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Work the way you want, where you want
Office for Mac 2011 is here to help you do more with your Mac on your terms. With Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, it’s the easiest way to create, share, and access your documents from almost anywhere. And since Office for Mac is compatible with Office for Windows, you can work on documents with virtually anyone on a Mac or PC.
 Outlook for Mac 2011: View your calendar within your e-mail and see your schedule displayed within a meeting invitation. |
 Word for Mac 2011: Create visually rich newsletters, brochures, and documents in Publishing Layout view. |
 Excel for Mac 2011: Spot trends with new Sparklines, small charts that fit in a single cell. |
 PowerPoint for Mac 2011: Move beyond the conference room and broadcast your presentations online. |
What’s New and Improved
- Outlook for Mac: Keeps you connected to e-mail, schedules, calendars, to-do lists, and contacts
- Ribbon: Access favourite commands quickly, and personalise 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 colour filters right within PowerPoint
- Full Screen View: Use full screen to maximise 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 favourite commands
- Dynamic Reordering: Rearrange layers of text, photos, and graphics quickly
Included Programs and Top Features
Microsoft Office for Mac adds rich new features to the familiar Office applications you already know, helping you to manage your home and business the way you want.
Outlook for Mac 2011
Manage your email and calendars with features that simplify staying connected and up to date.
- Clean up your inbox by collapsing long e-mail threads into a single conversations
- View your calendar within your e-mail and see your schedule displayed within a meeting invitation
- Easily import your Outlook .pst files when you set up your new Mac
- Consolidate e-mail from multiple accounts into a single folder
- Manage your schedule and contacts without opening Outlook
- Review your attachments with Quick Look, archive your files with Time Machine, and use Spotlight to search your e-mail
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 maximise 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-analyse 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 analysing data and less time sifting through it with PivotTables
- Organise, 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 colour 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
System Requirements
- A Mac computer with an Intel processor
- Mac OS X version 10.5.8 or later
- 1 GB of RAM recommended
- 2.5 GB of available hard disk space
- HFS+ hard disk format (also known as Mac OS Extended or HFS Plus)
- DVD drive or connection to a local area network (if installing over a network)
- 1280 x 800 or higher resolution monitor
Additional items or services are required to use some features
- Certain online functionality requires a Windows Live ID
- Certain features require Internet access (fees may apply)
- Outlook and certain features require Internet access (fees may apply)
- Exchange support in Outlook 2011 requires connectivity to Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1 RU4 or later
- Access to files stored on a SharePoint server requires connectivity to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or later
- Coauthoring requires SharePoint 2010 or a Windows Live ID
Manufacturer's Description
Office for Mac 2011 is built to keep up with you and your work. Across the suite, applications launch faster and are ready to get to work when you are. Reorder objects enables the rearrangement of layers of graphics in Word or PowerPoint with a stunning interactive interface. And full-screen view in Word allows you to focus on your work, and lets the interface controls and the distractions of instant messages and email fade way. Make your documents as professional as the great ideas behind them. Easy-to-build visuals and graphics underscore ideas and data to make your reports and presentations pop. And you can rely on your documents looking and behaving as you designed them.
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52 of 54 people found the following review helpful
By UK Man
Format:Software
If you've moved to Mac and need to do a bit of word processing and open some MS Word documents then Pages (or the full iWork package) is probably all you will need and is fast and cheap. If however you work a lot with MS Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, or want to import data from Outlook for Windows then you will need this package (Business Edition). It's basically pretty similar to the Windows version. I find the ribbon does make the features of the software more obvious and useable and the interface is smart if more complex than Pages. The main disappointment however is Outlook. If you use an exchange server for email and calendar then you are fine. However home users will find that Outlook synchronises with virtually nothing. You can import your old pst files from Windows which is great but then only Contacts syncs with the Apple Address Book. The calendar and tasks don't sync with iCal, your iPhone, or Google for example. Very frustrating. This functonality may come in the future but until then Outlook feels isolated except as an email client. Until Microsoft come up with an update to allow synchronisation with iCal or Google then I would consider waiting and get the cheaper package without Outlook or stick to iWork or Open Office.
