Microsoft Office 2008 Standard for Mac
Microsoft Office 2008 Standard for Mac

Microsoft Office 2008 Standard for Mac

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Microsoft

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Features:
  • 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, Microsoft Server Exchange Support
Product Description
Simplify your day at work. Achieve more with the power of reinvented Office for Mac. Easy-to-use, powerful tools make it easy to create fantastic looking documents--from dynamic presentations to stunning reports and engaging communications. Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage, Microsoft Server Exchange Support, Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office.

Editorial Review
A streamlined user interface, hundreds of new themes and templates, and better compatibility with your Windows-based colleagues--with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, you'll simplify your work and achieve more with less effort. Five Great Reasons to Upgrade to Office 2008 for Mac:

Universal applications: Office 2008 runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.

Easier interface: You'll quickly build professional, compatible and complex documents using the simplified user interface and new tools like Document Elements. With a visual gallery for selecting elements like cover pages, bibliographies, and citations, you're one-click from finished.

Your Mac, more compatible: Office 2008 for Mac and the Windows-based 2007 Office System share the Open XML file formats, the Office Art graphics engine, and many other features that result in compatibility and file fidelity. You'll be confident when sharing ideas and documents with colleagues regardless of which platform they're on.

Great documents: 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.

Your day, well managed: My Day keeps you connected to all of the day's action. Command your calendar, tackle your tasks, and simplify your day with this easy to use but powerful little tool.

Which Version of Office 2008 is right for you View this comparison chart.

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 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.

What's New in Office for Mac
  • Universal versions of the most popular productivity applications on the Macintosh platform (Universal applications run natively on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.)
  • Microsoft Office for Mac natively supports the Open XML file formats for compatibility with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products.
  • A redesigned user interface and powerful new tools for simplifying work, creating great looking documents, and exchanging ideas and information with others.


Highlights of Office 2008 for Mac
  • Office 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.
  • Office 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.
  • Elements 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.
  • Office 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.
  • Your 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.
  • A 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.
  • Automator 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.)


Entourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps it to happen, one task at a time.

Enjoy powerful new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive user interface in Word 2008.

Entourage 2008
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.
  • My 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.
  • Use color-coded categories, status indicators, and flexible To-Do list management humble even the most hectic schedules.
  • Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2008 Special Media Edition enable users to access their Microsoft Exchange server accounts with Entourage.
  • Improved 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.
  • Projects 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.


Word 2008
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.
  • When 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.
  • Great 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.
  • Your 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.
  • Dynamic Guides will help you keep all of your words and graphics in line and on point.
  • Mass mailings will have a personal touch and Word 2008 Mail Merge Manager will guide you step by easy step.


Inspire your audience's imagination with compelling visuals and engaging layout in PowerPoint 2008.

Analyze, share, and manage your data, and easily create persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for powerful results with Excel 2008.

PowerPoint 2008
Your presentation is a story. PowerPoint 2008 will illustrate it. Inspire your audience's imagination with compelling visuals and engaging layout.
  • Great 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.
  • Designer Themes help you give your presentation a creative look, simply and quickly.
  • The new Object Palette allows quick access to all your shapes, art, symbols, and pictures--including iPhoto files--in one easy-to-access space.
  • Dynamic Guides will help you place and resize your graphic element to create professional-looking presentations in a snap.
  • You'll lay out custom designs to showcase your unique content with custom layout capabilities in PowerPoint 2008.
  • PowerPoint 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.

    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.
    • Ledger Sheets in Excel 2008 make tracking finances, inventories, even invoices and portfolios easy with preformulated spreadsheets and automatic calculations.
    • Charting improvements artfully convey the message your data is telling. You'll see your numbers in a whole new way.
    • The new prebuilt functions tackle the most common tasks and make creating error-free complex conditional formulas easier.
    • Quick access to formulas makes functions more functional with Formula Builder in Excel 2008.
    • Your data will know virtually no limits. Excel 2008 now supports over 16,000 columns and over 1 million rows.
    • Whether 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.


    Messenger for Mac
    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.

    Use 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.
    • Yahoo! Interoperability will allow personal users to connect and message with Yahoo! Messenger for Mac users.
    • Your intentions will never again be in doubt when you create your own custom emoticons in Messenger for Mac.
    • Spelling Checker is now included in Messenger for Mac.
    • Let the world know your tastes when you display your iTunes selection with the new "What I'm listening to now" feature.
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Microsoft Office 2008 Standard for Mac Specs:
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Retail Price $399.95
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Here is what people are saying about the Microsoft Office 2008 Standard for Mac
4 Star Rating  "It's about compatibility and productivity, not necessarily features"2009-11-19
- Reviewed By snapcrackle
The main reason to use Microsoft Office is to take advantage of its ubiquity, and the huge investment - for better or worse - that people have made in learning how to use it.

So the two great advantages Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac offers are compatibility and productivity:

COMPATIBILITY: Using the defacto standard means that you can usually readily open the files you receive, and that others can usually open the files you send. (And if they can't, they will ironically consider that to be their fault, not yours, and make the effort to open the file. Unless they are paying you!)

