Microsoft Highlights Compatibility, Graphing and Photo Editing in Office for Mac 2011

I just simply want to be able to open the majority of the documents I receive which have VBA macro's in them. This has been killing me and keeping me running vmware for way too long. Anyone know if they're going to support that on the Mac side in this release?
 
MacRumors said:
...- Photo Editing: Available throughout the suite, photo editing tools will allow users to perform a number of tasks such as filter application, background removal, and color correction without having to leave the document on which they are working.
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Just what the already-bloated word processor needed -- built-in photoshopping!

:p :p
 
NXTMIKE said:
he looked like he was tied up to a chair while he was giving this presentation. no emotion, no tone, just monotone.

ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........

:apple: FTW
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How else do you get somebody to praise the merits of MS Office for Mac? That's right, tied up to a chair and some thugs holding guns to your family's heads off camera.
 
No Thanks!

I bought Mac for Office and iWork... I use both.

I do know more Office (after all this year) but I notice I can do the same work without "knowing" iWork.

Since there's no upgrade path to the new Office, I will just stick with iWork (it's faster and less buggy anyway).

Bye Bye Microsoft, it was the last piece of software I had from you.

Spid
 
perpetuity said:
Bad mustache, bad hair ... not a trusting presentation.
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That definitely justifies that I am not going to buy Office:mac 2011. :D

No way. Some extreme Apple fanboys are starting to regard every Microsoft product as *****. But this is not. This is one solid release and I feel that I am going to work with those PC people in my office much easier than before.

(The only exceptional case is that the Microsoft Messenger for Mac is still completely crap and it seems Microsoft does not have any intentions to fix the problems)
 
lewis82 said:
What about equations?

I want the newfangled Office 2007 equation editor. The old one that shipped with 2008 has existed since 1997.:mad:
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If you are creating documents with equations you should look at a proper document preparation system such as LaTeX (the TeXShop mac application does a good job). The typesetting is beautiful and it handles equations much better than any WYSIWYG could ever hope.

Flat files only please for important research documents, manuscripts and anything you might want to use again.

Also you can create scripts to output LaTeX reports ready to be complied, handy if someone asks for a slight change in the 100+ figures in the 400 page report.

Anything over 10 pages should never be created in word.
 
Hey Microsoft. Can you please fix the bug that make the Mac about a thousand times slower in showing the page thumbnails in PowerPoint, and opening documents?

On my 2 GHz MacBook Pro it's faster to open VMWare Fusion, boot Windows, find the document on my Mac's desktop and open it in Office 2007 for Windows, than just open it from the desktop into Office 2008.

My old 800 MHz Pentium 3 laptop with XP showing 40 thumbnails in PowerPoint 2003 is almost instantaneous but it takes about 20 seconds on my 2 GHz MacBook Pro in Office 2008.

You can actually see such lag in the video! 20 seconds in, it takes almost three seconds for PowerPoint to render just _four_ thumbnails.

Hey Microsoft! Do you consider THAT a bug?
 
uber_nerd said:
If you are creating documents with equations you should look at a proper document preparation system such as LaTeX (the TeXShop mac application does a good job). The typesetting is beautiful and it handles equations much better than any WYSIWYG could ever hope.

Flat files only please for important research documents, manuscripts and anything you might want to use again.

Also you can create scripts to output LaTeX reports ready to be complied, handy if someone asks for a slight change in the 100+ figures in the 400 page report.

Anything over 10 pages should never be created in word.
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Sounds great. I'll call my IT department and tell them that all 10,000 people at the company I work for should be using LaTex instead of Word. Let's see how that goes over. For what it's worth (perhaps not much) I think the equation editor in Word is sufficient for my use.
 
rlmccormick said:
Sounds great. I'll call my IT department and tell them that all 10,000 people at the company I work for should be using LaTex instead of Word. Let's see how that goes over. For what it's worth (perhaps not much) I think the equation editor in Word is sufficient for my use.
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Exactly, people don't seem to realize that in the corporate world there's Microsoft, than there's Microsoft. Luckily Office for the Mac lets some of us do our job without having to switch to a PC. I do have to use VMWare to read some of the crap that gets sent around (VBA macros) but for the most part, Office for the Mac gets the job done, and for that I'm happy. So bring on the improvements.
 
The sparklines are cool. I'm also hoping for a better equation editor.

Some parts of the video really remind me of iWork. The image filters and background removal were already available in iWork, and the document he shows at the end (climbing poster) looks just like one of Apple's templates for Pages :D
 
Henriok said:
You can actually see such lag in the video! 20 seconds in, it takes almost three seconds for PowerPoint to render just _four_ thumbnails.

Hey Microsoft! Do you consider THAT a bug?
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Wow, I thought I were the only one that noticed it. It's clearly inexcusable and a testament of how "fast" the new Office suite is.

Somehow Office 2004 is looking better and better with each iteration passing by. I hope I'm really wrong and they can sort the performance issues by the launch date.
 
It is funny that people are so negative about this great new software just because it comes from Microsoft. If this new Office Suite was branded iWork 2011 by Apple everyone here would say how great it is going to be. I like Apple just as much as the rest, but other companies are capable of making good products. With some Apple lovers it is always just about the brand and I get tired of that.

In my opinion Office is a much more complete and powerful package then iWork. It also has the best compatibility when you are working between Macs and Windows PC's. I know when I make or edit a document at home it is going to look right when I open it on my Windows PC at work.

Face it the main reason people say that iWork is a better office suite on these message boards is because it is made by Apple and not Microsoft. Microsoft has made some crap products over the years including things like Windows ME and Windows Vista, however for the most part their Office suites have been top notch.

I will give any company credit where credit is due and even though many of you will not be installing Office Mac 2011 when it is available I will be because I know it will be the best when it comes to producing documents, spreadsheets and presentations that work no matter the platform.
 
Good job Microsoft... We don't hate you as a company just the windows part of your corporation.


I will admit Office is probably the best thing from Microsoft. The photo editing sounds awesome for people that don't want to pay hundreds to thousands of dollars to edit photos.
 
IIRC, getting Office mac 2008 to function correctly and not crash took at least a few months. Now that things are finally working (not in an exciting manner, just working), there's absolutely no way I'm buying another version until it's at least a year old. Just my 2 cents.
 
Beta is fast

I've played with the Beta and it is fast. Office 2008 does suck, but I honestly was shocked at how much better 2011 was - especial for an MS product on Mac.
 
Question: how does that assertion about "full compatibility" and "if it's not the same, it's a bug" fit into MS's newest anti-Mac campaign? ;)
 
DakotaGuy said:
It is funny that people are so negative about this great new software just because it comes from Microsoft. If this new Office Suite was branded iWork 2011 by Apple everyone here would say how great it is going to be.
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Actually, I have a lot of criticisms about iWork. For one, I've always found the apps to be dog slow. They were slow on my PowerBook G4, they're still slow on my MacBook Pro. Less slow, sure, but I've always felt that Pages, especially, was a pig on my machine. It looks visually rich, but it's frustrating to work with on any document longer than 3 pages.

I also happen to really, really hate the standard OS X font selection dialog.
 
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