Microsoft Excel Mac 2008

Visually see how to use charts, formulas and more!



Use compelling charts and graphs to show stakeholders what you mean at a glance.  With Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac, everyone from beginners to professional number crunchers can quickly create great-looking financial reports.

Budgets everywhere will balance effortlessly.  New Mac-only Ledger Sheets with built-in formulas make common financial tasks easy.  Accelerate your number crunching with Formula AutoComplete.  Start typing and Excel 2008 displays a dynamic list of formulas to choose from.  Charting Improvements artfully convey the big picture, with greater impact than numbers.

Building Charts

• Design your data to tell the story you want to tell - and make the impact your ideas deserve.  Discover modern ways to communicate with powerful chart templates and tools, 3D effects, transparency, and soft shadows.
• In no time, beginners and pros alike build visually persuasive charts and thought-provoking graphs using the high-quality design layouts and styles that are always within easy reach via Excel's expandable and collapsible Elements Gallery.
• Insert your great-looking chart into a PowerPoint presentation or Word proposal for a rich, consistent, high-quality look and feel to all your professional communications.  Beautiful Excel chart options can be integrated across all of Office.

Formulas and Grids

• Create a little spreadsheet magic without having to remember formulas.  Open the Excel Toolbox, and get helpful step-by-step instructions how to build any formula from your Formula Builder.
• Save time typing.  Power users and beginners alike can input calculations without knowing their exact names.  Start typing and a list displays functions, definitions, and structure references that match your text.  Continue typing and the list narrows dynamically to the best selection.
• Power users will love exploring massive amounts of data within a single sheet.  Beginners can create logs that go on for days.  Compatible with Excel 2007, Excel for Mac 2008 sheets now support more than 1 million rows and 16 thousand columns each.

Ledger Sheets

• You just want to balance your budget, track your inventory, or manage your investments - not memorize a bunch of formulas.  Beginners can easily use Excel with little training, thanks to pre-formulated worksheets.
• Believe it or not, you will be creating financial management worksheets for home and work with ease.  Excel's powerful, pre-defined formulas, data import tools, and new helpful layouts will guide you through what you need to do.
• Start with fully customizable Ledger Sheets designed for invoicing, bill-paying, household budgets, and payroll.  Beginners to pros can easily customize at will - to keep on top of each person's totally unique financial picture.

• Mac OS X version 10.4.9 or later
• Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (500 MHz or faster) processor
• 512 MB of RAM or more
• 1.5 GB of available Hard Disk space
• HFS+ hard disk format (also known as Mac OS Extended or HFS Plus)
• DVD drive or connection to a local area network (if installing over a network)
• 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution monitor
• Entourage and certain features require Internet access (fees may apply)

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