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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $149.95
Buy New: $124.96
You Save: $24.99 (17%)
New (38) Used (2) from $93.90
Avg. Customer Rating:  198 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Format: Dvd-video
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Home & Student Edition
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: GZA00006
Model: GZA00006
UPC: 882224526302
EAN: 0882224526302
ASIN: B000X86ZAS
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: (Authentic Microsoft Retail Version NOT Oem or Academic) Item Is Brand New in Factory Sealed Original Retail Box Never Opened, Registered, or Used with UPC Intact. Fully Registerable and Eligible for future updates, Orders are shipped out within 3 business days and delivery confirmation is emailed to you so you can track your packages arrival time online.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Office 2008 for Mac July 9, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
So far, I really like this product. I heard some iffy things about it before I ordered it. But it hasn't done me wrong yet! I use mainly "Word" for word processing - Resume work, cover letters, newsletters, calendars (for my classroom), etc. And so far it's been WAY easier than what I was using before -- Pages. I've used both this, and Office on Vista, and to me this is much easier. Vista's office is very difficult to find what you need and the last time I tried to use it - it kept printing my documents backwards. So, I much prefer Office for Mac!!
 An "upgrade" in Microsoft's grand tradition July 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
So far, I have only used Excel:
1. As usual with a new version of Office, the interface involves more, not fewer, mouse clicks to accomplish old tasks. MS seems to think we all love digging through as many levels of interface as possible to accomplish a task.
2. I haven't seen performance this slow in Excel in 15 years. (Click. Beach ball. Click. Beach ball. Cut. Beach ball. Paste. Beach ball. Drag. Beach ball.) It even gives warnings that you may have to wait awhile before your "complex" chart will appear on screen. Go get a cup of coffee, and your chart might be ready when you get back. BTW, I'm not using an ancient machine: OS 10.4.11, 2.16 GHz Core 2 duo, 2 Gig RAM. I don't recall ever doing anything in the 2004 version that required more than a 2 second wait.
3. All of the statistical analysis tools appear to have been removed. (Great! More waiting and fewer features!)
I can't wait to try Word and PowerPoint!
Office 2008 is junk and arip-off July 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This piece of...um...software is awful. Buggy and slow even after two patches. I do like the way it handles track changes, moving them to the right so the text reads smoothly with out embedded changes. But we're trying to use this thing to finish up a book, and we've spent more time trying to make it work and fix problems it's created than writing! We're seriously thinking of including a comment in the acknowledgments.
They really need a Files menu selection titled 'Save As Corrupt' instead of just 'Save As.' It'd be much more accurate.
Save yourself time and aggravation and use something else.
Unbelievably bad performance. July 8, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I upgraded to 2008 from an Ancient version of Word on my dual-G5 2Ghz. I have SP1.
I have a simple six column spreadsheet of data I've been maintaining for years now with 750 lines of data. I cut-n-paste the final line to the next line, modify the data, change the source for a graph, and I'm done with the day's data collection. On the Old Version, loading the spreadsheet took about a second, copying and pasting was instantaneous, and adjusting the data source took maybe one to two seconds.
On this new version, loading takes five seconds, Copying a row takes 75 SECONDS, Pasting 5 seconds, and 15 seconds to adjust the graph data source.
Worst upgrade ever. I'm going back to 2004.
Users of Dreamweaver BEWARE of Microsoft Office 2008 July 5, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
You cannot paste into design mode in Adobe Dreamweaver from Microsoft Word 2008, (which means that you have to paste into code mode and recode everything from scratch). I tried everything I could think of then finally went on some forums where I found that Microsoft says it is Adobe's problem and has no plans to fix the bug. (Yet, 2004 works fine).
I like to make my tables in word (from excel docs) then paste into Dreamweaver (then take out the garbage code using find and replace). This means hours of work that wasn't necessary in word 2004 or prior.
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