Reasons to buy

• 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.


• Formula Auto Complete: 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.


• Tell your story effectively: 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.


• 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.


• Create a little spreadsheet magic without having to
  remember formulas. Open the Excel Toolbox, and get helpful step-by-step
  instructions on how to build any formula from your Formula Builder.


• Big grid, big potential: 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.


• 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.


• 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.