Update 06/2011: The SP1 update has added syncing of Calendar and Tasks with iCal which works well so I have added a star. However I had already migrated to Google Calendar to sync with iCal as my primary calendars, and there seems to be no way available to sync Google Calendar with Outlook for Mac (There is a Google sync available for Outlook for Windows). If you are not a Google user then there should be no problems.... Read more ›
Update 06/2011: The SP1 update has added syncing of Calendar and Tasks with iCal which works well so I have added a star. However I had already migrated to Google Calendar to sync with iCal as my primary calendars, and there seems to be no way available to sync Google Calendar with Outlook for Mac (There is a Google sync available for Outlook for Windows). If you are not a Google user then there should be no problems.... Read more ›
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By C. Mason
Format:Software|Amazon Verified Purchase
If I could give this product 0 stars I would, closely followed by a minus score for Microsoft support! It is extremely unstable and Outlook has now twice deleted my emails accounts and all the data they held - provoked only by a restart on my Mac. When backed into a corner, Microsoft will stutter about the issues and maintain that these will be eradicated by the release of 2015 in a few months time - a great help to me and to anyone suffering the same issues now! I suspect it may take them until 2015 to get it right - if they ever do!
It also conflicts with my brand new (just released) MacBook Air, the operating system it was designed to be compatible with. I have had to uninstall this Microsoft programme from the Mac altogether and it is now flying!
I cannot vouch for MS Word and Excel, they may be OK with a Mac and I may have to use them but Outlook, at least, will never see my Mac again!
In the course of all my issues I have had the occasion to deal with both Apple and Microsoft support operations and the difference between the two is quite staggering. Apple really care that their customers are happy and love their products and nothing is too much trouble whereas Microsoft are arrogant, could give a damn and do their best to wriggle out of everything. I will leave the reader to decide who they would prefer to deal with!
It also conflicts with my brand new (just released) MacBook Air, the operating system it was designed to be compatible with. I have had to uninstall this Microsoft programme from the Mac altogether and it is now flying!
I cannot vouch for MS Word and Excel, they may be OK with a Mac and I may have to use them but Outlook, at least, will never see my Mac again!
In the course of all my issues I have had the occasion to deal with both Apple and Microsoft support operations and the difference between the two is quite staggering. Apple really care that their customers are happy and love their products and nothing is too much trouble whereas Microsoft are arrogant, could give a damn and do their best to wriggle out of everything. I will leave the reader to decide who they would prefer to deal with!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By ElZud
Format:Software
As others have said, this is a complete waste of money given "Office for Mac Home and Student 2011" has everything but the completely rubbish implementation of Outlook... I like the PC version of Outlook but it's useless on the Mac sadly. Use Mail on the Mac, it can work with Hotmail, Exchange etc., not perfect but you save a lot.
Final word: I wonder what the 2013 version will be like?
Final word: I wonder what the 2013 version will be like?
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
By A. McNicol
Format:Software
Having used Microsoft Office with Macs for over 20 years I recently bought Office for Mac, Home and Business Edition 2011 particularly for use on a (new) iMac.
It's difficult to express how disappointed I am with this edition of Office for Mac! There is great difficulty in opening earlier versions of, e.g., Word and Excel. It takes a very long time, with continual 'error' messages and, more often than not in Excel one that says the earlier file is corrupt and the 'open and repair' facility simply doesn't work. These same files exist in the earlier version of Office on an older G4 Mac - no trouble at all.
Perhaps Microsoft should have developed a better system of 'reading' from older files and issued this version before it had been thoroughly tested...
To me it certainly isn't worth the cost and I wouldn't recommend that any Mac user buy it until the many hiccups have been ironed out.
It's difficult to express how disappointed I am with this edition of Office for Mac! There is great difficulty in opening earlier versions of, e.g., Word and Excel. It takes a very long time, with continual 'error' messages and, more often than not in Excel one that says the earlier file is corrupt and the 'open and repair' facility simply doesn't work. These same files exist in the earlier version of Office on an older G4 Mac - no trouble at all.
Perhaps Microsoft should have developed a better system of 'reading' from older files and issued this version before it had been thoroughly tested...
