Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
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.
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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.
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
Rights to install on three computers in your household
Universal Binary support for Intel and PowerPC-based Macs
Mfr. Part No.: GZA00006
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Most Recent Reviews
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
alright...
Written by NS from Cooper City
Dec 21, 2008
to sum it up, microsoft office on the mac is okay... that is, it does the job. apart from that though, it takes a bit of getting u…Read moresed to and is unfortunately not laid out AT ALL like its windows counterpart. The 2007 Windows version office is so much more intuitive and familiar, that it makes for a frustrating transition for someone trying to migrate from Windows office to Mac office and is even more frustrating when one is trying to work using both of them. i hope in the next version of mac office, they just decide to make a ported over version of the windows version. that would save everyone a lot of headaches. but overall, if you need office on your mac, it works. i mean all of the compatibility is there, you just need to learn all of the new layouts and menus that are on the mac version if you're used to only using the windows version. oh, and if you have a intel mac with a harddrive partition (windows on one side, mac on the other) than i'd just install Office for Windows onto the Windows side of your machine and use that rather than getting this version. but if you dont wanna do that, than be prepared to learn all of the new weird layouts and orientations of office for mac 2008.
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Office 2008 for Mac
Written by SD from Calgary
Dec 20, 2008
I returned this product today. The excel does not have nearly the features that the PC version has so I am not able to complete a…Read morell my assignments using this version. The tutorials and help are not as easy as the PC version. The program is very different than the PC versions which makes it difficult to use it for learning purposes. Access is not available at all for the Mac Office version. I did however, like the word portion of the package.
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Should be called Office 1995
Written by PG from Blaine
Dec 20, 2008
I bought this product and when I use it I feel like I've been transported back to 1995. Compared to the Windows version, this pro…Read moreduct is terrible! I'm so disappointed - it's clunky, awkward, archaic...and a waste. You've been warned.
(87 of 101 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 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(2545 of 3148 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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