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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $109.00
You Save: $40.95 (27%)
New (47) Used (2) from $109.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  143 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
ESRB: Mature
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: never opened in orginal wrapper
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| Customer Reviews:
 Word 2008 stinks, even after SP1 "upgrade" May 16, 2008
On a G5 w/ Tiger no crashes, but a variety of problems with Word 2008 even after SP1:
1) The document map in a large document picks up lots of things NOT marked as headings, and changing styles does not help; after saving the rubbish is back in the map
2) End of page printout problems where some words or a line from the end of a page get repeated on the next page
3) Most annoyingly (and ever since the first "upgrade") a problem with "orphan" smart quotes, that is, opening quotes at the very end of a line and closing quotes as the first character of a line.
4) Justification problems with apostrophes; for example huge spaces forming between a word and 's (it ' s).
Problems 3 and 4 are solved by downgrading to the initial release of Word / Office 2008. But that brings back the feared scrolling problem: often one must first click on a page to be able to scroll. All in all, neither "upgrading" nor "downgrading" seem to help with this crappy product; even word processors of the eighties managed to avoid orphan opening or closing quotes. What is Microsoft doing??
Disappointed May 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was disappointed. I thought that by buying Microsoft Office for my Mac the documents would be compatible with the PC's at work. It's not so I feel I wasted a lot of money. It works great on the Mac but the program that came with my new Mac did too. I guess I should have been smarter.
MS Office, Home Addition May 14, 2008
Product has a bug that causes frequent shutdowns. Strongly advise use of auto save to protect your work. Software has a new interface that appears in an expandable column instead of rows across the top of the screen. This works well for documents in Word but covers up a portion of the worksheet in Excel. Takes some getting used to! I would not have upgraded the software except for the fact that I needed an additional license.
 Stay away, the patch fixed none of the major problems May 12, 2008
Word remains incompatible with Spaces. The window jumps randomly from desktop to desktop and hides behind other windows. Word is terribly slow to open. The suite is missing a Onenote type functionality, which was addressed partially by a "notetaking view" in Word which (theoretically) incorporates some onenote-type functionality. Unfortunately, it does not work. Anything in the notetaking view has constant glitches: formatting disappearing and reappearing, crashes...it is terrible. Entourage is similarly terrible. I switched over from Mail to Entourage, and it (by default) erased all the historical messages I had stored in my Imap account by changing the time left on server before deleting setting...without my input. I didn't even know the settings were changed until I went to look for an old message and it was gone.
I had high hopes for fixes for these items in the patch: no joy. STAY AWAY! They by mistake sent me an extra upgrade copy...it is so bad I refuse to sell it or even give it away.
The only good news: Vista on OSX in a Fusion virtual window with office 2007 runs better than on any of the 3 PC's I tried to run Vista on (thats why I switched back to Mac, Vista drove me insane...but it runs great on a MacBook Pro for some reason).
Good luck.
No Macros--APPALLING! May 11, 2008
This is a significant upgrade to prior versions of Office for Mac for several reasons. 1) It's significantly faster, 2) the interface is cleaner, and 3) IT DOESN'T SUPPORT VISUAL BASIC!!!
If you don't use macros, I recommend this product without hesitation. If you do use Macros, avoid this product like the plague. I don't know if Microsoft intends to support Macros at a later date, but it's pretty appalling to leave them out of Excel, given macro usage is very common when dealing with large data sets.
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