Microsoft Works 8.0 - Old Version

by Microsoft

Product Features

• Essential productivity tools for the home PC
• Word processor; spreadsheet; database; email/Internet tools
• New dictionary tool with thesaurus; enhanced calendar
• Share and edit documents with Microsoft Word and Excel users
• View PowerPoint presentations; auto-save and document recovery

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 2 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 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: B0002D152W
• Item model number: 070-02440
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #950 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #5 in Software > Business & Office > Spreadsheet
  • #9 in Software > Utilities > PC Maintenance
  • #20 in Software > Business & Office > Word Processing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Microsoft Works 8 gives you the basic home productivity tools you need to help make your everyday tasks easier from start to finish.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

60 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Contains enhanced interface and a more substantive dictionar, October 28, 2004

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Merrifield Winters (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Microsoft Works 8.0 - Old Version (CD-ROM)

Microsoft Works provides a workable word processor The new calendar applet is much easier to use and will import your old addresses if you have the 7.0 version. Works can perform very easily most of the major tasks that Word provides such as footnoting, page numbering, typesetting of longer documents.
In contrast to the products offered by Sun Micro, the Works CD includes multitudes of useful clipart and there is a link in the Help menu to help you download multitudes more. The dictionary links to Encarta Encyclopedia. The one thing I didn't like so much was still the underdeveloped nature of the spreadsheet. It is more suited to home-related tasks and not to linear algegebraic functions. Still, it was nice to be able to edit excel 2003 documents and save them in a usable format for work.

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Word, September 23, 2006

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J. Irps "krazejjklown" (sparta) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Works 8.0 - Old Version (CD-ROM)

the only reason i bought this was because i didn't have microsoft word and i wanted it but the problem is trying to find it without having to buy the entire office program of works. i wish they would just sell it by itself. so instead of the Word program you get a word processor that only has a few small differences with the actual Word program like it is missing a built in Thesaraus. there are a few other small differences but the program is completely compatible with the Word program. you can save and edit Word documents. that was all i really wanted to begin with. so if you want a cheeper way to get Microsoft Word or something really similar to it, this is the way to go.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great combination., July 12, 2006

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Mojo (Charlotte, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Works 8.0 - Old Version (CD-ROM)

The most "powerful" software is of little use if it costs too much or takes too much effort. Works is a great combination of features, price, and user-friendliness.

OpenOffice is a free download, and it is good, but the same effort it takes to learn and use half its capabilities can put all Works' tools at your disposal. Even MS Office is not quite as automated or easy as Works, and it costs many times more.

I have a family member who uses Works to make databases, spreadsheets, and reports that I have a hard time replicating with MS Office. I supposedly have the more advanced software, but she gets more work done...