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Microsoft Word Mac 2008 (Mac)
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List Price: $229.95
Special Price: $192.99
Your Savings: $ 36.96 ( 16% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0882224542715
Feature: Publishing Layout View lets users create incredibly rich documents such as newletters, flyers and brochures without a degree in design
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Microsoft Software
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
Model: D48-00756
Platform: Macintosh
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Release Date: 2008-01-17
Studio: Microsoft Software
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Features
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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
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Editorial Reviews:
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Stunning graphics, modern themes, and do-it-yourself design templates / Create media-rich layouts in great-looking newsletters, brochures, and reports
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Purchase of Word for mac Software
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Get the Home and Student edition instead
Comment: 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.
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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
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