Sorry, page not found Please enable cookies and refresh the page. Microsoft Office 2. Mac. Microsoft Office 2. From desktop to web for Macs and PCs, Office delivers the tools to get work done. Learn more about how Office can help you get more done. LA2f3.png' alt='Office 2013 Proofing Tools' title='Office 2013 Proofing Tools' />Mac is a version of the Microsoft Officeproductivity suite for Mac OS X. Usc Cinema Arts Program. It supersedes Office 2. Mac which did not have Intel native code and is the Mac OS X equivalent of Office 2. Office 2. 00. 8 was developed by Microsofts Macintosh Business Unit and released on January 1. Office 2. 00. 8 was followed by Microsoft Office for Mac 2. October 2. 6, 2. 01. Mac with an Intel processor and Mac OS version 1. Office 2. 00. 8 is also the last version to feature Entourage, which was replaced by Outlook in Office 2. ReleaseeditOffice 2. January 2. 00. 8, purportedly to allow time to fix lingering bugs. Poser Download Free here. Office 2. Office for Mac supplied as a Universal Binary. Unlike Office 2. 00. Windows, Office 2. FeatureseditOffice 2. Mac includes the same core programs currently included with Office 2. Mac Entourage, Excel, Power. Point and Word. Mac only features included are a publishing layout view, which offers functionality similar to Microsoft Publisher for Windows, a Ledger Sheet mode in Excel to ease financial tasks, and a My Day application offering a quick way to view the days events. Office 2. Office Open XML format, and defaults to saving all files in this format. On February 2. 1, 2. Geoff Price revealed that the format conversion update for Office 2. ZPRv.png' alt='Office 2013 Proofing Tools' title='Office 2013 Proofing Tools' />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. Office 2013 Proofing Tools' title='Office 2013 Proofing Tools' />June 2. Office 2. Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications is not supported in this version. As a result, such Excel add ins dependent on VBA, such as Solver, have not been bundled in the current release. In June 2. Microsoft announced that it is exploring the idea of bringing some of the functionality of Solver back to Excel. In late August 2. Microsoft announced that a new Solver for Excel 2. Frontline Systems, original developers of the Excel Solver. However, Excel 2. Pivot Chart functionality, which has long been a feature in the Windows version. In May 2. 00. 8, Microsoft announced that VBA will be making a return in the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac. Apple. Script and the Open Scripting Architecture will still be supported. Limitationsedit. Error message in Microsoft Excel showing features that are not supported. Office 2. 00. 8 for Mac lacks feature parity with the Windows version. The lack of Visual Basic for Applications VBA support in Excel makes it impossible to use macros programmed in VBA. Microsofts response is that adding VBA support in Xcode would have resulted in an additional two years added to the development cycle of Office 2. Other unsupported features include OMML equations generated in Word 2. Windows,1. 3 Office Ribbon, Mini Toolbar, Live Preview, and an extensive list of features are unsupported such as equivalent Share. Point integration with the Windows version. Some features are missing on Excel 2. Mac, including data filters Data Bars, Top 1. Color based, Icon based, structured references, Excel tables, Table styles, a sort feature allowing more than three columns at once and more than one filter on a sort. Benchmarks suggest that the original release of Office 2. Macs with Power. PC processors, and does not provide a significant speed bump for Macs with Intel processors. A data compatibility problem has also been noted with Cambridge. Softs chemical structure drawing program, Chem. Draw. Word 2. 00. Chem. Draw and pasted into a document. If a structure is recopied from a Word 2. Chem. Draw, it appears as a non editable image rather than a recognized chemical structure. There is no such problem in Word 2. X. 1. 5 This issue has not been fixed in the SP2 version 1. July 2. 00. 9. On May 1. Microsoft released Office 2. Service Pack 1 as a free update. However, there have been many reports of the updater failing to install, resulting in a message saying that an updatable version of Office 2. This appears to be related to users modifying the contents of the Microsoft Office folder in ways which do not cause problems with most other software such as localizing using a program to remove application support files in unwanted languages, and which do not affect Offices operations, but which cause the updaters installers to believe that the application is not valid for update. A small modification to the installer has been found an effective work around see reference. Another widespread problem reported after SP1 is that Office files will no longer open in Office applications when opened double clicked from the Mac OS X Finder or launched from other applications such as an email attachment. The trigger for this problem is that Microsoft in SP1 unilaterally and without warning deprecated certain older Mac OS Type codes such as WDBN that some files may have, either because they are simply very old, or because some applications assign the older Type code when saving them to the disk. Users have seen the problem affect even relatively new Type codes, however, such as W6. BN. Microsoft is apparently looking into the problem, but it is unclear if they will reinstate the older Type codes, citing security concerns. Another problem with cross platform compatibility is that images inserted into any Office application by using either cut and paste or drag and drop result in a file that does not display the inserted graphic when viewed on a Windows machine. Instead, the Windows user is told Quick. Time and a TIFF LZW decompressor are needed to see this picture. A user presented one solution as far back as December 2. A further example of the lack of feature parity is the track changes function. Whereas users of Word 2. Windows are able to choose freely between showing their changes in line or as balloons in the right hand margin,2. Word 2. 00. 4 or Word 2. Mac OS also turns off all comment balloons comments in this case are visible only in the Reviewing Pane or as popup boxes i. This issue has not been resolved to date and is present in the latest version of Word for the Mac, namely Word 2. The toolbox found in Office 2. OS X feature Spaces is used switching from one Space to another will cause elements of the Toolbox to get trapped on one Space until the Toolbox is closed and reopened. The only remedy for this problem is to currently disable Spaces, or at least refrain from using it whilst working in Office 2. Microsoft has acknowledged this problem and states that it is an architectural problem with the implementation of Spaces. Apple has been informed of the problem, according to Microsoft. The problem appears to be caused by the fact that the Toolbox is Carbon based. Using Microsoft Office with Mac OS X 1. Snow Leopard solves some of the problems. In addition, there is no support for right to left and bidirectional languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, etc. Office 2. Word 2. Power. Point 2. 00. Languages such as Thai are similarly not supported, although installing fonts can sometimes allow documents written in these languages to be displayed. Moreover, Office 2. Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Swiss German. Proofing tools for other languages failed to find their way to the installation pack, and are not offered by Microsoft commercially in the form of separately sold language packs. At the same time, Office applications are not integrated with the proofing tools native to Mac OS X 1. Leopard. Microsoft Visio is not available for OS X.