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Office 2008 for Mac, Standard Edition, Upgrade Version (Mac) | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £211.38
Buy New: £160.00
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Rating:  40 reviews
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 73101769
Model: 73101769
UPC: 882224543170
EAN: 0882224543170
ASIN: B000WR2F3G
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: brand New & Sealed - Fast & Reliable Service
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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. Main Features:Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Features:WordExcelPowerPointEntourageMicrosoft Server Exchange SupportAutomator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office...
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 Migrating from Windows? Treat Office 2008 with caution. January 17, 2008
Benjamin Woolley (London, UK)
64 out of 68 found this review helpful
After years with PCs, I finally migrated to the Mac this Christmas. The whole experience has been remarkably painless. Everything worked, the software is for the most part beautifully designed, and I felt I had found a comfortable new home. Then I got Office 2008 Home and Student Edition, principally for Word and Entourage, so I could access all my Office 2007 files...and found myself back in the Windows world.
Word 2008 looks pretty, but is flaky. It sometimes freezes, and there's an odd problem with the document window sometimes refusing to overlay other windows that are open on the desktop. Also, the interface is different from Office 2003 and 2007, and in my opinion not as good.
Maybe I'll get used to these foibles, but the instability of the software is worrying. Worse, Office 2008 isn't fully compatible with Office 2007. Word will read documents written using earlier versions. But Entourage does not read Outlook pst files AT ALL. Migrating Outlook to Entourage is awkward to impossible without making big compromises and wasting lots of time and effort. Microsoft created an add-on for Entourage 2004 that apparently works with Outlook 2001 pst files, but there's no information from Microsoft on converting Outlook 2003 or 2007 files. There are other solutions for converting pst files, but I can find none that are simple and seamless (or free). And once they're in Entourage format, I notice that there's no way of exporting them to other email programs.
To add to the sense of a fundamental misfit between Microsoft and Apple, Microsoft's support pages for mac don't seem to work with Safari (but do with Firefox). In retrospect, I wish I hadn't tried this half-way house between the Windows and Mac worlds, but just started afresh.
 Don't upgrade April 26, 2008
A. C. R. Riel (Belgium)
36 out of 37 found this review helpful
I have been using Office 2008 and Office 2004 in parallel for a while, and after a few weeks I have decided to uninstall the full Office 2008 package. Office 2008 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) is slower than the 2004 version, crashes (more) often, does not support macro's or VB, nor can I run EndNote. It also does not seem fully compatible with the PC version. Entourage 2008 appears to be OK, and is probably better than the 2004 version, but Mail and iCal are equally good alternatives and I do not miss it. This is in my view the worst version of Office around, and I do not recommend upgrading.
Disappointing January 17, 2008
C. M. Harvey (Loughborough, UK)
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
The lack of a decent equation editor, like the one that comes with Office 2007 is very, very disappointing. For me it's such a big issue that it almost wasn't worth the upgrade. You are stuck with Microsoft Equation Editor 3.0 from olden times, and compatibility with MathType seems to have been taken away. Nothing I can do can Word to recognise it. Maybe there'll be a fix for this in the future - I hope so anyway.
I hoped the interface would be similar to Office 2007, which I was very impressed with and got to grips with immediately, despite being initially a little dubious. Instead everything remains the same as 2004, except for the elements gallery which has nothing particularly useful in there and as far as I can see can't be turned off. It just sits in the way, taking up space on your screen and you'll probably not use it at all unless you're going to apply a pre-built background to your document, or something like that. Excel does keep its chart types in there though.
The toolbox stills exists. It is jam-packed with tiny icons, and arrows, that you have to hunt through, click to expand and then scroll through to find the right style. Not user-friendly at all in my opinion.
The positives: It's a universal application, so no more Rosetta! That said, it's not any quicker loading, although once loaded it's is noticeably faster and more stable. It's supposed to be 100% compatible with Word 2007. I take work between Mac and PC all the time and had many problems with Word 2003 and Word 2004. I'm still not sure how it handles equations: hopefully it doesn't convert Word 2007 equations into images, like it does for other versions. I haven't checked this yet, but I can't really see what else it could do without the new equation editor.
Overall, in my opinion it's nothing more than a Universal version of Office 2004 with a few new gimmicks for those who like desktop publishing and prettiness. For a technical user, such as myself it's disappointing and in some ways a downgrade. I'm keeping it though because I want to be sure of compatibility with Office 2007 and like the fact it's universal.
Office 2008 is just rubbish May 26, 2008
Dr. Simon Richardson (Iowa, United States)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I upgraded (?) to Office 2008 from Office 2004 and everything crashed ! I loaded up the new Office SP patch and Office wouldn't open. I have now uninstalled this sad, broken, unfinished program and I am back to Office 2004. It is a shame that Microsoft don't seem to learn from their mistakes as this instability was the main reason I stopped using a PC !
1/10 - must try harder
 Excellent upgrade, thoroughly recommended. January 15, 2008
Jay Soul (London, UK)
13 out of 18 found this review helpful
Office 2008 has finally arrived, and it is similar in execution to Office 2007 for Windows - but obviously adapted to brings out a Mac's strength. It will take some getting used to, as the interface is redesigned, but once you've used it for a day, you'll realise it is naturally more intuitive. Put simply, it makes more sense.
Once you put a bit of time and effort into realising all of the amazing things you can do with Office 2008, you will be knocking out much more detailed - and attractive - documents with ease. Word is excellent and universally compatible, Excel solid as ever, and PowerPoint links so easily with iPhoto that you can make a top-notch slideshow in 10 minutes flat.
At this price point - with a license for 3 computers - it is an absolute bargain!
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