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2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 SP1 Makes a big difference, 2008-06-28
Out of the box, Office:Mac is really buggy and has lots of minor annoying issues. However, with SP1 most of the major problems have been fixed.
Lack of VBA support is a huge pain, but rumor is MS will fix this in the next version of Office:Mac
EndNote Cite While You Write now works with Word 2008 so this makes is much better for me to use. SP1 is required for CWYW from EndNote to work.
Entourage is pretty terrible, and I am a longtime Outlook junkie on PC. I use Mail.app instead. Entourage has a poor Non-Mac UI, is slow, crash prone and not compatible with regular outlook .pst files so what is the point? Entourage also doesn't work well with exchange either.
Word, Excel and Powerpoint are pretty good overall unless you need VBA compatibility.
User interface of Office is really inconcsistent now between the versions and platforms. It is a real pain in a mixed environment. You have to learn where things are on each platform and version. Thus if you are in a mixed environment of Macs with Mac Office 2004, Mac Office 2008 and PC's with both Office XP and Office 2007 you will have a hard time finding commands (or remembering where they are in each version). It is painfully obvious that the Mac Office developers do not communicate very well with the Office 2007 developers.
Good enough, 2008-06-26
Thus far I've only used word and excel, and both only for very light work. I do find it a little annoying that it defaults to the docx format. I suppose in the future this might be the best, and I wonder if perhaps microsoft made it this way in order to force this standard.
I've had difficulty opening a microsoft doc from earlier versions once. It wasn't really a problem, but required a few extra mouse clicks and commands that I didn't expect to have to include.
All in all, the program is fine, but it's the compatibility and cross platform use that remains a concern. I've not used it widely enough to get a sense for this, but I would say expect to run into at least a few annoyances along the way
 Incredible fast shipping, 2008-06-25
I was so anxious to get my product that I didn't realize that not even 2 days past when my order arrived
1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 I want my the old word back!!, 2008-06-24
I recently purchased Word 2008. I find it to be confusing and to have an overload of choices that I don't need. I can't seem to make Word do simple things. In short, I hate it and want my old Word back!
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Office MAC 2008 Home and Student Edition, 2008-06-23
This product installed well on my IMAC and I found that it handled word files well that had been created on a PC using Word from Office 2003. Using word on a MAC is a little different than using it on a PC. I find the MAC software to be not as straight forward. I am currently writing manuscripts, and some of the more subtle features of Word on the MAC have given me problems. I was keeping my documents in the computability doc format, which allowed me to shuffle back and forth from MAC to PC, but I started having problems with a document quitting unexpectedly especially after updating my custom dictionary with words from my old custom dictionary on the PC. All in all I find Office to be very useful on the MAC. I think I just have to get used to it.
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