To me it certainly isn't worth the cost and I wouldn't recommend that any Mac user buy it until the many hiccups have been ironed out.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Andy G
Format:Software
Having initially purchased pages, which is good. However problematic if sharing word files with older Microsoft word versions. So taking the decision to stump up for office for mac!
Good decision, easy to use and still looks good as with all mac apps!
All sync problems now sorted, being new to mac saving was different but once found out easy.
I would recommend for any mac user who has to share files with msoffice users
Good decision, easy to use and still looks good as with all mac apps!
All sync problems now sorted, being new to mac saving was different but once found out easy.
I would recommend for any mac user who has to share files with msoffice users
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Deimos
Format:Software
Word and Excel are OK (but so were the 2008 versions I had before). Outlook is rubbish. Microsoft should be embarrassed and releasing it.
I spent a full day manually transferring my saved e-mails from Apple Mail to Outlook (because Outlook's import does not work, so everything had to be done manually which took a full working day - so I was determined to make it work). and then it went downhill from there. In short, very poor functionality (and I am on a version over 1 year since product launch). After just a couple of days I've switched back to Apple Mail, iCal and Address Book because they provide a lot higher levels of functionality, they work properly and run faster.
In the US Microsoft have a 45 day refund policy. Seems in the UK it depends on the retailer.
(I did use Microsofts trial version, downloaded, etc. but I would not run - just kept asking for purchase code so trial no good). Don't waste your money on this. If you don't already have word & Excel, buy the cheaper version but don't waste time and money on Outlook.
(It would have got zero or negative start if that was possible - I feel completely ripped-off)
I spent a full day manually transferring my saved e-mails from Apple Mail to Outlook (because Outlook's import does not work, so everything had to be done manually which took a full working day - so I was determined to make it work). and then it went downhill from there. In short, very poor functionality (and I am on a version over 1 year since product launch). After just a couple of days I've switched back to Apple Mail, iCal and Address Book because they provide a lot higher levels of functionality, they work properly and run faster.
In the US Microsoft have a 45 day refund policy. Seems in the UK it depends on the retailer.
(I did use Microsofts trial version, downloaded, etc. but I would not run - just kept asking for purchase code so trial no good). Don't waste your money on this. If you don't already have word & Excel, buy the cheaper version but don't waste time and money on Outlook.
(It would have got zero or negative start if that was possible - I feel completely ripped-off)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Slick.
I was worried about compatibility issues with older Windows Office files. Handlesthem without any problems. Also imports Outlook files easily.
Published 2 months ago by Mike Reynolds
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really good
It may be a bit pricey but it is much better than running an Exchange account on outlook than having mail and calenders synching separately.
Published 4 months ago by James Leonard
1.0 out of 5 stars
Do not buy this for Outlook
Outlook is a huge step back compared to Entourage, which it replaced. I had no choice but to install it on my new Macbook as Entourage wasn't available anymore. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Pompompom
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Office for Mac Home and business
This is just what I needed to upgrade my laptop computer so I can use it in the running of my business.
Published 5 months ago by Frederica Hollas
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great Buy
I like my purchase as i can now do all my work on the Mac instead of going between my PC and mac
Published 5 months ago by Maurice Brake
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Perfect
Great software!
Easy to install and use this familiar product
Recommended to anyone who works with Microsoft Office either at work or at home
Easy to install and use this familiar product
Recommended to anyone who works with Microsoft Office either at work or at home
Published 5 months ago by lucy locket
3.0 out of 5 stars
Glitchy, slow - a necessary evil
When I switched to Mac I was oversold how well this would work "exactly the same as on a PC"
it's not. Read more
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Published 6 months ago by S. Bent
4.0 out of 5 stars
Would have been 5 stars except for issues with Outlook
Word, excel and Powerpoint I have no issues with, open older versions of my documents with no problems and save back the same.
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Published 8 months ago by David Hilton
1.0 out of 5 stars
Would give 0 stars if I could.
Very dissapointed in this software. I originally purchased MS Office for Mac without the Outlook app. I thought that the imail app would work with hotmail. Sadly not! Read more
Published 9 months ago by dumpling
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great service
Purchased two copies of Office for Mac 2011 for our small business and it came very quickly and was exactly what we wanted.
Published 9 months ago by ADL7078
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