Installing Office 2008 for MAC

I don't see a specific place in the forums to post this, so I thought I'd start here.
Does anyone have any tips for a new mac user before installing office 2008 for mac?
Thanks,
Paul

My recommendation is go ahead and install Office for Mac 2008 with confidence. Once installed then choose Help from the top menu of any office application and the choose *Check for Updates* and update the installation to the latest version right away.
After that it works well.
FYI - MS Excel 2008 for Mac does not have the functionality to run Macros. Just thought that you should know.
Axel F.

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I don't see a specific place in the forums to post this, so I apologize if this is the wrong place...
Does anyone have any tips for a new mac user before installing office 2008 for mac?
Thanks,
Paul

Hi,
I installed Office 2008 in two of my office mac and two of my home mac without any trouble. There had been [some issues|http://www.macworld.com/article/131822/2008/01/office2008issues.html] with the release version of Office 08, but they have been fixed in later updates.
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I have a new small business starting up and we want to make full use of leopard and snow leopard server in our infrastructure. We also want to use os x for all our client machines.
We want to use ms office 2008 for mac as our main offfice software but i believe we don't need all the uses or festures of the business edtion and i need to seek good advice and clarity on this.
We won't ever use any microsoft exchange servers but instead willl use the apple mail servers and all the other apple server services.
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Would anyone be willing to share their Product key with me, to install the software so I can get back to work?
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NeoOffice...
http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
OpenOffice...
http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2007/07/current-mac-os-x-openofficeorg-versions .html

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