Office For Mac

What? No egg shape? If you want to fine-tune a shape in Office for Mac 2011, or even create a different shape altogether, you can edit its points. For example, turn a circle into an egg shape. Or rearrange the points in a freeform shape that you created with the drawing tool. To see the [...]

If 25 GB of free online storage wasn’t enough, here’s another great reason to try SkyDrive – it works with Office. Whether you use the free Office Web Apps, Office for Mac 2011, or Office for Windows 2010, you can save, download, and collaborate in real-time on all of your online documents. The latest Windows [...]

I recently had an opportunity to speak with Stephanie Krieger. Stephanie is a Microsoft Office MVP and professional document consultant who built many of the templates for Office for Mac 2011. How did you come to build the templates for Office for Mac 2011? My expertise is in creating great documents and templates for the [...]

If you’re like me and waited until the last minute to wrap up all of your holiday stuff, you might want to check out Office.com. There are thousands of free images and templates, that you can download — everything from gift tags to thank you cards. Here are a few links to some seasonal templates [...]

When you have problems or questions about Office for Mac, who do you turn to? I can tell you who my dad does, which is why I created this “cheat sheet” to help divert some of his weekend distractions. I thought I would share it here. Hopefully you’ll find it useful as well. ——————————– Questions [...]

I use Office all day, every day. And still, sometimes I don’t remember exactly where to find an option or setting I need. When this happens, the first place I usually look is the right-click, or “contextual” menu. You can right-click on just about anything in Office. Selected text. A misspelled word. A picture, object, [...]

When we first announced Lync Server 2010 last November, we talked about our commitment to supporting multiple platforms and how over the course of 2011 you would see Lync become available for other platforms. I’m excited to share with you today that Lync for Mac 2011 has been Released to Manufacturing, commonly referred to as [...]

Do you find yourself wading through folders in your Inbox to try and find that one email you received months ago? You know you have it piled or filed somewhere but you can’t seem to find it, just when you need it. Use the advanced search features in Outlook to ease the pain of searching [...]

Incorrect spellings in a document or mail can be quite distracting. Like most applications, Office for Mac offers spell check tools to help you correct misspelt words. In the forums, some of you have questioned the difference in the spell check functionality between Word/Excel/PowerPoint and Outlook. They are different because Word/Excel/PowerPoint is customized for Office [...]

Hi Everyone, Since we published the Office for Mac and Lion blog last week, we’ve received several great comments and questions, which I want to address. First, today we released an update to Communicator for Mac that fixes the “crash issue” on Lion. It will come through Microsoft AutoUpdate in the next day or so. [...]