Microsoft Excel Mac 2008 Upgrade (Mac) [Old Version]

by Microsoft

Product Features

• Analyze, share, and manage your data, and easily create persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs for powerful results--see your data in a whole new way
• Ledger Sheets in Excel 2008 make tracking finances, inventories, even invoices and portfolios easy with preformulated spreadsheets and automatic calculations
• Prebuilt functions tackle the most common tasks and make creating error-free complex conditional formulas easier
• Now supports over 16,000 columns and over 1 million rows; Quick access to formulas with Formula Builder
• Formula AutoComplete simplifies your calculations by providing a dynamic pop-up menu so you can select and complete your formula

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000XD4TU6
• Item model number: D46-00615
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 17, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,534 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com

Show them the money. Use compelling charts and graphs to show stakeholders what you mean at a glance. With Excel 2008 for Mac, everyone from beginners to professional number crunchers can quickly create great-looking financial reports.

Discover modern ways to communicate with powerful chart templates and tools, 3D effects, transparency, and soft shadows.

Building Charts

Tell Your Story, Effectively
Design your data to tell the story you want to tell--and make the impact your ideas deserve. Discover modern ways to communicate with powerful chart templates and tools, 3D effects, transparency, and soft shadows.

See & Grab Design Styles
In no time, beginners and pros alike build visually-persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs using the high-quality design layouts and styles that are always within easy reach via Excel's expandable and collapsible Elements Gallery.

Share the Love across Office
Insert your great-looking chart into a PowerPoint presentation or Word proposal for a rich, consistent, high-quality look-and-feel to all your professional communications. Beautiful Excel chart options can be integrated across all of Office.

Formulas & Grids

A Beginner's Best Friend
Create a little spreadsheet magic without having to remember formulas. Open the Excel Toolbox, and get helpful step-by-step instructions how to build any formula from your Formula Builder.

Formula Auto-Complete
Save time typing. Power users and beginners alike can input calculations without knowing their exact names. Start typing and a list displays functions, definitions, and structure references that match your text. Continue typing and the list narrows dynamically to the best selection.

Big Grid, Big Potential
Power users will love exploring massive amounts of data within a single sheet. Beginners can create logs that go on for days. Compatible with Excel 2007, Excel for Mac 2008 sheets now support more than 1 million rows and 16 thousand columns each.

Utilize the high-quality design layouts and styles that are always within easy reach via Excel's Elements Gallery.

Excel's powerful, pre-defined formulas, data import tools, and new helpful layouts will guide you through what you need to do.

Ledger Sheets

Focus on You, Not Math
You just want to balance your budget, track your inventory, or manage your investments--not memorize a bunch of formulas. Beginners can easily use Excel with little training, thanks to pre-formulated worksheets.

Know What to Do, Naturally
Believe it or not, you'll be creating financial management worksheets for home and work with ease. Excel's powerful, pre-defined formulas, data import tools, and new helpful layouts will guide you through what you need to do.

Custom-finish with Ease
Start with fully-customizable Ledger Sheets designed for invoicing, bill-paying, household budgets, and payroll. Beginners to pros can easily customize at will--to keep on top of each person's totally unique financial picture.

All across Office 2008

See What You Want, Pull It In
Build great-looking documents in no time with building blocks from the Elements Gallery. Spot what you want, select it, and drop it in for fantastic-looking newsletters, presentations, and financial reports.

Turn Data Dynamic
Get ideas noticed in SmartArt charts, tables, maps and diagrams that transfer easily between Office applications and across platforms. Build instant diagrams from simple lists, with no drawing required.

The Right Tool at Your Fingertips
You won't need to be a scholar to work with bibliographies using Word's Citations tool. Even Excel novices will build complex equations with Formula Builder. And everyone from 4th graders to CEOs will easily bring presentations to life with PowerPoint's Custom Animation tool.

Product Description

Microsoft Excel Mac 2008 English Version Upgrade DVD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars Excel 2008, June 12, 2010

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John T. Alf (Bartlesville, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Excel Mac 2008 Upgrade (Mac) [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

1. Excel 2008 no longer supports macros. There is a work around by opening Excel 2004, but this is an unwarranted hassle.
2. Seemingly in random fashion, previously saved worksheets sometimes appear as a screenful of columns with the numbers grouped together properly on the left, but with a bunch of blank columns filling the rest of the screen.
3. I have detected no feature that I consider an improvement.

1.0 out of 5 stars Excel for Mac, May 16, 2010

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KnitKrazE (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Microsoft Excel Mac 2008 Upgrade (Mac) [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Completely disappointed. Not only did the upgrade for Excel "uninstall" my entire MS Office suite, it doesn't support Macros. If I had known either of these pertinent items, I would not have purchased. I would have stuck with the Pages program from Apple.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating, February 10, 2009

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Thomas J. Shepstone (Honesdale, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Excel Mac 2008 Upgrade (Mac) [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

As I an avid Mac Excel user, I was thrilled to try this new version but found it frustrating. It has new bells and whistles and more choices with regard to formatting. It also makes some commands and choices easier and more intuitive in nature. However, it is becoming more like other Microsoft products, overly complex and nerdy in nature at the expense of common sense features. Previously, one could copy a picture of a chart to a text document and have the formatting remain exactly as intended. The new version, however, will copy complex charts as pdf files that, when copied to text, experience color changes, addition of faint grid lines and other problems. The solution is to save the chart as an image file first and then insert it, but that creates a frustrating additional step that wasn't previously required. This is a typical Microsoft issue that previous versions of Excel were far less prone to experience. Likewise, copies of tables copied as pictures look different on the screen than when printed, with heavier borders, etc., that don't really exist. It is also now more difficult to find things because they are buried so deeply in the mesh of commands. Moving titles and the like in charts is also jerky. Yet, improvements that would seem so simple and helpful are missing. I would love to be able to nudge labels and titles into positions, for example, but this still isn't permitted. All in all, the investment required for this update is not really worth it. The elegance of Excel is slowly being lost as Microsoft tries to substitute splashiness for substance.