Office for Mac Home and Business 2011

Macworld's Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 Coverage

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  Microsoft spells out Office for Mac bugs in Lion Microsoft last week confirmed that customers running Office for Mac will experience problems with the suite on Apple's new Lion operating system.
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  Security flaw prompts updates to Office for Mac Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to the 2004, 2008, and 2011 versions of its Office for Mac software, citing security concerns.
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  Pull Excel data into Word 2011 docs You have an Excel 2011 spreadsheet compiling sales data and a sales report that you're writing in Word 2011: How do you get the Excel numbers into your report? Here's a simple Visual Basic macro that will do the job.
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  Office update struggles with calendar syncing Microsoft is adding support for calendar syncing via an update that is already incompatible with Apple’s latest MobileMe software. Whoops.
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  Office 2011 service pack on the way Since Office 2011's release last fall, we've been waiting for the suite to support OS X's Sync Services. Now it does. But you still won't be able to sync Outlook calendars, contacts, and tasks to MobileMe.
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  Build an interactive worksheet in Excel 2011 Office 2011 brings Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) back to the Mac. If you haven't used VBA before, and don't know why you would, here's a good example of how simple and useful it is.
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  Export Outlook calendar events to iCal In which your humble author smacks his head against the desk in reaction to Outlook 2011's non-existent event syncing support (yet still provides a way to export events to iCal).
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  Microsoft updates Office, Communicator for Mac 2011 Minor updates to a few Office for Mac 2011 components squash performance and stability bugs. Communicator also gained one major new feature that lets you share your desktop with coworkers.
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  Office 2011: Word FAQ We asked you to send us your questions about Word 2011, and boy did you ever. Here are the answers we've been able to glean from our own research and queries to Microsoft.
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  Office 2011 sales to slash prices up to 33 percent Microsoft will cut the price of its Office for Mac 2011 suite by as much as 33 percent during a five-day "Black Friday" sale.
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  Office 2011: Outlook FAQ We asked you what you wanted to know about Outlook 2011, the replacement for Entourage found in Microsoft's Office 2011 suite. According to Microsoft and our own investigations, here are the answers.
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  Office 2011 update boosts security, stability Two weeks after releasing the latest version of its office productivity suite, Microsoft has released an update promising security, stability, and performance improvements for Office 2011.
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  Microsoft strengthens product activation on Mac Office 2011 Microsoft has implemented a product activiation process for Office for the Mac that's far more strict than that used for Windows users.
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  Microsoft launches Office 2011 The long-awaited new version of Microsoft's popular office suite makes its official debut.
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  Office 2011: Who needs a suite? Are software suites still relevant? Does anybody really need all those programs bundled together? Or would we be better off buying just the apps we need, from whatever vendor we like? Joe Kissell has some thoughts.
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  First look: Outlook 2011 Outlook will replace Entourage in the next version of Microsoft's Outlook for Mac. Here's our first look at the new app.
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  Office 2011: Should you upgrade? Microsoft's new Office suite will be on store shelves at the end of October. Should you plan on upgrading? Or can you skip this one? Dan Miller has some advice.
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  Amazon leaks Oct. 26 launch of Mac Office 2011 Microsoft will launch the next version of Office for the Mac in just under six weeks, according to Amazon.com.
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  Microsoft previews more of Office 2011 Microsoft has posted a third behind-the-scenes video of its forthcoming Office for Mac 2011, showing off collaboration features, Web apps, a new scheduling assistant, and a presentation broadcast feature.
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  Microsoft leaks more Office 2011 details As it prepares for the October release of its Mac office suite, Microsoft releases a few more details about new and revamped features including enhanced compatibility with the Windows versions, some nice tweaks to Excel, and some in-app photo-editing tools.
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  Low Office for Mac pricing reflects Google effect Jeff Bertolucci thinks lower prices for the next version of Office for the Mac are the result of increased pressure on Microsoft from Google's Web-based apps.
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  Office 2011 pricing penalizes owners of multiple Macs Microsoft may be charging less for the next version of Office, but Rob Griffiths also points out that the company is changing the way it lets you use the productivity suite across multiple Macs. And he's not impressed with those changes.
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  Microsoft sets pricing, October release for Office 2011 Microsoft says it will offer two versions of the 2011 edition of its productivity suite -- Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 and Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 -- priced at $119 and $199, respectively. The new suite arrives in late October.
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  Microsoft announces Office for Mac 2011 The new version of Microsoft's suite of productivity applications will ship by the end of 2010, including better compatibility with Windows version, improved collaboration tools, Visual Basic, and Outlook.