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  Office for Mac Home & Student 2011 - 1 Pack

  Software (Microsoft Software)
  

  Rating (166 reviews):

  (3.3/5)

  

  Works Perfect

  It may have had some bugs before (which is probably why it has some low reviews) but the current version works smoothly with OS X Lion. I had no problems installing it or putting in the product code. Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint all work just like they do on windows and docs/presentations/spreadsheets can be transfered to windows computers. So far I've had no problems with any of the 3 and am very pleased with my purchase. A must have for all Mac users. Do note that it comes with Word, Powerpoint and Excel. If you want Outlook you need another version that includes it or you can but this version and buy Outlook later. This version will give you the Outlook icon when you install the other 3 and if you click on it you have the option to buy Outlook. 5/5 Kevin - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Office for Mac Home & Student 2011 - 1 Pack (Software) It may have had some bugs before (which is probably why it has some low reviews) but the current version works smoothly with OS X Lion. I had no problems installing it or putting in the product code. Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint all work just like they do on windows and docs/presentations/spreadsheets can be transfered to windows computers. So far I've had no problems with any of the 3 and am very pleased with my purchase. A must have for all Mac users. Do note that it comes with Word, Powerpoint and Excel. If you want Outlook you need another version that includes it or you can but this version and buy Outlook later. This version will give you the Outlook icon when you install the other 3 and if you click on it you have the option to buy Outlook. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , November 5, 2011

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  BETA product at premium price

  Having worked with Office 2003 for PC since beta, Word, Excel and PP 2011 feels more refined and a bit more cohesive...barely. Word, Excel and PP are usable, and in some ways a touch more refined than Office 2003 for PC...perhaps that is just the Mac itself. Overall 2011 is, with only small variations, the same product as 2003. If you require Microsoft specific, detailed functionality then you are likely used to Microsoft and will get something that is all too familiar. If you are not a power user then you might want to try Pages and Numbers from Apple which will cause you much less pain for your effort and feel more like Mac products.As of the latest updates at the time of this review there appears to be a memory leak in Word that causes it to freeze and requires a Force Quit. When restarted, the "recovered" document is 2 or 3 manual saves behind the actual saved document. So if this happens to you, check your saved version against the "recovered" version to... 1/5 Bable - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Office for Mac Home & Student 2011 - 1 Pack (Software) Having worked with Office 2003 for PC since beta, Word, Excel and PP 2011 feels more refined and a bit more cohesive...barely. Word, Excel and PP are usable, and in some ways a touch more refined than Office 2003 for PC...perhaps that is just the Mac itself. Overall 2011 is, with only small variations, the same product as 2003. If you require Microsoft specific, detailed functionality then you are likely used to Microsoft and will get something that is all too familiar. If you are not a power user then you might want to try Pages and Numbers from Apple which will cause you much less pain for your effort and feel more like Mac products.As of the latest updates at the time of this review there appears to be a memory leak in Word that causes it to freeze and requires a Force Quit. When restarted, the "recovered" document is 2 or 3 manual saves behind the actual saved document. So if this happens to you, check your saved version against the "recovered" version to... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , September 16, 2011

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  Unstable! Beware!

  I don't know what happened between the last version of Office (which I hate, but use) and this new version (which I also hate, and ended up deleting and going back to old version) -- it is completely unstable. This is not new to MS Office for Mac -- earlier versions (2004 etc) also crashed regularly, without saving your data, causing heartache and loss of data. That was generally fixed with MSO:M 2008 -- but guess what, the problem is back in MSO:M 2011 -- Very unstable - frequent crashes, and ultimately I had to delete this completely from my mac and reinstall my older versions of MS Office. Not ready for prime time (even though it looks nice once you open Word or Excel). I would avoid this for now until we hear if this is fixed in future updates. 1/5 RonAnnArbor (Ann Arbor, MI United States) - See all my reviews, November 29, 2010

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  List Price: $119.99
  

  PCs running Office worldwide ensures you have the right tools to create, share, and collaborate with virtually anyone, anywhere, with no worries.

  So you can deliver impressive, professional-looking documents and presentations.

  Office Web App support: New Office Web Apps let you post, access, edit.

  The most familiar and trusted productivity applications used around the world at home, school, and business.

  Share Office documents from where you want with nearly any computer with a browser;

  And Remote Desktop for Mac 2 so you can drive your Windows-based PC from your Mac.

