| Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition Upgrade | 
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Publisher: Microsoft Software Studio: Microsoft Software Manufacturer: Microsoft Software Label: Microsoft Software Format: Dvd-rom Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X Media: DVD-ROM Edition: Special Media - Upgrade Autographed: 0 Memorabilia: 0 Shipping Weight (lbs): 3 Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.3 x 1.3
Model: FWA-00029 UPC: 882224544733 EAN: 0882224544733 ASIN: B000WS1590
Release Date: January 15, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition. The power of the Office 2008 applications plus Expression Media, the powerful asset management tool to visually catalog, organize and present all of your digital assets. Simplify your work and visualize your success. | Five Great Reasons to Upgrade to Office 2008 Special Media Edition: Universal Binary Support: Office 2008 Special Media Edition runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs. Streamlined user interface: You'll quickly build professional, complex documents using Word 2008 Document Elements. With a visual gallery of document components in the new user interface, cover pages, tables of contents, and citations are just a click away. Your Mac, more compatible: Office 2008 Special Media Edition and Windows-based 2007 Office products share the Open XML file formats, the OfficeArt graphics engine and other compatibility tools. You'll be confident when sharing ideas and documents with colleagues across platforms. Media-rich documents in minutes: Great design is a click away with hundreds of new templates, SmartArt graphics, Publishing Layout View, and professional quality clip art and photos. Your media, well managed: Drag-and-drop digital asset management, batch conversion and tagging, even built-in archiving and backup capabilities help you manage over 100,000 files and hundreds of format types across multiple storage devices. Expression Media gives you more power to work and manage your digital assets. Which Version of Office 2008 is right for you? View this comparison chart. | Simplify Your Work Your presentation will make an impact. Your documents will be professional. Your analysis will be insightful. And Office 2008 will be there. The latest version of the industry standard for productivity software on the Macintosh platform, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is more powerful and easier to use. Office 2008 combines Microsoft Word for Mac, Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac, Microsoft Excel for Mac, Microsoft Entourage for Mac, and Microsoft Messenger for Mac and lets you easily create high-impact documents and seamlessly share your ideas with others, whether they are on the Mac or Windows platform. What's New in Office for Mac? - Universal versions of the most popular productivity applications on the Macintosh platform (Universal applications run natively on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.)
- Microsoft Office for Mac natively supports the Open XML file formats for compatibility with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products.
- A redesigned user interface and powerful new tools for simplifying work, creating great looking documents, and exchanging ideas and information with others.
Highlights of Office 2008 for Mac - Office 2008 is a Universal Binary, was built by Mac users for Mac users, and includes many features which take advantage of underlying technologies of the Macintosh platform.
- Office 2008 uses Open XML file formats for compatibility with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products. XML file formats help reduce the risk of lost information due to damaged or corrupted files and also result in smaller file sizes--up to 75 percent smaller than comparable binary documents. Office 2008 for Mac is backward-compatible with earlier file formats and users can continue to use the older .doc, .xls, and .ppt binary formats.
- Elements Gallery is the foundation of the new user interface, and gives easy access to the most commonly used tools and templates. With the new UI, you'll harness the capabilities of Office for Mac more easily than ever before.
- Office 2008 includes OfficeArt, the powerful graphics engine also used in the Windows-based Office 2007 products. You get great cross-platform file fidelity and easy access to stunning visual and graphic effects.
- Your words will make an impact with the modern styling of SmartArt graphics, which makes transforming text and bulleted lists into professional diagrams and graphics one-click easy.
- A new Themes capability simplifies the process of applying a consistent look and feel across documents. Easily apply a complete set of colors, fonts, and effects to your Office 2008 documents, and change them as easily as changing your mind.
- Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office enables you to automate Office 2008 with more than 70 pre-defined actions built to simplify your work and extend your productivity. (Available in Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition.)
Entourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps it to happen, one task at a time. | Enjoy powerful new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive user interface in Word 2008. | Entourage 2008 Your e-mails will spark ideas, you'll schedule meetings where creativity abounds. Entourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps it to happen, one task at a time. - My Day keeps you connected to the action. Schedules, tasks, and priorities in one easy, standalone interface. Time will have no choice but to be well-managed.
- Use color-coded categories, status indicators, and flexible To-Do list management humble even the most hectic schedules.
- Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2008 Special Media Edition enable users to access their Microsoft Exchange server accounts with Entourage.
- Improved Junk E-Mail filtering capabilities and phishing protection tools help shield your inbox from the scourge of junk. Your inbox will breathe a sigh of relief.
- Projects submit to your superior management skills when you unleash the power of Project Center, With project details like e-mail messages, documents, schedules, and contacts in one convenient place, Project Center helps keep your information--and your stress--under control.
Word 2008 Powerful new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive user interface in Word 2008 will help you to make your ideas look as good as they are. - When you turn blah into brilliant, Publishing Layout View will elevate the way you think about Word 2008. This new specialized and customizable workspace lets users create incredibly rich documents such as newletters, flyers and brochures without a degree in design.
