Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Review
Office for Mac includes Word, Excel for spreadsheets, PowerPoint for presentations and Entourage for e-mail and time management. There are no Microsoft Access database application for the Mac, although FileMaker upcoming release of Bento offers Mac users a new choice.
Unlike Microsoft Office 2007, the interface changes do not look radically foreign next to the edition 2004. This is great news for those who do not want the locations of common functions to relearn. The 2007 applications for Windows arrange functions in tabs, while the 2008 Mac software largely clusters functions within the same drop-down menus, including File, Edit and View.
By and large most of the changes focus on the attempt to help users craft more attractive documents. For example, Office for Mac features the same templates and Smart Art graphics as the Windows counterparts. They are prefabricated templates with 3D and translucent designs.
There are more welcome and substantial changes as well. Now you can save to PDF, and Automator actions are supported. The new My Day widget for Entourage floats on the Mac desktop displayed calendar and task lists. This is handy when you are on Entourage, but not leave it wants to run all the time. Office 2007 for Windows display cluster functions within a contextual “Ribbon” toolbar, the various options. Office for Mac lacks the Ribbon, but some menu items appear only in step with the task. We found the shape-shifting neither terribly distracting nor useful. For simple tweaks such as changing fonts, you need to consult floating formatting boxes. Being accustomed to Office for Windows, we would rather find all these options at the top of the screen.
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Office for Mac saves work used in the same, new Open XML formats in Office 2007 for Windows. We are not about this being the default option smitten, even if you save your work in the older DOC, XLS and PPT formats.
You’ll need a Mac with 1.5 GB on the hard drive running at least OS 10.4.9 with 512 MB of RAM and a 500MHz Intel or PowerPC processor. The installation took about 20 minutes on our MacBook running the Leopard operating system.
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The least expensive option is the $ 150 Home and Student edition (formerly Student and teachers), support for Exchange and Automator missing. Fortunately, those who have Office for Mac 2004 can upgrade for free.
Nevertheless, the fees feel strong addition to the $ 80 Apple iWork ’08. Indeed, rivals to Office for Mac seem like a bargain, even though they offer fewer tools. Mac users can choose from iWork ’08, the free OpenOffice 2, or tools with free online components including ThinkFree, Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Zoho office. These are all dandy for composing and editing text documents, juggling spreadsheets, and creating slide-show presentations.
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