#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2011 MAC REVIEW FOR MAC#
#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2011 MAC REVIEW FULL#
#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2011 MAC REVIEW SOFTWARE#

#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2011 MAC REVIEW FULL#

With Office 2011 for the Mac, you can now have full integration with the online versions of Word, PowerPoint and Excel, and save and share your docs on the free Windows Live SkyDrive (25 GB for free). Office Web Apps – with the launch of Office 2010 for PC came Office Online.You can even run a Compatibility Check on any document for a complete listing of potential conflicts with your version of a doc. Cross-Platform Compatibility – there is now no need to save your Office files as different versions for the PC or Mac and your docs look the same in both versions.

#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2011 MAC REVIEW FOR MAC#

Media Browser – this is particularly nice for Mac users in that there is integration with iPhoto, Aperture, iTunes, GarageBand, iMovie and other apps.

And you can hide the Ribbon whenever you want. For example, if you click on a picture, in Excel or Word a “Formatting” menu magically appears. An important change in this is the fact that it is contextual.

The “Ribbon” – the Ribbon is persistent across all of the applications.

Let’s take a quick look at some highlights of each application in the Office 2011 suite for Mac that I particularly like or that is new/improved and worthy of a mention. And Word, PowerPoint and Excel have all received some great new features and enhancements, bringing them on par with their siblings on the PC. (Be sure that you have a version of Microsoft Exchange Server that is compatible!) In fact, it probably has a more robust feature-set than the standard Mac Mail.app (which has Microsoft Exchange Server integration). More likely, there is even less of a need to have a virtualization solution of Windows running with the PC version of Office now, or, have a dedicated Windows machine AND a Mac (the way I do at my work).įor starters, and I will go into other examples a bit later, the new Outlook 2011 for Mac now simply works great. And yes, if you are a Mac user in a PC environment, you should rejoice a bit here. Yes, Office for Mac 2011 is comparable to Office 2010 for PC. Getting into the last few weeks of beta testing Office 2011 pretty much answered my comparison questions. Would it be comparable to Office 2010 for the PC, I wondered? As the program was ending, I heard rumblings of Office 2011 for the Mac. Also, I got quite a lot of hands-on experience with Office 2010 over the past several months. Monthly webinars and an online forum quickly got me introduced and trained on new features, of which there were many. I first spent quite a few months with Office 2010 for the PC in the Real Life Stories program. The last release for the Mac was Office 2008, which seems like eons ago. I have been regularly upgrading my Office suites on both platforms and had felt that the Mac was getting a little neglected.

#MICROSOFT OFFICE 2011 MAC REVIEW SOFTWARE#

It’s been several years since the latest facelift of Office for Mac 2011, and I was eager to find out what the developers at Microsoft had up their sleeves for this major revamp of the software suite.

Times have changed, and so has Microsoft Office. In the past, the two platform-specific Office suites seemed to me to be disparate and almost from completely different companies. Leveraging the success of that program, I was able to get involved in the tail-end of the Office for Mac 2011 early access program. Earlier this year, I participated in a program set up by Microsoft called “ Office 2010 Real Life Stories”. I must admit, I’ve been pretty lucky when it comes to getting early access to the latest versions of Microsoft Office.

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