Features of Office 2011 for Mac OS X

[Fanishwar]

I just came to know that new version of Office for Mac is announced. Also the key changes that are made in Office 2011 are: Outlook returns to the Mac, replacing Entourage, Office 2011 also performs a revised user interface, VBA support and a variety of features for collaborative work. I am eager to know more about the Office 2011. I am sure that many other users would be interested in knowing about it. So please provide some features of an Office 2011.

[Xena]

I have also read news about an Office 2011 recently. Outlook for Mac supports the Exchange Web Services protocol and was developed on the basis of Cocoa, which has improved integration with Mac OS X can also result in Outlook for Mac pst files of Outlook for Windows to import - and this an impetus to the user who has been implemented by Microsoft. also includes Outlook for Mac with a reliable, fast and file-based storage to the Spotlight search and back-up support for Time Machine. prevents the Information Rights Management, that sensitive information without the permission of third party to distribute or read. In addition, Outlook for Mac offers an integrated solution for effective time management and information management. In connection with the use of a Microsoft Exchange server, users benefit from additional opportunities for cooperation and security.

[Christina 80]

The revision of the user interface is user feedback was critical, Microsoft said: From a complete new design was abandoned and it created a design that is apparent from the Office 2008 Elements Gallery, and the best of the traditional Mac menu and the standard united Toolbar. users as quickly access new and frequently used commands. In the default view of the new interface are also more than 80 percent of the most used features to make a long search for the required tool unnecessary. Since 75 percent of Mac users also use a PC, has been adapted to operate the menu bar across platforms.

[MaggieK]

Office 2011 also features improved opportunities for team work with. With the information in Office 2011 tools allow multiple people to work in Word, PowerPoint or Excel files, regardless of time, location or user platform, the 'Presence Everywhere' feature is directly in the application directly for information about. who from the team is currently working in the document. The integration of Microsoft Office Web Apps in Office 2011 offers a simple way to access from any computer with an Internet connection on Office files and share them with others. How put on Office 2010 for PC Office Web Apps users in a position to do their work virtually anywhere, since documents can be stored using a Windows Live ID or Microsoft SharePoint.

[Efigenio]

Here are the main improvements in Office 2011:

• Rewriting a large part of the code in Cocoa to take advantage of some APIs in Leopard and Snow Leopard
• Performance revised upwards
• The replacement of a real Entourage Mac version of Outlook
• The full support of Time Machine and Spotlight in Outlook
• The establishment of the ribbons
• Many additional models

Replacing Entourage Outlook is probably the biggest change since it is the software quick nine. It was about time that Microsoft is working to this work, because users of the Mac version of Office did not have until now enjoyed a truly aligned with the equivalent Windows version. Time Machine and Spotlight are important additions, but that could have been done before, as well as full support for PST files, for she had never deigned to show the nose in Entourage. In addition, Outlook 2011 supports all types of Exchange servers, even the newest, while Entourage was just very difficult.

[Liliana]

The Mac OS X version of Microsoft Office 2011 already has official release date and finally be available. The probably most popular office suite is available in two versions: Home and Student and Home and Business. The details that Microsoft provides in the press release are not very deep, and at first sight the only difference you see between one and another version is related to the presence of Outlook in the enterprise version of Office, but not his little sister. Of course, the difference between the two is $ 80 (119 versus $ 199). For now a few more aspects are known about this release and what tools will eventually present in Office 2011.

[Elijah2010]

Microsoft has released the first major update for Office 2011 on Mac OS X. In fact, this release is so close to commercialization, that all patches should be in progress for some time. All components of the suite and receive improvements. The following are some list of changes, classified by applications:

• Outlook:
  
  • Improves reliability when messages are deleted from multiple IMAP accounts
  • Sync Services now stop when an update is installed
  • The passwords for email accounts are stored in the Keychain when these accounts were imported into Outlook
  • Records of mailing lists are saved in case of rebuilding the database
  • Improved reliability when importing identity in Office 2008 version 2011
• Word:
  
  • Improved stability during the construction of equations. Some features could cause a crash of applications.
• Excel:
  
  • Improved overall stability
  • The cells are calculated by Excel updates automatically when there are revisions to the data
  • Improves reliability when the macro command is used FORMAT
• PowerPoint:
  
  • Improved reliability during slideshows
  • General improvement of the compatibility with documents from 2007 and PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
• General:
  
  • The forms-based authentication is now supported to connect to SharePoint servers. The recording feature of password protection causes it in the Keychain and / or cookies in Safari.
  • The images copied from Office 2011 to the software ChemDraw (publisher of molecules) are now editable