• Microsoft Entourage 2008
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Entourage, once a popular email client exclusively for Mac users is now an outdated application.It is a Microsoft product but it was discontinued in favor of MS Outlook(one of the most popular email client today). Now, it cannot even compete with the features of the ever increasing number of email platforms and is sure to be extinct in the future. Office 2008 for Mac includes the same core programs currently included with Office 2004 for Mac: Entourage, Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Mac-only features included are a publishing layout view, which offers functionality similar to Microsoft Publisher for Windows, a 'Ledger Sheet mode' in Excel to ease financial tasks, and a 'My Day' application. Follow the steps below to configure Entourage for Mac OS X to send and receive email. How to Set Up Entourage for Mac OS X to Send and Receive Email. You will need your email server settings to set up your email program. Print or write down the information that is displayed for use during this walkthrough. Entourage for Mac 2008 is simply brilliant, it does so much more than simply send and receive email, you have your address book, calendar, to do list, notes and a project centre, I like the addition of the mini calendar in the main email window. For those that have to pick up work email, exchange services will be a boon, as long as the company.

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is a version of the Microsoft Officeproductivity suite for Mac OS X. It supersedes Office 2004 for Mac (which did not have Intel native code) and is the Mac OS X equivalent of Office 2007. Office 2008 was developed by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit and released on January 15, 2008. Office 2008 was followed by Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 released on October 26, 2010, requiring a Mac with an Intel processor and Mac OS version 10.5 or better. Office 2008 is also the last version to feature Entourage, which was replaced by Outlook in Office 2011. Microsoft stopped supporting Office 2008 on April 9, 2013.

Release[edit]

Office 2008 was originally slated for release in the second half of 2007; however, it was delayed until January 2008, purportedly to allow time to fix lingering bugs.^[3] Office 2008 is the only version of Office for Mac supplied as a Universal Binary.

Unlike Office 2007 for Windows, Office 2008 was not offered as a public beta before its scheduled release date.^[4]

Features[edit]

Office 2008 for Mac includes the same core programs currently included with Office 2004 for Mac: Entourage, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

Mac-only features included are a publishing layout view, which offers functionality similar to Microsoft Publisher for Windows, a 'Ledger Sheet mode' in Excel to ease financial tasks, and a 'My Day' application offering a quick way to view the day's events.^[5]

Office 2008 supports the new Office Open XML format, and defaults to saving all files in this format. On February 21, 2008 Geoff Price revealed that the format conversion update for Office 2004 would be delayed until June 2008 in order to provide the first update to Office 2008.^[6]

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications is not supported in this version.^[7] As a result, such Excel add-ins dependent on VBA, such as Solver, have not been bundled in the current release.^[8] In June 2008, Microsoft announced that it is exploring the idea of bringing some of the functionality of Solver back to Excel.^[9] In late August 2008, Microsoft announced that a new Solver for Excel 2008 was available as a free download from Frontline Systems, original developers of the Excel Solver.^[10][11] However, Excel 2008 also lacks other functionality, such as Pivot Chart functionality, which has long been a feature in the Windows version. In May 2008, Microsoft announced that VBA will be making a return in the next version of Microsoft Office for Mac.^[12]AppleScript and the Open Scripting Architecture will still be supported.

Limitations[edit]

Office 2008 for Mac lacks feature parity with the Windows version. The lack of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support in Excel makes it impossible to use macros programmed in VBA. Microsoft's response is that adding VBA support in Xcode would have resulted in an additional two years added to the development cycle of Office 2008.^[13] Other unsupported features include: OMML equations generated in Word 2007 for Windows,^[14] Office 'Ribbon', Mini Toolbar, Live Preview, and an extensive list of features are unsupported such as equivalent SharePoint integration with the Windows version. Some features are missing on Excel 2008 for Mac, including: data filters (Data Bars, Top 10, Color-based, Icon-based), structured references, Excel tables, Table styles, a sort feature allowing more than three columns at once and more than one filter on a sort.

Benchmarks suggest that the original release of Office 2008 runs slower on Macs with PowerPC processors, and does not provide a significant speed bump for Macs with Intel processors.^[15]

A using a program to remove application support files in unwanted languages), and which do not affect Office's operations, but which cause the updaters' installers to believe that the application is not valid for update. A small modification to the installer has been found an effective work-around (see reference).^[18]

Another widespread problem reported after SP1 is that Office files will no longer open in Office applications when opened (double-clicked) from the Mac OS X Finder or launched from other applications such as an email attachment. The trigger for this problem is that Microsoft in SP1 unilaterally and without warning deprecated certain older Mac OS 'Type' codes such as 'WDBN' that some files may have, either because they are simply very old, or because some applications assign the older Type code when saving them to the disk. Users have seen the problem affect even relatively new Type codes, however, such as 'W6BN'. Microsoft is apparently looking into the problem, but it is unclear if they will reinstate the older Type codes, citing security concerns.^[19]

