Office 2008 for Mac

Office Mac 2008  

 

Office 2008 for Mac is a suite of desktop productivity applications that are designed to work specifically with the Macintosh operating system. It provides Mac users with applications for creating effective documents, sharing ideas with other users on Mac computers or Windows-based computers, and managing information efficiently.

 

Office 2008 is redesigned and reinvented to be more compatible, powerful and easy to use. With a fresh, more intuitive interface, you'll discover new ways to present your ideas and manage your day. It gives you the tools to create professional looking documents with modern graphics and text effects, manage your data for powerful results, and create designer-quality presentations with coordinated themes and layouts.

 

The files that you create in Office 2008 look like you want them to on Windows-based computers because Office 2008 uses the same file format as 2007 Microsoft Office system.

 

Office 2008 for Mac Editions

Office Mac Suite 

 

Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition - 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.

It includes:

Office 2008 for Mac - 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.

It includes:

Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition - for media-savvy Mac users to achieve more and simplify digital assets management. For professional working libraries of images, video, music and digital assets, we've combined the reinvented Office 2008 for Mac experience with Expression Media.

It includes:

  • Word
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • Entourage
  • Microsoft Server Exchange Support
  • Automator Actions for Workflows in Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft Expression Media. 

New Features

New and improved features in Office 2008 can help you create impressive-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations and share them easily. Many features are located in the handy new Elements Gallery.

 

Office Mac 2008 

  • Elements Gallery - The Elements Gallery is located below the toolbars in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It provides quick access to some of the most-used features. From the Elements Gallery, you can add SmartArt graphics, WordArt, charts, tables, and templates to your documents and presentations. In PowerPoint, you can apply slide layouts or slide themes from the Elements Gallery. In Excel, you can find preformatted ledger sheets in the Elements Gallery.

  • SmartArt graphics - Quickly create designer-quality diagrams, charts, and other information graphics by using SmartArt graphics. Choose from dozens of SmartArt graphics to visually represent lists, hierarchies, and other relationships. You can preview and add all SmartArt graphics from the Elements Gallery in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

  • WordArt - Excel, PowerPoint, and Word include updated, modern-looking WordArt that you can use to apply 2-D and 3-D effects to text. You can preview and apply WordArt from the WordArt tab in each application's Elements Gallery.

  • Improved charting - Use new designer-quality chart templates to illustrate your data with special effects such as 3-D, transparency, and shadows. In Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, you can insert charts from the Elements Gallery. You can also apply updated chart styles, edit, and format charts. You must create and edit your data in Excel, but you can insert the chart into your Word document or PowerPoint presentation.

  • Themes and a theme-aware colour picker - Use new Office themes to quickly create a unified look for your documents, presentations, and workbooks. Each theme has a coordinated set of fonts, colours, and visual effects that you can apply in one click.

  • Default XML file formats - The new default file formats, called Open XML Formats, create smaller files and make it easier to recover damaged files and share files. The new file formats, which are used in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, also help keep your files more secure. Open XML Formats are also the default file formats for the 2007 Microsoft Office system for the Windows operating system.

  • Automator support - Automator is a Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger) application that helps you automate commonly performed and repetitive tasks. In Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition and Office 2008, all the applications come with several sample Automator workflows. For example, a workflow in Word converts text to audio and sends the audio to an iPod. In Entourage, you can use a sample workflow to print selected e-mail messages.

  • Toolbox and Object Palette - The Office Toolbox is now a one-stop destination for some of the most useful tools in Office. The new Toolbox consolidates the Formatting Palette, Object Palette, Compatibility Report, Scrapbook, Reference Tools, and other application-specific tools in one convenient interface. You can also customise Toolbox settings, such as which palettes to show and how the Toolbox should appear when it's not in use.

  • Save as PDF - It is now easier to save and share your documents, presentations, and workbooks by using the popular Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF helps ensure that your documents appear with the correct layout and fonts on any computer that can view PDF files. The PDF file format option is now available directly from the Save As dialog box on the File menu in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

  • Improved Help - Use the new Help to quickly find relevant answers to your questions about any Office application. When you are online, you can connect to the online version of Help, which is regularly updated with new topics, troubleshooting information, training courses, and other resources. You can also provide feedback to indicate which topics you find useful.

  • Universal binary format - Office is optimised for both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macintosh computers.
 
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