Product Description: Stunning graphics, modern themes, and do-it-yourself design templates / Create media-rich layouts in great-looking newsletters, brochures, and reports
Amazon.com: Take artistic control. Word 2008 for Mac. From CEOs to students, people are creating instant buzz with media-rich layouts, templates, and themes in great-looking newsletters, brochures, and reports.
Create media-rich layouts, templates, and themes in great-looking newsletters, brochures, and reports.
Document Elements
Simply Snap It Together Authors create books more quickly; lawyers build cases in less time; and students easily assemble reports. Save time with pre-formatted building blocks: tables of contents, cover pages, headers, footers, and bibliographies.
Customize on the Fly Sales people, students, managers, and moms easily customize their creations with just a click. Alter a theme or template on demand, or modify an element before saving your own custom style. Make your doc your own.
Work Easily with Citations Bibliographies have always required memorizing rules and formatting text--time better spent on polishing your ideas. Now, just access the Elements Gallery to easily format and manage citations in your documents' bibliographies.
Publishing Layout View
No Publishing Experience Necessary Overnight, everyone from students to store owners will create great looking newsletters, flyers, brochures, and reports. With easy-to-use layout tools and templates, you'll create media-rich, professional-grade docs.
Say It Where You Want Easily move and control content with linked text boxes that flow your words seamlessly from one spot to the next. Put text exactly where you want to get it noticed in newsletters, flyers, and reports.
Use Your Workspace Forget cumbersome format boxes. Instead, enjoy easy and instant artistic control in this visual environment where you can drag and drop your text, images, and graphics on and off your document until you see your doc take the perfect shape.
Enjoy easy and instant artistic control in Publishing Layout View.
After you've added color-coded tabs to your notes, move them around as you need in Notebook Layout View.
Notebook Layout View
Color-code Your Notes Flex your power to find what you need by making your notes more usable. Organize your thoughts with customized backgrounds and color-coded tabs either when taking notes or when reviewing your docs.
Give Ideas a Voice Synchronize Audio Notes to typed class notes, meeting minutes, or research. Add Flags so it's easy to find what you're looking for later. Integrate tasks with Entourage and turn notes into actionable to-dos.
Reorganize with Ease After you've added color-coded tabs to your notes, move them around as you need in Notebook Layout View. When you can re-organize notes on-the-fly, you can actually start to build your projects as you're reviewing your research.
All across Office 2008
Know Right Where to Look Welcome to intuitive discovery. See exactly what you need, as you need it, with the new expandable and collapsible Elements Gallery. Relevant tools ready to help you concept, create, and share your ideas and always within easy reach.
Go Ahead, Change Your Mind Switch your pie chart to a graph. Turn a table into a timeline. With SmartArt graphics, your data transfers between your diagrams. Go ahead and focus on customizing your colors, styles, and callouts with one-click ease; your ideas always remain intact and center stage.
Apply Amazing Effects Add stunning, modern graphics with just a click, and conjure up amazing effects across applications and platforms--from reflections to realistic 3D--with the OfficeArt graphics engine. No art experience even required.
Get the Home and Student edition instead For those who've not yet heard, Microsoft Word 2008 is a quite attractive product, beautiful even. It did release with some nasty bugs, but I'm not having any problems with the latest updates, so be sure to upgrade to the current release. Also, keep in mind that it loads very s-l-o-w-l-y. Nothing else on my Mac loads so slowly.
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I'd strongly suggest that you NOT get this $180 Word-only version. Opt instead for this:
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition
You can compare the differences, but for most people it's a no-brainer. With the $122 home and student edition you get Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Entourage, and Messenger with a license to legally install it on to up to three computers. With the product on this page you only get Word (and I believed licensed only for one computer) for $180. There are, I believe a few business-oriented templates that come with this version, but probably nothing you can't do without.
Why Microsoft is doing this I don't know. Perhaps they figure that many businesses will pay extra for the templates while home users will opt for free, open source software if Microsoft doesn't offer them a good bargain. And make no mistake, Microsoft Office for $122 is a good deal, if for no other reason than that it lets you exchange files with everyone else who's using Word, Excel and Powerpoint. And if you're a student, look around for even better prices on a back-to-school-2008 offer from Microsoft.
My only major gripe about this release is that Microsoft still hasn't created a Mac version of OneNote. A notetaking application, it gets rave reviews from fortunate Windows users. For more details, see Wikipedia.
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