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Product Description
For all life’s opportunities. With over 1 billion PCs and Macs running Office, Microsoft Office is the most-trusted and most-used productivity suite ever. And Office for Mac 2011 is here to help you do more with your Mac your way. Use familiar applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to help you take your ideas further. And since Office for Mac is compatible with Office for Windows, you can work on documents with virtually anyone on a Mac or PC. Store your files in a password protected online SkyDrive folder to access, edit, or share your work from virtually anywhere with the free Office Web Apps. Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 includes Word for Mac 2011, Excel for Mac 2011, and PowerPoint for Mac 2011.Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1 in Software
- Brand: Microsoft
- Model: W7F-00014
- Released on: 2010-10-26
- Platform: Mac OS X
- Format: DVD-ROM
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.20" h x 5.50" w x 7.50" l, .30 pounds
Features
- Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 Family Pack includes Mac versions of Word 2011, Excel 2011, and PowerPoint 2011; the most familiar and trusted productivity applications used around the world at home, school, and business.
- Reliable compatibility with the over 1 billion Macs and PCs running Office worldwide ensures you have the right tools to create, share, and collaborate with virtually anyone, anywhere, with no worries.
- Office for Mac 2011 offers top-of-the-line software with the most complete feature set, so you can deliver impressive, professional-looking documents and presentations.
- Office Web App support: New Office Web Apps let you post, access, edit, and share Office documents from where you want with nearly any computer with a browser; and coauthor a document with multiple people in multiple locations.
- Also includes Messenger for Mac 8 enabling you to communicate in real time with audio and video support, and Remote Desktop for Mac 2 so you can drive your Windows-based PC from your Mac.
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Product Description
With over 1 billion PCs and Macs running
Office, Microsoft Office is the most-trusted and most-used productivity
suite ever. And Office for Mac 2011 is here to help you do more with
your Mac your way. Use familiar applications like Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint to help you take your ideas further. And since Office for Mac
is compatible with Office for Windows, you can work on documents with
virtually anyone on a Mac or PC. Store your files in a password
protected online SkyDrive folder to access, edit, or share your work
from virtually anywhere with the free Office Web Apps.
Family Pack Version
Licensed for home and student use on three (3) Macs per household; not for use in any commercial, non-profit, or revenue generating business activities, or by any government organization.What's New and Improved
Powerful writing tools help you create outstanding documents, then store, edit, and share your work easily on the web.
Clarify
your financial picture with easy-to-analyze spreadsheets you can post
online to view, edit, share, or coauthor with your team from virtually
anywhere.
Create
powerful, professional presentations that engage and inspire your
audience, and present online as effectively as in person.
- Ribbon Access favorite commands quickly, and personalize your workspace.
- Office Web Apps* Post, edit, and share files from virtually anywhere.
- Coauthoring Simultaneously edit a file with authors in multiple locations.
- Template Gallery Visually select the perfect template for your next project.
- Photo Editing Remove backgrounds or add color filters right within PowerPoint.
- Full Screen View Use full screen to maximize space for reading and writing.
- Presentation Broadcast Broadcast a presentation instantly online, even to people without PowerPoint.
- Improved Publishing Layout View Create visually rich newsletters, brochures, and documents easily.
- Sparklines Create small charts in a single cell to discover patterns in your data.
- Visual Basic Support Automate repetitive tasks by programming your favorite commands.
- Dynamic Reordering Rearrange layers of text, photos, and graphics quickly.
Work the way you want, where you want.
Microsoft Office for Mac adds rich new features to the familiar Office applications you already know, helping you to manage your home and schoolwork the way you want. Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 Family Pack is licensed for home and student use on three (3) Macs per household and is not intended for commercial use. It includes:Word for Mac 2011
Powerful writing tools help you create outstanding documents, then store, edit, and share your work easily on the web.- Create visually rich newsletters, brochures, and documents in Publishing Layout view.
- Instantly see styles applied in your document with Visual Styles.
- Work in Full Screen view to maximize space for reading and writing documents.
- Rearrange layers of text, photos, and graphics quickly with Dynamic Reordering.
- View, edit, store, and share documents online with the Word Web App on Windows Live SkyDrive.*
- Share and coauthor Word documents with virtually anyone, whether they're using Office on a Mac or PC.
Excel for Mac 2011
Clarify your financial picture with easy-to-analyze spreadsheets you can post online to view, edit, share, or coauthor with your team from virtually anywhere.- Clarify your data using Conditional Formatting with icons, data bars, and color scales.
- Spot trends with new Sparklines, small charts that fit in a single cell.
- Spend more time analyzing data and less time sifting through it with PivotTables.
- Organize, filter, and format related data with Excel tables.
- Increase efficiency and save time by automating repetitive tasks using Visual Basic.
