Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home Student Edition | 
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Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  323 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Home Student
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Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: GZA00006
Model: GZA00006
UPC: 882224526302
EAN: 0882224526302
ASIN: B000X86ZAS
Release Date: January 15, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Streamlined user interface runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs | | • | Open XML file formats, the Office Art graphics engine, and other features that result in compatibility and file fidelity | | • | Professional design is within your power with hundreds of new customizable templates and suite-wide themes, SmartArt graphics, and the new Publishing Layout View in Word 2008 | | • | My Day keeps you connected to all of the day's action. Command your calendar, tackle your tasks, and simplify your day | | • | Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage |
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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, with less frustration and more enjoyment./p table width="300" align="right" style="border: 1px solid black; font-size: 12px; padding: 5px; margin: 10px; background-color: #ffcc04;" tr td bFive Great Reasons to Get Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition:/b pbUniversal applications:/b Office 2008 runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs. pbIntuitive interface:/b Reduce the time and frustration of learning new software and creating documents with visual galleries that present the right tools when you need them. pbYour Mac, more compatible:/b Office 2008 for Mac and Windows-based 2007 Office products share the Open XML file formats and features like the Office Art graphics engine, so you'll be confident when sharing documents with colleagues, friends, and family across platforms. pbBeautiful documents:/b Good design is a click away with hundreds of new templates, Smart Art graphics, Publishing Layout View, and professional quality clip art and photos. pbPriced for home users:/b Don't need Microsoft Exchange Server Support or workflow management? Home and student users pay for just the features they need. Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition comes with three licenses of non-Exchange-enabled Office 2008 licensed for noncommercial computers. pWhich Version of Office 2008 is right for you? View this comparison chart. /td /tr /table pspan class="h3color"bSimplify Your Work/b/spanbr bYour presentation will make an impact. Your documents will be professional. Your analysis will be insightful. And Office 2008 will be there./bbr 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 PowerPoint 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. pbWhat's New in Office for Mac?/bbr ul liUniversal versions of the most popular productivity applications on the Macintosh platform (Universal applications run natively on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.) liMicrosoft Office for Mac natively supports the Open XML file formats for compatibility with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products. liA redesigned user interface and powerful new tools for simplifying work, creating great looking documents, and exchanging ideas and information with others. /ul pbHighlights of Office 2008 for Mac/bbr ul liOffice 2008 is a Universal Binary, was built by Mac users for Mac users, and includes many features which take advantage of underlying technologies of the Macintosh platform. liOffice 2008 uses Open XML file formats for compatibility with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products. XML file formats help reduce the risk of lost information due to damaged or corrupted files and also result in smaller file sizes--up to 75 percent smaller than comparable binary documents. Office 2008 for Mac is backward-compatible with earlier file formats and users can continue to use the older .doc, .xls, and .ppt binary formats. liElements Gallery is the foundation of the new user interface, and gives easy access to the most commonly used tools and templates. With the new UI, you'll harness the capabilities of Office for Mac more easily than ever before. liOffice 2008 includes OfficeArt, the powerful graphics engine also used in the Windows-based Office 2007 products. You get great cross-platform file fidelity and easy access to stunning visual and graphic effects. liYour words will make an impact with the modern styling of SmartArt graphics, which makes transforming text and bulleted lists into professional diagrams and graphics one-click easy. liA new Themes capability simplifies the process of applying a consistent look and feel across documents. Easily apply a complete set of colors, fonts, and effects to your Office 2008 documents, and change them as easily as changing your mind. liAutomator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office enables you to automate Office 2008 with more than 70 pre-defined actions built to simplify your work and extend your productivity. (Available in Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition.) /ul table width="260" cellpadding="25" align="left" tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/office-08-mac-1.jpg" psmallbiEntourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps it to happen, one task at a time./i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/office-08-mac-2.jpg" psmallbiEnjoy powerful new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive user interface in Word 2008./i/b/small /td /tr /table pspan class="h3color"bEntourage 2008/b/spanbr Your e-mails 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. ul liMy Day keeps you connected to the action. Schedules, tasks, and