Another problem with cross-platform compatibility is that images inserted into any Office application by using either cut and paste or drag and drop result in a file that does not display the inserted graphic when viewed on a Windows machine. Instead, the Windows user is told 'QuickTime and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture'. A user presented one solution as far back as December 2004.^[20]

A further example of the lack of feature parity is the track changes function. Whereas users of Word 2003 or 2007 for Windows are able to choose freely between showing their changes in-line or as balloons in the right-hand margin,^[21][22] choosing the former option in Word 2004 or Word 2008 for Mac OS also turns off all comment balloons; comments in this case are visible only in the Reviewing Pane or as popup boxes (i.e. upon mouseover).^[23] This issue has not been resolved to date and is present in the latest version of Word for the Mac, namely Word 2011.^[24]

The toolbox found in Office 2008 also has problems when the OS X feature Spaces is used: switching from one Space to another will cause elements of the Toolbox to get trapped on one Space until the Toolbox is closed and reopened. The only remedy for this problem is to currently disable Spaces, or at least refrain from using it whilst working in Office 2008.^[25] Microsoft has acknowledged this problem and states that it is an architectural problem with the implementation of Spaces. Apple has been informed of the problem, according to Microsoft.^[26] The problem appears to be caused by the fact that the Toolbox is Carbon-based.^{[citation needed]} Using Microsoft Office with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard solves some of the problems.^[26]

In addition, there is no support for right to left and bidirectional languages (such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, etc.) in Office 2008,^[27][28] making it impossible to read or edit a right to left document in Word 2008 or PowerPoint 2008. Languages such as Thai are similarly not supported, although installing fonts can sometimes allow documents written in these languages to be displayed.

Moreover, Office 2008 proofing tools support only a limited number of languages (Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Swiss German).^[29] Proofing tools for other languages failed to find their way to the installation pack, and are not offered by Microsoft commercially in the form of separately sold language packs. At the same time, Office applications are not integrated with the proofing tools native to Mac OS X 10.6 Leopard.

Microsoft Visio is not available for OS X. This means that any embedded Visio diagrams in other Office documents (e.g. Word) cannot be edited in Office on the Mac. Embedded Visio diagrams appear as a low-quality bitmap both in the WYSIWYG editor and upon printing the document on the Mac.

Editions[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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1. ^'Microsoft Support Lifecycle - Office 2008'. Microsoft. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
2. ^'Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Specs'. CNET. January 15, 2008. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
3. ^'It's Coming: Mac BU Announces Intent to Deliver Office 2008 for Mac'. Microsoft. January 9, 2007. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007.
4. ^'Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac delayed until January 2008'. TUAW. August 2, 2007.
5. ^'Microsoft starts testing Office 2008 for Mac'. Cnet. April 2, 2007. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved September 19, 2007.
6. ^'MS Office Mac Discussion Board'. January 15, 2008.
7. ^'Saying goodbye to Visual Basic'. August 8, 2006.
8. ^'MS Office Mac Discussion Board'. January 15, 2008.
9. ^'Excel 2008 and Solver'. June 26, 2008.
10. ^'Solver For Excel 2008 Is Available'. August 29, 2008.
11. ^'Solver is Back for Microsoft Excel 2008 on Macintosh'. August 29, 2008.
12. ^'Microsoft Office Update, and Visual Basic for Applications to Return - Mac Rumors'. May 13, 2008.
13. ^'MS Mactopia Blog'. March 13, 2008.
14. ^Known issues in Word 2008 – Equations saved from Word 2007 for Windows do not appear in Word 2008 for Mac
15. ^'MS Mactopia Blog'. March 13, 2008.
16. ^'CambridgeSoft Website'.
17. ^New installer for 12.0.1 (The Entourage Help Blog)
18. ^MacFixit article: More Fixes for Problems InstallingArchived January 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
19. ^http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?target=0b9aa757-50ab-443b-8b0e-3a50ece1d5451033&clr=99-4-0
20. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on June 26, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
21. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on July 2, 2009. Retrieved July 9, 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
22. ^'IT training – IT training – IT Services – Administrative and academic support divisions – Services and divisions – Staff and students – Home'. Ittraining.lse.ac.uk. May 7, 2010. Archived from the original on February 27, 2009. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
23. ^[1]^{[dead link]}
24. ^http://officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/Word/11634/0
25. ^Bugs & Fixes: Office 2008 and Leopard’s Spaces don’t mix, Macworld, December 8, 2008
26. ^ ^abOffice 2008 for Mac and Mac OS X Spaces, Microsoft
27. ^Help and How-To for Microsoft for Mac Office Products | Mactopia
28. ^Higgaion » It’s official: no RTL support in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
29. ^Proofing tools that are available for each language

