Customer Reviews
It's Microsoft... 
2008-07-17
Not native to Intel Macs - so a little slow and buggy even with the latest patch (one a month!). But, Office 2008 eliminated Visual Basic - so what is a small business to do? For now we are sticking with 2004 and may skip 2008 all together for 2010?
Odd experience, but decent 
2008-02-11
The package arrived at the predicted time, and the product works well enough. No complaints for Amazon, but the box did arrive absolutely soaking with some weird yellow cake-mixy substance. It's a good thing the software box was shrink wrapped!
It's still the Gold Standard 
2008-02-10
I've been using Microsoft Office since Office 98 and have never had a problem with any of the programs. Of course it has many more features than most people will ever use, but I constantly find new ways to streamline projects. I use it mostly in a business environment and don't know of any other program (suite) that would work as well as this does. I suppose for most "home" users, Apples Pages, Sheets, and Keynote would work fine, but for real heavy lifting you (still) pretty much need Office.
Office 2004 for Mac 2008-01-19
It's the Office group of applications for the Mac. It works as advertised and allows seamless transfer of files between Windows and Macs (at least till most everyone has the newer iterations of Office on the PC,then the 2008 Office/Mac version will be mandatory.
can't do without it 2008-01-13
This is good reliable stuff.
Looking forward to the 2008 version (included but still to be delivered)
Shame my new MacBook Pro was only coming with a trail version,
this is such monopolistic software that I had no choice but having it.
Thanks to billy G.
It's ok .. trying to get used to Mac is hard though. :/ 2007-12-26
Office 2004 Standard is designed to be a total office package, for Mac users who need compatibility with Windows. Start working with the latest versions of Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, and Word - with all-new Mac-only features, for a more productive office environment! Add sophistication to your Word documents Soft Drop Shadows Word Smart Buttons allows users to decline the automatic corrections, bulleting and numbering New Presenter Tools for Powerpoint - tools like the on-screen clock, notes pane and thumbnail viewer make changes and adjustments simple Entourage 2004 offers improved junk e-mail protection, better Exchange support, advanced Three Columns and more -- get through your inbox faster than before Compatibility Reports determine compatibility between projects in Windows and Mac formats Stay in touch with MSN Messenger for Mac
Great price, no issues 2007-12-14
I got a great price on Office Mac and it was shipped when it said it would. Great experience.
Canadian price is *double* 2007-12-02
What a rip-off! The US price is $339.99 and the Canadian price is over $600? Why the difference? To make it worse, the Canadian dollar is worth more than the US dollar at this point. Canadians, you are getting ripped off!!!!! I haven't bought it yet because I am trying to figure out if I should pay double for this product.
Microsoft Office:Mac 2007-11-26
I like it but it doesn't have the same menus as the PC version and I am having a little trouble finding commands that I want.
Do you really need MS Office for Mac? 
2007-11-09
So now you have a Mac and face the inevitable MS question-Do I need a Mac version of Microsoft Office?
The issue is made more difficult in that unlike for other versions of Microsoft Office, there is no free trial version of MS Office for Mac.
Since I am reviewing this office suite, you should assume I bought this product. It has Word, Excel and PowerPoint that look and feel just like the PC versions. It does not have Outlook, but offers a program called Entourage which manages mail effectively and even has a rather clunky project management component incorporated in it. If you use Hotmail as your primary email program, entourage will seem a necessity since Microsoft has kept third party mail management programs away from Hotmail. This includes Safari which does not work that well with Hotmail (although Firefox does just fine in web based Hotmail).
There is an alternative Apple iWork '08. iWork '08 reads and writes to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It has a free trial (60 days) and is much much cheaper, user friendly, and jazzier. As an added bonus, it uses much less real estate on your hard drive. It does not solve the Hotmail problem, but you can by migrating your webmail to gmail, yahoo, or lots of others which the standard Mail program on your Mac supports.
So here is the question, why do you want a Mac office suite that essentially offers no improvement over the PC program other than a mail manager?
![Software: Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Standard [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JMRXA94HL.jpg)
