Microsoft Office 2008 Home + Student Mac £91.96

Simplify Your Work
Your presentation will make 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 more powerful 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 easily create high-impact documents and seamlessly share your ideas with others, whether they are on the Mac or Windows platform.

Whats New in Office for Mac?

• Universal versions of the most popular productivity applications on the Macintosh platform (Universal applications run natively on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.)
• Microsoft Office for Mac natively supports the Open XML file formats for compatibility with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products.
• A redesigned user interface and powerful new tools for simplifying work, creating great looking documents, and exchanging ideas and information with others.
  
  Highlights of Office 2008 for Mac
  
• Office 2008 is a Universal Binary, was built by Mac users for Mac users, and includes many features which take advantage of underlying technologies of the Macintosh platform.
• Office 2008 uses Open XML file formats for compatibility with Windows-based 2007 Microsoft Office products. XML file formats help reduce the risk of lost information due to damaged or corrupted files and also result in smaller file sizes - up to 75 percent smaller than comparable binary documents. Office 2008 for Mac is backward-compatible with earlier file formats and users can continue to use the older .doc, .xls, and .ppt binary formats.
• Elements Gallery is the foundation of the new user interface, and gives easy access to the most commonly used tools and templates. With the new UI, you’ll harness the capabilities of Office for Mac more easily than ever before.
  
  More highlights of Office 2008 for Mac
  
• Office 2008 includes OfficeArt, the powerful graphics engine also used in the Windows-based Office 2007 products. You get great cross-platform file fidelity and easy access to stunning visual and graphic effects.
• Your words will make an impact with the modern styling of SmartArt graphics, which makes transforming text and bulleted lists into professional diagrams and graphics one-click easy.
• A new Themes capability simplifies the process of applying a consistent look and feel across documents. Easily apply a complete set of colors, fonts, and effects to your Office 2008 documents, and change them as easily as changing your mind.
  
  Entourage for Mac 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 easy, 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 most hectic schedules.
• Improved Junk E-Mail filtering capabilities 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 superior management skills when you unleash the power of Project Center.
  
  Word 2008 for Mac
  Powerful new tools, over 100 designer templates, rich themes, and an intuitive user interface in Word 2008 will help you to make your ideas look as good as they are.
• When you turn blah into brilliant, Publishing Layout View will elevate the way you think about Word 2008. This new specialised and customisable workspace lets users create incredibly rich documents such as newsletters, flyers and brochures without a degree in design.
• Great looking document construction won’t require a hard hat. New Templates, Themes, and Document Elements like cover pages and bibliographies make creating professional-looking output a snap.
• Your words will make an impact with the modern styling of SmartArt, which makes transforming text into high-quality graphics and diagrams as easy as one click.
• Dynamic Guides will help you keep all of your words and graphics in line and on point.
  
  PowerPoint 2008 for Mac
  Your presentation is a story. PowerPoint 2008 will illustrate it. Inspire your audience's imagination with compelling visuals and engaging layout.
• Great ideas will get their graphic due with SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint 2008. Start with a blank slide or a bulleted list, and, with a click of a button, you’ll have a stunning chart, table, map, or diagram.
• Designer Themes help you give your presentation a creative look, simply and quickly.
• The new Object Palette allows quick access to all your shapes, art, symbols, and pictures - including iPhoto files - in one easy-to-access space.
• Dynamic Guides will help you place and resize your graphic element to create professional-looking presentations in a snap.
• You’ll lay out custom designs to showcase your unique content with custom layout capabilities in PowerPoint 2008.
  
  Excel 2008 for Mac
  It's a numbers game. With Excel 2008, analyse, share, and manage your data, and easily create persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for powerful results.
• Ledger Sheets in Excel 2008 make tracking finances, inventories, even invoices and portfolios easy with preformulated spreadsheets and automatic calculations.
• Charting improvements artfully convey the message your data is telling. You'll see your numbers in a whole new way.
• The new prebuilt functions tackle the most common tasks and make creating error-free complex conditional formulas easier.
• Quick access to formulas makes functions more functional with Formula Builder in Excel 2008.
• Your data will know virtually no limits. Excel 2008 now supports over 16,000 columns and over 1 million rows.
  
  Messenger 6.0 for Mac
  Convenience is the name of the game for Mac users who want to communicate instantly with family, friends and colleagues from one convenient place. Messenger for Mac is now a Universal application, and gives you more ways to share what's on your mind 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 offer questions or comments on document changes instantly.
• Yahoo! Interoperability will allow personal users to connect and message with Yahoo! Messenger for Mac users.
• Your intentions will never again be in doubt when you create your own custom emoticons in Messenger for Mac.
• Spelling Checker is now included in Messenger for Mac.
• Let the world know your tastes when you display your iTunes selection with the new 'What I'm listening to now' feature.
  
  

• Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (500 MHz or faster) processor
• Mac OS X version 10.4.9 or later
• 512 MB of RAM or more
• 1.5 GB of available hard disk space
• HFS+ hard disk format (also known as Mac OS Extended or HFS Plus)
• DVD drive or connection to a local area network (if installing over a network)
• 1024 x 768 or higher resolution monitor
• Connectivity to Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Exchange 2003, or Exchange 2007 is required for certain advanced functionality in Entourage 2008
• Entourage and certain features require Internet access (fees may apply).