Office For Mac

This week’s Power Tip is about spell check – functionality that is in all four of the main Office for Mac 2011 applications – and how to enable it and disable it in certain special situations. I’ll share some examples later in this post. To start off with some background, the spell check functionality in [...]

First of all, thanks to everyone for your comments in response to my last tip on equation editing in Word for Mac 2011. I was thrilled to see the conversation spread and decided to postpone my planned Power Tip for this week in favor of answering your questions. As you read through this, if you [...]

For users who add or edit equations in their Word docs, the new equation editor in Word for Mac 2011 is a welcome new feature that makes equation editing cross-platform with Word for Windows. I’ve been editing equations on the Mac for many years (after all, in a previous life, I was the leader of [...]

Office for Mac 2011 made significant improvements in compatibility and visual fidelity with Office for Windows. But there is still one area of visual fidelity for which you, the end user, have great deal of control when you create new documents: fonts.  If you create a text document in Word, a spreadsheet in Excel, or [...]

As a follow up to last week’s post on how to turn your Word doc into a work of art, I’m here to tell you more about the advanced typographic controls we added to Word for Mac 2011 and how you can use them to design some really impressive looking text. Take these, for example: [...]

When you think of research papers, quarterly reports, or even Word documents, you don’t exactly think of beauty, right?  With Word for Mac 2011, we wanted to give you something more – the tools to create beautiful, polished documents that may not keep you on the cutting edge of fashion, but will certainly turn heads [...]

If you now have Office for Mac 2011 in hand, but are curious about the full potential of new Word and PowerPoint features, you won’t want to miss the following demo videos straight from the show floor at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. We’re walking you through how to read, create and fine tune your documents with [...]

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Love it or hate it – Holiday decorations are out in full force and you can already hear holiday jingles on the radio.  That also means Black Friday deals are here! So if Office for Mac is on your list to give or receive, we wanted to give you a preview of this year’s Office [...]

If you haven’t heard yet, it’s here! Office for Mac 2011, which now includes Outlook for Mac, is finally available. It’s been great to see all the interest in Outlook since the announcement and the team will be here showing off some cool things we’ve built in the coming weeks. To get things started, let’s [...]