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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $122.99
You Save: $26.96 (18%)
New (43) Used (1) from $122.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  149 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Home & Student Edition
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: GZA-00006
Model: GZA-00006
UPC: 882224526302
EAN: 0882224526302
ASIN: B000X86ZAS
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New! In sealed retail box! Ships next business day from NY!
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| Customer Reviews:
 HARD TO USE and UNSTABLE May 22, 2008
Wow. The depths of how bad this product is defy easy description. I am a professional power-user of Word for 10+ years, and even with a separately purchased manual, it was incredibly hard to learn. Heaven help the non-technical person who just wants to write a letter, a student paper, or a business document, especially one who doesn't want to use Microsoft's hideous templates. Does anyone inside of Microsoft Corp really use those templates for a professional project or for their social groups??? Yikes. And then, wait for it... the classic Microsoft moment... and then THE WHOLE THING BLOWS UP. Simple search and replace and BOOM, all of your work is gone! This happened to me over and over with clean documents. It seems like you have to buy this product because it is the default. AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS.
 great software May 21, 2008
great software, runs like windows version, there is a learning curve from the earlier version of office 2002
Powerpoint 2008 is unbelievably buggy May 20, 2008
I'm a heavy Powerpoint user, who recently switched from Windows to Mac. At
first, I continued using Powerpoint 2003, under Parallels. However, this was a
somewhat cumbersome solution, so I thought I would try Powerpoint 2008 for the
Mac. I am sorry to report that the experience has been terrible. Within the
first week of use, I encountered literally dozens of bugs. Some of these bugs
may be poor design decisions by Microsoft rather than actual bugs, but so poor
that they effectively cripple the product for its intended use (at least for
me).
Rather than clutter this review with the details, I have posted a detailed list
of the bugs I have found on at Microsoft Discussion Groups. The URL is
"http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.mac.office.powerpoint&tid=268c7286-7df3-4c33-a722-077fcd674a1c&cat=en_us_daf6a0da-8c15-478b-bdef-02f74bb0ec8a&lang=en&cr=us&sloc=&p=1"
Among the bugs I've found, perhaps the most severe is that Powerpoint changes
the "Date Modified" of files, even if you only look at them, without making any
changes. This makes it hard to keep track of when you have modified a
presentation. (This bug affects only .ppt files, not .pptx files.) This bug
is so severe that it's almost a show-stopper for me. It may drive me to either
revert to Powerpoint 2003 or 2007 under Parallels or VMWare Fusion, or switch
to Apple's Keynote package.
Reluctantly, I must agree with other reviewers that this software looks either
like it hasn't been tested enough, or like Microsoft simply doesn't care about
Mac users, or may even be trying to deliberately drive them off the Mac
platform by releasing poor software.
(By the way, I have a Mac Pro with Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), and I am running
version 12.1.0 of Office for the Mac, i.e. including Service Pack 1.)
-Marc Levoy
Stanford University
 Not so sure.. May 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My wife uses this for work, she's a writer, and need the compatibility with other writers. I know other programs are fully compatible with Office documents, but this is what she felt comfortable with. Entourage and Word routinely lock up on her brand new macbook. Nothing else on her Mac causes her any problems. We've updated the software etc, but I guess this is just par for the course with Microsoft products.
I'm disappointed with Microsoft! May 18, 2008
I paid a lot of money for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition. Some of the information I get is garbled, nothing even close to readable. Some of it works, but it should ALL work PERFECTLY!!!! Don't even get me started on VISTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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