Student Select and Office for Mac 2008

Yes. Entourage is the only one that is different.


On 18/01/08 17:52, in article ee853a2.33.RemoveThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "" <>
wrote:

> Are Word, Excel and Powerpoint in the H/S edition the identical same as in the
> Standard and Media editions?

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Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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Exchange support. It is absent in the H&S edition, but it is part of both
the Standard and Special Media editions.


On 18/01/08 18:30, in article ee853a2.35.RemoveThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "" <>
wrote:

> Thanks for the speedy reply. I am mostly interested in Word, Excel and
> Powerpoint so my main question is answered but now I'm curious to know what
> differences there are between Entourage in H/S and the in other editions.

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I 'm having a preformance problem with office 2008. I have a spreadheet with a few graphs, and many cells which reference other cells. When I enter my daily numbers, there is a 5-7 second lag, complete with CPU pegging and spinning beach balls. <br><br>I have a Mini with 2 gig of memory 1.66 gzh core duo processor. <br><br>There is a shorter lag on my Mac quad pro, but a lag none the less. <br>
There was no problem with Excel in Office 2004. <br><br>This performance degrade is unacceptable. Please advise. <br><br>Bill
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On 1/18/08 3:27 AM, in article C3B6C31D.E052%john@mcghie.name, "John McGhie"
<john.RemoveThis@mcghie.name> wrote:

> The ability to "use" Automator actions is there, you just have to make your
> own.
>
> So no, you don't need the full version....

The actions are not as easy to recreate as it would seem. You can do things
with Entourage for example that use the supplied Automator actions.

See this tutorial for an example. It uses Automator but does not use any of
the Office 2008 actions for Office.

Entourage and Time Machine

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/01/entourage_and_time_machine.html>

I imagine that the actions will be widely available on the torrents as they
are small and don't require a registration number.

IMHO, it was a feature that shouldn't have been left out of Home & Student
version.

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Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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In article <ee853a2.46 RemoveThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>, Phil <> wrote:

> How do I identify the product ID on Office Mac 2008

In any Office app, choose File/About <app name>...

However, if you're looking for it in order to register, don't bother -
the *only* thing registration does is put you on a list to get an email
newsletter.
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I'm still using Office X with Tiger. <br><br>Will Office 2008 Home & Student Edition smoothly & easily import all necessary information from Office X during installation?
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In article <ee853a2.48 DeleteThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>, <> wrote:

> I'm still using Office X with Tiger. <br><br>Will Office 2008 Home &
> Student Edition smoothly & easily import all necessary information from
> Office X during installation?

Office 2008 (any edition) will not smoothly & easily import much, if
any, information from Office X other than the Entourage database.

Preference items are not carried over.

Word may, if it finds a previous Normal template, try to base a new
Normal on that file, but I strongly recommend you rename the old Normal,
start up, then use the Organizer to transfer any custom toolbars,
autotext, etc. to the new Normal.dotm file.

If you have a default template for XL, you can open it in XL08, make
whatever changes you want, then save it as a template to the startup
folder
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In article <ee853a2.43 DeleteThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>,
NYerInExile DeleteThis @officeformac.com wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is if Entourage now syncs effectively with iCal
> (and also Address Book? I have had zero success with Office 2004 doing this
> properly. I constantly get appointments deleted, duplicated, etc.

It's been working fine for me with Entourage 2008 and iCal/Address Book.

Of course, Sync doesn't carry Entourage categories across, since it
doesn't know anything about them, but I haven't seen any duplicate or
deleted appointments.
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Hi, <br><br>What are the terms of the licence for Home use? Someone mentioned the EULA above - where can I read this? For example, if I have a Mac at home, but occasionally use it for writing documents for my own small business am I entitled to use the H/S edition? I suspect not, but would like to see the details of the license! <br><br>Thanks, <br>
G.Patterson
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In article <ee853a2.55 DeleteThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>, Kevin <> wrote:

> Can the home and student version mail merge in Word or is that done with
> automator actions?

Mail Merge doesn't depend at all upon automator actions.
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I need a bit more information. Which version of Word? Which version of the
operating system?

Let's try the easy one first: Find and delete the "Normal Template" as
described here: http://word.mvps.org/mac/MacWordNormal.html

That may cure it. If it doesn't, I think you have a failed installation,
and you need to delete the ~:Library:Preferences:Microsoft:Office 2008
folder, then re-run your installation.

Hope this helps

On 25/01/08 4:46 AM, in article ee853a2.54 RemoveThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"paradiso" <paradiso> wrote:

> In Word im constantly getting the following error when pressing almost any key
> (eg. trying to make a tab, pressing enter for a new line or even a character
> key when writing!): 'This command is not available in this version of
> Microsoft Word.'. Word is not usable like this...

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I recently purchased Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and the main reason was to open works files (.wks). To my dissapointment they didn't open even after I installed office.<br>
1) Is there a way to open wks files using office?<br>
2) Is there works software for mac available?
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In article <ee853a2.58 RemoveThis @webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>, Ange wrote:

> I recently purchased Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and the main reason was to
> open works files (.wks). To my dissapointment they didn't open even after I
> installed office.<br>
> 1) Is there a way to open wks files using office?<br>
> 2) Is there works software for mac available?

Microsoft Works files are notoriously incompatible with most software.
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