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Office for the Mac 2011, more than three years in the making, jettisons tons of old classic code, revises the inner workings of the Office system and pretty much unifies Mac and PC interface elements. The result is a leaner, faster and more dynamic sui...
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Product of the Year 2010 / Best Software Microsoft certainly isn't letting Apple have it easy. If iWork '09 was a shot across the bows of Office for Mac 2008, Office for Mac 2011 is a full salvo aimed right at the waterline of the USS iWork '09. It's almo...
If you're just typing up the occasional letter to a relative, managing your personal finances or performing similarly basic tasks, you could easily make do with iWork, or possibly even a free alternative, such as Google Docs. But when you need more power...
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techradar.com Updated: 2015-12-17 08:44:39
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Make no mistake, Office for Mac 2011 is a big improvement over the previous iterations. Across the board, it's noticably faster and feels more at home on the Mac than before. Microsoft has also added some thoughtful features throughout. We love the ful...
Useful Ribbon interface, Better search and sharing, Elegant Full Screen view, Built-in equation editor, New, cleaner interface, Macro support is back via VBA, Online editing with Excel Web, Built-in document sharing, Better formatting support, Even mor...
Pricey, No upgrade pricing, Irritating characteristics, No word count in Full Screen, Unnecessary niggles remain, Not everyone loves the Ribbon, May feel unfamiliar at first, Still no font embedding, Occasional Outlook bugs, Conversation view isn't great...
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This week marks the release of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 (it’s officially available as of Tuesday, 26 October) – and the suite promises to deliver one of the biggest upgrades in its history. If you’re using Office 2008, or indeed holding onto 2004...
Improved compatibility with Windows version; macros are back; fullscreen view in Word is nice; can embed videos in PowerPoint; Outlook is far better than Entourage; interface is improved; faster overall; lots of other improvements...
Price difference between ‘Home and Student' and ‘Home and Business' is difficult to justify; Outlook does not sync with iCal, From $169...
If you’re running Office 2004, there’s no reason not to upgrade. You get a massively improved interface, and everything that was missing from Office 2008 is back. If you are running 2008, then there’s plenty to gain in the new version too, but it depen...
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Microsoft Office is arguably one of the most important suite of programs available for the Mac. Despite the increasing number of competitors, such as Apple's iWork or the free OpenOffice, without Microsoft Office, the Mac would arguably not be viable as a...
None of the improvements in Office 2011 for Mac are revolutionary, but they are nonetheless useful and together make Office 2011 the best Mac office suite yet. It's not perfect though – there are still features found in Office 2010 for Windows that are...
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New versions of Microsoft Office always arrive with a long list of tempting new features in their wake. But for many users (business users in particular) the most welcome aspect of Office for Mac 2011 will be the return of two old favourites.The Mac ve...
New Mac version of Outlook; the return of VBA; new co-authoring features; many new features for individual apps...
Windows-like interface will annoy some Mac users; no email program in the Home and Student edition...
A little less Mac-like than previous versions, but Office 2011 compensates for this with improved cross-platform compatibility and collaboration features for business users...
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Zdnet.com.au Updated: 2015-12-17 08:44:39
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In spite of being viewed as the "other guys" in some Mac users' minds, Microsoft has generally put out an excellent productivity suite for the Mac with Microsoft Office. Though the latest package is still not on par with the Windows version (you get o...
Microsoft made a big leap with this latest version for the Mac — not only has it nearly reached feature parity with the Mac counterparts to Word, Excel and PowerPoint, but it has finally added Outlook, the email and scheduling client Mac business fans...
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zdnet.co.uk Updated: 2015-12-17 08:44:39
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Despite being viewed as the 'other guys' in some Mac users' minds, Microsoft has generally delivered an excellent productivity suite in Microsoft Office for Mac. Alhough the latest 2011 version is still not on a par with its Windows counterpart (you ge...
Outlook added to the Home and Business edition, Office Web Apps integration (with coauthoring via SharePoint), New templates, Quick access to videoand imageediting tools...
Expensive, Some users remain averse to the Ribbon interface (which can be turned off)...
Microsoft's Office for Mac 2011 is a worthy upgrade offering new templates and visual styles, better ways of editing multimedia content and easier methods of collaboration. The ability to work from anywhere with the new Web Apps is a big draw if your j...
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For as long as I’ve been reviewing Microsoft Word, it has been difficult to see any kind of relationship between Word for Mac and Word for Windows, beyond the name and file format. They were essentially two completely different products designed for wh...
Full parity with Word for Windows, the return of VBA, much better, redesigned UI that matches the Windows UI, document formatting is much easier.
Likely to be much more than most non-business users need, does not track changes made to images added to documents.
After years of lamenting what Word for Mac lacks, I find myself in the odd yet enviable position of announcing that Word 2011 is great. It is a solid word processing application that is powerful and well designed, and makes it easy to find all the feature...
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