Feb 10, 2018 I'm sorry that you ran into trouble with this! It sounds like you are seeing a bug where Office 2008 & 2011 on Mac don't reliably find and use new third-party fonts. After installing the latest Word plugin for Zotero on a system with a non-English version of Office 2008/2011 for Mac installed, the plugin scripts may not appear in Word. Alternatively, after upgrading the plugin, you may receive a message saying that the plugin is. Office 365 on Mac - CPU hogging by mdworker32 plus any need to keep Office 2008 & 2011 if using 365 I recently did the updates to Office365 on my MacBook Pro (mid-210 model with 8Gb RAM & 1TB SSD added later).
Over the past few days we’ve been playing around the latest beta release of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. Many of the changes made are hard to appreciate without actually seeing the application suite in use, and for that reason alone we have assembled a massive gallery of screenshots. On the other hand, images can be meaningless without a bit of an explanation so we’ve put down a brief summary of our initial thoughts. You can check them all out after the jump.
Across the board, each application has had its UI completely overhauled as Microsoft has made the wise decision to redo the entire layout of the application suite. Instead of the awful configuration found in Office for Mac 2008, 2011 draws from both Office 2007 and Office 2010 for Windows. In fact, it did such a good job that we can’t think of a reason why someone who is used to one OS wouldn’t be able to jump into the other and get work done in Office. One of the main reasons for this is Ribbons.
Microsoft has finally conceded that people don’t like using the attractive but horribly implemented Toolbox found in previous versions of Office for Mac. Yes, the option to use the Toolbox is still there, but it’s no longer nearly impossible to get away without using it. One nice thing we will say about the Toolbox is that if you’re heavily into incorporating multimedia into your documents, the Toolbox is now fully integrated with iPhoto, iTunes, Photo Booth and Garage Band.
It works phenomenally well. Speaking of things working, Excel finally has working support for macros. We can’t even tell you how happy this makes nerds like us.
But back to Ribbons. They just make life so much easier. Basically every option you could ever want to use is attractively presented to you through the ribbons.
What this does is allow you to save yourself an awful lot of time navigating the menu bar, hence why Microsoft calls the Ribbon a “Fluent User Interface”. Sadly there is a pretty big weak link in Office 2011: Outlook. It seems that Microsoft simply sacrificed brains for beauty. Don’t get us wrong. It’s definitely the best and most powerful email client we’ve ever used on OS X, but after using it for 10 minutes we honestly gave up on it. Because it simply requires more work to get simple tasks done than on the Windows version. It sucks to say it, but given the choice between using the new Outlook for Mac and virtualizing Outlook for Windows, we’d go with the latter any day.
We’ve got more that 50 screenshots lined up for your eyes to feast upon, so check them out, ok? Wait a second read this and tell me if is makes any sense: “Sadly there is a pretty big weak link in Office 2011: Outlook. It seems that Microsoft simply sacrificed brains for beauty. Don’t get us wrong. It’s definitely the best and most powerful email client we’ve ever used on OS X, but after using it for 10 minutes we honestly gave up on it.” How can it be the best and most powerful email client you’ve ever used for OS X, and yet you gave up on it in 10 minutes? It sounds like it just plain sucks to me – so how is it the best and most powerful? Outlook is the one thing I miss about Windows.
I am really hoping the final Outlook for mac will be carbon copy of the Windows version. Outlook looks exactly like apple mail. The icons looks like some Stan Lee wannabe sat down with a five year old and drew icons. My god, Outlook is supposed to be a workhorse, and I look at the screenshots and see nothing of substance.
Also, do you know if we are finally able to press F2 to enter formulas in Excel cells, instead of the current double click or clicking of the formula bar. Also, do you know if the formula bar in Excel is permanently visible, or is it a toolbar that needs to be toggled on like the current excel? Anyone who thinks Ribbons is a step forward in UI, knows nothing of good UI design. Ribbons are a crutch to replace poorly designed and layed out menus. MS never could design menus well which is why Ribbons are welcomed on Windows. Ribbons ignore good tenets of UI such as taking advantage of muscle memory for command access, quick access to commands (requires several clicks to get to the actual functionality, and doesn’t take advantage of “infinite height” like the Mac menubar does), consistency across applications, caters only to novices, and most importantly doesn’t get out of the way when you want to work on the actual content.
