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.
- 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
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
Universal Binary support for Intel and PowerPC-based Macs
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 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 17, 2008
Often times when other applications like Safari or iTunes are open in conjunction with word or powerpoint, the office application "unexpectedly closes."
Great new features, but still waiting for an update from apple that will fix this extremely obnoxious problem …More3575 of 4398 people found this 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 analyses (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. …More
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Most Recent Reviews
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
confusing
Written by HA from Dunn Loring
Nov 6, 2009
i believe that office for pc is much better & easier ... hopefully that office 2010 for pc and mac will have the same look&feel - regards, h. …More
6 of 8 people found this useful
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Excellent product for Home use
Written by PR from Maple
Nov 2, 2009
I'm a fan of most things Apple, so I'm a bit sad to say I've found Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition to be an excellent product. Having used it now for a few months, it hasn't crashed at all and has far exceeded the functional capabilities I found to be within iWork. I notice though on my low-end iMac that it's a bit of a heavier load on the computer than iWork, but once it's launched it's been great. …More
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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition
Good product except all the issues with sync
Written by KD
Nov 1, 2009
Microsoft Office is generally a good product. The component I use the most is Entourage and I find it meets my needs 100%. However, its one major downfall is the issue with sync. Sync from Entourage to any handheld device is flaky at best and distratous at worst. In the almost 2 years since its release Microsoft has done nothing to rectify this. Sync's can go a long fine for a while only for you to suddenly find bizarre sync results to your iPhone, BlackBerry or what have you. Dups are common, data loss and potentially even database corruption can happen. As a result, 2008 requires constant backups so that if something serious goes wrong you can revert to a backup. This however, is overall a great nuisance, time consuming and can be at times embarrassing if you have to ask a client for information collected.
Putting this aside, Entourage is probably the most powerful information manager for the Mac providing robust searching, a great e-mail client, linking, categorizing, project management and more. If only they'd fix sync bar none this would be the best. …More2 of 8 people found this useful
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Questions & Answers
Most Interesting
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How many downloads per product?
- Asked by ML from Philadelphia
- Oct 6, 2009
Best Answer
You can download it, on up to three macs.
- Answered by WK from Teaneck
- Oct 6, 2009
- 56 of 57 people found this useful
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can you use a pc's microsoft work and use it on a mac
- Asked by FT from norwalk
- Oct 7, 2009
Best Answer
If you mean can you open saved work created though the PC Version of office on a MAC then the answer to that is Yes. (This includes the 2008 PC Version as well as previous versions of office).
If your question was can you install a PC Version of office on a MAC then this is no unless you have a a copy of windows on your mac (Bootcamp etc).
Hope that helps you. …More- Answered by GH from Hockley
- Oct 12, 2009
- 13 of 13 people found this useful
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Will installing Microsoft Office for Mac on my iMac make it vulnerable to viruses??
- Asked by FM from Palm Desert
- Oct 17, 2009
Best Answer
No.
- Answered by TC from Sacramento
- Oct 19, 2009
- 6 of 10 people found this useful
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Most Recent
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We have Office 2008 Home addition on our new IMAC and our daughter is on a PC - can we use messenger with the built in camera to see each other?
- Asked by CS from Powell River
- Nov 5, 2009
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Is this fully compatible with Office for PC and can PC Office files be opened and edited on it?
- Asked by KB from Morganton
- Nov 4, 2009
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With my new Macbook,if I send word docs from Mac to PC or PC to Mac via web-based e-mail they do not open at the other end.
- Asked by RW from Harvard
- Nov 3, 2009
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Does the Home and Student Edition have Exchange Server Support? I am seeing that this is included in the Business Edition.
- Asked by DL from Longwood
- Nov 2, 2009
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Can Word 2008 for Mac be saved in the 97 -2003 Word for E-Mailing d to a PC?
- Asked by RS from Easton
- Nov 2, 2009
