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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Upgrade | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $239.95
Buy New: $173.99
You Save: $65.96 (27%)
New (41) Used (1) from $173.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 128
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Upgrade
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 73101769
Model: 73101769
UPC: 882224543170
EAN: 0882224543170
ASIN: B000WR2F3G
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: THIS ITEM IS BRAND NEW IN ORIGINAL UNOPENED RETAIL PACKAGE. THE INSTALL PROGRAM WILL SEARCH YOUR HARDDRIEVE FOR A PREVIOUS VERSION OF ANY MS OFFICE FOR MAC 98 0R 2001-04 SUITE OR APPLICATION.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best Office yet for the Mac February 15, 2008
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
This review will not discuss MS Office vs. its competitors. I am a long-time PC user who switched to the Mac about a year ago. I have used Office forever because it was the standard at every job I've had. I know it inside and out.
When I switched to the Mac I tried Office 2004 and didn't like it. I was fortunate enough to have an Intel-based Mac, so I loaded Office 2003 using Parallels. I even tried Office 2007 and disliked it because it seemed like all they did was rearrange the menus and make it harder to use.
Office 2008 is a winner for these reasons based on my experience:
* The overall product is the one that I've grown used to over the years. The menu structure is exactly (OK, let's say 95%) the same as Office 2003 for Windows. That means the learning curve is almost zero.
* It has many design features that make the Mac better to use than Windows.
* It uses the Inspector interface instead of the "ribbon" that Office 2007 for Windows uses (which I dislike)
* It's fast!
It doesn't have Visual Basic macros. But I'm not a big macro user. I will keep Office 2003 on my Parallels/Windows side of the computer, so if macros are important I'll have access to that function.
If you have Office 2004 on your Mac, just insert the upgrade CD and go. It will detect Office 2004 and install normally. If you don't have 2004 on your system, you'll need to have the original 2004 CD to insert at the end of the install for verification.
If you're committed to Microsoft Office for personal reasons or company reasons and you want a version of Office that is fast and Mac-like, then this is for you.
 Do not upgrade if you need to copy from Word to Flash February 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
At my design firm, we create a lot of web-based training courses for our clients. With the upgrade to Office 2008, we can no longer copy text from Word documents and paste it into Flash. It does not work. This is a HUGE issue for us and I have forbidden anyone else in the office from upgrading until the issue is fixed. I have already upgraded to Office 2008 so now I use Pages, from iWork, as my word processor when I need to copy text and paste into Flash. Otherwise, the software works well but this issue is just too important. It's infuriating.
 Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac February 9, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is really a very good upgrade from Office 2004. Much more versatility. Am finding a few quirks and hiccups but should be cleaned up by the next update.
 Open XML support is handy, but that's about it February 5, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
After a year of frustration, Microsoft has finally enabled Mac users to open and save documents in Office 2007's Open XML format (.docx, .xlsx and so on).
But apart from that and some pretty interface improvements, I see little reason to have upgraded.
SPEED: Some people claim a speed improvement in Office 2008 on Intel Macs, but I have seen none on my current iMac running Leopard.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONS: Office no longer supports macros created by PC users.
E-MAIL: I've noticed one improvement with Entourage 2008: It crashes less often than Entourage 2004 on my Intel Mac. But I've noticed little improvement, otherwise.
Entourage does not provide significantly improved support for Exchange. Group calendaring and out-of-office message support are only marginally improved. There's still no synchronization of tasks, notes or rules.
In recent years, the ability to customize and enhance one's e-mail application has become standard procedure for heavy-duty users of e-mail. But while other mail applications such as Mozilla Thunderbird support plug-ins regardless of one's host operating system, Entourage still does not work with Outlook add-ons and vice-versa.
Speed is important when searching through thousands of old e-mail messages. But strangely, Entourage's internal search feature seems slow as ever. Yet searches for the same Entourage 2008 messages are almost instantaneous in Leopard's Spotlight. So I question Entourage's partial but incomplete integration with Spotlight.
ONLINE INTEGRATION: Office Live Workspace (Microsoft's answer to Google Docs) does not recognize Mac installations of Office 2008 and therefore is rendered almost useless.
MESSAGING: Finally, MSN Messenger -- after all these years -- STILL does not interconnect with AIM, Yahoo, Google Talk, Jabber and other widely accepted instant-messaging protocols.
Office 2008 is an expensive, glitzy anachronism in an age of online and open-source office applications.
Microsoft Visual Basic Fix February 2, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Microsoft has a website on Microsoft Office for Mac 2008. They do not offer a trial version, nor are they straightforward about limitations or 'downgrades' regarding PowerPoint images or Excel statistics analysis.
No one seems to address the continued cross-platform problems with Excel documents by email attachment. This occurs even though Microsoft writes both the Mac and PC Excel software packages! It almost seems like intentional sabotage to keep users out of the crystal clear Mac OS X world and in their always-behind copycat Windows.
However, this Microsoft site does address how to use Visual Basic macros in Office for Mac 2008.
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