Office Mac forced to upgrade
586687
Totally satisfied with previous version. New operating system would not support my current version so I had to get this. This current edition is fine , will take me some time to get use to it.
1779752
If you have the latest Mac operating system, go to the LaCie website and download the latest software and/or firmware.  Unmount and remount, disk format (do this before using it because you erase everything) with the Mac Journaled / GUID type. Fixed it no problem!
Old review because of my software-
{It mounted at 424 mb's of space available.  What?  However, I own 3 others that are absolute hero's in my office!}
3831925
NOT HAPPY WITH MICROSOFT NOT INCLUDING EXCEL AND WORD.  THE LAST HP INCLUDED THOSE PROGAMS.
YOU HAVE TO BYE OFFICE.
4562880
This is what I am doing - I bought Office 2007 Pro upgrade for a good bit less, and a OEM One Note CD on ebay.  I installed, and based on MS Technology Guarantee, it says I get 2010 Pro download free.  I'll wait a while to install 2010, but this way, I should be covered for quite a few years,  Good Luck!
1088323
works well
the price for a Mac User is ridiculously high--most do not need anything but word and power point
the changes in those programs are largely irrelevant for the routine user but the old version of Word won-t run on the new Mac operating system
thus a high price for really nothing useful to the user
i am writing this in hope that Microsoft will stop gauging the routine user for the software
4647375
This keeps downloading in Spanish for me, which is not my language, nor the language I selected.
I want to return it.
I miss my mac.

I don't think it's nice that the office suite is making me learn Spanish, as I have enough to do - I see a 48 minute call to service support for office 365 in my future.  A call that will undoubtedly, get me nowhere but desiring a cocktail after.

Do yourself a favor, don't order this. Go buy a mac.
3385171
In 2011, I upgraded to the new version with great dissatisfaction. My experience was a bare bones dress up of previous issues with nothing done to improve it except to label it the 2011 version. The biggest concern was how unfriendly it was to senior eyes. The only method for zooming was to go the preferences.

In April 2016, I decided to give it another try since there was a need. May 5th Quicken issued a updated version 3.3.1, 31.6 MB. It appears they are finally devoting resources to improve the 2016 Quicken for Mac. It is readable in a window, and full screen mode. I purchased the download version from Amazon. Download, installation, and upgrade went normal.
2587725
Needed an Office software update.  Downloaded fine.
4645194
I would rate this product a minus 5 if I could.  Why should I have to upgrade my operating system?  The Turbo Tax techies with nothing better to do keep making it "better" and screwing the rest of us.  There are many reasons for not upgrading to a newer Mac OS and that is because Apple lost sight of its loyal customer base and Microsoft got greedy like Intuit.  OS 10.6.8 is the last version that still includes the Rosetta software that emulates the older G3, et al processors for use with the newer Intel processors, and which allows use of earlier versions of MS Office.  If one upgrades to 10.7 or later, one has to buy new MS Office software for EVERY mac that one owns (I own 5 of them).  Used to be that one could install MS Office on up to 4 or 5 (not sure) computers that one owned.  But Microsoft got greedy and that is not the case anymore.  The trouble is, these companies don't give a damn about their customer base or they would be more thoughtful in their actions.

Now to get my money back for the useless 2014 Turbo Tax CD that I bought, relying on its compatibility with my OS, I have to go through the goat rope of digging out my receipt (which is in another state for a couple more months) and send the whole mess back to Intuit and then wait a couple of months for the refund.  In re-looking at the CD package, it does have the system requirements on it, but the print is very small and is white on grey background.  It does not stand out.  Very difficult to find it in a store environment for 70+ year old eyes.  It is almost like they did not want it be read.  If they did, bigger print and bold red on a white background to send an "alert" message to the customer.  Intuit is apparently business operations-centric and not customer-centric.

Although, I do not file a Sched C or E, those complaints are completely valid.  This product is down to 2 stars on Amazon, but I will bet it is 1 star by the end of the tax season.
1361245
I've been wanting to upgrade to Office 2008 for quite a while. Had been using Office for Mac 2004 but found that in some cases I couldn't open new version Office files (Word).

Excel is not what I expected. I had gotten used to the 2004 version (using Print Preview to fine tune the doc). Well, 2008 doesn't do it the same way. I had relearn things over again. It's kind of buggy (when I try to edit the header, that bar is in the way - What is it called?). Word is much improved, but I don't use the Entourage email program (By the way, it doesn't interface with Google email - why not?) Powerpoint is okay but I haven't used it much.

