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12.3.6 / March 12, 2013; 5 years ago ( 2013-03-12).9 or later Website System requirements or (500 MHz or faster) or any processor or later 512 MB Free space 1.5 GB Optical drive (for local installation) Notes Unofficially runs on Macs (like the in Bondi Blue) and with less RAM. Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is a version of the for. It supersedes (which did not have Intel native code) and is the Mac OS X equivalent of. Office 2008 was developed by Microsoft's and released on January 15, 2008. Office 2008 was followed by released on October 26, 2010, requiring a Mac with an Intel processor and or better. Office 2008 is also the last version to feature Entourage, which was replaced by Outlook in Office 2011.

Contents • • • • • • • Release [ ] Office 2008 was originally slated for release in the second half of 2007; however, it was delayed until January 2008, purportedly to allow time to fix lingering bugs. Office 2008 is the only version of Office for Mac supplied as a.

Unlike Office 2007 for Windows, Office 2008 was not offered as a public before its scheduled release date. Features [ ] Office 2008 for Mac includes the same core programs currently included with Office 2004 for Mac:,,. Mac-only features included are a publishing layout view, which offers functionality similar to for Windows, a 'Ledger Sheet mode' in Excel to ease financial tasks, and a 'My Day' application offering a quick way to view the day's events. Office 2008 supports the new format, and defaults to saving all files in this format. On February 21, 2008 Geoff Price revealed that the format conversion update for Office 2004 would be delayed until June 2008 in order to provide the first update to Office 2008. Microsoft 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 2008, Microsoft announced that it is exploring the idea of bringing some of the functionality of Solver back to Excel. In late August 2008, Microsoft announced that a new Solver for Excel 2008 was available as a free download from Frontline Systems, original developers of the Excel Solver. However, Excel 2008 also lacks other functionality, such as Pivot Chart functionality, which has long been a feature in the Windows version. In May 2008, Microsoft announced that VBA will be making a return in the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac. And the will still be supported. Limitations [ ].

Error message in Microsoft Excel showing features that are not supported Office 2008 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. Microsoft's response is that adding VBA support in Xcode would have resulted in an additional two years added to the development cycle of Office 2008. Other unsupported features include: equations generated in Word 2007 for Windows, Office ',,, and an extensive list of features are unsupported such as equivalent integration with the Windows version. Some features are missing on Excel 2008 for Mac, including: data filters (Data Bars, Top 10, 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.

Despite the abundance of graphical rich text editors, familiarity with Vim will help every Linux user — from an experienced system administrator to a newbie Raspberry Pi user. Besides regular text editing functions, the editor also supports advanced features such as find & replace based on regular expressions and encoding conversion as well as programming features such as syntax highlighting and code folding. The light-weight editor is a very powerful tool. In the hands of an experienced operator, it can do wonders. This article is part of the series: • • Vim Keyboard Shortcuts Cheatsheet • • • The Vim editor is a command-line based tool that’s an enhanced version of the venerable vi editor. Mac shortcut for word search.