthy of its brand name.(42 of 43 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
iWork is Better for Most Users
Written by SA from Orlando
May 24, 2009
Do yourself a favor and try Apple's own iWork before buying this. Not only is iWork much less expensive (especially if you can use…Read more the family pack) but it contains several applications that are much better than the Office equivalents. In particular, Pages is an incredible program, which blows the doors off Word and Microsoft Publisher combined. It's great for both word processing and page layout, fully integrates with iPhoto and other Mac apps, and is 100% compatible with Office file formats. Its import and export of Word files works great, even when using complex features such as markup and outlining. Keynote is also a fine presentation app, and Numbers, while less powerful than Excel, is a completely serviceable spreadsheet. They're both also fully compatible with Office file formats, so there's no problem exchanging files with those still stuck using Microsoft Office, on either PCs or Macs. Frankly iWork is so inexpensive it's silly not to try it first, and Pages alone justifies its acquisition.
(45 of 49 people found this review useful)
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
same problems follow to MAC
Written by WD from Waynesboro
May 24, 2009
New to MAC, I looked forward to not having software crash in the middle of an application - losing whatever hadn't been saved. Th…Read moreis is true but for Microsoft Office. More than I care to count, in the middle of Excel, some catastrophic event unleashes, and the application closes itself. This is the maddening stuff that drove me to MAC.
(23 of 26 people found this review useful)
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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 15, 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.
(3328 of 3962 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 17, 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(3116 of 3844 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 18, 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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