Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac

Word 2008 for Mac. From CEOs to students, people are creating instant buzz with media-rich layouts, templates, and themes in great-looking newsletters, brochures, and reports.

Features:

Publishing layout view:

• This new working environment in Word combines powerful desktop publishing tools and designer templates in one location.
• Use publishing layout view to quickly create professional-looking documents, such as brochures, catalogs, flyers, and newsletters.

Document Elements:

• Use Document Elements to help automate common, but sometimes time-consuming tasks, such as creating a table of contents.
• Available in the Elements Gallery, these professionally designed publishing components include cover pages, tables of contents, headers, footers, and bibliographies to help you quickly assemble complex documents.

Publication templates:

• Word 2008 provides dozens of professionally designed publication templates.
• Use these templates to create great-looking brochures, newsletters, posters, flyers, and more with a single click.
• You can customize any template by using a theme.
• You can also use your own pictures and text to make your publication look just the way that you want.

Ligatures in fonts:

• Ligatures are font characters that combine two or more separate characters to improve text style and readability.
• Some ornate font ligatures include decorative swashes that you can use to enhance the style of a document.
• In Word 2008, you can use ligatures in Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) fonts in Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger) and both AAT and OpenType fonts in Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard).

System Requirements:

• A Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 500 MHz or faster

• Mac OS X version 10.4.9 or later
• 1.5GB of available space*
• 512MB RAM or more
• DVD-ROM or connection to a local area network (if installing over a network)
• 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution monitor
• Entourage and certain features require Internet access
• Connectivity to Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or later is required for certain advanced functionality in Entourage 2008
• 14.4 Kbps or higher Modem

* HFS+ hard disk format (also known as Mac OS Extended or HFS Plus).