Support is somewhat limited (is that because Microsoft Office is rolling out the next version this year?) The only way to get answers is through Mactopia - Also, the help function is wacky. Am I satisfied? Sort of. I give it a 3 (should be a 2-1/2). By the way, I preserved Office 2004 because I heard that 2008 Excel doesn't support macros. I can feel the discrimination from those Microsoft folks - they obviously prefer PC's to the superior Mac's. I don't plan to buy Windows anytime soon!
2127368
Asks if you want to upgrade then sends you to German prompts.  Also when you save it as a word document the program doesn't treat it like a word document. I does open word documents tho..
625214
Doesnt work with an updated Mac. Their software won't download on a new Mac, so don't buy if you have a newer mac.
3252276
Product has a bug that causes frequent shutdowns.  Strongly advise use of auto save to protect your work.  Software has a new interface that appears in an expandable column instead of rows across the top of the screen.  This works well for documents in Word but covers up a portion of the worksheet in Excel.  Takes some getting used to!  I would not have upgraded the software except for the fact that I needed an additional license.
1273099
Needed upgrades download before it works properly
13512
I bought the download version for Mac. It never gets past the looking for updated forms before it crashes and then the send a report to Intuit pops up (which is kindly ignored by Intuit) I want my $120 back.
2195027
I hope this review serves to clarify some of the complaints that people have posted regarding Office 2008.

Preface:
After being disappointed with Leopard 10.5 -which I also reviewed- I kept using Tiger. When finally 10.5.2 arrived I began using it. It fixes many Leopard bugs. According to some websites, at least 130 bugs have been fixed. This is important since many problems with third party software may be related to other software or to the operating system. For example, Apple is aware of problems with its Sync services and Core Image. Also, some bugs have existed for many years and have not been fixed, such as a potential bug when moving data to an external device.
Keeping these issues in mind I did a completely clean install of Leopard 10.5.2 in a brand new hard drive.
I installed Office 2008 as well as the available upgrade to 12.0.1.

First Impressions:
Some useful features have been added, such as Elements Gallery, which may be a time saver for many people. Some features have been removed, such as VBA, and this may be a deal-breaker for many people.
I'm keeping Office 2004 in a separate partition in order to use previous versions of Word and Excel.
At the same time, I can still use the new versions when I don't need the VBA features.
Lack of VBA support was announced well over a year ago, so this came as no surprise.

Starting up:
Each program took approximately 10 seconds to launch. Office seems to have a peculiar way of handling fonts, though, and launch times can be greatly effected. After installing another program that installed more fonts, and installing Extensis Fusion to manage my fonts, launch times for Office programs was approximately 150 (one hundred and fifty) seconds, instead of the original 10 (ten) seconds.
Now it takes about a minute to launch these programs. In all fairness, the slow down is partly caused by third party software.

Overall (and very brief)  impressions:
PowerPoint works with presentations that used to crash my 2004 version. The 2004 version was practically unusable for me. This was a welcome upgrade.

Excel works fine and the Elements Gallery is a good addition. It lost VBA support and the Abalysys Toolpack. I kept the 2004 version as well.

Word seems to be a solid upgrade. Some third party templates do not work with 2008, so I kept Word 2004.

Entourage works very well. I had to re-select the folders that I had set up for my rules, and re-apply categories to my folders. Syncing with Address Book always adds many duplicate contacts. Fortunately there are scripts to deal with this inconvenience. Hyperlinks still require a workaround, as mentioned by another reviewer. I would not rate Office with 1-star solely based on that issue.

Expression Media used to be called iView MediaPro, iView Multimedia, and iView many years ago. It used to be a $25 shareware program when I first used it. Eventually it became quite expensive so I never upgraded until I received this version. So far I'm happy with it. It has worked fine for cataloging thousands of fonts and pictures, and I'm entitled to a free upgrade when version 2 comes out.

Price:
There are free Office alternatives, as well as iWork. I( still prefer Microsoft Office for the most part. The only exception may be Keynote 4.
Microsoft offered a substantial discount under the names of The Technology Guarantee Program and the Super Suite Deal. Additionally, for one day they offered a $[...] rebate. So users could get the Mac Special Media Edition for approximately $[...]-$[...] with these offers.
Had it not been for the offer, I would have stayed with Office 2004. I've used Office 2008 for a few days, every day, and so far have encountered no problems.

Overall I'm satisfied with the upgrade. Support has been great, both by Microsoft and the MVP people. Search their forums and you'll find a lot of useful advise.
1037394
This has been an absolutely absurd process to install on my Mac.  Weeks of phone calls to Microsoft and it still isn't working.  Total nightmare.