Office 2008 for Mac Last Updated: December 19, 2017 ISSUE Microsoft AutoUpdate may offer Office 2016 for Mac updates even though you have Office for Mac 2008 installed on your Mac. Upon accepting the update, Office for Mac 2008 gets automatically upgraded to Office 2016. This can occur if you are using version 3.14.0 of Microsoft AutoUpdate. STATUS: FIXED This issue has been fixed in Microsoft AutoUpdate version 3.14.1. If one or more of your applications were inadvertently upgraded to Office 2016 for Mac, use the following steps to revert to Office for Mac 2008. Open Finder and navigate to the /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008 folder. Press the Control key on your keyboard, click the following application names, and choose Move to Trash:.

Microsoft Word. Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft Outlook. Locate your Office for Mac 2008 installation media, and re-install the product. Your existing data, settings and license will be retained upon installation. If you have lost or misplaced your original media, you can download the product from. Install the latest Office 2008 update (12.3.6), from.

Contents. Components Desktop applications Unless stated otherwise, desktop applications are available for Windows and macOS.: a included in Microsoft Office and some editions of the now-discontinued. The first version of Word, released in the autumn of 1983, was for the MS-DOS operating system and introduced the to more users. Word 1.0 could be purchased with a bundled mouse, though none was required.

Following the precedents of and, Word for Macintosh attempted to add closer features into its package. Word for Mac was released in 1985.

Word for Mac was the first graphical version of Microsoft Word. Initially, it implemented the proprietary format as its primary format. Word 2007, however, deprecated this format in favor of, which was later standardized by as an.

Support for (PDF) and (ODF) was first introduced in Word for Windows with 2 for Word 2007.: a editor that originally competed with the dominant, and eventually outsold it. Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Mac OS in 1985, and the first Windows version (numbered 2.05 to line up with the Mac) in November 1987.: a used to create composed of text, graphics, and other objects, which can be displayed on-screen and shown by the presenter or printed out on.: a for Windows that combines the with a graphical user interface and software development tools.

Microsoft Access stores data in its own format based on the Access Jet Database Engine. It can also import or link directly to data stored in other applications and databases. (not to be confused with, or ): a that replaces, and starting in Office 97, it includes an e-mail client, calendar, task manager and address book. On the Mac OS, Microsoft offered several versions of Outlook in the late 1990s, but only for use with. In Office 2001, it introduced an alternative application with a slightly different feature set called. It reintroduced Outlook in Office 2011, replacing Entourage.: a that gathers handwritten or typed notes, drawings, and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network.

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OneNote was initially introduced as a standalone app that was not included in any of editions. However, OneNote eventually became a core component of Microsoft Office; with the release of, OneNote was included in all Microsoft Office offerings.