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| Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Student and Teacher [OLD VERSION] | ![Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Student and Teacher [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RSK18P8TL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
Buy New: $184.49
New (4) Used (10) from $94.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  206 reviews
Sales Rank: 147
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Macintosh
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Student & Teacher
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Discs: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0.1
MPN: 924719
Model: BD6-00001
UPC: 805529737976
EAN: 2001209719005
ASIN: B0001WN16M
Release Date: May 10, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Better than Windows Word August 3, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Now I don't usually say this, but Microsoft did a great job. Able to work seamlessly with Office for Windows, Office 2004 for Macintosh is even better than it's Windows equivilent. I've never been a fan of Appleworks, and honestly, it's not as good as Office, the standard for word processing.
The problem with Office (and with many Microsoft applications) is that it is such a huge peice of software, most, if not all, users don't use it to it's full extent. There are many capabilities and tricks that we just aren't aware of. Enter Apple and the beautiful simplicity and strength of OS X. Office becomes simpler, more user friendly, and extremely reliable. I don't think that it would be too bold to say that this is the best word processing avialable.
This is a must have for students, educators, any one who is in need of word processing for a Mac. If you really need to be convinced, download the free 30-day trial from Mactopia, Microsoft's all Mac website. Use the following address:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=office2004td
You won't be disappointed.
Best MS-Office so far... but hardly the best office suite. May 20, 2005
Coming from 15 years of working with Windows, it is sheer joy to work on Mac OS X (yes, I am one of the highly vaunted switchers! - No, i did not just recently grow a brain... I work as an IT professional, and until OS X, the Mac did not allow me to do my job as an NT admin. I got laid off due to the glut of Windows IT pros and am changing careers to web design, where the Mac easily outshines windows in every single imaginable way!). I have since decided to get a BS BS in Interactive Media Design at Art Institute of Pittsburgh to step my career up further, and the school requires I use MS Office for some projects. I have OpenOffice, but hate... ABSOLUTELY HATE, the Java interface, so I decided to buy the student version of MS Office for Mac despite my years of utter distaste for MS Office as a whole.
Once installed, I was really quite pleasantly surprised to see that MS Office 2004 for Mac is ten times better than MS Office 2003 for Windows. Much cleaner, more logical interface, less cluttered, though stil la long ways off from clean and uncluttered. Some things are a little odd, but nothing I could scream about.
Overall, MS-Office 2004 for Mac is easily the very best MS-Office suite ever (I have not even considered Office 2008 for Mac as I do not need it at all - see next paragraph), and is made that much better by the total lack of that incredible pile-o-crap, Outlook. I can't say anything about Entourage, as I have no need for it, so I have never launched it, and most likely never will.
But, is MS-Office the best office suite ever? Hardly! Since Apple's iWork '08 includes the Numbers spreadsheet program with the slick, simple and surprisingly powerful Pages and KeyNote, it has definitely become my choice for best office suite, hands down. In fact, after getting a free trial of iWork '06 when I upgraded to Tiger in 2005, I went out and bought a copy (it's a measly $79), and then again upgraded to iWork '08 when it came out and have not needed MS-Office in way whatsoever since as it opens, edits and saves Word, Excel and Powerpoint files, which is actually more than I would ever need.
Updated to reflect upgrade to iWork '08
See what Redmond could do if their OS didn't suck March 16, 2005
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Very practical upgrade. A must for school. The ability to open PowerPoint files is invaluable. I like Word much better than Text Edit (who doesn't). I wish there was an easy way to set up Entourage. That is my biggest complaint.
must have upgrade March 10, 2005
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
First off, I would like to say that Microsoft did an outstanding job on Office for Mac, something that most people aren't used to hearing. There are so many improvements from previous versions, including faster speeds, smoother integration, and excellent compatibility with windows version 95 and up, just to name a few. Not to mention the beautiful design of the templates of all the included applications. Word, excel, powerpoint, and entourage look, feel, and perform like Apple's applications, which is a very good thing, with the added bonus of having the tools of microsoft office's programs.
I use Office for Mac especially for research papers and homework. With the portability of my Apple iBook laptop, i can't help but do online research wirelessly for my essays. Then I just use Word to type out and organize them. THIS COULDN'T BE EASIER! Because our printer is hooked up to the main computer in my house (windows-based), I just simply e-mail my word-processed essays to the main computer (a pc) and voila! My essay is automatically converted as soon as I open the document, fully compatible! Then it's just as simple as printing it out and your done!
Overall, I am so pleased with my purchase, I recommend this item to all of my friends and family and definetly recommend this to you. This is a must have upgrade for your Mac and it is worth every penny!
Can Be Slow to Respond February 21, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am using a new G4 Powerbook, 1.33 GHz clock, 256 MB RAM, and with no simultaneous applications running except for Office 2004 I experience the following:
Word 2004 Mac (version 11.1) is sometimes very slow to perform certain functions: opening documents (even small and new documents can take 5 to 8 seconds); deleting by hitting the Delete key (2 -3 seconds to respond); pasting text into a document (2 -3 seconds to respond); and clicking on toolbar menu items (click on the toolbar icon then wait five or six seconds before the pull down menu appears - this only seems to happen the first time after working in the document for a while, clicking on a second menu icon will cause the menu to appear instantly as it should).
Also, and perhaps related, scrolling down the page in Word 2004 by rolling the mouse scroll wheel for what would be a more than 9 or 12 line scroll down command seems to cause this weird wave to roll down the page. It is disorienting because you momentarily lose sight of the page and where you were. Could this be related to the slowness of Word 2004 (or the G4) and an inability to refresh the display quickly. Word 98 Mac did not do this, nor do documents pasted into Apple's TextEdit running on the same machine. All other apps run quickly on the G4.
Other problems include the occasional crash of Word (and loss of all of the document you entered since the last save) for example when selecting Tools > Spelling and Grammar.
Also, it takes too many steps to get to set margins for a document in Word 2004: File > Page Setup > pull down the Settings menu to choose Microsoft Word > click on Margins button. Word 98 was easier with fewer steps.
Other than the above the Office 2004 suite has served me well these past few months. There are many improvements in the Charting functions in Excel 2004.
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