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 Useful Reviews
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home & Student
Buyer Beware.....
Written by PO from NORTHAMPTON
Jan 29, 2008
The first Excel workbook that I tried to open (written using MS Office 2000 for Windows) resulted in the following message - "This 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! …More1253 of 1522 people found this useful
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home & Student
An improvement
Written by IS from FALKIRK
Feb 6, 2008
It's definitely better than previous versions of Office for Mac, and is arguably better than its Windows counterpart. However, I still 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. …More838 of 1035 people found this useful
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home & Student
microsofts usual (sub) standard
Written by BS from Manchester
Jan 30, 2008
Installation was easy enough, but since installing i have had so many problems!
Office 2008 will not open, 2004 will not open either.
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. …More860 of 1143 people found this useful
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Most Recent Reviews
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home & Student
Works great with new LED imacs,macbook pro's oct 2009
Written by BK from ha8 6bg
Nov 20, 2009
A great companion if you a PC to Mac convert. Works great with the new LED IMACS. I have been using this since the launch of the new imac (oct 09). I use office when working from home and no probs. Make sure you do updates though. It will improve features.
Reports of crashes can only mean that you’re running too many programs’ on the background. I use final cut pro, a very High resource program and does at times slightly Slows office but not that bad as others have mentioned.
It’s not worth 5 stars as I would like publisher but its worth more than 3 as it does work well. But all in all well recommended. …More4 of 6 people found this useful
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home & Student
Works fine, who needs publisher?
Written by CP from Wirral
Nov 19, 2009
Mine works fine and it has done since I got it last year. And you can do A LOT more than just word processing - the templates for various things, such as programmes, newsletters etc easily make up for publisher - it's far and away better than publisher! I prefer the iWork package overall, but this is good for receiving word documents and Word is handy when you need it. Overall, it's been fine. I think they seemed to have ironed out earlier problems. …More
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home & Student
Does what it says on the tin!
Written by AM from Wolverhampton
Nov 12, 2009
i bought this for my new 15 inch MBP and it's worked perfectly so far. i have created numerous powerpoint and word documents and they have been totally compatible with the windows version on my pc and my college computers. i've had zero problems! …More
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