MS Office for Mac

First learn what version of MS Office you have. If your icons look like these , you have Office X (2001). If your icons look like these, you have Office 2008. Or if you can’t tell (the differences are very minute), go to your Applications folder and look at the MS Office folder. It will be either: or .

Support:

• Knowledge Base for Office 2008
• Issues & Workarounds in Word 2008
• Office for Mac Forums (be sure to search for articles with 2008 or Office X, since most of the recent articles are 2011).
• Download the most recent 2008 MS Office update (12.2.8). First check that you don’t already have it downloaded: open Word, and then on the Word menu at the top, click About Word. In the window that appears, compare the version number next to Latest Installed Update. Then follow the instructions for downloading here.

Learning:

• Video Podcasts (each link opens in iTunes):
  • Word for Mac 2011 Essentials
  • Word 2010 Essential Training
  • Word 2007: Creating Envelopes and Labels
• Book from Microsoft: “Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Step by Step“
• Training course from Keystone Learning: MS Office for Mac 2008
• Word 2008 Tutorials from lynda.com