priorities in one easy, standalone interface. Time will have no choice but to be well-managed. liUse color-coded categories, status indicators, and flexible To-Do list management humble even the most hectic schedules. liOffice 2008 for Mac and Office 2008 Special Media Edition enable users to access their Microsoft Exchange server accounts with Entourage. liImproved Junk E-Mail filtering capabilities and phishing protection tools help shield your inbox from the scourge of junk. Your inbox will breathe a sigh of relief. liProjects submit to your superior management skills when you unleash the power of Project Center, With project details like e-mail messages, documents, schedules, and contacts in one convenient place, Project Center helps keep your information--and your stress--under control. /ul pspan class="h3color"bWord 2008/b/spanbr Powerful new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive user interface in Word 2008 will help you to make your ideas look as good as they are. ul liWhen you turn blah into brilliant, Publishing Layout View will elevate the way you think about Word 2008. This new specialized and customizable workspace lets users create incredibly rich documents such as newletters, flyers and brochures without a degree in design. liGreat looking document construction won't require a hard hat. New Templates, Themes, and Document Elements like cover pages and bibliographies make creating professional-looking output a snap. liYour words will make an impact with the modern styling of SmartArt, which makes transforming text into high-quality graphics and diagrams as easy as one click. liDynamic Guides will help you keep all of your words and graphics in line and on point. liMass mailings will have a personal touch and Word 2008 Mail Merge Manager will guide you step by easy step. /ul table width="260" cellpadding="20" align="right" tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/office-08-mac-3.jpg" psmallbiInspire your audience's imagination with compelling visuals and engaging layout in PowerPoint 2008./i/b/small /td /tr tr td align="center"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/office-08-mac-4.jpg" psmallbiAnalyze, share, and manage your data, and easily create persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for powerful results with Excel 2008./i/b/small /td /tr /table pspan class="h3color"bPowerPoint 2008/b/spanbr Your presentation is a story. PowerPoint 2008 will illustrate it. Inspire your audience's imagination with compelling visuals and engaging layout. ul liGreat ideas will get their graphic due with SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint 2008. Start with a blank slide or a bulleted list, and, with a click of a button, you'll have a stunning chart, table, map, or diagram. liDesigner Themes help you give your presentation a creative look, simply and quickly. liThe new Object Palette allows quick access to all your shapes, art, symbols, and pictures--including iPhoto files--in one easy-to-access space. liDynamic Guides will help you place and resize your graphic element to create professional-looking presentations in a snap. liYou'll lay out custom designs to showcase your unique content with custom layout capabilities in PowerPoint 2008. liPowerPoint 2008 integration with Apple Remote Control lets you concentrate on your words, not your keyboard. Now control your presentation and engage your audience unleashed from the podium. pspan class="h3color"bExcel 2008/b/spanbr 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. ul liLedger Sheets in Excel 2008 make tracking finances, inventories, even invoices and portfolios easy with preformulated spreadsheets and automatic calculations. liCharting improvements artfully convey the message your data is telling. You'll see your numbers in a whole new way. liThe new prebuilt functions tackle the most common tasks and make creating error-free complex conditional formulas easier. liQuick access to formulas makes functions more functional with Formula Builder in Excel 2008. liYour data will know virtually no limits. Excel 2008 now supports over 16,000 columns and over 1 million rows. liWhether you're an Excel expert or a complete novice, Excel 2008 Formula AutoComplete simplifies your calculations by providing a dynamic pop-up menu so you can select and complete your formula. /ul pspan class="h3color"bMessenger for Mac/b/spanbr Convenience is the name of the game for Mac users who want to communicate instantly with family, friends and colleagues from one convenient place. Messenger for Mac is now a Universal application, and gives you more ways to share what's on your mind or on your plate. pUse Messenger for Mac to instantly check the status of project team members, streamline workflow by sending documents directly from Word, or offer questions or comments on document changes instantly. ul liYahoo! Interoperability will allow personal users to connect and message with Yahoo! Messenger for Mac users. liYour intentions will never again be in doubt when you create your own custom emoticons in Messenger for Mac. liSpelling Checker is now included in Messenger for Mac. liLet the world know your tastes when you display your iTunes selection with the new "What I'm listening to now" feature. /ul
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 I like it January 8, 2009
Finally a Word program that looks like it was made for a Mac! I know a lot of the reviewers here don't like this software, but I can't find anything not to love. I have not had any problems installing it or running it in any way. The only two problems I see is that Word takes a long time to open and by default it saves files in a format called .docx. I don't know what that is! Well at least you can change it so it saves in the trusty old .doc. As for the other included software, I must admit I haven't used it. I just need Word, really.
