Microsoft Office for Mac

Microsoft Office for Mac was released in 2008. It was originally planned for debut in mid 2007. This is the first version of office Mac and was a universal binary product.

What are the features of this version of office? Microsoft Office Mac came packaged with

• Entourage
• Excel
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Word for Mac

Further features are listed below.

A publishing layout was included. This is very similar to a ledger sheet. This offers a substantial benefit recording financials. It offers a feature called, "My Day," which shows a quick preview of that day’s events.

Microsoft office for Mac supports XML open office format. This format conversion update was very useful for many users.

Visual Basic was not included in the initial offering. But, it was updated later and released as an upgraded version. It also supported both open scripting and application scripting, offered by Apple

What are the drawbacks for Office Mac?

While many great features were available in Office, there were disadvantages as well. For one things, the lack of Visual Basic did not allow for the effective use of Macros in Excel.

And common Excel features like data filters, icon based systems, structured references, and table styles were not supported.

Word processed much slower and there was no alternative offered. to compensate for the sluggishness.

What are the Versions of Mac Microsoft Office? 

Office Mac is available in 3 editions. All included entourage, Powerpoint, Excel and Word. Office 2008, which is used for home and has an available student version. Both are offered without exchange server supporters.

The next available edition is the standard version of Office 2008 for the Mac which adds exchange support offered by the Microsoft.

The third edition is Office 2008, Mac Special Edition. This included media edition along with exchange support as well as expression media offered by Microsoft.

Mac has offered further updates since then. 

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