Office for Mac 2011 Available October 26
We are excited to announce that starting on October 26 you can get your own copy of Office for Mac 2011! And starting today preorders can be placed at Amazon.com.
One of the most visually impactful features in the new suite also is called Dynamic Reorder, it gives you the ability to interactively re-order all of the layers in a document or presentation – one of the ways that we are solving a very real customer need with a fun experience. The new suite also introduces a new view in Word 2011, Full Screen view which has two views: one optimized for writing and the other for reading. Allowing you to block out the distractions and focus on putting your idea on paper.
Here is the last behind the scenes video from the team:
And we know that those features wouldn’t mean much if the overall performance of the suite wasn’t up to par. In fact, improving performance was a priority across the suite. We hope that you will notice this right away with the launch speed of each app and overall speed throughout the applications.
We hope you enjoyed another glimpse into Office 2011 and remember – you can pre-order it today and it will be here soon!
I’m using Office 2011 as of this week. Don’t know why it’s available now to us as opposed to the advertised release date, but I do like it pretty well. I’m most interested in Outlook. Inever use Powerpoint (I love Keynote), but will take a peak at it. Excel is powerful and a great spreadsheet but do use Numbers too. I liked Entourage pretty well and never used Apple mail to speak of, mainly because of the features that connected to the enterprise system of the school.
A few observations/complaints. The icon function bar on Outlook is way too dense; I see no way to change the color on unread mail so it stands out more in your Inbox. Still exploring….
Playing around with a VBA script we’ve been using for years in Excel. In Excel 2010 it runs in about 76.2 seconds (this running on Windows 7 via a VM). In Excel 2011 the exact same script acting on the exact same file takes 473 seconds, over 6x longer.
What’s the chance in first point release that VBA performance will improve?
John, how did you get it???
If i send a Word or Excel document from Mac computer with the Office for Mac 2011 to a PC computer user, will the PC computer user be able to read the Word or Excel documents?
Thanks, Kohl
I’m from Brasil and I study at Federal University of Minas Gerais, that
has a MSDN AA subscription. I’ve been reading in major Mac specialized
websites and in Mac Mojo Team Blog’s website that Microsoft will release an Academic Office 2011 for Mac
version for higher education students, at US$ 99. I’m so interested to
acquire it, in spite of Microsoft doesn’t release a portuguese (Brasil)
version of that software. So, I’d like to know if Brazil is an elegible country to get that offer and what’s the way to buy it: if
it’ll be available through Mactopia’s main site, OnTheHub e-store or other MSDN AA affiliates.
Thanks for your attention!
Sincerely,
Marcelo
@John Shatzer: where do you get a copy of Office 2011 now?
I’m mostly interested in Outlook as well – I’ve been using Office 2008 and Entourage for a while and would like to have full Exchange functionality similar to Outlook for the PC. Entourage is pretty good but too many things are missing (ability to do tables in an email, proper GAL integration, PST migration, to name a few).
I would love to know more about how the new Outlook for Mac matches up to the PC version and whether the key deficiencies have been addressed.
PS: I tried to leave this comment using Safari but the Submit Comment button was not displayed on the page. I had to use the Camino browser to do it. A Mac blog that doesn’t work with the primary Mac browser? Say it ain’t so, Microsoft.
still no onenote — Onenote webapp really relies on client onenote for full features; odd business decision to deny the application to the mac community
I am currently using MAC mail, ical and address book because Entourage could not sync my notes (very important to me) to my iPhone via MobileMe. Will the Outlook 2011 for MAC allow me to sync my mail, address book, calendar and notes to MobileMe?
What date will it be on MSDN subscriber downloads please?
Do Notes sync with Exchange yet?
Who wrote this? I’d expect better copy from Microsoft.
Even as one who mangles the Queen’s English, I wince at “One of the most visually impactful features in the new suite also is called Dynamic Reorder”. What’s the also for? What’s wrong with:
‘One of the features in the new suite with amazing visual impact is called Dynamic Reorder’?
PS. This form still isn’t entirely Safari friendly.
What is the upgrade pricing for Office 2011?
For instance, If I have a Business Edition of Office 2008 what is it going to cost me to upgrade to Business 2011?
When are the upgrades available for pre-order?
I’ve seen a couple of articles that said OneNote is included. Also, I use Journal a lot since Notes has no rich text formatiing. I guess since Notes in Mac Office 2008 does have RTF they aren’t putting Journal in the newest version. As long as OneNotes shows up, I’ll be happy.
@SpeedUpVBA Thanks for your feedback, we’ll share with the team and let you know of any updates.
Does the Word 2011 have booklet printing?
With so many people relying on iPhone devices, calendar integration with Outlook:mac 2011 is now even more vital than ever. Working in healthcare, I have noticed a quickly increasing trend of healthcare providers who have migrated from other handheld devices to Apple iPad and iPhone devices. Where Entourage has seamless contacts and calendar synchronization with iPhone and Macintosh desktop applications via iTunes, Outlook:mac 2011 seems to miss the mark by not offering calendar synchronization. I hope that Microsoft is not shooting itself in the foot by disenfranchising the Apple iPhone community.