  Also includes Messenger for Mac 8 enabling you to communicate in real time with audio and video support.

  And coauthor a document with multiple people in multiple locations.

  Office for Mac 2011 offers top-of-the-line software with the most complete feature set.

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  Office for Mac 2011 Home & Student -Family Pack

  Software (Microsoft Software)
  

  Rating (269 reviews):

  (3.5/5)

  

  Beware early adopter stability issues and problems with product activation

  Office 2011 has a number of new, very useful features, and is a refinement over the previous edition of Office for Mac. The program is cleaner in appearance and much faster to load. There are two glaring issues, however, that would lead me to STRONGLY advise against purchase of the software at this time. First, there are widespread issues with product activation. Office 2011 comes with a new "activation PIN" that must be activated by the sale merchant (similar to how a giftcard will not work unless they scan it at the register). You are then required to enter the PIN on Microsoft's website, at which point (if all has gone well), you will receive your product ID (CD key) that you then use to install the software. In theory, the process should be painless---but Microsoft has been having issues nationwide with activation of the PIN (even if you pay for the software) and I had to deal with about a week's worth of hassles and e-mails/phone calls between Microsoft and my vendor before I... 1/5 amd "amazon35" (Florida, United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Office for Mac 2011 Home & Student -Family Pack (Software) Office 2011 has a number of new, very useful features, and is a refinement over the previous edition of Office for Mac. The program is cleaner in appearance and much faster to load. There are two glaring issues, however, that would lead me to STRONGLY advise against purchase of the software at this time. First, there are widespread issues with product activation. Office 2011 comes with a new "activation PIN" that must be activated by the sale merchant (similar to how a giftcard will not work unless they scan it at the register). You are then required to enter the PIN on Microsoft's website, at which point (if all has gone well), you will receive your product ID (CD key) that you then use to install the software. In theory, the process should be painless---but Microsoft has been having issues nationwide with activation of the PIN (even if you pay for the software) and I had to deal with about a week's worth of hassles and e-mails/phone calls between Microsoft and my vendor before I... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , November 12, 2010

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  Excel is seriously broken

  I like the interface, a combination of the Window's ribon I hate, but have learned to deal with and the menus I know so well. I like the ribbon on this version more than the floating tool bars in Excel 2004. This is the good. However within moments of first opening Excel 2011 I went to see if the most annoying bug from Excel 2004 had been fixed. When you try editing a formula in a conditional format in Excel 2004, you cannot use the cursor keys for editing. All cursor keys do is to add cell references. My work around is to have a text editor handy so I can copy the formula, edit in the text editor, and past back into Excel. One would think that after 8 years, Microsoft would have had lots of opportunity to fix this. Not so. Same bug. I need to keep an Excel 2003 for Windows format for most clients, so I set the default file format to be Excel 97-2004. I also tend to use a lot of conditional formats. But when I saved a file with those same... 1/5 Thomas O'Connor - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Office for Mac 2011 Home & Student -Family Pack (Software) I like the interface, a combination of the Window's ribon I hate, but have learned to deal with and the menus I know so well. I like the ribbon on this version more than the floating tool bars in Excel 2004. This is the good. However within moments of first opening Excel 2011 I went to see if the most annoying bug from Excel 2004 had been fixed. When you try editing a formula in a conditional format in Excel 2004, you cannot use the cursor keys for editing. All cursor keys do is to add cell references. My work around is to have a text editor handy so I can copy the formula, edit in the text editor, and past back into Excel. One would think that after 8 years, Microsoft would have had lots of opportunity to fix this. Not so. Same bug. I need to keep an Excel 2003 for Windows format for most clients, so I set the default file format to be Excel 97-2004. I also tend to use a lot of conditional formats. But when I saved a file with those same... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , November 3, 2010

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  Excel 2011 is Unintuitive and Unstable

  I just purchased this as an upgrade to MS Office 2004. First thing I did was to open a spreadsheet from Excel 2004. It gave me an error of "File error: data may have been lost.", which it does every time I open up this file. I'm not sure yet why it is having this problem. So, then I proceeded to create my very first new spreadsheet with Excel 2011. I've locked up Excel twice so far--my first hour of use and it has already crashed two times! I have, btw, a brand new 27" iMac with the latest Snow Leopard on it--this is as good as it gets for an OS and machine platform to run it on. I've also noticed it getting confused several times and garbling text elements on charts when I do something to the data format elsewhere on the chart. Even if it did work, the UI is convoluted and confusing. I could probably get used to it in time, but there's nothing elegant about how they've constructed their UI. There are also some obvious bugs... 1/5 Christopher Komuves (Chaplin, CT USA) - See all my reviews, October 28, 2010

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  List Price: $149.99
  

  The most familiar and trusted productivity applications used around the world at home, school, and business.

  Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 Family Pack includes Mac versions of Word 2011, Excel 2011, and PowerPoint 2011;

  And Remote Desktop for Mac 2 so you can drive your Windows-based PC from your Mac.

  And collaborate with virtually anyone, anywhere, with no worries.

  Share Office documents from where you want with nearly any computer with a browser;

  Reliable compatibility with the over 1 billion Macs and PCs running Office worldwide ensures you have the right tools to create, share.

  Office for Mac 2011 offers top-of-the-line software with the most complete feature set

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  Reader Rabbit Learn to Read With Phonics (Preschool & Kindergarten)

  Software (LEARNING COMPANY)
  

  Rating (44 reviews):

  (3.4/5)

  

  A good start software & fun for 3-5yr boy or girl

  I purchased this software because my kid's daycare uses Reader Rabbit. I picked this version since it was preschool to K & I've got a 3yr old & a 5yr old & I wanted something (for my first purchase of software) that they could both use. It's a two disk set with one for the preschool & the other is K. The preschool has less "story" to it; it has more games, songs, & a zillion printable activities (we haven't done them since the kids computer isn't hooked up to a printer-- another thing they might break). Some games are matching letters or shapes, while harder games have the child pick the right word for the sentence (if you move your mouse over words, etc, the sentence/word is read for the child). Both my kids like teh preschool disk. THe K disk is more story & more detail -- help the mouse find letters & fill in a map. I think my 5yr old lacks the desire right now to sit thru all that, but it seems fun & challenging without being hard. My 3yr old tries to do it, but he can't... 3/5 LAK "lakdek" (Newtown, PA United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Reader Rabbit Learn to Read With Phonics (Preschool & Kindergarten) (CD-ROM) I purchased this software because my kid's daycare uses Reader Rabbit. I picked this version since it was preschool to K & I've got a 3yr old & a 5yr old & I wanted something (for my first purchase of software) that they could both use. It's a two disk set with one for the preschool & the other is K. The preschool has less "story" to it; it has more games, songs, & a zillion printable activities (we haven't done them since the kids computer isn't hooked up to a printer-- another thing they might break). Some games are matching letters or shapes, while harder games have the child pick the right word for the sentence (if you move your mouse over words, etc, the sentence/word is read for the child). Both my kids like teh preschool disk. THe K disk is more story & more detail -- help the mouse find letters & fill in a map. I think my 5yr old lacks the desire right now to sit thru all that, but it seems fun & challenging without being hard. My 3yr old tries to do it, but he can't... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , October 16, 2007

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  Reader Rabbit teaches

  When I first purchased this and took a look at it before I let my four year old granddaughter view it--to be honest I thought it looked uninspiring and rather boring for her. But what do I know! She spent three hours on it the first day learning how to navigate through the various activities and books. I was amazed since she is a whirlwind of energy. Since then she views it daily and learns the letters and words and is beginning to pick them out of the hardcover books she has. In the end what matters is that she finds this edition of Reader Rabbit engaging and that she is learning from the activities and the interactive stories. 5/5 Deborah Verlen "Deborah" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews, October 25, 2009

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  Will not load

  Will not load after installation. Product description says it supports Windows XP. I am running 64-bit Windows 7, which is likely the problem. My recommendation is that you should not purchase this product if you have a 64-bit OS. 1/5 Karl Groves (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Reader Rabbit Learn to Read With Phonics (Preschool & Kindergarten) (CD-ROM) Will not load after installation. Product description says it supports Windows XP. I am running 64-bit Windows 7, which is likely the problem. My recommendation is that you should not purchase this product if you have a 64-bit OS. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , February 17, 2010

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  List Price: $9.95
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  Mac OS 8.6 - 9.2/OS X 10.1.5, Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP

  Track success with progress reports. User-friendly program help.

  uild Reading Skills through Fun Activities & Interactive Storybooks.

  Key Skills: Phonics & Decoding; Phonemic Awareness; Sentences; Vocabulary; Spelling; Comprehension

  Practice specific skills or learn while following the adventure.

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