Hello Select your address Software Hello, Sign in. Account & Lists Returns & Orders. Best Sellers Prime New Releases Gift Ideas.Microsoft touted several stability and performance improvements to the Mac suite, including faster launch and scrolling. For assistance with TSDR, email and include your serial number, the document you are looking for, and a screenshot of any error messages you have received.Processing Wait Times: Please note that due to an extraordinary surge in applications, processing times are longer than usual. See current trademark processing wait times for more information. To check your preferences, on the Safari menu, click Preferences, and then click General. Double-click the file that you downloaded in step 5 to place the Office 2008 12.1.3 Update volume on your desktop, and then double-click the Office 2008 12.1.3 Update volume to open it.
![]() We're not thrilled about this being the default option, even though you can save your work in the older DOC, XLS and PPT formats. Being accustomed to Office for Windows, we'd rather find all these options at the top of the screen.Office for Mac saves work in the same, new Open XML formats used by Office 2007 for Windows. For simple tweaks such as changing fonts, you'll need to consult floating formatting boxes. We found the shape-shifting neither terribly distracting nor useful. That said, the new document types are smaller and purportedly more secure than their predecessors.You'll need a Mac with 1.5GB free on the hard drive, running at least OS 10.4.9, with 512MB of RAM and a 500MHz Intel or PowerPC processor. Although we're glad that Microsoft offers free converters, we find the forced extra steps annoying in Office 2007. That means for now, should you save work in a new OOXML format in a hurry, someone with the older software won't be able to open it. 2008 Office Full Office ForFortunately, those who have recently purchased Office for Mac 2004 can upgrade for free.Still, the fees feel hefty next to the $80 Apple iWork '08. The $500 Special Media Edition handles Exchange and adds Microsoft Expression media-management software. At $400 or $240 to upgrade, the full Office for Mac that we reviewed feels pricey, even though it includes Exchange support. We really like Publishing Layout View's elementary desktop publishing tools. Its changes should mostly please those creating documents they want to show off. These are all dandy for composing and editing text documents, juggling spreadsheets, and creating slide-show presentations.Although the look and feel are refreshed, Word isn't drastically different from its predecessor. Mac users can choose from iWork '08, the free OpenOffice 2, or tools with free online components including ThinkFree, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, and Zoho Office. Perhaps the biggest selling point for the new Word is the ease with which it can make documents easy on the eyes.As well as making charts easier on the eyes, Excel for Mac 2008 adds tools for stepping through complex formulas. Bloggers don't get a custom layout in Word as with Office 2007, but that's not a big loss given Microsoft's lack of support for the latest Web coding standards. Users who wrangle with form letters will find that Mail Merge has become more intuitive, with step-by-step instructions. OpenType ligature support improves the appearance of fonts in Word.Those in academia should appreciate new reference tools, although there are only four citation styles. ![]() You can resize elements with a zoom slider in a snap, just as Dynamic Guide lines help to align text boxes and pictures.PowerPoint stands out from Apple's Keynote and other competitors in key areas, such as control over audio narration. The Toolbox's new Object Palette keeps formatting options in one place. However, as with Office 2007 for Windows, we find Smart Art initially a bit less intuitive than advertised. While power spreadsheet users will find Excel richer than other programs, those who rely upon macros are sure to be disappointed and may be better off keeping Excel 2004 or even switching to Excel for Windows.Microsoft continues to tout its Smart Art graphics, which can turn a bulleted list into nearly any kind of diagram or flowchart with a few quick clicks. However, we prefer the elegant layouts, outside-the-grid setup, and print preview tools within Apple's Numbers for light users of spreadsheets.Probably the worst thing about Excel 2008 overall is its lack of support for Visual Basic. ![]() We just wish that it showed an entire day's events instead of hiding the morning's appointments in the afternoon and displaying overdue appointments in a separate pop-up window.Setting up Entourage for a Gmail account took no time. The workspace is more customizable overall, thanks to toolbar tweaks and the Favorites menu.My Day is a helpful snapshot of upcoming To Do items and appointments, although its bluish appearance can't be customized. Meetings can be forwarded directly to others, and conflicting and adjacent appointments are better managed. You can accept or reject a meeting directly within a calendar event. There are To Do lists, accessible in the My Day widget along with appointments and the color-coded calendar. Oper source database program for macLive e-mail or phone help costs $35 for a pair of requests, not cheap but still less than Apple iWork's fees. Companies using Live Communications Server 2005 can encrypt their messaging, and users can chat with those using iChat, AOL, AIM, Yahoo, and MSN.Microsoft offers searchable inline and online help menus, which answered most of our questions, as well as Web-based community forums. Messenger for Mac enables users to check spelling, pick from among many emoticons, and see what others are listening to on iTunes. For that, we searched Help and learned that Hotmail's lack of free POP support was the culprit.Microsoft also throws in this free instant-messaging application, which enables users of its IM tool and Yahoo Messenger to contact each other. It's too bad that the easy-to-find metadata inspector and other touted security features for saving work in Office 2007 are absent. The document element templates may be attractive and helpful, but the selection feels skimpy next to Office 2007 for Windows, and Smart Art isn't as intuitive to use as advertised. IWork '08, for one, handles the newest, XML-based Office files pretty well.Office for Mac also skips some niceties that give its Windows counterpart an advantage over rival software, such as the interface slider bar for zooming in on a document. But other companies serve up software that's compatible with Office documents and costs half as much, if not less-or nothing at all. Sure, it's a step up from the 2004 version, and the only one that runs natively on Intel-based Macs. For example, in Office for Windows, a chart pasted from Excel into Word will change when you manipulate its underlying data set in Excel.
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