@Kohl Yes, you will be able to share files easily with others on either a Mac or PC!
We appreciate everyone’s contribution on MacMojo. There are a lot of good questions and comments about the new features and we’re working on getting them answered. If we haven’t gotten back to you yet, we will as soon as we can. Thanks for your patience
Does anyone know Office 2011 allows you to create, send and recieve a table within an email – so it doens’t dissapear!
This is killing me!
Still little news about Messenger??? I have heard it will be released when office is, is this true? or should i expect it in a few years?
Also will it be an actual working copy, or still no offline messages, no display pictures, problematic A/V, no file transfers etc…
@Stacy C First, sorry to hear about your issues with submitting a comment, that’s the first we have heard of problems with Safari and will look into it. Regarding Office for Mac 2011 availability, the suite will be on store shelves October 26, but you can preorder it today http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=office+for+mac+2011 . Outlook for Mac does include the ability to import PST folders, and maintain tables in mail, along with improved integration to the GAL. Look forward to hearing your thoughts when you are able to try out the suite.
@Jimbo Office for Mac 2011 will be available on MSDN when we launch in late October
@Brian There isn’t upgrade pricing, however if you recently purchased Office 2011 you may qualify for the technology guarantee program http://bit.ly/apeKYk
@Gary OneNote is not included in the Office for Mac 2011 suite. Office 2011 includes Word 2011, Excel 2011, PowerPoint 2011 and Outlook 2011. However, Mac users can access the OneNote Web App via their browser.
@Karlos Messenger for Mac 8 will be released October 26 with Office 2011, check out the blog for more info http://bit.ly/abyApg
The one question I see here being ignored is the ability for Outlook to sync to iPhones/iPads as well as what Entourage does. No calendar sync support? No money from me.
Oh, and I had to use Firefox to send this comment due to Safari (Version 5.0.2 (6533.18.5)) not being able to see the “Submit Comment” button
I am using Office 2011 now, but have trouble with Word on my MacBook Pro. It works fine on my iMac, but on my MBP Word 2011 is slow to launch (takes like 15 minutes) and hangs frequently. I am using OS X.6.4. Any suggestions are welcome.
Great news about Outlook for Mac in particular, as Entourage is a dog in a corporate environment. Now, please can we have a return for Project for Mac and also the introduction of Visio for Mac please?
Ps. The submit comment button does not appear in Safari 5.
@Scott You can use Apple’s standard sync protocol called iSync/Sync Services to enable synchronization with a variety of devices and applications. Third-party vendors provide plug-ins to enable Sync Services for devices such as Blackberry, Palm or Windows Mobile. And yes Office 2011 will support calendar sync via Exchange; however no internet (ics) calendar sync will be supported.
Thanks for your response, but perhaps I need to be more specific: Sync Services currently links my contacts and calendar events and tasks within Entourage with the Mac OS 10.6 Address Book and Mac OS 10.6 calendar software called iCal, and MobileMe. This is all under the Sync Services preferences within Entourage, and this service enables me to use Entourage for all of my contacts and calendar events etc and to have all that information syncing with my iPhone and iPad. I am not interested in Blackberrys, Palms or Windows devices, or Exchange. I want it to work with my iPhone and iPad as it does now. But in Outlook, Sync Services only supports Contacts. Nothing else! I just cant see how anyone developing this software would think that limiting synchronisation with Apple’s IOS was a good idea.
@Scott Understand your concern, the team is working to add support for synching other items like Calendar. With each release we want to ensure the highest level of quality for each scenario. We’ll update here when there is more to share.
@Christopher Long Thanks for your comment. The product hasn’t yet released, but will be available for purchase on Oct. 26. If you are a VL customer, please contact your representative.
does powerpoint have embedded image compression & vector image conversion to drawing objects yet? about the only reason I have parallels and windows office on my mac is the ability to cut down my image heavy presentations down to size and to tweak some of the vector shapes i use. beats me why it was left out of mac office 2008…
I’m rather disillusioned with all the hype over “Outlook” for Mac, when it seems it’s going to have fewer features then Entourage for Mac 2008. First and foremost, there is no way I will be able to move to Outlook if there is no calendar syncing (if I understand previous comments correctly). This is disappointing.
I have not heard any word about the fate of the Project Center in Entourage, will there be a Project Center in Outlook? I use this extensively, and without it I have no use for Outlook.
I also noticed that Outlook will not be included in the Student and Home version of Office. I don’t understand this at all. What, home users or students don’t need to have this sort of organization?
What this all tells me is that Microsoft has focused Outlook more on the Business side of Office, yet has disregarded the features that at least some Mac users expect. I’m sure business users will find Outlook very useful in corporate (exchange) environments, but what about those of us who use Entourage and want to sync this information to our phones? What about those of us who use these features already available in an application only to have the features removed and replaced with the ability to connect to Exchange? Where did the user statistics come from to make this decision?
