Ms Announces Universal Office 2008 For Mac

Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac apps from top left to bottom right: Word, Excel. Microsoft announced that Teams would eventually replace Skype for Business. Dropped in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, then reintroduced in Office for Mac 2011. It was the only Office for Mac suite to be compiled as a universal binary, being. The 'universal' label means that Office 2008 for Mac - the official name for the product - will run on both PowerPC-based as well as newer Intel-based Macs. This is the first version of Office.

WordWhen we were originally installing Office 2008, we foundourselves asking just what new features Microsoft could add to Office, muchlike we were asking when Microsoft was preparing Windows Vista for release.Office like XP is a stable product, our chief complaints about Office 2004 wererelated to the GUI and not the feature set, as the office suite is no longer arapidly evolving application. To answer our own question, out of the three coreOffice applications Word in particular has seen the biggest additions.To understand where Microsoft has gone with Word 2008, it’sbest to first start with Apple’s Pages application, Word’s biggest competitoron the Mac. Pages is a combination of a word processor and a page layoutapplication, with the earliest versions of Pages focusing more on the page layoutfunctionality and the word processor functionality getting rounded out lateron. Conversely, Word is primarily a word processor with very little in the wayof page layout functionality until now. If Pages is going to be a page layoutapplication that doubles as a word processor, then starting with Office 2008Microsoft has decided that Word is going to be a word processor that doubles asa page layout application, and this is where the bulk of Word’s new featureslie.In Word’s Elements Gallery is the new Document Elementsfeature, the core of its new page layout features. Document Elements functionas templeted insertable elements, allowing users to insert cover pages, tableof contents, headers, footers, and bibliographies. Prior versions of Word haveallowed this same basic functionality, but in practice the difference ispractically night & day; document elements come in a variety of differentstyles and most elements can be changed on the fly for another element.

This isin stark contrast to previous versions of Word where such functionality issomething you could do, but not without a great deal of trouble and with verylittle visual flair.With the addition of Document Elements, how Word handlesembedded elements has been greatly revised to fit the needs of a page layoutapplication. Word now does a far better job wrapping text around elements,including irregular-shaped and rounded elements.

For anyone who has had tostruggle with placing an image or chart in to a Word document and getting it toalign with the rest of the document correctly, Word 2008 seems to have neatlyresolved the issue.Also finding its way in to the new Elements Gallery toaugment the page layout features are the new Quick Tables, a new chart wizard,SmartArt, and WordArt. Quick Tables are pre-built tables featuring differentvisual styles. The new chart wizard now inserts charts directly as elements andfeatures a slew of brand new styles. SmartArt is a new style of informationalart based around various artworks to showcase the relationship betweeninformation (think pre-built diagrams); we’ll talk a bit more about it whenwe’re discussing PowerPoint. And WordArt is as always, WordArt.Finally, Word introduces two new layout modes. The firstmode, Publishing Layout, wraps up the changes to Word to facilitate itsemergence as a page layout application.

In this mode Word functions more like atrue page layout application than a word processor with the focus on creatingnon-document works (brochures, postcards, etc) through a number of templatesand insertable art elements. This layout mode is best described as what wouldhappen if PowerPoint was inserted in to Word, and the end product was somethingother than a slide. Serious business users will likely ignore this featurealong with most of the rest of the new page layout features of Word, but wesuspect it will be popular with home users and students.The other new layout in Word is the Notebook Layout, whichturns Word in to a notebook.

It’s an interesting concept in theory, and if wehad a tablet Mac perhaps we could put it to use, but as it stands right nowwe’re not sure why Microsoft added it. It’s not a page layout feature, and wecan’t find much use for it on its own.With page layout having been the focus of Word 2008’sdevelopment, very little of the application’s functionality has otherwisechanged. The font crowd will behappy to find that Word now supports ligatures for fonts for both OpenType andApple Advanced Typography fonts. 13 Comments. Monday, February 11, 2008 - Does anyone know the performance of Word '08 and Endnote? About 6 people in my office are running Word '04 (v.

11.3.8) and Endnote X02 with OSX 10.4.11 and the response is terrible. On any document with Endnote references, the CPU jumps to 100% and pretty much stays there, with the fan screaming away, until it's minimised for 5mins or closed. This is totally unacceptable - it makes it impossible to even scroll through documents. Apple tech support just shrug (they can't say if it will be rectified with no emulation), Leopard doesn't help and we can't change from Endnote because all our PhD references are in there.Don't suppose I can convince anyone to do some tests on this to add to the review?. Saturday, February 9, 2008 - 'iWork is. Leaps and bounds better. Enough so that for the first time ever Microsoft has some real competition for office suites on the Mac.'

This is a silly comment. I don't think you are aware of Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect for Macintosh. In the early to mid-1990s, both products were excellent and were serious challengers to Microsoft's offerings. In fact, when 1-2-3 was released, Excel (version 2.2 at the time) was clearly inferior to it. I don't mean to denigrate you or your review, but I think you ought not to make such comments unless you are familiar with the history of Macintosh business applications, a history that goes back almost 25 years.Now, I expect that I will be challenged or flamed over this on the grounds that 1-2-3 and WordPerfect never constituted an actual 'Suite', but that's just semantic baloney. Word processing and electronic spreadsheets have always been the workhorses of business software applications.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008 - The article talks quite a bit about business use and how certain features (caused by lack of VBA support) are missing, mostly from Excel. This seems like a moot point, or at least the point that some of the missing features should not affect more than a few dozen - if that many - potential end-users of Office 2008 for Mac.What kind of business uses a Mac for accounting or a similar function based around Excel spreadsheets? I mean, one could make the argument that few business use a Mac in any function that will have use for Office, but Excel is a big stretch. No business hoping to profit would justify the cost of a Mac for use with Excel. Wednesday, February 6, 2008 - One of my jobs prior to working for AnandTech was IT at a company using Macs near-exclusively (as exclusive as they could be, anyhow). You would be terrified what these people did with Excel spreadsheets and VBA, there were certainly better ways to do it but it was quite literally a matter of the whole thing having built out of Excel over the years.And this company isn't alone.There will be plenty of Excel-addicted accountants reeling from the loss of VBA, for this you can take my word. Wednesday, February 6, 2008 - I really doubt it.

I mean, look how long it took for MS to update Office for Mac to Universal. Also, MS tends to release the Mac version a year after the PC version (Mac Office 98, 2001, 2004, 2008 vs. Windows Office 97, 2000, 2003, 2007) so I doubt we'll see any new Office releases for Mac for another 3-4 years, and there's no way they'll make major updates available between releases. In the past the only updates have been due to security and stability issues, and also to add compatibility with the new.docx/.xlsx/.pptx file types.

In other words, nothing major.Personally, I'm just happy that there's finally a Universal version available, and they made the cheaper 'Home and Student' version. The UI updates are handy, but hardly impressive IMO. Tuesday, February 5, 2008 - 'The other new layout in Word is the Notebook Layout, which turns Word in to a notebook. It’s an interesting concept in theory, and if we had a tablet Mac perhaps we could put it to use, but as it stands right now we’re not sure why Microsoft added it. It’s not a page layout feature, and we can’t find much use for it on its own.' Notebook layout first appeared in Word 2004.

It's actually very handy for doing outlines. Think of it like a stripped down and basic OmniOutliner. Tusb3410 usb to serial drivers for mac.

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