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First Look at Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
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1-4-2008 12:22 AM
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looks like it's faster; more mac-like look and feel, but 'not too much this time around'
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You still have the option to save Word files as good old .docs, but by default new files will be .docx.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/mac-office-2008-review.ars/2"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/5D24B8EB-0DFC-49FB-A0A7-8EC26151AAF1" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/mac-office-2008-review.ars/2"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/8F1AD285-EB82-4B80-83D3-1DFC32D3DF9F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/mac-office-2008-review.ars/5" href="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/mac-office-2008-review.ars/5" style="font-size: 11px;">arstechnica.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/mac-office-2008-review.ars/5"><H3>Conclusion</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/mac-office-2008-review.ars/5">Fast</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/mac-office-2008-review.ars/5">Much more Mac-like look and feel</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/mac-office-2008-review.ars/5">SmartArt in PowerPoint is groovy</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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