Is this a REAL forum, or just a sham? No Microsoft flames here, but come on!
Do you honestly expect to solicit input from anyone in the mac community if you cannot see the “submit comment” button from Safari?
It is STILL not visible.
I’m penalized at work on my Mac when I cannot interact with resources hosted on our Sharepoint Site.
Will Office 2011 restore parity for Mac users?
specifically:
NOT having to download the doc, edit, save, then “upload” just to update something in the document
right click for pull down menu of actions on a document
document discussions
p.s. Submit button STILL does not show up in Safari!
Great job on hosting this site. I’ve been here a number of times, but never posted until today.
I am however concerned that my previous post was edited before being posted to your site. I didn’t read any disclaimer that the comments would be altered to minimize any potential negative slant to the comments posted here.
My submission ended with a proverbial “absurd” – in reference to your site STILL not accepting posts from Safari.
Thanks for taking time to edit this one as well!
For those of you really interested in submitting comment with Safari, I looked at the HTML for this, and there’s an issue in the way it’s generated. So the submit button is hidden. If you really have to submit this using Safari you can do one of two things. First, and probably easiest, with the comments text box selected, just press tab twice, and then press return. This will actually focus the action on the hidden submit button, and pressing return acts as a mouse click.
Or you could use an Applescript to submit the comment. Here’s the script:
tell application “Safari”
activate “Safari”
do JavaScript “window.document.forms['commentform'].submit.click();” in document 1
end tell
You’ll have to copy that text, paste it into an Applescript editor window, then run the script after you entered info in all the fields of this form.
@arvind We’ll look into that answer and get back to you.
@Stephen Thanks for reaching out to us. We are looking to expand support for synching via Sync Services for things like calendar. While we don’t have any news to share, we will update here when we do. We conducted research with our home users and found a majority rely on webmail rather than a full email client, so some were paying for tools they weren’t using. The SKU line up lets users decide which version is right for them. For home users that want Outlook, there is the Home & Business version. Additionally, higher ed students can qualify for the Academic version which includes Outlook.
@Disgruntled We are currently working on fixing the issue the Mac Mojo blog has been having with Safari. Thanks for your patience.
@Keith Yes, Office for Mac 2011 has the ability to save documents (Word docs, Excel workbooks, and PowerPoint presentations) to SharePoint!
@Keith Thanks, we’re very proud of Mac Mojo. You do not need to be concerned about the safety of your comments. As a policy, we do not edit comments. We are working on fixing the issue we’ve been having with Safari, thanks for your patience.
I’ve been using the Beta and I have to say that the new suite is great! There are a few missing features that I would like to see like calendar sync, etc. But I have to say that this is a MAJOR improvement over 2008. This is the first time in YEARS that I can say I am enthusiastic about a Microsoft Office product for the Mac. Well done guys!
@Brian Thanks for your support!
@MacMojoTeam I am a student and I JUST purchased and installed the Home & Student edition of Office 2008 with my new iMac and saw that I would be eligible for the upgrade when it is available. I wasn’t even aware that a new version was coming so it sounded great to me.
However, after reviewing the Technology Update guidelines, I am very frustrated to discover that I can only upgrade to the Home & Student edition, which will not include a mail client. Even more frustrating is the actual academic version, which includes Outlook, will be cheaper than what I just purchased at the Apple Store with my Mac and now cannot return because it was opened and installed.
Your reply to Stephen states that Academic users will be able to qualify for the Academic version. Does this mean that I will be able to upgrade to the Academic version with the new release? It seems unfair to market this product as an upgrade when I will actually be losing a program that I just paid for and will be obsolete with my “upgrade”.
I am a professor at a university and interested in the academic version of office for mac 2011. Will that be available only as a download from this site, or will it be available through retailers?
I have just installed my Mac Office 2011 including Outlook only to find that Mac Outlook does not work with my existing Exchange 2003 infrastructure. It appears that this is because Mac Outlook only uses EWS instead of MAPI, and EWS requires Exchange 2007 SP2 or above. Also, I gather that EWS may not offer all the features of MAPI, especially around Public Folders. Looks like Mac Outlook 2011 isn’t going to meet my expectations
Oh the disappointment, back to Outlook running in a virtual pc.
Do BOTH versions of Mac Word 2011 have Outlook for e-mail? (Both being the student version and the home office version). That’s the main thing I’m interested in. . .
@Krystal Mann A more cost efficient option would be to purchase the Academic version which includes Outlook for just $99 if you qualify with valid university credentials. http://bit.ly/b4u85U
@mdaily It will be available for purchase through this site once the suite is available October 26 with valid university credentials
Is there desktop manager software being launched, for the new office for mac 2011 software? Has the new office for mac 2011 been tested with BB desktop manager? Are there any known issues?
