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First Screenshots of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Surface
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The truth of the matter is that WordPerfect is the word processor that flat out does things that none of the others do, including Word. Unfortunately it is not the "standard" format, and it has no OSX version (other than via Fusion/Parallels).
I agree, is it so hard in this day and age? I think Microsoft and Apple need to call off their cold war once and for all. I don't get how they can have games like World of Warcraft be compatible with both systems, yet they can't make a word processing program do the same? Something's strange there (cold war).
I'm very excited for this. I love Pages, but with going back and forth from home, work and school, I have to keep exporting to .doc or .pdf every time I want to continue working on it at school or work or printing it since I do not have a printer quite yet. It's a pain. If Apple would let you change the default save options, I would like Pages more.
I am excited about the new version coming just not so much with the ribbon setup. I know this is Microsofts "thing" and it works for them but I don't see much use in wasting more screen space when the menu bar would basically do the same thing.
yay, ribbon.
where we group a vaguely random bunch of stuff together a click down... for no real reason. sweet!
where we group a vaguely random bunch of stuff together a click down... for no real reason. sweet!
well, I can speak only for Keynote, but for me productivity means achieve a better result in 10% of the time.
Hmm. When I click on save in Pages, it lets me save as a Word document. (you can also use the export way as you do).
I'm with some of the people here that would just like to see conformity, uniformity, consistency, etc between what Office looks and works like for the PC and what it looks and works like on the Mac.
Some complain about iWork not being compatible. Come on. Word isn't even compatible with old Mac versions or PC versions of itself.
2008 is just about the worst version ever. I will be hard pressed to update to this next version unless it is extremely compelling.
I have really had good luck with Pages and never use Powerpoint anymore. I am becoming familiar with Numbers but I am not really that big of a spreadsheet user.
We publish pdf's only and try not to do too much weird formatting with Word or Pages so that works pretty seemlessly. And believe it or not, nobody I know, including our administrative assistants seems to understand formatting in Word anyway. If anything gets wonky, they ask me to fix it in Pages and send it back to them...
However, when I do have to use Office, it would be nice if it was consistent across the board. The ugliness will never go away so deal with that...
Some complain about iWork not being compatible. Come on. Word isn't even compatible with old Mac versions or PC versions of itself.
2008 is just about the worst version ever. I will be hard pressed to update to this next version unless it is extremely compelling.
I have really had good luck with Pages and never use Powerpoint anymore. I am becoming familiar with Numbers but I am not really that big of a spreadsheet user.
We publish pdf's only and try not to do too much weird formatting with Word or Pages so that works pretty seemlessly. And believe it or not, nobody I know, including our administrative assistants seems to understand formatting in Word anyway. If anything gets wonky, they ask me to fix it in Pages and send it back to them...
However, when I do have to use Office, it would be nice if it was consistent across the board. The ugliness will never go away so deal with that...
MS Office is the default everywhere. Even if I were to use Pages etc I would need to work closely with others (e.g. exchange documents, tracking changes in Word) who use Office at my work. I look forward to their new version and hope they clean up the interface when doing so. The latest (I have seen on PCs) is far more confusing than the 2004 & 2008 versions I use now.
I'm happy Microsoft has a mac unit. For the most part, the products have been good, and I'd like to see them continue to develop for OS X.
I'm happy Microsoft has a mac unit. For the most part, the products have been good, and I'd like to see them continue to develop for OS X.
This is the "Faster Horse & Buggy" Henry Ford was referring to...
Exactly, what a messed up interface. Again Microsoft?
BACK to the DRAWING MICRO$OFT
Who cares how is looks, I bet it wont even support copying excel sheets like in entourage!!! Instead of reconfiguring the UI flow and icons, please allow basic copy and paste functionality. If the Business Unit over at Microsoft could do this, maybe it would, let's say drive up numbers so that I can recommend Mac office to my friends and family. I currently had to give up on Entourage client because you cant copy and paste EXCEL tables?!?!? Come on get it right..... How about some PM get some balls or ovaries to put this feature in Mac 2011. As long as it not supported, Thunderbird client for me.
Who cares how is looks, I bet it wont even support copying excel sheets like in entourage!!! Instead of reconfiguring the UI flow and icons, please allow basic copy and paste functionality
. If the Business Unit over at Microsoft could do this, maybe it would, let's say drive up numbers so that I can recommend Mac office to my friends and family. I currently had to give up on Entourage client because you cant copy and paste EXCEL tables?!?!? Come on get it right..... How about some PM get some balls or ovaries to put this feature in Mac 2011. As long as it not supported, Thunderbird client for me.
Although I don't have any plan to switch from iwork to MS office, I still think 2010 looks a lot better than 2008. Hope the compatibility with OSX can get better at the same time.
I think it looks great. It is a great thing that they finally unify the UI's and hopefully they will get rid of that f****** toolbox-hover-window as well.
For a regular desktop screen, the size of the ribbon is not really an issue (27" anyone?). You are still left with more room than you need and the ribbon simplifies work flows a lot. I thought it was stupid in the beginning, but having tried it, I think it is a great invention.
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For a regular desktop screen, the size of the ribbon is not really an issue (27" anyone?). You are still left with more room than you need and the ribbon simplifies work flows a lot. I thought it was stupid in the beginning, but having tried it, I think it is a great invention.
T.
Not me. The floating toolbars and toolboxes drive me insane. I think this is going to be a great hybrid.
I like Pages, but the reality is that most of the world uses Word, including a lot of my clients. Working in Pages is simply not an option if I want consistent results.
I hate the ribbon it's the worst UI ever invented! You depending on where you click everything changes! Forget developing motor skills, this breaks Apple's interface guidelines. Not to mention those hideous cartooney icons, if Office is supposed to be for "proffesionals" they need to overhaul them to something clean and slick maybe a gray tone/slate/dark theme. Also, why in word does EVERY function need an icon? Is it really necessary to have an icon to open, save, copy/cut/paste etc....?
Apple should buy Corel, clean it's UI and knock out the competition in the Office space offerring crossplatform with quick native speed.
Apple should buy Corel, clean it's UI and knock out the competition in the Office space offerring crossplatform with quick native speed.
Aqua = *YAWN*
I'll never understand why the Aqua HI standards waste so much screen real-estate in the toolbars. There is so much dead space between the icons and they look so blah.
I'll never understand why the Aqua HI standards waste so much screen real-estate in the toolbars. There is so much dead space between the icons and they look so blah.