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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $399.95
Buy New: $252.99
You Save: $146.96 (37%)
New (43) Used (4) from $240.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 145
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.3
MPN: 73101727
Model: 73101727
UPC: 882224526166
EAN: 0882224526166
ASIN: B000WR2F2M
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Every minute of use is costing my company money. March 18, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
What a terrible, terrible "upgrade".
Excel 2008 _constantly_ hangs and freezes for 5-6 secondes each time when doing copy/pastes. Our product management and accounting teams have been wasting time and money since installing this absolutely horrible piece of software.
The simple fact that Microsoft released this product is unbelievable. I thought the era of rushing buggy software out the door at MS was long gone, but I was wrong.
Do yourself a favor, use Parallels and get Office 2007, which is a beautiful product.
This is an Upgrade? March 9, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Still full of bugs. You can't open a .csv file without Excel crashing. The new .docx format makes PC compatibility much more problematical -- it used to be transparent between my home Mac and work PC, but now I have to be careful to select an older Word format for saving documents -- kind of defeats the point of an upgrade if you have to save in a format where you lose features. The light purple color scheme in Entourage makes it very difficult to see what folder your putting e-mail into, and is not that aesthetically pleasing to me. Haven't found a way to change it either, since the Office Help is as bad as traditionally expected from Microsoft.
Terrible - buggy, slow, missing features. Wish I never updated. March 7, 2008
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have a dual PPC G5 and have never had any issues running the Office v. X that I bought with my mac. Last week I decided it was time to update everything since I never even moved up to Office 2004. I was working on an important project for grad school and thought that I might find new features that would help with the multimedia aspects - that was a big mistake!
Powerpoint is absolutely terrible and crashes all the time. The notes section cannot even handle copy and paste operations or exporting to a Quicktime movie without crashing. Many features are gone or replaced with different ones that are overkill. For example, you cannot shape text in word art anymore. Instead they give you many different quick color and shadow options - which could be accomplished another way anyway. It seems to me that what they think is more useful is just a way of telling me how my output will look. I want complete control back!
Also, Word and Powerpoint run much slower for me now. Have not explored Excel yet, but have read that they have removed scripting and data analysis. I really need the data analysis for school.
I cannot even go back now and install my old v. X, because the updates do not go back that far!
Really unhappy that Microsoft released this product when it is still so unstable and that they decided the features I used more than any others were not important.
Horrible, Worst Software Ever, I have used office forever, but no more! March 3, 2008
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
Horribly, horribly slow on my quad core 2.66 GHz Intel Tower Macintosh with 4 Gigs Ram.
Sometimes I have to wait 5 seconds for letters to appear after typing in word. Excel is very slow as well.
Very, very disappointing. Microsoft support basically told me "too bad sucker".
Complete and Total Waste of Money
Where's the rest of it? February 23, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Like most people, I was eagerly awaiting the first major update to Microsoft Office for Mac in four years and bought it right away. I'm not a huge power-user, but this new release is so poor and so buggy I'm going back to my 2004 edition. It's even slower than 2004 on my Intel Macs, Entourage doesn't alert me to new emails, all of my Excel macros are completely wasted, Toolbars may or may not appear, print settings don't save with documents.... and on and on and on. This 2008 release is a complete waste of time and money and I would strongly advise everyone to pass up the opportunity to waste yours on this one. Microsoft, pull this product until you can publish one that works.
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