- View, edit, store, and share spreadsheets online with the Excel Web App on Windows Live SkyDrive.*
- Share and coauthor Excel spreadsheets with virtually anyone, whether they're using Office on a Mac or PC.
PowerPoint for Mac 2011
Create powerful, professional presentations that engage and inspire your audience, and present online as effectively as in person.- Remove backgrounds or add color filters to your photos right within PowerPoint.
- Move beyond the conference room and broadcast your presentations online.
- Rearrange layers of text, photos, and graphics quickly with Dynamic Reordering.
- Rehearse, check your timing, and take notes in Presenter View.
- View, edit, store, and share Office documents online with the PowerPoint Web App on Windows Live SkyDrive.*
- Share and coauthor PowerPoint presentations with virtually anyone, whether they're using Office on a Mac or PC.
Customer Reviews
Office Great Again, Performance Boost, Marginal Feature Gain
There is no question that I am a devoted Mac user and of Apple products in general. They help make my life easier.
Despite that, many of my favorite applications for Mac are in
Microsoft's Office suite. Microsoft knows how to make the best office
software. Office 2011 is no exception.
What's included? This particular version I chose includes Microsoft
Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, and Microsoft Excel. What's missing? This
Home version is missing the brand new Outlook email client for Mac,
that replaces the former Entourage application. It seems a bit sneaky
of Microsoft not to include Outlook with the Home edition. One figures
they thought this was the best way to force corporate business users who
are on exchange servers and whatnot, to purchase the Business version
of Office. Most of us, simply do not need Outlook on Mac. We have a
great mail client included on every Mac. Plus, more and more people are
simply using web based mail. Therefore, simply know, these Home
editions do not include Outlook (or the former Entourage).
Microsoft Word. Perhaps the most used application besides a
browser? The look and feel of these Office 2011 Applications is not
significantly different from Office 2008. However, there are two key
differences. First, performance! Microsoft put a lot of effort into
making the Office 2011 Applications run quicker on Mac. When the 2008
release came out, it was dreadfully slow. It improved somewhat over
time in updates to the suite, but even in a fast Mac, it was impossible
to describe Office 2008 as exactly fast. That is no longer the case.
Office 2011 runs at the speed you expect it to. It is more mature
software in terms of performance, and this will make dealing with the
applications on a daily basis less frustrating. The applications launch
quicker as well. The performance increase is fantastic.
Second, Office 2011 for Mac has moved more towards the ribbon
interface that is found on its Windows counterpart. The ribbon will
have to grow on me. It's easy to customize and fairly easy to use, but
it always feels a bit cluttered to me, when I have used it on a Windows
machine. I am sure I will get over it. The positive is that users who
go back and forth between Mac and Windows will find the interface
closer, though not identical, than in the past.
Word has new templates available, a new way to sort layers on your document, and enhanced editing opportunities.
Excel has vastly upgraded charts and tables. They look appropriate
for the year 2010. Automation is available via Visual Basic, and the
enhanced editing opportunities can be used in Excel too.
Finally, Powerpoint. Powerpoint is the universal presentation
software people use in nearly every business or school where
presentations are needed. The arrangement of layers on your slides has a
new interface just like word. The performance increase is present in
Powerpoint as well. The Presenter View has been enhanced. Powerpoint
does seem like a step forward with this update, though Powerpoint is the
one application that I actually prefer Apple's competitor, Keynote.
The problem with Keynote is the compatibility with other computers.
Therefore, unless you will be presenting a project from your own Mac, it
is often the best bet, to simply use Powerpoint despite its weaknesses
compared to Keynote.
Overall, Office 2011 is another solid update from Microsoft. Office
2011 for Mac keeps the highly used Office applications available on
Mac, and I am grateful for that. What I am most excited about is the
performance increase. Office 2011 no longer makes me feel as though I
am using an old computer. It runs as it should have ran all along. The
interface has changed slightly with the introduction of a ribbon style.
It works fine, and will simply take some time to become fully
acclimated.
The downside? The only downside to Office 2011 is that these
applications were already very robust and capable. The performance
increase was quite welcomed, but in terms of additional, useful
features, you will have to look closely to find even a handful that you
might use on a regular basis. It is simply hard for them to add
significant features to applications that already work great.
Recommended product for the performance increase, and to stay up to date
with the best Office suite on Mac!
A much better product than Office 2008 for Mac, But does not Ship with Email Client
I've been supporting MS Office on Macs since the early 1990's and
despite being on the Apple side of the MAC/PC fight, I can say little
bad about Microsoft Office. About the only thing I can say is that I am
a little disappointed that Microsoft does not keep parity between the
Windows and Mac platforms. But, this release goes a long way toward
fixing that, especially on the email client front.
