Strengths:Organized user interface. Offers features not available in Windows version. Great price with Academic edition.
Weaknesses:No Access. PowerPoint is slow to render preview images of slides.
Posted Mar 1, 2007 - The Student and Teacher Edition of Microsoft Office for Mac offers all the features of the Standard Edition at a much more reasonable price. It includes Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Also included is Microsoft Messenger which is available online at no charge. Plus, you get 3 product keys which allow you to install Office on up to 3 Macs in your household. The user interface is much more organized than the Windows version, using a separate Formatting Pallette window on the side that includes all the toolbar buttons organized into sections that would normally clutter the toolbar at the top of the window in Office for Windows. Another included feature not found in the Windows version is a built-in PDF converter. The only downsides would be the lack of Access as well as Office not being quite as responsive as you would expect, especially on a Mac. This is not a big problem, however. Overall, Office for Mac is a great software package for any Mac users who don't want to use the X11 version of Open Office or those who are tired of opening Word and PowerPoint files in iWork.
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