| 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
Autographed: No
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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
Condition: BRAND NEW - SEALED
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| Customer Reviews:
 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.
 Worth the upgrade January 25, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've been using a Mac for about a year now and was disappointed with Office 2004 (compared to Office 2003 Windows) - not least because it wasn't running natively on my Intel Mac. I need to exchange documents (Word and Excel) daily with poor Windows users, so great through it is, iWork 08 is not an option. So it had to be Office 2008. Word is not much changed apart from the new formatting tools beneath the main tool bar. I don't use these, so can't comment on how useful they are. The overall look and feel is much improved compared to 04. Excel is even less different from 04 - there's not much you can change about a spreadsheet really. There are some features in iWork Numbers that would have been nice if incorporated into Excel - (but then there are many features in Excel that would be useful in Numbers). For me the most disappointing thing with Excel is that the formula bar is floating rather than attached to the document window. I really don't like this, but have learnt to double-click cells to enter formulas this way instead and I hide the formula bar altogether. Running natively means that the frequent force quits that were needed before are now a thing of the past. I've had no problems with running the apps and have noticed considerable speed improvements, especially in large tables in Word. Overall, recommended if you need to share doc's with Windows users and are running an Intel Mac.
Perfect January 18, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
After purchasing this the other day for my Macbook, I have found it nothing short of perfect for what I need it for.
Granted, like many people, I was using Office 2004 prior to this and there isn't an overwhelming difference between the two, just a bit of a prettier UI.
One part of this software that I thoroughly like is Entourage, which as a student is amazing for being able to organise absolutely everything. I can't comment on differences in Entourage 2008 and 2004 because unfortunately I never used it before; but I would imagine its just an updated UI again. Intergration with iCal and the Apple Address Book is fantastic, everything is constantly updated when you put it into Entourage; which is useful for me as I have a .Mac account.
All in all, highly recommended to anyone, you won't regret it.
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