Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Step by Step

Start an Office Program

You can start an Office 2008 program in several ways:

1. Click the program icon in the Dock. If the program isn’t yet running, clicking the icon makes it bounce, indicating that the program is starting. If the program is already running, clicking the icon switches to that program.

2. In the Finder, open the Applications folder and then the Microsoft Office 2008 folder. (The Office programs and their supporting utilities are installed in this folder.) In the folder, double-click the program you want to run, or right-click it and then click Open.

3. Double-click an Office file in the Finder, or right-click it and then click Open, to start the relevant program and open the file at the same time.

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