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- Publishing Layout View lets users create incredibly rich documents such as newletters, flyers and brochures without a degree in design
- Organize your thoughts with customized backgrounds and color-coded tabs in Notebook Layout View
- New Templates, Themes, and Document Elements like cover pages and bibliographies make creating professional-looking output a snap
- SmartArt makes transforming text into high-quality graphics and diagrams as easy as one click
- Dynamic Guides help you keep all of your words and graphics in line and on point

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What our customer's say!

"Get the Home and Student edition instead", For those who've not yet heard, Microsoft Word 2008 is a quite attractive product, beautiful even. It did release with some nasty bugs, but I'm not having any problems with the latest updates, so be sure to upgrade to the current release. Also, keep in mind that it loads very s-l-o-w-l-y. Nothing else on my Mac loads so slowly.

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I'd strongly suggest that you NOT get this $180 Word-only version. Opt instead for this:

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition

You can compare the differences, but for most people it's a no-brainer. With the $122 home and student edition you get Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Entourage, and Messenger with a license to legally install it on to up to three computers. With the product on this page you only get Word (and I believed licensed only for one computer) for $180. There are, I believe a few business-oriented templates that come with this version, but probably nothing you can't do without.

Why Microsoft is doing this I don't know. Perhaps they figure that many businesses will pay extra for the templates while home users will opt for free, open source software if Microsoft doesn't offer them a good bargain. And make no mistake, Microsoft Office for $122 is a good deal, if for no other reason than that it lets you exchange files with everyone else who's using Word, Excel and Powerpoint. And if you're a student, look around for even better prices on a back-to-school-2008 offer from Microsoft.

My only major gripe about this release is that Microsoft still hasn't created a Mac version of OneNote. A notetaking application, it gets rave reviews from fortunate Windows users. For more details, see Wikipedia.

--Michael W. Perry, Untangling Tolkien: A Chronology and Commentary for The Lord of the Rings