- Great looking document construction won't require a hard hat. New Templates, Themes, and Document Elements like cover pages and bibliographies make creating professional-looking output a snap.
- Your words will make an impact with the modern styling of SmartArt, which makes transforming text into high-quality graphics and diagrams as easy as one click.
- Dynamic Guides will help you keep all of your words and graphics in line and on point.
- Mass mailings will have a personal touch and Word 2008 Mail Merge Manager will guide you step by easy step.
Inspire your audience's imagination with compelling visuals and engaging layout in PowerPoint 2008. | Analyze, share, and manage your data, and easily create persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for powerful results with Excel 2008. | PowerPoint 2008 Your presentation is a story. PowerPoint 2008 will illustrate it. Inspire your audience's imagination with compelling visuals and engaging layout. - Great ideas will get their graphic due with SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint 2008. Start with a blank slide or a bulleted list, and, with a click of a button, you'll have a stunning chart, table, map, or diagram.
- Designer Themes help you give your presentation a creative look, simply and quickly.
- The new Object Palette allows quick access to all your shapes, art, symbols, and pictures--including iPhoto files--in one easy-to-access space.
- Dynamic Guides will help you place and resize your graphic element to create professional-looking presentations in a snap.
- You'll lay out custom designs to showcase your unique content with custom layout capabilities in PowerPoint 2008.
- PowerPoint 2008 integration with Apple Remote Control lets you concentrate on your words, not your keyboard. Now control your presentation and engage your audience unleashed from the podium.
Excel 2008 It's a numbers game. With Excel 2008, analyze, share, and manage your data, and easily create persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for powerful results. - Ledger Sheets in Excel 2008 make tracking finances, inventories, even invoices and portfolios easy with preformulated spreadsheets and automatic calculations.
- Charting improvements artfully convey the message your data is telling. You'll see your numbers in a whole new way.
- The new prebuilt functions tackle the most common tasks and make creating error-free complex conditional formulas easier.
- Quick access to formulas makes functions more functional with Formula Builder in Excel 2008.
- Your data will know virtually no limits. Excel 2008 now supports over 16,000 columns and over 1 million rows.
- Whether you're an Excel expert or a complete novice, Excel 2008 Formula AutoComplete simplifies your calculations by providing a dynamic pop-up menu so you can select and complete your formula.
Messenger for Mac Convenience is the name of the game for Mac users who want to communicate instantly with family, friends and colleagues from one convenient place. Messenger for Mac is now a Universal application, and gives you more ways to share what's on your mind or on your plate. Use Messenger for Mac to instantly check the status of project team members, streamline workflow by sending documents directly from Word, or offer questions or comments on document changes instantly. - Yahoo! Interoperability will allow personal users to connect and message with Yahoo! Messenger for Mac users.
- Your intentions will never again be in doubt when you create your own custom emoticons in Messenger for Mac.
- Spelling Checker is now included in Messenger for Mac.
- Let the world know your tastes when you display your iTunes selection with the new "What I'm listening to now" feature.
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  Powerful but slow April 8, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I updated to Microsoft Office 2008 from M.O. 2004 because I purchased a new, Intel-based, Leopard-running, 2.6 GHz MacBook Pro and thought M.O. 2008 would be faster than what I had. The software has all the features of the 2004 version plus a few features I'll probably not use but I was disappointed by the amount of time it takes for the various programs to load. For instance, from the time I click on the Word icon in the dock until a blank document opens takes about 13 seconds. Word 2004 on my 1 Ghz Titanium G4 PowerBook only took about 5 seconds.
Other than that, I like the fact that the applications work very much like the previous versions so there is very little required learning curve.
  corrupts fonts and no unstall option April 1, 2008 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really wish I had never bought this. What a nightmare. Typical Microsoft. They replaced standard fonts with their own version of standard fonts which of course caused text in all OTHER applications to look horrible. I had to go back and find the original version of these fonts and replace them by hand. And there's no way to uninstall it. Oh, and Excel files created with this can't be read by people without Office 2008 (at least not without some digging), which is pretty obnoxious. I would wait a year for them to issue a dozen patches before jumping at this.
  almost there March 15, 2008 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
there is always built in the obsolence factor. When I save in the new format no one can open documents I email. I have to save in the older version to send. It did however stop crash problems that emerged with the earlier word when I upgraded to the latest Mac OS 10 system
  iWork clone March 5, 2008 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
MS Office 2008 takes some needed cues from iWork, which results in a pretty decent, sorely needed upgrade. All in all not bad (considering its predecessor), but if you have iWork, there's no need to get this. In fact, if you don't have iWork, save yourself $300 and buy it instead. The only reason I purchased MS 2008 was because the Expression Media software is actually quite handy, and is perfect for one particular project I'm working.
Otherwise - iWork will do it.
  NO VBA!!!!!!!!!!! January 20, 2008 4 out of 13 found this review helpful
Apparently Bill Gates thinks we haven't suffered enough. Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) has been completely removed from the latest version of Office for the Mac. Unfortunately, I found this out AFTER wasting my money on this useless new product. DON'T BUY IT!!!!!!!
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