I have the current office for mac 2008, and use BB desktop manager software 1.0.4. And my phone, a BB Bold 9700 has v5.0.0.656 (bundle 1111, Platform 5.1.0.153) , but I find numerous sync issues between the phone and the mac entourage calendar! Is there also new phone software?
@Mikael You can use Apple’s standard sync protocol called Sync Services to enable synchronization with a variety of devices and applications. Third-party vendors provide plug-ins to enable Sync Services for devices such as Blackberry, Palm, or Windows Mobile
@Phawnda Moore Outlook for Mac 2011 will only be offered in the Home & Business version, not in Home & Student. Through our research we find that a majority of home users rely on web mail, and students on their university email accounts so it’s not included to ensure that customers are only paying for what they need. http://bit.ly/cAOq78
I am curious about the activation part of the software. I have read that Office 2011 introduces an activation requirement as part of registration that ties your copy of Office to a particular computer. Is this true?
If so, is there some way to deactivate the software’s connection to a particular computer like Apple’s Fairplay in iTunes? For example, what if my computer is lost or breaks down, and I buy a new one? Would I be required to buy a new license for Office?
@macmojoteam I don’t think you fully understood what my comment said. Purchasing an academic version of a program that I just spent $150 on is NOT cost effective. This means I have to buy the software again, something I JUST bought and can no longer return because it’s installed.
By upgrading to 2011, I don’t get an upgrade to my email client. Sure, I understand I can still use Entourage, but I think it’s pretty awful that I just paid for this product thinking I would get a FULL upgrade to Office Suite and since you removed a program from the Suite, I don’t really get a FULL upgrade.
All I wanted was the student edition, and it turns out I paid more for my student edition with my academic discount than I could have if I had just waited, and I would have gotten more for my money, considering that Outlook will now be available, and I’ll be stuck using Entourage for the next 3-5 years.
What about OneNote? Are there any plans for including it?
OneNote is the reason I would pay money for an office suite … otherwise there are plenty of free alternatives.
I am the manager for a messaging and collaboration department at a large organization. At first glance I can see that Oulook will still be worthless in our organization. Will Microsoft ever make resource scheduling available in Office for MAC? This is very dissapointing!!!
Drew
@Andrew No, you would not need to buy a new license. For example if you bought a new computer and wanted to install your software on that machine when you load and activate it, it will essentially override the activation on the old machine.
Could someone please verify whether Word 2011 supports direct keyboard entry or not for any of the following scripts: Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Tamil, Tibetan?
The MacBU is focused on meeting the needs of customers around the world. Unfortunately, Office for Mac 2011 will not fully support Right-to-Left languages. Due to technology limitations on the text input tools, Office for Mac’s Unicode support won’t include right-to-left languages such as Hebrew and Arabic.
If I upgrade to Office 2011 for Mac, will my email in Entourage migrate over to Outlook somehow?
Yes the transition from Entourage to Outlook is pretty painless. We’ll have more to share on that transition but here is how you configure it:
From the Tools tab, click Accounts. In the Accounts dialog box, click the plus icon (+) in the bottom left corner to add a new account. In addition to Exchange Server, you can add almost any e-mail account, including your e-mail account from your Internet Service Provider, and Internet hosted e-mail account, such as Windows Live Hotmail or Gmail.
@John W We don’t have OneNote in Office 2011. While we agree OneNote is a great app, we are pretty excited about the new updates to Office 2011 with co-authoring tools integration to the Office Web Apps, anything we can do to convince you?
@Drew Thanks for your comment! We are looking into this and wil get back to you when we have more information.
With office for mac 2008, one needs to sync a blackberry phone to entourage (and i was advised to syn through ical and address book first then entourage). Now with office 2011, with outlook, do i need to still sync through ical and address book, or just directly into outlook?
Anyone know if there is a fix yet, for the entourage calendar syn issues with BB, re the duplication of entries (with recurring entries that are changed) and the failure to delete items off a blackberry when deleted on entourage?
You will be able to sync Outlook 2011 to your Blackberry using Apple’s iSync/Sync Services. You’d need to sync that data to your Blackberry directly as Outlook 2011 doesn’t import iCal data. Regarding your duplicate entries issues in Entourage, you can find out more here on how to deal with duplicates: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/sync_services.html#blame
Will you be offering upgrade pricing for those of us with Office 2008 purchased before August?
Unfortunately no there are no upgrade pricing options.
Dear Mac Mojo Team:
I have been using Office for Mc Entourage for years, am wondering if I will be able to move my e-mail folders and their contents into the new Outlook for Mac 2011?
Doesn’t really sound as if there are enough benefits to upgrade. I don’t get this new product.
Thanks for addressing right to left languages. Could you also indicate whether keyboard input is possible in any of the left to right indic scripts devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Tamil, and Tibetan?