Well, maybe you’ll see it in person some day and just think back to your post with passing chagrin. The ribbon, for people who “know” how to use it-through experience-makes accessing tools more painless. It completely changes, depending on what element you’re using-an entirely different ribbon appears, offering you the tool set for that object. It makes the “drill down” phenomenon almost disappear, fyi. It’s quite consistent in it’s implementation. It doesn’t just cater to novices (but you’d have to use it to see how quickly you can access “power user features.” Last ignorant point you make? “ most importantly doesn’t get out of the way when you want to work on the actual content.” Check out this “advanced” function if offers a simple one click “hide this ribbon.” Can you guess what it does?
For me the most anticipated program of Office 2011 is without a doubt Outlook. I hate having to virtualise Outlook for Windows in Parallels. It’s seems like a terrible waste of resources simply to run an e-mail client. The first thing I tried in was to configure Outlook to connect to my work 2003 Exchange server which sadly ended in disappointment.
No matter what settings I try, be they via OWA or directly to my exchange server, Outlook won’t make the connection. The same settings work in Entourage. Anyone else had any better luck on Exchange 2003?
By now, you probably know that Microsoft is releasing Office 2011, the latest version of its productivity suite, on. (We’re posting our reviews of, and the rest this week.) What you may not know is whether or not you should buy that suite when it arrives. '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. There's no special upgrade pricing, unless you bought Office 2008 after August 1, 2010, in which case you can upgrade for free.
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Based 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. The cross-platform Office 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. 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. 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. There’s also better file compatibility: Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations created on one platform should open perfectly on the other. 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.
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. (Note: We’re continuing to test cross-platform compatibility; we’ll let you know what we find as soon as we can.) 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. More on that in a bit. Upgrading from 2008 (or before) 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. In addition to the Windows compatibility I extolled above, there’s also:. 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;.
The new Ribbon interface, which replaces 2008’s much-maligned Elements Gallery. It makes commonly used tools easily accessible, and (if you don’t like it) is easily and completely removable;.
The Template Gallery, which makes templates both easier to use and more powerful;. Outlook 2011’s new e-mail database system, which makes the program more compatible with both Time Machine and Spotlight than Entourage was. 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. Who shouldn’t buy Office 2011 All that said, there’s one big group of users who can probably ignore Office 2011: those who currently use, and are perfectly content with Apple's $79, the free, or some. Sure, if you use Google Docs primarily because it makes your documents available from any computer, you might consider using Office 2011 in conjunction with SkyDrive or SharePoint.
Or if you like Google Docs’ collaboration tools, you might also consider switching to Office 2011, now that it can do co-editing. Probably most persuasively, you might sometimes get files from Office users that you can't work with in another suite. As one of our reviewers put it, “Sometimes you just need Office.” But otherwise, if you're happy with whatever you're using now, Office 2011 isn't a must-have.
Watch out for licensing gotchas I have just one major caveat in recommending Office 2011: the new licensing system. Unlike previous versions, Microsoft Office 2011 validates each product key and locks it to a single computer. Microsoft has done this in order to protect itself against piracy. The problem is, the change will heavily impact legitimate Office users. Do you work on a desktop computer at the office, but use a laptop when you're traveling? Previously, you could install Office on both your systems and then move freely from one to the other, as long as you didn't use both at the same time.
With Office 2011, however, a single-license version of the suite will only work on a single computer. If you have two systems and want to run Office 2011 on both, you'll have to fork over an extra $80 (for the Home and Business Multi-Pack) or $30 (for the Home and Student Family-Pack). So before you decide which version of Office 2011 to buy, consider how you'll use the suite—and factor in the extra cost accordingly. The bottom line Back when Office 2008 replaced Office 2004, one group of users definitely didn’t want to upgrade: Those whose workflows depended on Visual Basic for Applications. (Office 2004 had it, Office 2008 didn’t.) There isn’t any such clear-cut case against upgrading this time around.
On the contrary, I think the majority of people who create business documents, spreadsheets, or presentations on Macs will want to move up to Office 2011—especially those who might have skipped Office 2008 to keep their macros. For most people, this upgrade makes sense.