 Office 2008 is the worst version of Office yet. January 8, 2009
I have been a user of Microsoft Word and Excel since version 1.0 of each, which I purchased in 1987, and a user of Office for Macintosh since the first version, and Office 2008 is the worst by far. Word 2008 and Excel 2008 have more bugs and problems than any previous version I have used. Among the problems with the latest version that I never had with previous versions are disappearing parts of lines in Word; the scroll bar gets hung up; incomprehensible dialog boxes appear at random times telling me of errors that don't make sense, in Word documents and Excel worksheets that I had been using for years in Office 2001 with no problems; the Word document or Excel worksheet suddenly shifts in the document window even when I am doing nothing; the zoom percentage box in Excel frequently shows an incorrect amount; some charts I had created in Excel 2001 got screwed up when I opened them in Excel 2008, even though other charts that were identical except for using a different column of values opened just fine, and it took me longer to fix those screwed-up charts than it had taken me to create them in Excel 2001; Word and Excel 2008 keep showing up in the wrong space in Mac OS 10.5's Spaces, even though Word and Excel 2001 had no problem working with Spaces properly. This version of Office has more bugs than any other software I have bought in the last 20 years.
 basically all the same stuff, but prettier January 8, 2009
Wasn't expecting the program to look so basic, but has all the bells and whistles of an updated Microsoft Office suite. Word and Powerpoint get the job done, as does Excel. Microsoft improved these programs' ability to "beautify" documents and make them more professional/presentable, but the basic function of word processing, slide show making, spreadsheet managing.. is essentially the same. If you're only going to use this product to do the basics, I wouldn't invest.
Office is Office...What Else Can You Say? December 31, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
How do you review Microsoft Office? It has become such a necessary part of computer life today that, no matter how much you want to try going without it, you really can't.br /br /Having gone Mac earlier this year, I tried going without it, using Mac's cheaper Office like program iWORK. I was happy with this, but found there were still some programs (like EXCEL) that I still needed.br /br /MICROSOFT OFFICE FOR MAC works. I guess that is all I need to say about it. It does what it has done for years, and now you can do that on the Mac.br /br /The one glitch I have found, when I type something into Word and then copy and paste it elsewhere (such as a blog post) it loses all my formatting. All the spacing disappears. This doesn't happen with iWORKS's Pages, or even in previous versions of Word. I don't know if this is a problem with the Mac version or Office 2008 (which I have only used in this format).br /br /So, if you have a Mac, and need the software, here it is.
Office 2008 for Mac problems December 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Despite some warnings in reviews here, I bought this update and ran into two problems the first week. My wife sent some Word docs to friends who couldn't open the new default .docx format. After she went to preferences and changed the default back to the earlier .doc format everything seems to be ok. I also received an excel attachment with a visual basic macro which would not run. I couldn't make this work. On the plus side it's nice to have several licenses so my wife and I don't run into problems when were both using Office at the same time and connected on our home wifi system.
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