PRODUCTIVITY: Tens of millions of people have invested a lot of hours into learning how to use Microsoft Office - understanding the features, concepts, and quirks. Choosing Office for Mac takes advantage of that investment. Of course, if it worked identically to the PC version, that might be the ideal way to take advantage of the experience and training people have.

If those are your goals, you'll be very happy. If specific features interest you, be sure to check the details before buying.
 
5 Star Rating  "After months and months of daily use... I appreciate this update!"2009-10-21
- Reviewed By rschmidt77
I'm a long-time Mac user (first Mac, a 512+). Eventually, like many Mac users, I drifted over to MS Word (MacWrite, WordPerfect, then Word). It works so well, it becomes the standard by which you compare other programs.

My need for this particular upgrade was that pesky docx! Those PC users smugly told me that I should upgrade. Initially, that meant getting the MS patch for Mac Office 2004 (right date?) users. I was accused of being a "Luddite" for asking for documents to be sent in an earlier version compatible with both the newest Word for PC and the older Word for Macs! [Note: if you didn't have the latest OS for Mac, the patch wouldn't work.]

Thank goodness for MS Office 2008 for Mac.

My primary MS Office uses are word processing (95%), PowerPoint (4%), and Excel (1%). Thus, my real concern was whether this 2008 edition made my life easy or harder.

Easier, hands down. I can open those docx documents. I can open all my older documents (dating WAY back). I can open up newer ppt files.

I think, if you were a more sophisticated user, using all the bells and whistles, you'd appreciate the subtle upgrades more than me. I'm a blue-collar user, using it 1000+ times a year, but really relying on spell check, word count, track changes, font size and style, and a few more options. I used to use PageMaker a lot, then started doing simple newsletters with Word; now I don't even do those. Email, social network sites, and shared document sites have replaced that need.

Bottom line? I like it. And I really like the continuation of that auto update check. Keep it up, MS!
 
2 Star Rating  "Yup, it's Office"2009-10-15
- Reviewed By User: AD5Y8YIBAFEA1
I personally prefer OpenOffice, but for those who like Microsoft Office, it does a good job. Writers seem to like it, as it's become sort of a "standard tool" over the years.
 
1 Star Rating  "Please read, do not buy!"2009-09-30
- Reviewed By sshrader5
I am in the research sector, and we use Excel quite often for large volumes of data, so when this came out I was quite excited that I would finally be able to use my mac for doing some of my work...especially since there are extra cells in this version! Not the case. My files take forever to open (both large and small files). Typically the files take a good bit longer to open than the previous version (if they open at all that is)! It also gets hung-up when copying and pasting and I have had many occurrences of corruption of files. Sometimes I have no recourse but to do Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart the computer because it completely freezes. Do NOT buy this!




 
5 Star Rating  "Sometimes the real thing is needed"2009-09-24
- Reviewed By jeffheatondotcom
I've always used Open Office on my Macintosh, and for most things Open Office does just fine. However, my wife, being a teacher, often has to prepare power point presentations and edit other teachers word documents. While open office does a nice job, you just can't beat the real thing for compatability with the "Windows World". Everything looks nearly the same as the windows computers she is used to, and power point presentations display exactly as we expect them to when used on Windows Power point. So far has been very stable and responsive.
 
5 Star Rating  "Finally, an Update! WooHoo!"2009-09-24
- Reviewed By flyg0d
I have been waiting for the new update of the Mac version of Office. I have tried other alternatives, and they just don't work the way I would expect them to. Having used Microsoft Office for the PC in the past for all of my office needs, I could not find anything that worked quite the same on my Mac. Printing would be off, or text would not look right, and just a lot of small things that made me feel that I needed to keep looking for the right program to edit spreadsheets and documents on my Mac.

Behold: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac! This is the newest version of Office for the mac! The settings and options I am used to having are all there! Commands have the same name I am familiar with! Documents and text look the way I would expect them to when I create/edit them and even when I print them! I felt at home!

The menu system does take a bit of getting used to. Instead of being a traditional Menu Bar like Office 2003 (what I am familiar with) it has a style more like Office 2007 - but with the menus detached from the main document window. This takes a little getting used to, but actually is much better with my wide screen monitor. I still prefer the old Office 2003 style menus, but I would say these are a bit more useful then the ones present in Office 2007. Also, the update system can be annoying if you set it to always check for updates. I get a pop-up window every time, but would have preferred if it checked in the background and then just let me know when new updates were available.

Installation took a bit. Not too terribly slow, but it was a bit time consuming. All of this was well worth it though, as any Office program I run starts up very fast! I was impressed with the loading speeds. I expected fairly fast loading due to the major efforts put into the new Microsoft products to decrease loading times, but I still expected it to take a bit longer. Word or Excel load about as fast as Firefox or any other lean program! MUCH faster than an alternative I had been using previously.

After using alternatives, and having become accustomed to the PC version - I found Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac to be a wonderful and necessary software suite for all of my document needs. I would definitely recommend this program if you want a solid and fully featured Office program for your Mac!
 
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