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A 'Home and Student Edition' ($149.95 list no special upgrade price) omits Microsoft Exchange support for Entourage and also omits the OS X Automator actions for workflows, which are included in the standard version. MS Office for Mac has got all the main applications like MS Word for creating documents, MS Excel for creating spreadsheets and MS PowerPoint for creating presentations.Office 2008 ($399.95 list $239.95 upgrade) comprises Mac versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, along with the Entourage program, which does much of what Outlook does for Windows Office users. In the small PivotTable box that appears, click either , Microsoft Office 2008 DMG for Mac OS Overview Microsoft Office 2008 DMG for Mac OS is an application which is considered as the best choice for the business users. And, especially if you're an advanced user, you might consider sitting out this version entirely.Microsoft Excel 2008 Pivot Table Tutorial (for MAC) using the federal campaign donation data from the syllabus. If you've been impatient to upgrade, I think you'd be wise to wait, at least until Microsoft releases one or two bug-fixing updates.

In addition to the previous version's slightly silly-looking Notebook view, which uses a lined-paper-style background and optional tabs, the new version adds a Publishing Layout view with an even sillier-looking (but harmless) wood-grain background on which I could store pictures and other document elements before dragging them into a file. Users who work on both Macs and Windows-based PCs are left with having to navigate two completely different interfaces.Word now makes document building easy by adding a Document Elements feature like that in Office 2007, so I could drag into a document prebuilt designs for title pages, contents, and headers and footers. The interface would fit right into the graphics-rich Mac environment, and it's a major disappointment that Microsoft didn't introduce it to the Mac.

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You'll get improved speed and a few new features, but I'm not sure those improvements alone are worth the price of an upgrade of the whole suite.PowerPoint's major new benefit is the SmartArt feature for building graphics based on tabular data, but other useful features include output to PNG or JPEG formats and an Object Palette (shared throughout the suite) that included my iPhoto libraryвЂ”a nice feature but not enough to make me give up Keynote's dazzling and intuitive graphics. If, like me, you get some or all of your e-mail from a Microsoft Exchange server, then you'll need Entourage to read your mail, and that means you'll need the full version of Microsoft Office. For example, I could now click and drag to create a new event in the calendar, and unlike the 2004 version, the new app didn't send a response to invitations that didn't ask for one. All these seem to me minor improvements, and none is a compelling reason to upgrade or to prefer Office to iWork.I found that Entourage 2008 was notably faster than the 2004 version on both Intel and PowerPC platforms, and that its calendar features were more customizable and manageable.

The Spinning Beachball of Death replaced the cursor, and I had to use the OS X Force Quit option to shut down Word and start over. Maybe big corporate customers might persuade Microsoft to change its mind, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting.вЂ” Next: The Spinning Beachball and the Incompatible ChartThe Spinning Beachball and the Incompatible ChartI was taken aback when Word 2008 froze within minutes after I had installed it, while I was using the MailMerge Manager to insert merge fields into an envelope. Sources inside Microsoft explained that it would have taken years to port VBA to the Intel platform, and there's no hope that Microsoft will ever do the job. Office 2008 supports both AppleScript and Apple's Automator workflows, but that's little comfort to professionals who have spent years fine-tuning their VBA code. Unfortunately, I found that the 2008 version was notably slower on older PowerPC-based machines than the 2004 version, that the interface was permanently cluttered with tabs for features like Word Art that I never use, and that Microsoft had completely dropped VBA automationвЂ”instantly rendering unusable any spreadsheet that relies on VBA programming, and rendering impossible any cross-platform sharing between Windows and the Mac of data that relies on VBA. (It must have seemed cool to someone in Microsoft's graphics department, but it strikes everyone I've shown it to as downright ugly and a waste of space).I could live with the minor interface annoyances I've mentioned if the suite functioned as well as I had hoped.

Office lets me synchronize contacts and calendar information between itself and OS X, but that's not as convenient or reliable as using the same data store for all applicationsвЂ”something that's possible with every important Mac application except Microsoft Office. I also noticed that Microsoft still hadn't fixed a compatibility bug in Office 2004 that caused the bullet symbol in some of my Word for Windows files to print as an open squareвЂ”although the same symbol imported and printed perfectly when I opened the file in iWork's Pages.I was even more disappointed to find that Office still insists on using its own address book and calendar instead of the native OS X Address Book and iCal program. When a new version of Excel can't even open one of its own files correctly, it's time to wonder what's happened to Microsoft's quality control. In the Mac version, parts of some lines in the chart simply didn't appear.

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