I will not purchase it because there’s no Hebrew support.
i have tried to sync BB desktop manager with the new office for mac outlook 2011. It does not sync as the office 2011 calendar does not appear? Is BB going to release a new desktop manager? Or will MS release an update to allow BB desktop manager to syn directly with outlook 2011?
As far as I can ascertain, Outlook 2011 for Mac will have no built in support for Google Calendar and Google Contacts. Is this correct?
What a pity if that is so, and everything I have seen and read says it is. For me, at least, this means I’ll be sticking with Apple Mail / Addressbook.
Word and Excel look good though. May buy them individually.
Further to my previous comment, I have a question:
Is it possible to install Word and Excel without the other apps when I buy either the Home & Business or Home & Student versions?
Word and Excel is about all I would want to use, and yet buying them on their own will cost much more than buying the as part of the suites. But if I buy a suite I don’t want to install stuff I am not going to use.
Considering pre-purchase on Amazon, but would need to know I can install just word and excel from the either of the suites.
Cheers,
Jonathan
@Mikael Sorry to hear you’re having troubles. For Office 2011 we’re using Apple’s standard sync protocol, Sync Services, to enable synchronization with a variety of devices and applications, and third-party vendors provide plug-ins to enable Sync Services for devices like the Blackberry. Office 2011 won’t be available until next Tuesday (W00t!) however if you’re a VL customer you can contact your technical account manager (TAM) for more assistance.
@Jerry Marcus Yes of course! Transferring your Entourage files into Outlook is pretty painless. You can import data files created in Entourage 2004, 2008, and Entourage EWS as well as Outlook 2003 for Windows or later.
any word on whether powerpoint has styles yet? (seeing how often it’s used as a document production system, it’s amazing that only word has that capability. sometimes i wonder if the only thing keeping research firms like mine using powerpoint is the fact that everyone wants ppts. if we could, i suspect we’d be happy to move to indesign entirely given how hard powerpoint makes it to create well-designed presentation documents)
Re the mojo reply above: “For Office 2011 we’re using Apple’s standard sync protocol, Sync Services, to enable synchronization with a variety of devices and applications, and third-party vendors provide plug-ins to enable Sync Services for devices like the Blackberry. Office 2011 won’t be available until next Tuesday (W00t!) however if you’re a VL customer you can contact your technical account manager (TAM) for more assistance.”
What is VL customer?
I have been at Apple. who had an office 2011 software program already loaded (they managed to get a licence for testing etc). We could not find any BB software that would sync with Apples syn protocol. The calendar for outlook does not appear? Only the entourage calendar? What now? Would BB release a new Desktop manager with the necessary plug in that will interface with Apples syn protocol to communicate directly with Outlook 2011?
No support for right to left languages?!
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approx. 350 to 422 million Arabs
world population of Jewry is approx 13.2 million
population of those interested in bible studies ….?
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I can’t believe that Microsoft Office 2011 would leave behind at least 1/2 billion potential users! No support for Arabic or Hebrew!
You guys are crazy! Please don’t tell me that there is technical difficulties and all that other garbage. You’ve had how many years to work on this?! This is really disappointing!
Please provide support for Middle Eastern Languages.
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I can’t believe that Microsoft Office 2011 would leave behind at least 1/2 billion potential users! Really disappointing!
Can someone explain the logic behind the Office 2011 Ribbon UI? Now I have to admit it’s not that bad. You can get to and readily use most of the controls you want to use on a daily basis…provided that you are willing to devote a least 1280px of horizontal space for Excel and 1024px for Word.
As you start shrinking the horizontal size of the application it dynamically reduces access to the various options on the ribbon without providing a “click here to access the missing controls” arrow or anything.
Of course the formatting controls on the floating toolbox are effectively gone (in Excel they’re gone completely, and in Word they’re extremely lobotomized).
If you’re working in Excel and shrink down the size of the window to only that which you need for the data you’re working on (say 800px wide) there are very little formatting options available for stylizing the worksheet.
This may not be that bad on a multi-monitor desktop workstation (or even one with a single large display), but on a laptop this can be a pain if you’re trying to access/reference multiple documents at the same time.
Is there any chance of brining back the formatting options in the floating toolbox? Having this option on top of the new ribbon would not be a bad thing…
@Jonathan Outlook 2011 can sync contacts from your Google account if enabled in your Address Book application, but it will not allow Calendar syncing. We are working on additional support. The Home & Student version is a great deal starting at just $119 and includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
@arvind PowerPoint will include new and improved table and picture styles, as well as Smart Art.
@Mikael Volume Licensing customers include companies and educational institutions who can provide the new suite to members of their organization. If you have the final version, your technical account manager (or TAM) should be able to help you with all your Office for Mac needs.
I do not have VL, am a single and private consumer.:
I have been at Apple. who had an office 2011 software program already loaded (they managed to get a licence for testing etc). We could not find any BB software that would sync with Apples syn protocol. The calendar for outlook does not appear? Only the entourage calendar? What now? Would BB release a new Desktop manager with the necessary plug in that will interface with Apples syn protocol to communicate directly with Outlook 2011?
