Microsoft(R) Office 2008 For Mac Special Media Edition

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac features a redesigned user interface, a powerful new graphics and charting engine for creating high-impact and compelling documents, spreadsheets and presentations, plus a new themes capability that simplifies the process of applying a consistent look and feel across documents. Office 2008 is a Universal application, so it runs natively on both and Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.The Special Media Edition has all of the features of Office 2008 for Mac and includes Microsoft Expression(R) Media, a powerful digital asset management tool to visually catalog, organize and present all of your digital assets. It features batch conversion and tagging, plus built-in archiving and backup capabilities to help you manage over 100, 000 files across multiple storage devices. Work with more than 100 media types, including images, audio, video, illustrations, desktop publishing and text. Expression Media is customizable and powerful, for both professionals and digital media enthusiasts.Office 2008 for Mac includes Word 2008 (word processing), PowerPoint(R) 2008 (presentations), Excel(R) 2008 (spreadsheets), Entourage(R) 2008 (e-mail and scheduling) and Messenger (instant messaging) in a single integrated software package. Other features of include Elements Gallery, the foundation of the new user interface, giving you easy access to the most commonly used tools and templates. OfficeArt, the powerful graphics engine, gives you easy access to stunning visual and graphic effects. SmartArt graphics makes transforming text and bulleted lists into professional diagrams and graphics easy. It supports Open XML file formats, introduced in the PC-based Office 2007. The new format helps reduce the risk of corrupted files and also results in smaller file sizes - up to 75% smaller than comparable binary documents. Office 2008 for Mac is backward-compatible with earlier Microsoft Office file formats, allowing you to continue using .doc, .xls, and .ppt formats.