| Office 2008 for Mac, Home and Student Edition (Mac) | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Software
List Price: £104.71
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Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 12
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
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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
Condition: BRAND NEW - SEALED
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fairly OK so far February 29, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I've had Office 2008 for Mac for a few weeks and so far it has pretty much behaved itself. Yes, it did crash once (cannot remember what I was doing) but the file was autorecovered.
The software seems to run smoothly and there are no freezes or waits. I wonder if this is because I immediately upgraded my iMac RAM to 4Gb when I bought it?
The only problems I am encountering are differences in layout and controls to the earlier (PC) Office software I use at work. For example I cannot find a button to compress image sizes in powerpoint presentations so the files don't grow too large and there appear to be fewer slide layout options etc.
Most importantly, Office 2008 for Mac keeps my existing Word, Excel and Powerpoint files looking the same. I found Open Office changed formatting etc. and iWorks stripped out all the hyperlinks in my documents. However good they are I haven't got time to restore every Office file to working condition under a different application.
 All of these reviews are correct... February 15, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Difficult one. Do you keep using an older version or do you upgrade?
Well, despite reading the reviews here, I installed the new version, and yes, when I tried to paste some figures or a chart from Excel into Word, it instantly crashed Word.
But here is a rather random thing. If you paste it from the new Excel into an old Word version "X", it goes in just perfectly.
That's all I have found so far, and that's enough to make me sad. It's hardly a power user thing, to want to paste a chart into a word document.
My advice would be to wait until they sort out these errors, or at the very least keep your old version of Word on your computer so that you can just ignore the new one!
Good luck.
Beware: corrupts files from previous versions of office February 13, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Been using Office 2008 for a month. Had some problems, but generally it appears OK. Not good, but OK. At least it's a universal binary so should be a bit faster (it's slightly faster) and more reliable (definitely not).
Discovered that PowerPoint 2008 has corrupted a set of presentations for a course. It messes up the fonts and seems to break the underlying template.
This has resulted in my publishers requiring me to completely re-do an update using Windows and PowerPoint 2003. Needless to say this will cost an enormous amount of time, tedium, and not to mention the hassle of using Windows.
Office 2004 was completely compatible with Office 2003.
I'm not the only person who's reported problems with Office 2008. I've read a lot about problems with Word and Excel.
I shall be deleting Powerpoint 2008, Word 2008 and Excel 2008. That leaves Entourage 2008. And for 90, that makes it a pretty expensive email client. And BTW, Entourage 2008 doesn't import PST files either. For that you have to use Exchange or buy a 3rd party addon.
So, caveat emptor.
 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.
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