Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition

• Streamlined customer interface runs natively on together Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs
• Open XML document formats, the Office Art graphics engine, and other features this outcome in compatibility and document fidelity
• Professional design is inside your power together with hundreds of new customizable templates and suite-wide themes, SmartArt graphics, and the new Publishing Layout View in Word 2008
• My Day keeps you connected to all of the day's action. Command your calendar, tackle your tasks, and simplify your day
• Consists of: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage

Simplify Your Work
Your presentation will do an impact. Your documents will be professional. Your analysis will be insightful. And Office 2008 will be there.
The latest version of the industry standard for productivity software on the Macintosh platform, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is extra great and easier to use. Office 2008 combines Microsoft Word for Mac, Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac, Microsoft Excel for Mac, Microsoft Entourage for Mac, and Microsoft Messenger for Mac and lets you effortlessly make high-impact documents and flawlessly share your ideas together with others, whether they are on the Mac or Windows platform.

What's New in Office for Mac?

• Universal versions of the much popular productivity applications on the Macintosh platform (Universal applications run natively on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.)
• Microsoft Office for Mac natively maintains the Open XML document formats for compatibility together with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products.
• A redesigned customer interface and great new tools for simplifying work, creating excellent looking documents, and exchanging ideas and information together with others.

Highlights of Office 2008 for Mac

• Office 2008 is a Universal Binary, was built by Mac users for Mac users, and consists of many features which get advantage of underlying technologies of the Macintosh platform.
• Office 2008 uses Open XML document formats for compatibility together with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products. XML document formats help decrease the risk of lost information due to damaged or corrupted files and in addition outcome in smaller document sizes--up to 75 percent smaller than comparable binary documents. Office 2008 for Mac is backward-compatible together with earlier document formats and users can continue to use the older .doc, .xls, and .ppt binary formats.
• Elements Gallery is the foundation of the new customer interface, and provides simple access to the much commonly used tools and templates. Together with the new UI, you'll harness the abilities of Office for Mac extra effortlessly than ever before.
• Office 2008 consists of OfficeArt, the great graphics engine in addition used in the Windows-based Office 2007 products. You get excellent cross-platform document fidelity and simple access to spectacular visual and graphic results.
• Your words will do an impact together with the modern styling of SmartArt graphics, which makes transforming topic and bulleted lists into professional diagrams and graphics one-click simple.
• A new Themes ability simplifies the process of applying a consistent look and feel across documents. Effortlessly apply a complete set of colors, fonts, and results to your Office 2008 documents, and modify them as effortlessly as varying your intellect.
• Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office enables you to automate Office 2008 together with extra than 70 pre-defined actions built to simplify your work and expand your productivity. (Available in Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2008 for Mac Exclusive Media Edition.)

Entourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps it to happen, one task at a time.

Enjoy great new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive customer interface in Word 2008.

Entourage 2008
Your e-mails will spark ideas, you'll schedule meetings where creativity abounds. Entourage 2008, the hub of Office 2008, helps it to happen, one task at a time.

• My Day keeps you connected to the action. Schedules, tasks, and priorities in one simple, standalone interface. Time will have no choice but to be well-managed.
• Use color-coded categories, status indicators, and flexible To-Do list management humble even the much hectic schedules.
• Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2008 Exclusive Media Edition enable users to access their Microsoft Exchange server accounts together with Entourage.
• Improved Junk E-Mail filtering abilities and phishing protection tools help shield your inbox from the scourge of junk. Your inbox will breathe a sigh of relief.
• Projects submit to your enhanced management skills when you unleash the power of Project Center, Together with project details like e-mail messages, documents, schedules, and contacts in one convenient situate, Project Center helps keep your information--and your stress--under control.

Word 2008
Great new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive customer interface in Word 2008 will help you to do your ideas look as good as they are.

• When you turn blah into brilliant, Publishing Layout View will elevate the way you believe concerning Word 2008. This new specialized and customizable workspace lets users make incredibly rich documents such as newletters, flyers and brochures not including a degree in design.
• Excellent looking document construction won't require a hard hat. New Templates, Themes, and Document Elements like cover pages and bibliographies do creating professional-looking output a snap.
• Your words will do an impact together with the modern styling of SmartArt, which makes transforming topic into high-excellence graphics and diagrams as simple as one click.
• Dynamic Guides will help you keep all of your words and graphics in line and on point.
• Mass mailings will have a personal touch and Word 2008 Mail Merge Manager will guide you step by simple step.

Inspire your audience's imagination together with compelling visuals and engaging layout in PowerPoint 2008.

Analyze, share, and manage your data, and effortlessly make persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for great outcomes together with Excel 2008.

PowerPoint 2008
Your presentation is a story. PowerPoint 2008 will illustrate it. Inspire your audience's imagination together with compelling visuals and engaging layout.

• Excellent ideas will get their graphic due together with SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint 2008. Begin together with a blank slide or a bulleted list, and, together with a click of a button, you'll have a spectacular chart, table, map, or diagram.
• Designer Themes help you provide your presentation a creative look, just and shortly.
• The new Object Palette lets fast access to all your forms, art, symbols, and images--counting iPhoto files--in one simple-to-access space.
• Dynamic Guides will help you situate and resize your graphic element to make professional-looking presentations in a snap.
• You'll lay out custom designs to showcase your distinctive content together with custom layout abilities in PowerPoint 2008.
• PowerPoint 2008 integration together with Apple Remote Control lets you concentrate on your words, not your keyboard. Now control your presentation and engage your audience unleashed from the podium.

  Excel 2008
  It's a numbers strategy. Together with Excel 2008, analyze, share, and manage your data, and effortlessly make persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for great outcomes.

  • Ledger Sheets in Excel 2008 do tracking finances, inventories, even invoices and portfolios simple together with preformulated spreadsheets and automatic calculations.
  • Charting innovations artfully convey the message your data is telling. You'll see your numbers in a whole new way.
  • The new prebuilt functions tackle the much common tasks and do creating error-free advanced conditional formulas easier.
  • Fast access to formulas makes functions extra functional together with Formula Builder in Excel 2008.
  • Your data will recognize virtually no limits. Excel 2008 now maintains over 16,000 columns and over 1 million rows.
  • Whether you're an Excel expert or a complete novice, Excel 2008 Formula AutoComplete simplifies your calculations by getting a dynamic pop-up menu so you can pick and choose and complete your formula.

  Messenger for Mac
  Convenience is the name of the strategy for Mac users who would like to communicate instantly together with family, friends and colleagues from one convenient situate. Messenger for Mac is now a Universal application, and provides you extra ways to share what's on your intellect or on your plate.

  Use Messenger for Mac to instantly check the status of project team members, streamline workflow by sending documents directly from Word, or propose questions or comments on document changes instantly.

  • Yahoo! Interoperability will agree to personal users to connect and message together with Yahoo! Messenger for Mac users.
  • Your intentions will never again be in doubt when you make your own custom emoticons in Messenger for Mac.
  • Spelling Checker is now integrated in Messenger for Mac.
  • Let the world recognize your tastes when you display your iTunes selection together with the new "What I'm listening to now" aspect.