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-->- Today Microsoft is hooking up all Office for Mac 2008 users with Service Pack 1. The company is also announcing the return of Visual Basic for Applications—in the next version, though, so no.
- Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X.It supersedes Office 2004 for Mac (which did not have Intel native code) and is the Mac OS X equivalent of Office 2007.Office 2008 was developed by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit and released on January 15, 2008. Office 2008 was followed by Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 released on October.
- In the Office 2011 SP1 Update (14.1.0) volume window, double-click the Office 2011 SP1 Update (14.1.0) application to start the update process, and then follow the instructions on the screen. If the installation finishes successfully, you can remove the update installer from your hard disk.
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac follows the Fixed Lifecycle Policy.
This applies to the following editions: Business, Home and Student, Special Media Editon
Support Dates
| Listing | Start Date | Mainstream End Date |
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Releases
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The start date for the Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition is March 12, 2008.
Editions
- Business
- Home and Student
- Special Media Editon
Interestingly enough Microsoft has released Office 2008 Service Pack 1 today for Macs. What’s interesting about that? Well, it is one of the fastest turnarounds for a Service Pack that I’ve ever seen. The suite of applications was just released back in January 2008, and here we are four months later with a Service Pack. Office 2007 for Windows didn’t see it’s first Service Pack for nearly a year after the consumer launch.
The press release issued by Microsoft said that the “velocity of sales for Office 2008 is nearly three times what [they] saw after the launch of Office 2004.” To help celebrate they decided to give us a glimpse of what the future holds for the next version of Mac Office. Drumroll please… VBA support! That’s right, but you’ll likely be waiting a few years before we see a new Mac Office pop out of the Microsoft bat cave.
What’s really interesting is the timing of the VBA announcement. It was just last week that OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta was released with some early stages of VBA support, and it’s almost as if Microsoft was afraid that users might start looking to OpenOffice.org to pick up where Microsoft left off. That might not be the case, but that was the first thing that popped into my mind.
At any rate Office 2008 SP1 is out, and ready for you to download. The list of features and improvements can be found below, but the 180MB download doesn’t bring anything too earth shattering.
Get Office 2008 SP1 for Mac (180MB)
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- Compatibility. Improved compatibility with files exchanged between Excel 2008 for Mac and Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 for Windows
- Custom Error Bars. Restored formatting option on the Error Bars panel for data series
- Printing. More reliable printing for elements on Excel 2008 workbooks
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- Calendar. Significant enhancements to improve calendar view and all-day reminders with reoccurrence
- Exchange Server support. Overall improvement to synchronization support, including removing attachments from Exchange Server messages and synchronizing to the server, as well as support for editing the contents of Exchange Server messages via AppleScript and synchronizing the changes to the server
- E-mail images. Ability to send and view images in Entourage from third-party tools
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- Printing. Improved accuracy when orienting tables with cell shading
- Document map. Improved reliability and responsiveness to select items
- Notebook layout. Updated formatting, recording status and a variety of display options
Microsoft Office PowerPoint
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- Printing. Improvements to eliminate crashing when printing documents to high-dpi printers and increased overall printing speed by 10 times on some large presentations
- Mobile viewing. Ability to view Mac .PPTX files on Windows Mobile phones
- AppleScript. Ability to use the PowerPoint selection object in AppleScript to implement custom scripts that operate on the current selection in PowerPoint