Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition includes Word for Mac, Excel for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac and Entourage. This version does not include Microsoft Access.
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition allows you to create impressive documents, presentations and spreadsheets that are easy on the eyes and share them with other Office users on Macintosh or Windows.
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition is a Universal Binary version of the Office suite which means it runs on Intel- as well as on PowerPC-based Mac boxes. This version also natively supports Open XML format to share documents between different platforms and architectures.
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition comes with slightly redesigned interface, but existing Office users for Macintosh do not have to relearn common functions since they didn't radically change. The new interface is based on Elements Gallery that aim at making the navigation easier and the access to the most used functions is now quicker. By and large, the new user interface is so easy to operate that you can become an expert in virtually no time.
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition features OfficeArt which is a powerful graphical editor allowing you to create impressive graphs and drawings directly into your Office documents and share them across platforms with other MS Office users.
The SmartArt feature allows you to creatively transform text you type into bulleted lists, diagrams and other transparent structures that allow your readers to read your documents easier.
You can add cover pages, tables and their contents swiftly and there are also four citation styles available should you require any footnotes in your document.
The suite includes translucent 3D templates for creating attractive presentations. The theme facility lets you to apply consistent fonts, font sizes and formatting across all document's sections or groups of documents. Documents created can be saved to PDF that is a built-in function
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition includes the Automator feature where you can launch predefined actions.
MS Excel for Mac 2008 comes with a bunch of new features including the tool for designing complex formulas, more columns and rows (Excel can now handle up to 17 millions of cells).
Excel comes with templates included where you can create ledger sheets, invoices and track financial information in a predefined template to make the common calculations automatically for you.
Excel includes improved supports for generating charts and diagrams giving your data a more appealing form. The Formula Builder allows you to create sophisticated calculations quickly and the Formula AutoComplete assist you while building complex formulas by giving you suggestions and automatically completing fields for you.
Customers who recently bought Office 2004 for Mac can upgrade for free to the 2008 version.