Right from the installer, you can see that this version is
aesthetically a step forward over earlier incarnations of Office on the
Mac. The application Icons, welcome page and template menus are all
more elegantly designed. The main interfaces are pretty similar to the
windows office so there is a fairly low learning curve. The tabbed
menus are intuitive and easy to use.
I have to admit, I would have been fine if they would have stopped
with Word and Excel 5.1 for Mac. Both were solid solutions. I didn't
think that Word needed to be both a great word processor and a mediocre
web creation package and a barely passable page layout tool. I'm still
not to excited about the html capabilities of Word, but I have spent
some time playing with the layouts and templates for graphic projects
and they are fairly impressive. I like the layers support, and as a
quick father/son project, we created and printed menus for a mother
appreciation meal using Word. It was Mac ease of use and productivity
at its best.
Some other improvements I see as useful are more robust charting in
Excel, a general layout that more closely matches the windows interface
(but happily not to the full Windows Ribbon layout which is not exactly
intuitive), as well as overall performance, Messenger especially seems
far less buggy than earlier versions. All the apps launch much quicker
than their 2008 predecessors. Also I am glad that Visual Basic is
supported again in the Mac version of Office, although I am not
currently working in an environment that needs it (I would have loved to
have it back three years ago.)
By far, the best addition to the Mac Office suite is the new Outlook
client for Mac. Unfortunately, it does not ship with this Home &
Student version though. But I have used a friends work copy and it is
heads and shoulders above the Entourage client. It worked seamlessly
with his Exchange Server and finally offers a mail client for the Mac
that is on par with Outlook for Windows. Supposedly you can purchase an
upgrade, but when I click that link now it comes up to a page not found
message.
All in all, this is a worthwhile upgrade and a worthy step forward
to a core software suite. The main problem with the home and student
version is the lack of the new Outlook client.
Great new features - email functionality is gone
First off, there is no doubt that the user interface of Word,
PowerPoint, and Excel have been improved and they are more useful than
ever before. That's the good news. You can get to all the commands more
easily, and you can format your documents more easily. The
auto-templates that are available when you start the program are more
practical and easier to get around and navigate. You can look elsewhere
for detailed descriptions of functionality. I recommend MacWorld.
With all the nice new interface changes, I don't find that there is
anything I can do in 2011 that I couldn't do in 2008. Advanced users may
find some functionality that is here that wasn't before. I don't. Of
course, your mileage may vary.
Now the bad news. And, in my opinion, it's really bad.
What was Microsoft thinking about when they decided to replace
Entourage with Outlook, but make Outlook only available to buyers of the
"Home and Business" Edition. This was a serious "downgrade" for many
users.
First I tried to get online to figure out if there was any upgrade,
if, say, you buy the Home and Student edition but change your mind
later.
Nobody knew what I was talking about. I was transferred twice from
one part of Microsoft to another, and I was cut off both times.
Fortunately, the very helpful people on the other end (who were, in 3
out of 4 cases, clearly not in the USA), had given me the number to call
if I got cut off. Everybody I talked to assured me that they understood
my problem when clearly they did not... each time.
The third number, and fourth person I talked to, tried to send me
back to the first number I called. I waited till the next day and found
my answer online. (The site that had my answer was down. This is
understandable, as I received the product, by a fluke, one day earlier
than the release date.) Incidentally, I heard the statement "Oh, you're
on a MAC..." at least twice, perhaps three times.
Microsoft clearly needs to study the way that Apple and companies
like Apple provide customer service if they ever want to increase their
share value back to where it should, in my opinion, be.
So, here's what I learned. If you want email, you'll want to use
your old version, that includes Entourage (if you have it) and if you
buy the Home and Student Edition of Office 2011, now you have to pay
extra to use Entourage's replacement, Outlook. (Or do what I do, an just
use the new Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, but the old Entourage.)
But it's worse than that. As of this writing, you can't just pay the
difference and get a code for Outlook, even though it installs
alongside the rest of the applications. No, you have to re-purchase the
entire suite at a cost of nearly $300.00 US. If somebody from Microsoft
reads this and it isn't true, please let me know, and I will amend my
review.
In this reviewer's opinion, the awful way they handled this trumps
any new functionality and features in the program. Office 2008 was truly
excellent, and had no real issues that I can point to. If you have it,
stick with it as long as you can. Perhaps Microsoft will change their
ridiculous pricing policy.
If you truly don't need Microsoft's excellent email program, buy the
Home and Student Edition. If you do need or want it, you need to get
the Home and Business Edition. Do NOT get the Home and Student Edition.
Also, if you are "upgrading" there is no discount. Although... if
you bought the 2008 suite very recently, you will be able to download
2011 for free. Bravo for that.
5 stars for a greatly improved user experience minus 3 stars for
sticking it to the customer, and removing Entourage or any email client
from the Home And Student Edition. 2 stars. Sorry, Microsoft. You, of
all companies, can do SO much better...
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