| Office 2008 for Mac, Home and Student Edition (Mac) | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £106.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (37 reviews)
Sales Rank: 13
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
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 16, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| • | Produkt Version: 2008 | | • | Sprache: E | | • | Format: CD |
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Product Description
Priced for home and school, these Office basics help you achieve more, for less. Whether your projects are around the house or in the classroom, the reinvented Office 2008 for Mac experience makes it easier than ever to create professional-looking work. Main Features:Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition Features:WordExcelPowerPointEntourage...
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 Blah. November 17, 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.
If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.
 Ideal for creating windows compatible documents... November 11, 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.
I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.
If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.
 Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad. October 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.
Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.
However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.
Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.
I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.
Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.
So Slow September 30, 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.
Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.
 Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow September 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.
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