PowerPoint now shows the slides on the left instead of just the text outline. This review is limited but I was looking for specific things. I was running office 2004 and waiting for this. Review by Values Privacy for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition If you are dependent upon Visual Basic, or are operating on a PPC, save your money. If you can wait for the bugs to be worked out it will be a more satisfying upgrade. The impression I get is that Microsoft does not care about Mac business. 0) I had read that Office 2008 was designed by Mac enthusiasts. It is as if they have become bereft of any sense of creativity or innovation. It seems that their products are getting worse. I am left wondering if Microsoft is planning to go out of business. The My Day widget is a nice idea, but there is almost no room for customization and really makes no difference to how I organize my day. I am happier that Entourage is now more stable and responds better than the 2004 version. It keeps track of things that Numbers won’t keep track of. The reason I am sticking with Excel over Numbers is that Excel is still a more powerful program. I am now using a template that is in Pages – that works beautifully. Since Office 2008 no longer works with macros and Visual Basic I have had to abandon the Excel self-calculating Invoice template I used to use all the way back to my PC days. Another work around that MS recommended in Word was to create a new template from which to operate as it seems that the present template can be easily corrupted. When I have gone to the Microsoft website they have admitted that many of these problems are bugs and that they are being addressed. docx (xtml), which can be changed in the preferences to the more universal. The default format in Word is now Microsoft’s. Since I have to share documents with others it is handy to have a standard program with which to work. The Notebook layout is essential for the note taking that I have to do, which other word processing programs don’t have. Word is still an excellent word processing program. The work arounds I have been using to stop this is I minimize the documents or I open another program in the Spaces window and then return to the document. I have also found that when working in the notebook layout it can become unstable and partially disappear on me. I work a great deal with Spaces in Leopard and I have found that Word documents will jump to other windows. Word is so buggy I feel like I am working with a Beta version. That is about the best I have to say for this new upgrade. The look on Office 2008 is aesthetically pleasing and is more consistent with the elegant look of OSX. If you do not have an Intel Mac do not bother with this upgrade. Office 2004 used to crash almost daily before. And the stability has improved in that it has not crashed on me in the week it has been in use. This version of Office 2008 is an improvement over Office 2004 in that it runs natively now on an Intel Mac. Fuller for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition Get better results faster and create high-quality documents you can be proud of, with less frustratio Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage.Homework and Home Work will be easier than ever with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition. Whether your projects are around the house or in the classroom, the reinvented Office 2008 for Mac experience makes it easier than ever to create professional-looking work. Provides the basics of Office 2008 for Mac for home users and students. Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage.Command your calendar, tackle your tasks, and simplify your day My Day keeps you connected to all of the day’s action.Professional design is within your power with hundreds of new customizable templates and suite-wide themes, SmartArt graphics, and the new Publishing Layout View in Word 2008.Open XML file formats, the Office Art graphics engine, and other features that result in compatibility and file fidelity.Streamlined user interface runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition
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