| 
| From: Microsoft Software
List Price: $399.95
Buy New: $139.99
You Save: $259.96 (65%)
New (57) Used (8) from $111.93
Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 82
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 73101727
Model: 73101727
UPC: 882224526166
EAN: 0882224526166
ASIN: B000WR2F2M
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new! Never used! Fast shipment
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 45
 just an absolute dog February 22, 2008
Jeffrey M. Thompson (Las Vegas,NV USA)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I had been putting off a new macbook purchase until office 2008 came out. I am a power Excel user and was looking forward to the performance increase. Hardly. I have 10MB Excel files that take 5 minutes to open. A simple cut and paste of two continguous cells causes a 5 minute hang up. Some files won't even open, or if they do open, won't run. Just an absolute disaster. If you need any kind of advanced Excel functionality, avoid this product.
Horrible, Worst Software Ever, I have used office forever, but no more! March 3, 2008
Richard B. Sparks (Knoxville, TN USA)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
Horribly, horribly slow on my quad core 2.66 GHz Intel Tower Macintosh with 4 Gigs Ram.
Sometimes I have to wait 5 seconds for letters to appear after typing in word. Excel is very slow as well.
Very, very disappointing. Microsoft support basically told me "too bad sucker".
Complete and Total Waste of Money
The worst MIcrosoft product in the history January 31, 2008
Tomasz J. Guzik
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
This version of Office is a down-grade from 2004. MS omitted vital parts of the system making it unuseful for students/teachers/scientists
1. Excel - unuseful as described in earlier statements (mainly problems with using analysis and for some reason they emoved possibility of using real error bars (cutom)... move impossible to understand
2. Powerpoint - decides for you what you can group /ungroup etc.
3. Word - incompatible with reference managers such as endnote
The only part that's a bi improved is entorague...
bottom line... I deleted the software I purchased and I am using 2004 again !!!!!!
I WANT MY MONEY BAAAACCCCKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!
Terrible waste of money February 22, 2008
MG
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I was so eager to have a version of Office running in Universal Binary. I had imagined it would be fast, at least compared to the dinosaur that is Office 2004. Boy, was I wrong! I've got a brand-new MacBook Pro, but Word and Excel are slow as molasses; the launch times are especially appalling. Word can easily take up to 25 seconds (!) to open up a new blank document. Various internet forums describe launch times that are even longer than this. Word 2003 on my XP machine launches almost instantaneously.
Cursor movement and text selection are also very sluggish.
The programs are buggy, too. I've already had numerous crashes, and have lost some data.
One final note: it's impossible to track changes in Word in-line (i.e. without the annotation bubbles) but to keep the bubbles for comments. (This was possible is Word 2003 for XP.) In other words, if you write a comment while tracking changes in-line, the comment can only be viewed in the bizarre Review Pane, buried among dozens of marked changes. It's completely maddening and a big minus for anyone who does serious editing work.
A big thumbs down on this one, M$. I wish I could get my money back. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT.
Terrible - buggy, slow, missing features. Wish I never updated. March 7, 2008
LB (Texas, USA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I have a dual PPC G5 and have never had any issues running the Office v. X that I bought with my mac. Last week I decided it was time to update everything since I never even moved up to Office 2004. I was working on an important project for grad school and thought that I might find new features that would help with the multimedia aspects - that was a big mistake!
Powerpoint is absolutely terrible and crashes all the time. The notes section cannot even handle copy and paste operations or exporting to a Quicktime movie without crashing. Many features are gone or replaced with different ones that are overkill. For example, you cannot shape text in word art anymore. Instead they give you many different quick color and shadow options - which could be accomplished another way anyway. It seems to me that what they think is more useful is just a way of telling me how my output will look. I want complete control back!
Also, Word and Powerpoint run much slower for me now. Have not explored Excel yet, but have read that they have removed scripting and data analysis. I really need the data analysis for school.
I cannot even go back now and install my old v. X, because the updates do not go back that far!
Really unhappy that Microsoft released this product when it is still so unstable and that they decided the features I used more than any others were not important.
|
|
|
