Priced for home and school, these Office basics help you achieve more, for less. 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. Main Features:Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition Features:WordExcelPowerPointEntourage...

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Simplify your day at work. Achieve more with the power of reinvented Office for Mac. Easy-to-use, powerful tools make it easy to create fantastic looking documents-from dynamic presentations to stunning reports and engaging communications. Main Features:Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Features:WordExcelPowerPointEntourageMicrosoft Server Exchange SupportAutomator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office...

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Simplify your day at work. Achieve more with the power of reinvented Office for Mac. Easy-to-use, powerful tools make it easy to create fantastic looking documents-from dynamic presentations to stunning reports and engaging communications. Main Features:Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Features:WordExcelPowerPointEntourageMicrosoft Server Exchange SupportAutomator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office...

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

For media-savvy Mac users to achieve more and simplify digital asset management. For professionals working with libraries of images, video, music, and digital assets, weve combined the reinvented Office 2008 for Mac experience with Expression Media. Main Features:Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition Features:WordExcelPowerPointEntourageMicrosoft Server Exchange SupportAutomator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft OfficeMicrosoft Expression Media...

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Use a full range of new professional design tools to bring yourcreativity to the world of the .NET framework and Silverlight.Design the next generation of user interfaces for Windows and theWeb.

Show them the money. Use compelling charts and graphs to show stakeholders what you mean at a glance. With Excel 2008 for Mac, everyone from beginners to professional number crunchers can quickly create great-looking financial reports.

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Get ideas noticed in SmartArt charts, tables, maps and diagrams that transfer easily between Office applications and across platforms. Build instant diagrams from simple lists, with no drawing required.

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Brand New - Full UK Retail Boxed - Exactly the same as amazons - Price includes VAT and invoice supplied.

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Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

great item...read description.., 20 Aug 2008
excellent product, usually very expensive though. however,
matty2purcell seems to be the cheapest and best seller

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac brings the power of the Office suite of programs to your Mac. With great new features such as the Project Centre and Scrapbook, it'll enable you to manage information more effectively, create with confidence and share ideas across platforms and around the world.Get acquainted with the collection of groundbreaking new tools included in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac. Record audio while taking notes in Word; save pictures and text in a scrapbook; handle all of your project details...

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

Blah., 17 Nov 2008
Office 2008 is ok. The interface is normal. It doesn't crash all that much. It is quite compatible. Its all right. Blah.

If only Microsoft hadn't lost their nerve and made something as lovely as the PC Office 2007. I'm a dual user and find myself drifting back to my PC when I want to do anything work related. And that is a shame. It's just like the old days - Mac for media fun and PC for serious work and gaming. Some things never change. Not much point upgrading from 2004.

Ideal for creating windows compatible documents..., 11 Nov 2008
I am by no means a computer genius but talking from a novice point of view I have to say that after purchasing this product 3 months ago I have been perfectly happy with it. I previously had the office 2004 for MAC which admittedly was perhaps a little more user friendly and generally straight forward, but decided to upgrade to the new Office 2008 when I purchased a new iMac.

I generally only use Word and Excel, occasionally Powerpoint, and they serve the purpose that they are there for. After a little bit of getting used to, I've figured most things out, although creating web pages with the Word is not as simple as it was with 2004, and would happily recommend it to a friend. I am currently using it with Leopard operating system.

If you simply want to be able to create Windows compatible documents then this pack should give you everything you need. I use mine for writing word documents and creating spreadsheets and transferring these between my Windows based PC at work and my iMac at home. For this everything serves the purpose well.

Mixed bag, Intel native good, no VBA bad., 29 Oct 2008
I'm a fairly casual home user of Office, I used Entourage all the time, Word infrequently and the rest of the package almost never (mostly as readers of Powerpoint and Excel docs). I bought this because I bought an Intel MacBook and iMac. The emulated performance of Office 2004 was painfully slow.

Reading the reviews people seem to have had real problems with stability, these seem to have been corrected by a series of fairly large upgrades. I've had no real problems there.

However removing VBA support was a fairly silly decision on the part of Microsoft, as it means I've got to keep around the older versions to run any macros people send me. They are putting this functionality back in, in the next version but still.

Compatibility seems OK for my purposes, although word defaults to a .docx format that most people can't read. So you have to convert if you want your docs to be shared.

I've also stopped using Entourage very recently, because it conflicts with my Time Machine backup. Essentially Entourage uses a big database to store your e-mail messages and TM sees this as a (large), constantly changing file which it backs up every hour. So if your e-mail database is 1Gb, that means 24Gb daily if you leave your machine on all the time. This chews up drive space. I suspect MS use a big database for historic reasons (Windows/ Mac weren't very good at dealing with lots of small files). MS actually recommend excluding the Entourage backup from Time Machine backups and making your own backups. I gave up and started using Apple Mail which is less pretty and more stripped down but a perfectly good e-mail client free with the OS which integrates better with the Apple iCal and Address book.

Given this, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be buying MS Office, I already have iWork installed and if Apple make the document formats transparently interchangeable with MS Office I doubt I'll buy Office again.


So Slow, 30 Sep 2008
It looks good but not the same as before so there is some relearning required. But the biggest surprise of all is that it is frustratingly slow. I have iWorks but bought this because my wife kept saying that MS office was better, but even she now admits it's not.

Only buy this if you absolutely have to, or if you have more patience than me.

Don't upgrade - VBA is off, quite slow, 12 Sep 2008
This product should have never been released. It miss a fundamental subset of Excel, VBA. Suddenly all macros stopped to work after I upgraded, and the unthinkable was correct, yes Microsoft has removed VBA, even from the help! after some online research to confirm, I removed it and re-installed 2004. This is not to mention the huge resources consumption or the new improved, or should say, ugly interface.

great item...read description.., 20 Aug 2008
excellent product, usually very expensive though. however,
matty2purcell seems to be the cheapest and best seller


Still better than the recent editions!, 19 Aug 2008
Office Mac 2004 - Student and Teacher Edition is a fantastic package. I myself am a University student and obviously needed a copy of Word and PowerPoint respectively for lectures, and so bought a copy off ebay (seems to be the best place to find it cheap) for under forty quid.

In College 3 years ago, I had already familiarized myself with the 'full' version of Office Mac 2004 that contained all the features possible, and the slightly different interface. Following on from this experience, and after looking at the average feedback for the 2008 edition, I opted for the Student and teacher edition of 2004 to see if it was much different from the full version I had used.

In short, the answer is not very - you could pay a lot, lot more money just for a different interface and more programs, but I've found that 2004 S & T Edition is a lot more concise-a-program, and is better value for money, second hand of course. This S & T Edition features all the ideal programs for daily Uni/Educational life, including;

Word - For creating smart documents, making quick lecture notes using the Note-Pad feature, and composing long pieces of work.

PowerPoint - For creating visual and audible presentations via 'slides'. Used alot in higher education, so glad it's included.

Excel - For creating spreadsheet and consolidating numeric data, such as Charts, Graphs, and Tables.