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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:
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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:
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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:
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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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In all the programs, there is still some of the traditional Microsoft bloat, but it’s well hidden. The interface is streamlined via “ribbons,” and the performance is zippy. In other words, if past versions of Office have permanently...
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applelinks.com Updated:
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The word for the day is "ribbons." Moving from the floating Formatting Palette, Microsoft has now joined the Mac version of Office to the PC version, and we have ribbons! Also part of this transition is bringing the email client Outlook to the Mac and eliminating Entourage. Sometim...
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Urban legend has it that Mac users feel abandoned by Microsoft, as the software giant produces sub-standard software for their platform. This is certainly evident in the predecessors of Office for Mac, which is based on decades old Carbon code. Beside...
Urban legend has it that Mac users feel abandoned by Microsoft, as the software giant produces sub-standard software for their platform. This is certainly evident in the predecessors of Office for Mac, which is based on decades old Carbon code. Beside...
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Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac ships tomorrow, and AppleInsider's got the scoop on how it performs. From their review: If you’re an Office user already, the new Office 2011 is a no-brainer upgrade. It’s wildly faster, looks and feels much better, and...
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With Microsoft Office for the Mac 2011 (Home and Student version, $119; Home and Business version, $149), Microsoft has finally gotten it right. After a string of disappointing releases, the new Mac version of the world's most widely-used office suite...
Fast, flexible office application suite. Most powerful Mac office software. Highly compatible with Office for Windows. Well-integrated with OS X. Visual Basic for Applications recorded and programmed macros fully supported. Newly-designed Outlook replaces Entourage as mail/calendar/contact app.
No calendar synching with iCal. Outlook won't synch with or retrieve mail from Exchange Server 2003 or earlier.
Office for the Mac roars back with fast, powerful application suite the best of its kind for the OS X platform. Buy it now...
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Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint were invented on the Mac platform twenty-five years ago. Over the decades, the software was combined into a suite, experimented with a variety of user interfaces, has been overhauled several times, and...
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Microsoft has released Office for Mac 2011. The latest version of the Office Suite aims to bridge the divide between the Mac and PC, and it packs a ton of new features, including Microsoft Outlook, collaborative sharing and editing, and an updated inte...
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crn.com
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Ever since Microsoft launched its Office suite of productivity applications, we’ve been bombarded by arguments for why competing offerings were better. Whether it came from vendors who competed with opposing commercial applications, or the open-source...
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Microsoft has just released their latest installment of Microsoft Office for Mac. We, at Chip Chick, couldn’t be more satisfied with it. It’s a huge improvement from its predecessor Office 2008 for Mac. Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have a...
Finally on par with Office for Windows, Fast, Great online/offline Template Gallery, Ribbon is well integrated...
No upgrade pricing, no realtime font previews when hovering...
It’s no exaggeration to say that Office 2011 for Mac is a gigantic improvement from Office 2008. I personally found Office 2008 for Mac to be unusable (having been accustom to 2007 for Windows). The toolbox was always disappearing, the menus and contro...
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computerworld.com Updated:
2015-12-17 08:44:39
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When I reviewed Microsoft Office for Mac 2008, I said the then-new version of the suite was "kind of like getting a new Chevy." In other words, it was a solid upgrade, but nothing to really get excited about. Not this time. I could call Office for Mac...
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Microsoft's newly released Office for Mac 2011 takes huge steps toward bringing the same experience to Office users on both Windows and Mac -- but they're the steps that begin a journey, not bring it to an end. The Mac suite remains well behind its l...
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With the release of Office 2011 for Mac on Oct. 26, Microsoft has made giant strides in making the Mac version of its productivity suite less of an afterthought to the Windows version, and in some ways has nudged the Macintosh version of the suite past...
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maclife.com Updated:
2015-12-17 08:44:39
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With Office 2011, Microsoft’s flagship suite gets back to work with better compatibility, more flexible interfaces, welcome feature additions, and an all-new Outlook email client. Microsoft Office has always had a lot of features--too many features, so...
New online collaboration tools. Ribbon changes up the toolbar based on what you’re doing. Snappier performance.
Outlook not included in $119 Home and Student Edition or the corresponding $149 Family Pack.
By building on the best of Office 2008 and adding badly needed compatibility with Windows technologies, Microsoft has delivered a suite that doesn’t treat Mac users like second-class citizens. Office 2011 as a package goes the extra mile to put Mac us...
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Although some Mac owners will opt for Apple's own iWork suite when it comes time to getting work done, many others will take comfort in Microsoft Office for Mac, particularly if Office was the first productivity suite they learned to use, or if it's th...
Improved user interface, Multiple people can edit a document in real time, Enhanced Excel and PowerPoint features, Easier to add videos and photos, Drastically improved mail client...
Some features require Windows Live ID, Doesn't overwrite previously installed versions of Office...
Microsoft's new suite packs in more features than iWork, a much improved interface, and the best version of Outlook yet for Macs.
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