Will the trial be available also on the 26th?
@Chris Thanks for your feedback Chris, but did you know the ribbon is collapsible and customizable? You can collapse it by clicking on the little arrow next to the ribbon preferences icon, and to customize it click on the ribbon preferences icon.
@David Roy Thanks for your interest. Unfortunately, there will not be a trial for Office for Mac 2011 but it will be generally available the 26.
The limitations of the customization of the ribbons is a) reorder the tabs, b) add/remove tabs. I can’t find anywhere to customize the individual items/elements within any given tab. This is where the problem lies ribbon’s with the screen real-estate usage and where the floating toolbox provided a easier way to access the formatting controls.
Having both options available would be a great option. Either that or the ability to actually customize the individual elements within a ribbon’s tab.
Otherwise its an all or nothing kind of deal.
When i tick the boxes as indicated, i do not get the next pop up screen as follows:
There’s a dialog that pops-up in Entourage when you turn on synching of a calendar or address book that asks something like: “You have enabled Sync Services for a folder, do you want to?”
* Replace Entourage items with Sync Services items
* Replace Sync Services items with Entourage items
* Merge Entourage items with Sync Services items
Why is this pop up screen not appearing?
If there is no trial how will we be expected to base our decision on buying the product over the current version.
While i am interested in what Outlook will bring i do need to know before i buy it that it and the other products will meet my needs i am sure many customers feel the same way.
Will the equation editor be updated so as to be compatible with the editor in the windows version?
@macmojo
thanks for the reply. unfortunately, i’m not talking about the default “styles” provided, but about the character/paragraph styles capability that word has (or the character+paragraph+object styles that indesign has). that is, the ability for the user to create styles and apply them across slides & objects.
right now the only way to work with styles is to create custom layouts, which rapidly gets out of control if you have multiple sections & layouts within a document. (contact me offline and i’d be happy to share a very detailed example)
i really do like powerpoint, and i’m often an evangelist, surprising my colleagues with the quality of output i’m able to produce with it (way beyond their expectations). in my experience, though, co-editing a document is only partly about simultaneous editing, and as much about structuring the editing process through styles, layers & layouts (only one of which powerpoint supports). so the new collaborative editing features in office 2011 are nice, but they are nowhere near as important as the ability to have better document structure.
@Mikael Sorry to hear you’re having problems. Try the Entourage trouble shooting site. This is about replace and merge Sync Services specifically: http://bit.ly/bimCK5
@David Roy We understand, but unfortunately there will not be a trial of Office for Mac 2011.
Are there different Office 2011 for Mac Business versions?
Office for Mac Home & Business Edition 2011 is $199/seat or $139.50/seat for the 2 installer version.
Office 2011 Mac STD is under a volume license contract $345.31 without Software Assurance or $627 with 3 years of Software Assurance.
Is the substantial price difference for the convenience of having a volume license or are there additional features? I could imagine Sharepoint integration, but have not found any documentation.
Can you please clarify the licensing options for Office for Mac 2011 Business edition.
Am I correct in thinking that the only options are:
* 1 license (1 user, 1 computer)
* 2 license (1 user, 2 computers)
I am a small business with 2 users. Would I need to buy 2 copies of the business edition for 2 separate users, or are there any other multi-user options?
Thank you.
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No trial? Office is for businesses. What sort of business would simply buy licenses for something that is untested? Are we supposed to just roll it out company-wide? That’s just silly. Give us a trial so we can test it and implement it properly. What are you afraid of? Perhaps I’ll just stick to NeoOffice.
Having a trial would also make it a lot easier for potential customers to check language capabilities, which MS seems reluctant to address openly in product specs.
I am still waiting for an answer regarding keyboard input of (left to right):
Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Tamil, Tibetan
(These scripts are supported by all other OS X apps and also Word for Wiindows).
Are there different Office 2011 for Mac Business versions?
The price for Office for Mac Home & Business Edition 2011 is $199/seat.
Office 2011 Mac under a volume license contract is about $350/seat.
Is the significant price difference based on a different feature pack?
Thank you.
Activation? Really? Why the sudden paranoid act? Haven’t we moved into the 21st Century yet?
Is there any ETA on complete Google and Outlook integration with Calendar and Contacts (not via address book sync)? Does it support IMAP push? the only way this will be worthwhile for me to upgrade is to have complete replacement in Outlook of my primary apps on google: calendar, contacts and email.
I have a 6 week old macbook pro. I have in the past few days noticed a very faint yellow blotch/streak on my screen, only visible at certain angles and especially when my black screen saver comes on with a flurry type image on the screen. OI cannot see it on the white screen or light colours but only grey to black screens.
What is this yellow blotch/streak all about?
Still not on MSDN. What gives?
What the hell happened to Entourage? Did Microsoft Rebrand it Outlook for Mac 11? Did they just port Outlook over to OX 10.6 and call it quits for Entourage? Need more info about what features are gained, but more importantly… What features were lost! I’ve been an Entourage user for over 10 years.
