Try Office 2008 free for 30 days but watch out for the high price at the end. Mac users can now try Office 2008 free for 30 days. We have some money saving conversion tips that can save you a few hundred dollars. Where to start Microsoft itself hasn’t realized the trial version is available – go to their main Office trial web site trymicrosoftoffice.com and there’s no mention of the Office for Mac trial download. But if you go you’ll find the free trial. Registration is required including giving details of your email address, snail mail address and phone number.

Are you trying to decide if it's the right time to upgrade to Office 2008? Microsoft now offers a trial version of Office for Mac 2008. You can download the trial and test Office 2008 for 30 days free. Previous trial versions of Office for Mac could not be converted to the full version; however, the Office for Mac 2008. Official direct download links to all Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac editions on the Digital River servers.

The registration form supports only USA and Puerto Rico – not even Canada rates a mention., let alone UK, Europe or the rest of the world. People from other countries might need to fill in a sincere looking address to get the trial. Aside from the details asked for there doesn’t seem any effort to prevent people downloading from anywhere in the world. Surely this anomaly will be fixed quickly? Virtual Breadboard Full Cracked Softwares. After registration a Product Key is displayed on web page as well as sent via email. You’ll need the Product Key to complete the installation.

The 545MB.dmg file should automatically prompt for installation after the download is completed. Office 2004 for Mac will use 1.2GB of disk space.

The trial download has Word 2008, Excel 2008, PowerPoint 2008, Messenger 2008 and Entourage 2008. Entourage is the email, calendar, contacts program for Mac users, in other words it’s the Outlook equivalent for Macintosh. Messenger is for use with Microsoft Instant Messaging services. Keep your existing Office The Office 2008 trial installation will detect and offer to remove other versions of Office for Mac but you can leave them on the computer. This means you can keep your Office 2004 or Office X for Mac while trying Office 2008.

Even though you’ve just downloaded the trial version, a check for updates will prompt you to download another 150MB to bring Office 2008 totally up to date with the latest security patches. When you first start an Office for Mac program you be asked, again, for the Product Key then activate the product. Activation is usually over the Internet and is required before you use the Office 2008 for Mac trial. Each time you open an Office application you’ll see this dialog. We strongly suggest you AVOID both those options.

Buying a Microsoft Office product key direct from Microsoft is the most expensive choice. See below for money saving tips. Click Try to use the program you’ve selected. Why just 30 days? The Office 2008 for Mac trial is for 30 days only. However the equivalent Office 2007 for Windows trial is 60 days.

Why Macintosh users get half the time to evaluate Microsoft Office is anyone’s guess. Buying after the trial What Microsoft wants you to do is try Office 2008 then go to their web site, buy a product key and convert the trial installation into ongoing working software. French Dictionary App Free Download. Bzzzzzt – that’s the worst and most expensive option. As we’ve, buying from Microsoft online direct you’ll pay a high, probably full retail, price and be encouraged to get the most expensive Office bundle. A better option is to decide which Office 2008 bundle you want, Home and Student Edition or Office 2008 for Mac. Maybe you can find the specially priced which can cost less than the Office 2008 for Mac bundle even though it contains more programs.

Buy Office 2008 for Mac at the best price you can – which is probably from a retail outlet or online store that ships a DVD and product key to you. At the time of writing, using the ‘Buy Now’ button in the Office 2008 for Mac trial will offer you these prices, in US dollars: • Home and Student Edition $149.95 • Office 2008 for Mac, full $399.95 • Office 2008 for Mac, upgrade $239.95 • The (full or upgrade) isn’t offered at all. Buying from Amazon (with free shipping) will save you at least $36 and up to $180 (buying the Special Media Edition full version for $220). You may get even better prices elsewhere.

In other countries you’ll find similar price savings. Conversion You would think it’s possible to use the Product Key from a retail copy to ‘convert’ Office 2008 for Mac trial to fully working version – but alas Microsoft says that’s not possible. Most likely this is to encourage people to buy the more expensive online product key. The workaround is to uninstall Office 2008 for Mac trial then install it again from the DVD and product key you have purchased. To remove Office for Mac trial (or any Office for Mac) go to the Applications Microsoft Office 2008 Additional Tools Remove Office and click on the Remove Office program.

Supported Operating System Apple Macintosh, Mac OS X • • Operating System Versions: Mac OS X version 10.4.9 (Tiger) or a later version of Mac OS Note To verify that your computer meets these minimum requirements, on the Apple menu, click About This Mac. • Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 (12.2.0): You can download this update for free from the. Note To verify that you have installed this update, you can open any Microsoft Office 2008 application to check the version number. For example, open Word, and then on the Word menu, click About Word. In the dialog box, compare the version number next to Latest Installed Update.

• To install this update • Print this page if you want to use it as a reference when you are offline. • Quit any applications that are running, including all Office applications, Microsoft Messenger, and Office Notifications, because they might interfere with the installation.

• Make sure that your computer meets the minimum system requirements. • Click Download, or click the link for the language version that you want. • Follow the instructions on the screen to save the file to your hard disk. If you are using Safari, the downloaded file is saved to the desktop or your Downloads folder unless you specified a different location in the Preferences dialog box of Safari.

To check your preferences, on the Safari menu, click Preferences, and then click General. • Double-click the file that you downloaded in step 5 to place the Office 2008 12.3.6 Update volume on your desktop, and then double-click the Office 2008 12.3.6 Update volume to open it. This step might have been performed for you. • In the Office 2008 12.3.6 Update volume window, double-click the Office 2008 12.3.6 Update application to start the update process, and then follow the instructions on the screen. • If the installation finishes successfully, you can remove the update installer from your hard disk.

To remove the update installer, first drag the Office 2008 12.3.6 Update volume to the Trash, and then drag the file that you downloaded to the Trash. Note This update is also available from Microsoft AutoUpdate, an application that can automatically keep your Microsoft software up to date. To use AutoUpdate, open an Office application, and then on the Help menu, click Check for Updates. To remove this update This update does not include an uninstall feature. To restore your application to its original state, delete it from your hard disk, reinstall it from your original installation disk, and then install the updates that you want. • If you have trouble installing this update or using Office 2008 applications after you install this update, try the following: • Make sure that the Microsoft Office 2008 folder is located in the Applications folder on the startup volume.

If it is at another location on your computer, move it to the Applications folder on your startup volume, and then try installing the update again. • Restart your computer and try installing the update again. • Make sure that the user account you use to authenticate the update installer is an administrator account.

For more information about administrator accounts, see Mac Help. • Make sure that you downloaded the correct language version of the update for your copy of Office. • If you rename or modify any of the files in the Microsoft Office 2008 folder, you cannot install product updates.

To correct this issue, drag the Microsoft Office 2008 folder to the Trash, and then reinstall Office 2008 from your original installation disk. • If you experience problems opening Office applications after you install this update, restart your computer.

If you continue to experience problems after you restart, reinstall Office from your original installation disk, and then install this update again. For additional assistance, visit the.