Office For Mac

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 Full Screen View and Publishing Layout for Word. We’re also sharing the magic of background remove in PowerPoint to help you put the focus on the most important part of your photos – YOU! As a bonus, all of the templates used to demonstrate these features are available right in the Office for Mac 2011 template gallery.

Check them out and let us know what you think! You also can find these and other videos on the Microsoft Office blog. And if you haven’t picked up a copy of Office for Mac 2011, get yours today at http://www.officeformac.com.

Today, we’re excited to share a blog post from technology blogger, social media pundit and avid Office for Mac user, Michael Sheehan. Otherwise known throughout the inter-webs as “HighTechDad,” he has personally blogged about technology for many years, providing product reviews of hardware and software, as well as writing fixes, tutorials and other tips and [...]

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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 [...]

Following our earlier blog post offering some initial background on support for Sync Services in Outlook 2011, we heard customer feedback here, as well as on Facebook, Twitter and our product forums and wanted to provide an update on one of the top questions we continue to see come through – where is Calendar sync [...]

ChemDraw version 12.0.2 provides chemical information to Office for Mac through the supported PDF image format, and Office for Mac 2011 version 14.0.1 implements changes that support this use of the PDF image format. Results include improved copy & paste interoperability between Office for Mac 2011 version 14.0.1 and ChemDraw version 12.0.2: users can edit chemical structures in ChemDraw, copy and paste those structures from ChemDraw into Office 2011 documents, copy those structures back to ChemDraw from those documents, and continue editing those structures in ChemDraw.

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 [...]

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 [...]

As you may have read in our blog post last week, we worked closely with film director Dennis Liu to produce our “Id3a01ogy” video series as part of a larger “Free The Ideas” campaign. Since then, we received some questions from people wanting to know more about “Free The Ideas” so we’re excited to bring [...]

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 [...]