Hi
I have noted that it is available everywhere but not on HUP ? Any idea when it will appear? I sent email to HUP a few days ago and they suggested from launch?
John
We’re still on 2008 and will be until at least next year. Where has all the 2008 help and how to gone??? Everything’s now pointing to 2011. As a university we can’t just jump onto 2011. Please can you tell me where to get back to the very useful 2008 instructions please!
So its now midday here in the UK and still no download option in my Volume Licensing.
Any ideas when it will be available?
Hi
The big question out there is if Office 2011 for Mac will be available on MSDN and Technet today. Any official answers from macmojo on that?
Kind regards
///Mike
Hi again!
Office 2011 is now available on both Technet/MSDN. Have fun!
///Mike
I too have been waiting for Office 2011 to come out for the HUP. I shot an email to Office for Mac Press (OfficeforMacPress@edelman.com), and got this back:
“Thanks for your question. Office for Mac 2011 is expected to be available through the Home Use Program in December 2010.”
Cheers,
Thomas M. Bradshaw
http://www.lotsaoxen.com
Excellent news! I’m downloading from there now, thanks
I’m surprised there’s no calendar syncing to iPhone! A fundamental productivity tool (for the Mac, no less) can’t sync to the most popular PDA in the world?! When will this fix be in place?
@Austin David We’re always looking at what productivity apps Mac users need and want. However, right now we are focused on Office 2011 which offers Word, Excel, PPT and Outlook for Mac.
@Faye Lester You can still access our forums for help on Office 2008 forums, here: http://www.officeformac.com/productforums/
I will not purchase it because there is no Arabic supporting.
Congrats with a new release, as a MAC and PC user I have been long awaiting getting OneNote for MAC…and now realize it is not part of the new release:( very disapointing……when will OneNote become available for MAC users??
We have been told that 2008 office suite is no longer available by a variety of resellers and that we need to purchase 2011.
Not all of our computers have intel processors so 2011 is not compatible on those computers. The reseller said we would be able to download 2008 for free for each 2011 license we purchase.
I would like to verify that this is correct.
Thanks for telling me the forums are still available.
However, forums are used for problems and trouble shooting.
We want to access the excellent, structured training materials for Office 2008, not the forums.
Please can you tell me how to access those? We are not in a position to move to 2011 yet but have whole university faculties with people who want to access training materials!
Please don’t forget those of us still on 2008.
@Pernille Halberg: Thanks for the congrats! And for your feedback, always much appreciated. Right now, we don’t have any news to share around OneNote but are always looking at what apps our users need and want.
@A Cox: Yes, Office for Mac 2011 licenses acquired through Volume Licensing will have downgrade rights to Office 2008 for Mac and prior versions.
Hope this helps! We’re working on your other questions so stay tuned…
Having recently bought Office for Mac Home & Student 2008, I was able to get the 2011 upgrade for no cost. I was really disappointed to find that Outlook is not included, so how can I upgrade to the Home & Business edition without having to pay the full price?
Several have asked for an ETA on calendar syncing with iPhone. Can we please have an answer?
This is THE decisive issue for me (and I suspect many others) in determining whether to make the transition from ’08 to ’11.
Thank you Microsoft for following me to the Apple world and ruining my day – again.
I just left the Windows world and purchased an iMac after 30+ years of using Microsoft and PC products. I was tired of spending time making my older computer work, and watched my wive’s transition (painfully) to Windows 7 on a new PC where she still spends hours dealing with incompatibilities, updates, etc.. I am basically up to speed on most tasks (easy) and very satisfied with the new Apple computer – until now.
I kept Outlook, because it had worked relatively well and was my one focal point for information, not a power user, put satisfied.
I bought the new MS Office for iMac, knowing it was the first day of release, but was already in the process of rebuilding my files in the new iMac Outlook. Things were working OK – until just now.
I just downloaded the new update to outlook and all my files I had just created got wiped and I now have a virgin database, no email accounts, etc.
Thanks for making me spend time working on making my computer (software) work, and not USING my computer for what I want.
Thanks – for nothing.
Michael
I have purchased MS Office 2011 business edition for my company but have not released it to the masses mainly due to there not being a calendar sync option…disappointing especially since there is no longer support for Exchange 2003. I will also miss Project from Entourage it was a great piece.
Can someone let people know if this feature is coming soon?
Attachments with long file names.
SERIOUSLY!!!!
Mac has had support for long file names since 1998 when HFS+ came out in Mac OS 8.1.
Why is it 12 years later, Outlook 2011 for mac is still using more than 10 year old APIs that don’t support those file names.
When you attach a file that has a long name, it is truncated and the end is replaced with something like #1234.
eg: This_is_a_long_filename_that_is_really_useful_version_3.docx
arrives to client as: This_is_a_long_na#1234.docx
Receiving attachments is fine. Sending is broken.