External links[edit]

• MacBU interview: Office 2008 Exchange Server support^{[permanent dead link]}

There are numbers of email clients that provides an option to set up IMAP or POP3 accounts. By this, users can read their different email accounts messages on one email application. Similarly, with the help of Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition, users can configure the Exchange account and access the mailbox in Entourage client. Although many users have a query for Entourage 2008 Office 365 setup, they face different types of issues. One of the scenarios is also explained below:

“I am using Microsoft Entourage 2008 business as my default mail client on Mac OS X. Due to professional reasons, I upgrade to Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition. However, whenever I try to connect Entourage 2008 to Office 365 account, I had some problem and finally end up with an error. Maybe I was performing wrong steps while configuring the Exchange account with Entourage. So, If any of my technical friends know the correct steps to setup Office 365 on Entourage 2008 WSE, then please let me know. Any relevant help would be appreciated!”

Just like this user query, many end-users face the same problem. This glitch can be easily resolved by executing the proper Entourage 2008 Office 365 setup instructions. Therefore, in the upcoming sections, users will know how to set up Exchange account in Microsoft Entourage 2008. Apart from this, a direct way will also describe converting Office 365 to Entourage MBOX supported file format. So, let’s start with Office 365 Entourage 2008 manual setup method.

Steps to Manually Setup Office 365 on Entourage 2008

Only Entourage 2008 program can be used to configure Office 365 Exchange Online account. The earlier versions such as Entourage 2004 will not be able to connect with Exchange profile. Also, users can connect Entourage 2008 to Office 365 for Mac using Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition. Before following these instructions, ensure that the user installs the Entourage 2008 WSE. It is available as a free update to MS Office 2008 for Mac. Once the users have Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition, one can go through the instructions:

• Initially, open your Mac system and go to the Applications folder.
• Launch Entourage 2008 and click on Tools tab.
• After that, select Accounts option.
• Now, you have to click on New and select Mail option.

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• Select Exchange under the Account type option and click on OK to continue the account configuration.

• Exchange account setup dialog box displayed on the screen. Here, you need to click on Manual Setup button.
• Click on Account settings tab and mention the following details:

1. Account Name- Create a unique name
2. User Name- Provide full name
3. Email Address- Primary email ID for mailbox
4. Account-ID- Mention username as per Office 365 account
5. Domain- Optional
6. Password- Confidential password associated with Exchange

• Once the settings are confirmed by Entourage, click on Advanced Tab. After that, provide the Exchange Server ID and check the box corresponding to This server requires a secure connection (SSL). Click on OK to complete the setup.

• Once the Office 365 configured correctly in Entourage 2008, mail will begin to download within 5 minutes.

Automatic Way for Entourage 2008 Office 365 Setup

Why a user configure office 365 to Entourage? The explanation is simple! To read and manage the Office 365 mailbox data in desktop-based Microsoft Entourage application. However, due to the technical glitch, users received sync errors while setting up the O365 account using Entourage 2008. Although, this issue frequently terminates the configuration process after the proper manual settings. Hence, it is beneficial to have a method that is error-free and import Office 365 in Entourage platform. For this, automated solution is the best choice.

With the help of Office 365 Backup for Mac software, users can convert O365 mailbox data in Entourage supported MBOX format. Apart from this, the tool downloads Office 365 mailbox in 3+ file formats, including Outlook PST on local hard-drive. Also, depending upon the file format compatibility, users can import the resultant backup file in various email platforms like Entourage, Thunderbird, Outlook and many more. Below, the steps are mentioned use to convert O365 mailbox data in Entourage-compatible file format:

Steps to Connect Entourage 2008 to Office 365

1. Download the software and open on your Mac system.
2. Once the tool opens completely, provide the authentic Office 365 account credential.
3. On the next page, select the folders that you want to export and select the MBOX file format.
4. Navigate to Browse and provide a suitable place for resultant MBOX file on Mac system.
5. Finally, click on the Start Backup button to start the process.

Once the Office 365 data downloaded in MBOX format, then follow the below instructions in order to import the resultant file into Entourage application.

Simple Steps for Importing Resultant File to Entourage 2008

• Open MicrosoftEntourage application.
• Navigate to File and then click on Import.

• Select the radio button corresponding to Contacts or messages from a text file.

• Now, browse the location where you have stored the MBOX file.
• Select the MBOX format and click on Open to start importing the data from .mbox file.
• Once the process gets completed, click on Done.

In Summation

In this blog post, we discuss how to set up Office 365 on Entourage 2008 manually. Due to some problem in manual configuration, we have also explained an automatic way for Entourage 2008 Office 365 setup. According to requirements, users can choose any of the above-mentioned methods to migrate Office 365 to Entourage.

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