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DESCRIPTION
Microsoft Office 2008 is a suite of products that allow you to create fantastic looking documents-from dynamic presentations to stunning reports and engaging communications. It includes:
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Entourage
- Microsoft Server Exchange Support
- Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office
Check out the demonstration video with new features in Office 2008 for Mac.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 12.2.3: This update contains improvements to enhance stability, compatibility, and performance. In addition, this update includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.
REQUIREMENTS
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- One of the following:
- Office 2008
- Office 2008 Home and Student Edition
- Office 2008 Special Media Edition
- Word 2008, Excel 2008
- PowerPoint 2008
- Entourage 2008.
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| Microsoft Office 2008 User Reviews (273 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 11 2009 |
BLUESTAR Updated without a hitch.
(Version 12.2.3) | |
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| Nov 10 2009 |
ALBABE With this patch, MS Word seems to start up a bit faster... open under File>Open Recent much faster... and Save considerably faster... So far so good.
(Version 12.2.3) | |
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| Nov 10 2009 |
DOUGSTER Annoyingly, after this update, many of Entourage's Toolbar settings returned to default. Also, Entourage refused to accept email passwords until they were deleted from Keychain. Oh, and the Address Book /'Synch' settings needed resetting. Apart from that all is okey dokey. I think !
(Version 12.2.3) | |
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 | Nov 10 2009 |
ESPIRIDION The update went smoothly, and this time Microsoft Auto Update detected and downloaded the newer version. Given AWADO's comments, I immediately tested drag and drop. I don't recall Word crashing in the past when dragging and dropping text, and I'm happy to say that the latest version did not crash at all. I even dragged text across different documents with positive results. I have not checked how my documents look on a PC, but Office offers various options easily accessible via the Toolbox, and one option is the Compatibility Report. Users can select to check for compatibility with various versions of Mac and Windows versions of Word. This feature can also be accessed when saving a document. I was also curious about ERIC WOEHLER's negative comments and multiple 1-star ratings within a month. According to Eric himself, "the fault was a font with two copies in two different libraries." (From his review of Font Doctor). For some reason he did not update his comments here. It's easy to criticize Microsoft and call them M$ and Windoze, yet one of the advantages of today's Macs resides in their ability to run Windows. Maybe in the future there won't even be a Mac version of their software. Microsoft was among the first software developers for the Apple computer, and Bill Gates invested millions in Apple. Other than the absence of VBA in Office 2008 I'm quite happy with the software. As a side note, the only iWork application I prefer over Office is Keynote. Apple did a great job on that one.
(Version 12.2.3) | |
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| Nov 10 2009 |
PJM All bow down before the magnanimous ones: mighty Microsoft, generously producing Mac software for 20 years. It wouldn't be that they (perhaps, perhaps?) make a truckload of money out of the Mac BU now, would it? The day that this ceases to be the case --if it comes-- is the day that they'll shut this part of their operation down. Given the performance of Office 2008, and the lack of Visual Basic for Applications (don't worry, it'll be back for the next major version! Can't tell you when that will be though. Hang in there...) I won't be shedding many tears if that happens.
(Version 12.2.3) | |
| Nov 10 2009 |
ESPIRIDION I don't see it at bowing down to anyone, but rather about being fair when it comes to feedback. While I'm sure there was money to be made by Microsoft developing software for the Mac, they have done so at times when Apple's market share was not significant and have provided Mac users with a great Office suite before the days of viable open source alternatives and iWork came along. Even Apple has not truly offered the "next" AppleWorks, and iWork has constantly lagged behind with the exception of Keynote. Apple's interfaces are beautiful, and the most recent iWork is a huge improvement. For critical work I still prefer Office. Regarding VBA, Microsoft announced in advance that Office 2008 would NOT have VBA support, and that VBA support would be a part of the next release. I did not like it, but kept my previous copy of Office for those times when I need VBA.
(Version 12.2.3) | |
| Nov 10 2009 |
COCOANUT I've been using Office for a decade and I love it. It's full featured, elegant and beautifully designed software that blows away iWork in usability and features. Entourage is especially a pleasure to use. People's needs are different so I suppose iWork could suffice for many but when you move up you'll move up to Office.
(Version 12.2.3) | |
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| Oct 27 2009 |
AWADO Still M$ is not M$ compatible! Word documents look different on the Mac version. And as soon as I try to move text via drag 'n drop (or do it accidentally) Word crashes. Once upon a time Word and Excel were really good software. But it seems these days are gone. With iWork you get less bugs for less money.
(Version 12.2.1) | |
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| Sep 30 2009 |
ERIC WOEHLER Word continues to become more and more unstable. I open a 12 page doc and it thinks it is only 3 pages long. I scroll to the bottom of the file and the spinning beachball appears then Word hangs. Time to force-quit. Re-open.. Same garbage behaviour. I have purged font caches, and tested for font problems - all ok (but Font Doctor doesnt run under SL) so relying on Apple's Font Book to tell me all is ok with fonts. Have deleted all Word Pref files and Font Cache List file. What else? I absolutely refuse to delete Office 08 and reinstall - I am using a Mac and not Windoze. I have more problems with Word than all my other apps on my Mac (13" unibody, late 2008, 4gB RAM, twin 2.3GHz). I have NO other crashes or app hangs EXCEPT Word and I use a LOT of apps - not quite a Power user playing with Terminal, but have been using Macs for 25+ years and am highly experienced. This is absolute cr*p and totally beyond belief. Have given up sending reports to MS as MS doesn't care. Can't say a good thing about M$ - I want my money back!
(Version 12.2.1) | |
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| Sep 27 2009 |
ERIC WOEHLER Unable to install 12.2.1 updater - back the same old garbage.. "no version of software present to be updated" or similar. I have 12.2.0 and have stripped all the excess language files (Swahili, Mongolian, Zulu). M$ have also changed the install scripts, so previous workarounds to edit the scripts also no longer work. Yet more reasons to forget about MS crapware - is any one from M$ reading this - I paid for a legal install of MS Office 2008. Why the hell can't I keep my software up to date?
(Version 12.2.1) | |
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 | Sep 10 2009 |
ERIC WOEHLER Major problems after upgrading to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Under 10.6, Word was unstable, crashing occasionally. Under 10.6.1, essentially unusable - hangs/crashes constantly. Have cleared font caches etc. no go. Tried to reinstall latest updater for Office (12.2) but was unable. What now?
(Version 12.2.1) | |
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| Sep 4 2009 |
EASER My wife is taking a course that requires her to access her professor's PowerPoint lectures. Those lectures require the use of special international fonts. I installed those fonts on her MacBook Pro and opened the lectures using MS PowerPoint for Mac. Nothing came out correctly, no matter what I tried. Restarts. Permission repairs. You name it. In desperation, I opened the lectures in Neo Office. Everything worked perfectly. This tells me all I need to know about whether I intend to keep investing in Microsoft. I don't think so. If you've never encountered the FREE Neo Office, give it a look.
(Version 12.2.1) | |
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