Office For Mac

Here are a few time saving keyboard shortcuts to get your week off to a productive start. I’ve also included the equivalents in Excel for Windows in case you have to jump back and forth between platforms like I do. – All Excel for Mac 2011 keyboard shortcuts – Common Office for Mac 2011 keyboard [...]

Do you have a list of data that’s in a format you can’t use? Do you need to “pull out” specific pieces of a longer string? Don’t despair! You can use simple Excel functions to break apart strings and quickly find only the data you need. Meet RIGHT, LEFT, and MID! My sister Sandy recently [...]

Thanks to my vacation planning with Word, I made it safely to London. Now, my two concerns are enjoying the sights & my vacation but also staying on budget. Excel PivotTables are a great tool to help me do just that in a snap. During my trip, I record my daily expenses in a list. [...]

Household budgeting just got easier! Are you a stay-at-home mom or dad, which is a 24/7 job? Well Office for Mac can help keep your life organized with the home budget template created in Excel for Mac 2011. You can set a spending target each month and then use the template to calculate the differences [...]

Have you ever wondered? • How should I allocate my retirement portfolio among high-tech stocks, value stocks, bonds, cash, and gold? • How can my company determine the monthly product mix at a certain location that maximizes profitability? Now, after the release of Office for Mac Service Pack 1, you can answer these profit-maximizing or [...]

Cell formatting, sparklines, and data bars look great in Excel for Mac 2011, and you can easily share files with people who have Office 2010 without losing your formatting. Doug and Jessica show you right here, almost live, from Mom 2.0 in New Orleans. And here is how Jessica uses Excel for Mac 2011 to [...]

With the constant changing of technology, it has become so important for us to provide access to the best resources to help keep your skills current as technology evolves.  Having the right computer skills can be the answer to getting that new job/ promotion or bringing your ideas to life!       At lynda.com we’re very excited [...]

Today, for all you managers and other high achievers who want to use Excel to out-smart the competition, we’re talking about the new Solver for Excel for Mac 2011. For those who aren’t familiar, Solver is a what-if analysis tool “on steroids” that you can use to find profit-maximizing or risk-minimizing solutions, by automatically adjusting [...]

Now that Office for Mac 2011 has been available for a little while, I wanted to talk about some of the work we put into the product that you don’t see but experience every time you use it.  You should have noticed by now that Office 2011 is significantly faster than previous versions. There’s a lot of [...]

Today we’re excited to show you the second video in the behind-the-scenes series – including new compatibility features and new tools like Excel Sparklines and Photo Editing tools.