Microsoft Word Mac 2008
- Publishing Layout View lets users create incredibly rich documents such as newletters, flyers and brochures without a degree in design
- Organize your thoughts with customized backgrounds and color-coded tabs in Notebook Layout View
- New Templates, Themes, and Document Elements like cover pages and bibliographies make creating professional-looking output a snap
- SmartArt makes transforming text into high-quality graphics and diagrams as easy as one click
- Dynamic Guides help you keep all of your words and graphics in line and on point
Product Description
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Take artistic control. Word 2008 for Mac. From CEOs to students, people are creating instant buzz with media-rich layouts, templates, and themes in great-looking newsletters, brochures, and reports.
Create media-rich layouts, templates, and themes in great-looking newsletters, brochures, and reports. |
Document Elements
Simply Snap It Together
Authors create books more quickly; lawyers build cases in less time; and students easily assemble reports. Save time with pre-formatted building blocks: tables of contents, cover pages, headers, footers, and bibliographies.
Customize on the Fly
Sales people, students, managers, and moms easily customize their creations with just a click. Alter a theme or template on demand, or modify an element before saving your own custom style. Make your doc your own.
Work Easily with Citations
Bibliographies have always required memorizing rules and formatting text–time better spent on polishing your ideas. Now, just access the Elements Gallery to easily format and manage citations in your documents’ bibliographies.
Publishing Layout View
No Publishing Experience Necessary
Overnight, everyone from students to store owners will create great looking newsletters, flyers, brochures, and reports. With easy-to-use layout tools and templates, you’ll create media-rich, professional-grade docs.
Say It Where You Want
Easily move and control content with linked text boxes that flow your words seamlessly from one spot to the next. Put text exactly where you want to get it noticed in newsletters, flyers, and reports.
Use Your Workspace
Forget cumbersome format boxes. Instead, enjoy easy and instant artistic control in this visual environment where you can drag and drop your text, images, and graphics on and off your document until you see your doc take the perfect shape.
Enjoy easy and instant artistic control in Publishing Layout View. |
After you’ve added color-coded tabs to your notes, move them around as you need in Notebook Layout View. |
Notebook Layout View
Color-code Your Notes
Flex your power to find what you need by making your notes more usable. Organize your thoughts with customized backgrounds and color-coded tabs either when taking notes or when reviewing your docs.
Give Ideas a Voice
Synchronize Audio Notes to typed class notes, meeting minutes, or research. Add Flags so it’s easy to find what you’re looking for later. Integrate tasks with Entourage and turn notes into actionable to-dos.
Reorganize with Ease
After you’ve added color-coded tabs to your notes, move them around as you need in Notebook Layout View. When you can re-organize notes on-the-fly, you can actually start to build your projects as you’re reviewing your research.
All across Office 2008
Know Right Where to Look
Welcome to intuitive discovery. See exactly what you need, as you need it, with the new expandable and collapsible Elements Gallery. Relevant tools ready to help you concept, create, and share your ideas and always within easy reach.
Go Ahead, Change Your Mind
Switch your pie chart to a graph. Turn a table into a timeline. With SmartArt graphics, your data transfers between your diagrams. Go ahead and focus on customizing your colors, styles, and callouts with one-click ease; your ideas always remain intact and center stage.
Apply Amazing Effects
Add stunning, modern graphics with just a click, and conjure up amazing effects across applications and platforms–from reflections to realistic 3D–with the OfficeArt graphics engine. No art experience even required.
I am running into bugs in use of symbols, header problems, and other format issues and problems bring in Word doc files that were created on a PC running XP and Word 2003. Checking on the internet for solutions and the microsoft website for support and I see that these bugs were reported years ago and no fixes were generated. Microsoft Word for the Mac is a dead product that Microsoft is not supporting but happy to suck out as much cash from old code for as long as they can get away with it.
Better to get iWorks from Apple or any other word processing program. I thought that it would insure maximum compatibility with Word files created on a PC by myself and others but I was wrong. Microsoft does not want to make it easy for people to defect from the Windows camp and it shows in this malfunctioning software they continue to sell.
Rating: 2 / 5
I really wanted to like this program, I really did. Yeah it loads slow, but whatever so does the whole Office suite for Mac. But unlike the rest of the suite this program is just terrible. The best way I have heard it described is: “Office just thinks it is so dang smart.” It goes too far, automated functions galore. The problem is that there are so many automated functions that one becomes a slave to them and many are hard to turn off.
Some of these functions (such as autocorrect spelling as you type) are truly useful. Others such as the horrendously implemented “Bullets and Numbering” section and the just plain odd function that makes it really difficult to make single spaces in, say, an address are not useful and in fact end up wasting a lot of my time.
All in all I will tell you that Wordperfect is far and away better than Word. OpenOffice is a lot better and a lot freer option as well. If you are stuck buying Word 2008, sorry (maybe you can stick with the 2004 version, it is better), if you aren’t get a better program.
Rating: 2 / 5
After some time and research I decided to buy Word for Mac. As a graphic designer, I already had an IMAC. Yet for my writing class, everything needed to be submitted in Word. So after looking at Laptop PCs, and the separate price for WORD, it was clearly a better deal to buy Word for the Mac. I am very happy with the software, it’s very much like Word 7 I use at work on a PC. I received it promptly and I’m very happy with the service and the software.
Rating: 5 / 5
For those who’ve not yet heard, Microsoft Word 2008 is a quite attractive product, beautiful even. It did release with some nasty bugs, but I’m not having any problems with the latest updates, so be sure to upgrade to the current release. Also, keep in mind that it loads very s-l-o-w-l-y. Nothing else on my Mac loads so slowly.
****
I’d strongly suggest that you NOT get this $180 Word-only version. Opt instead for this:
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition
You can compare the differences, but for most people it’s a no-brainer. With the $122 home and student edition you get Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Entourage, and Messenger with a license to legally install it on to up to three computers. With the product on this page you only get Word (and I believed licensed only for one computer) for $180. There are, I believe a few business-oriented templates that come with this version, but probably nothing you can’t do without.
Why Microsoft is doing this I don’t know. Perhaps they figure that many businesses will pay extra for the templates while home users will opt for free, open source software if Microsoft doesn’t offer them a good bargain. And make no mistake, Microsoft Office for $122 is a good deal, if for no other reason than that it lets you exchange files with everyone else who’s using Word, Excel and Powerpoint. And if you’re a student, look around for even better prices on a back-to-school-2008 offer from Microsoft.
My only major gripe about this release is that Microsoft still hasn’t created a Mac version of OneNote. A notetaking application, it gets rave reviews from fortunate Windows users. For more details, see Wikipedia.
–Michael W. Perry, Untangling Tolkien: A Chronology and Commentary for The Lord of the Rings
Rating: 4 / 5