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| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $399.95
Buy New: $139.99
You Save: $259.96 (65%)
New (57) Used (7) from $111.93
Avg. Customer Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 107
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): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 73101727
Model: 73101727
UPC: 882224526166
EAN: 0882224526166
ASIN: B000WR2F2M
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new! Never used! Fast shipment
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| Customer Reviews:
 Strongly consider Special Media Edition Office 2008 August 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although the special media edition has a higher list price (it has additional features), it can be found for cheaper through individual purchasers who got 2 copies of Office when they purchased earlier this year. You may want to check it out: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition. Either version has all of the typical Office software you would expect and is far more intuitive than the prior edition.
 Beyond Pathetic July 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The new version of Office 2008 is totally dysfunctional. Problems:
1. No data analysis tools in Excel.
2. Crashes every 5 minutes.
3. Documents scroll very slowly even when running on a new iMac. Editing graphs is so slow it's like running office on a 10-year old computer.
4. Graphing functions in Excel are incredibly hard to find graphing functions like adding labels to axes.
5. Default view and graph styles in Excel are different than previous versions.
6. XML graphics generation is buggy and produces artifacts.
All I have to say to Microsoft is thanks a lot. Thanks for the most dysfunctional pos you have ever put out. There is good news however. OpenOffice can be downloaded for free and it's very user friendly and reads and writes all office document formats.
 So buggy, even in July 2008 July 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The primary reason I switched to the mac about 8 months ago was because Microsoft produces incredibly buggy, terrible software. Unfortunately, I sometimes need to use Microsoft Office, so I got Office for the mac. Office not only sucks on the pc, it sucks on the mac too.
My primary problem today is that it does not play nice with Spaces. My Word document is constantly zooming around to difference Spaces, without my asking it to. So, about every 10 minutes, I save and close the document, then reopen it. And it's ok for a bit, then the zooming starts again. Just ridiculous.
Office 2008 is so bad I'm reinstalling 2004 July 1, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I was happy to upgrade to Office 2008 for Mac (I have a new macbook with Leopard) but its so bad I am going to reinstall the old office. Never done that before. Powerpoint is an amazing memory hog. 2G of RAM for a 40mb presentation? Get real. Word is ok except for the "new" standard, which means documents must be saved in two formats (what were they thinking?). Excel is the worst. The menu forces one to select from projects and elements galleries that are ridiculous, not useful and impossible to work around. And no more macros? Was there no beta testing? I actually paid microsoft $50 more for phone help to find hidden menus. Type "chart label" into the Help menu and get No Results Found. I could go on, but my bottom line is don't upgrade.
Microsoft screws up copy and paste, again June 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Yes, its slow, and they left out VBA support. And it not very stable, either. But the biggest problem I have with the new Office is that MS has once again managed to screw up copy and paste.
I've often used PowerPoint as an archive for graphics, text and equations. I paste stuff into it, and later, when I need it, copy it back out into other documents. I've recently discovered that in Office 2008, things go in, but they don't come back out.
For instance, you can create an equation in MathType and paste it into PowerPoint. It looks fine. But you can't copy it and paste it anywhere else. I was trying to copy it into Adobe Illustrator, but also found that you can't even copy it back into MathType to edit it. Wow.
You can copy text in PowerPoint, but when you paste it into other programs, it loses its formatting. This worked fine in Office 2004.
Besides the copy and paste problems, I've also noticed that some graphics seem to get changed to lower resolution when opened in Office 2008. These are from files created in Office 2004.
The one thing in Office 2008 I do like is the ability to import EPS files and display them. It was about time! But that feature alone is not enough to save this release.
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