| 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: 17
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
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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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| Customer Reviews:
 Office needs to downsize a few departments. February 10, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I switched to the Mac three years ago and in that time had managed OK with apple's own iWork suite. It was fine but when I started university and had to sling files around that were almost exclusively in the .doc format iWork was missing or not formatting things correctly.
First good thing is the price point, bearing in mind you get three software licences. The next is Word - the notebook view is great for sorting notes. That said, I find that the fact that all settings are held in the 'toolbox' - a floating pallet filled with collapsing menus - is a little bit too complicated.
Although Powerpoint is better than before but still looks very tired. If you've ever used Apple's Keynote it leaves much to be desired. The Entourage application loses it one star. Can anyone explain the point of this application? If you use iCal, Address Book and Mail already you might think merging the three into one app would help. You'd be wrong. It's a paranoid little app that gets over exciting at every email, makes irritating noises (you'll want to turn off) right away. I don't see why this is included at all. I can't really comment on Excel as it's not something I use very often but it seems slow to start up and it's crashed a few times.
A software update will go a long way to improving Office and deleting Entourage would give you back about 45MB of space straight away.
 Lots of potential, poorly executed. February 8, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This product should not have been released. The software is not as feature-rich as its Windows counterpart, Office 2007. There are some features removed which are just straight forward surreal, such as the inability to label axes in Excel. The graphing tool is now unpredictable and difficult to use.
The equation editor has suffered unduly from the transition to Intel too, though otherwise Word remains the best in the suite.
There remain many major bugs. For example, in Excel, whenever you copy some cells, or a diagram, into Word, then click on another cell, it crashes. Without fail.
I am an engineering student, and the problems in this Office render it almost unusable for me. If you are a business or arts student, where demands on graphing standards and equation complexity in reports are less stringent than in science, this suite may still be useful for you.
This product will be good in six months time, but at the moment the teething troubles make even the initial release of Vista look polished.
 Many, bugs and missing features February 6, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a poor upgrade many useful features particularly in Excel charts seem to not work properly. You cannot even add axis labels to charts you have already created as the chart options is greyed out.
Overall it seems it is badly implemented package and all we can hope is that it is updated to improve or resolve the many bugs.
Office 2008 is not compatible with 2007 January 28, 2008
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was lookiing forward to the release of Office 2008. After using it for 2 weeks, it just gives me headache. I have a new Macbook Pro with leopard installed. Powerpoint do not open all my PPT files. Probably about 70% is o.k. This gives a huge frustration and i need to go back to the 2007 release again.
Entourage is upgrading its Main identity every second time i am launcing the program. It shuts down when i am working with attachements. Also Word and Execl is shutting down without any warning.
This product needs to be re-engineered and i hope they will send out a bugfix very very fast.
Excel is *extremely* slow - effectively unusable January 25, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Whilst Word has made some noticeable improvements from 2004 to 2008, Excel has taken several steps backwards.
For anyone dealing with moderate to large data sets, trying to create a chart in Excel will result in you seeing the dreaded "beach ball of death" for minutes at a time. A chart that takes 3 minutes total (including time taken to edit axes labels etc.) to create in 2004 (running via Rosetta emulation on an Intel Mac) now takes 13 minutes in 2008!
So, if you're on an Intel Mac and were hoping that Excel 2008, being a "universal" app was going to deliver a speed boost over Excel 2004, you will be sorely disappointed. In addition, not only is it four times slower, it uses four times as much RAM in the process. If Excel is your primary app from Office, don't buy version 2008 - stick with 2004.
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