Using Mac Mail with Exchange server works fine. The problem is with Outlook Mac 2011 client.
PLEASE FIX THIS!!
Note the Outlook attachment problem only happens when you drag and drop the attachment into a window. If you use the attach paperclip icon button it works ok.
Still, the drop should be able to see the full name of the file.
I still wonder if office 2010/2011 will be truly compatible, in the sense that a pptx from 2010 will not have misplaced items and changed fonts when displayed on 2011 and the opposite! What about the equation editor?
That’s a real problem users have and not dynamic sliding!
I’ve only recently bought a Mac. I downloaded a trial version of iWork for 30 days which gave me a really good sense of how it works. Now I want to compare it to Office 2011 which I’ve never used before (I’ve used previous versions only). If there is no trial version, how can I test the product that suits me best. No trial = no purchase as far as I’m concerned. Best stick to iWork, at least I’ve tested the product before I spend money on it. Once again Microsoft shows a lack of forward thinking.
As much as I dislike Microsoft products, I was going to buy Office 2011 because I thought they had finally fixed the problem with Arabic. But from what I can find online, it seems that you can open Arabic documents (and type in them), but you can’t create RTL documents?
Really?
So, the Windows version of Word has had RTL support for years, and the free TextEdit program that comes installed on Macs can do RTL, but you’re really claiming that there are “technical difficulties” in implementing it?
If enabling a word processor to handle RTL Unicode text *correctly* is really beyond your technical capabilities, y’all need to find new jobs.
We use SBS2003, i bought Office for Mac 2011 Home/Business, so i can’t use outlook, so my heart is broken; Reluctantly, is it possible to buy entourage somehow to use with the rest of the new suite, or is there any other way of not having to use windows?
I can use OWA but it is even more limited than entourage i guess. Any suggestions?
Thank You
Mark
Mac Mojo Team:
Look not to beat a dead horse here, but I had seen a reference to OneNote in the January 2011 MacLife article. Having used that program before – I quickly went to purchase the academic version through Microsofts website. As I was reading through the fine print I didn’t see OneNote listed. Simple, no purchase. OneNote is an amazingly fantastic incredible application that I really really really really want. Get it? I can’t even get it at work on a PC as they haven’t updated the suite yet. Please, make this available to Mac users!!!!! Lobby Redmond Management for us. It’s the right thing to do!!!!!
I am also among the disappointed that Office 2011 does not have OneNote. I just received an iMac and am trying to migrate everything from my PC to Mac and had so much stored in my OneNote on the PC. It is an incredible app and was shocked to see it was not included. I think I even read somewhere that Bill Gates said that it was one of the apps he used the most.
Onenote is simply the best app for a whole lot of things. So -pretty please with sugar on top- make it available for Mac. Is there any excuse at all for not making it available for all of Humanity?
@Ace Right now we’re working on perfecting Office for Mac 2011, but feel free to leave your request for OneNote on the OFM product feedback page (found here: http://bit.ly/bcPm2B) as something you’d like to see in the future. Thanks for your feedback.
I have been really glad after reading this blog as the knowledge which has been given via this blog is simply tremendous. I would congratulate and appreciate the blogger for doing this much hard work.
@Refurbished Computers Thanks so much for your nice words. We enjoy interacting with our users and are always looking to provide as much information as possible for the community.
I have a MacBook Pro 15 running MACOSX 10.6.6
I want to be able to print labels from an Excel spreadsheet using Word.
If I purchase Office for Mac will I be able to select the info from the spreadsheet like my Windows PC friends do.
Can’t do this on my Mac now as it seems to only use my Address Book.
I am on a retiree executive and we frequently have to run Avery mailing labels for several different groups of our retirees.
Please tell me this will work! It would make my life much easier and I really want to continue to brag about how good my MAC is!!!
Is there any timer function in the 2011 Outlook for Mac like Journal in Microsoft Outlook? If not, are there any webapps that I can plug in?
@Jenny There is not a timer function in Outlook for Mac, but you can request it from our developers here: http://tinyurl.com/4bcz9yp.
I installed office 2011 on my MacBook Pro and since then my screen saver will not work properly. If I shut down the computer and restart it, the screen saver works for a few hours then it will not come on.
I am worried about my screen.
Please advise
@James Kougioulis Have you downloaded the latest update here? http://tinyurl.com/2gouzb. If you’ve done this already, we’d recommend heading over to our Office for Mac forum and starting a thread to see if any other users have had a similar issue: http://tinyurl.com/4gf43dp. The MVPs in our forum are really knowledgeable and can help you figure out a solution.
RTL support including Hebrew and Arabic is a MUST-HAVE feature.
I believe the demand in Israel alone would have recover the necessary investment by a nice margin.
@Joe Thanks for your feedback. Please let our developers know that you’d like RTL support in a future update here: http://tinyurl.com/4bcz9yp.
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Will Mac 2011 totally melt down when you release an update just like 2010?