First Look at Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac


	First Look at Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
alanocu
1-4-2008 12:22 AM
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alanocu says:
looks like it's faster; more mac-like look and feel, but 'not too much this time around'
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Unlike past versions of Office, where installing was almost as simple as dragging and dropping the folder into Applications, Office 2008 has an actual installer.</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/1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/9E223366-932D-43A9-9906-083D6EE290F8" 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/1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/B811DC27-793E-4518-A215-75E184F74E48" 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/1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/5B3E75FB-F274-49D5-8854-B8DC51C07F0B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; 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://content9.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/2" href="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/mac-office-2008-review.ars/2" 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/2"><H2>Word</H2></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">
New for Word 2008 are the open XML file formats that Redmond introduced for the Windows world in 2007. 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; 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://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/9DD6AA1F-80B5-47BE-9ADA-E549C57299BF" 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://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/4632EBFC-AA4F-4CDA-8117-747742810AD3" 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://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/F80E4DDB-5CB5-4949-B5F0-2514194D39DE" 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/B9CBF560-BA4A-4585-9E98-A1435FBAAA4E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; 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://content8.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/3" href="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/mac-office-2008-review.ars/3" 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/3"><H2>Excel</H2></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/3">
I'm not sure how much to say about Excel without sending you all to sleep, other than to say it's the same old spreadsheet application we know and love.</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/3"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/6F4DCB4C-2C2A-49F9-8E84-B6627D92FDD6" 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/3"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/451F2012-5776-41B4-9B72-A4221CCD60F1" 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/3"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/DFE167CF-3A2A-4257-AE74-3E7C9F4967D2" 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/3">
However, it's not all roses. Microsoft has removed support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) from Office 2008, despite leaving it present in Office 2007, the Windows version.</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/3"><H3>
Powerpoint</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/3">
Of all the Office 2008 applications, PowerPoint must be the one that faces the stiffest competition from iWork.</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/3"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/639E8F04-8C94-42B7-B938-8A2EACACFC8B" 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/3"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/A9F4A0BD-18D3-4B9C-9F0F-A62B78077DC9" 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/3"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/A4114470-CEEE-4AB7-8A38-98B43D1C4AFF" 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/3"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/C8C9A889-819E-41A3-8F1E-E824BFFC7388" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; 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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; 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">Entourage's search is still no good</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">
	Not too much this time round.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A41EE551-6F5B-42A7-B9B6-CC8BF00958FC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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