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UPGRADING OFFICE FOR MAC 2011 UPGRADE
UPGRADING OFFICE FOR MAC 2011 FULL
UPGRADING OFFICE FOR MAC 2011 MAC

The list goes on: There are tons of new features in Office 2011 that, cumulatively, should be worth the price of admission for all but the tightest of tightwads.

Outlook 2011’s new e-mail database system, which makes the program more compatible with both Time Machine and Spotlight than Entourage was.

The Template Gallery, which makes templates both easier to use and more powerful.

It makes commonly used tools easily accessible, and (if you don’t like it) is easily and completely removable

The new Ribbon interface, which replaces 2008’s much-maligned Elements Gallery.

The ability to save documents to the cloud (using Microsoft’s SkyDrive or SharePoint services) and then edit them from anywhere, using either the Office desktop client (Windows or OS X) or the Office Web apps.

In addition to the Windows compatibility I extolled above, there’s also: The should-I-or-shouldn’t-I-buy question is almost as easy to answer for anyone who owns an earlier version of Office: Assuming the price is no barrier, Office 2011 has enough new features to make the investment make great sense. My only hesitation in recommending Office 2011 whole-heartedly for business users: The licensing terms for the Home and Business edition, which prohibit you from installing the suite on more than one machine unless you buy the Multi-Pack, aren’t great. (Note: We’re continuing to test cross-platform compatibility we’ll let you know what we find as soon as we can.)

UPGRADING OFFICE FOR MAC 2011 MAC

More significantly, now that Visual Basic for Applications is back on the Mac, you can feel confident that macros you create on your Mac will work fine for anyone else, regardless of their machine. If, for example, you add things like conditional formatting, sparklines, or pivot tables to a spreadsheet on your Mac, they should appear exactly the same on a Windows machine. There’s also better file compatibility: Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations created on one platform should open perfectly on the other. And you can switch from one platform to another yourself without undue confusion there’s greater feature parity between the Mac and Windows suites than ever before. Start with the suite’s powerful co-editing tools: You and your co-workers or clients can all edit Office documents at the same time, regardless of whether you’re using the Windows or Mac version.

UPGRADING OFFICE FOR MAC 2011 FULL

If you’re in an office full of Windows users, or if you frequently collaborate with them, upgrading to Office 2011 is really a no-brainer: You’ve got to do it.

UPGRADING OFFICE FOR MAC 2011 UPGRADE

There’s no special upgrade pricing, unless you bought Office 2008 after August 1, 2010, in which case you can upgrade for free.īased on what I’ve seen of the new Office so far, and on input from our reviewers, here’s how I’d sort out that buying decision.

“Buying” in this case means shelling out $200 for the single-license Home and Business Edition (which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Messenger) or $280 for the Multi-Pack the Home and Student Edition (which omits Outlook) will retail for $120 for a single license, $150 for a three-install Family Pack. (We’re posting our reviews of Word 2011, Excel 2011, PowerPoint 2011, and the rest this week.) What you may not know is whether or not you should buy that suite when it arrives. By now, you probably know that Microsoft is releasing Office 2011, the latest version of its productivity suite, on October 26.