Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit has released Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 on Monday, billed as a midcycle free update designed to improve the user experience with speed, stability and compatibility enhancements.
The update should be available on the Mactopia Web site later today.
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac SP2 provides several updates across the Microsoft Office 2008 suite for an improved experience.
The Microsoft team incorporated customer feedback received through a variety of channels to prioritise updates and maximize the potential of the suite with increased compatibility and speed the company says.
New and improved features include:
Custom Path Animation adds the ability to author motion-path animations in Microsoft PowerPoint 2008. Users previously could only play back motion paths.
Default Theme lets users define their default theme in Microsoft PowerPoint 2008, including fonts, colour scheme and slide layouts.
Increased speed in Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac - launch and scroll times - as well as Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac with features such as calculation performance.
SP2 also improves the SharePoint experience, while Mac Office users will be able to save documents to Office Live Workspace. The Web site expands its Mac browser support to include Safari 4, in addition to Firefox.
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