That's all I do, true having my documents stored online (on my Surface Pro 3) is a great feature but all in all, just storing the documents in the OneDrive folder with the OneDrive client running works well.
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That's all I do, true having my documents stored online (on my Surface Pro 3) is a great feature but all in all, just storing the documents in the OneDrive folder with the OneDrive client running works well.
Agree. I want to see a decent Office for Mac, but this OneDrive integration is not on my top priority list (and I don't particularly like the implementation of it in Office 2013, although I think Office 2013 is terrific in other aspects).
I would also like to see a nice Office suite on the Mac, but I guess we will never have feature parity with Windows. More important to me is to have a great Mail client, a better Outlook.
While I don't like the GUI and general design language of Office 2013 on Windows, I would like to have some of its features.
Office is not a deal breaker for me. I love OS X so much that having a great Office suite, on par with the Windows one is not that important. I can still do my job very well.
I'm not expecting it, and while I've been wrong before (too many times to count), I'm fairly confident that the new version of Mac Office will be inferior to its Windows sibling.
Nor me as I have alternatives, i.e., I use a SP3 for some tasks, and my rMBP for other tasks.
I am looking forward to an updated Office for Mac as well.
At the risk of this having been mentioned before: I have the feeling that over the most recent update cycles for OS X Yosemite and Office for Mac 2011 Word, Excel and PowerPoint have become even slower (running on an iMac 21.5", mid-2011, 2,8 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB). While never really fast, recently I get the spinning beachball even when copying and pasting. All other programs are running on my Mac without a hitch. So I reckon the problem is Office related, not hardware related. Anyone else experience this?
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Coltaine
At the risk of this having been mentioned before: I have the feeling that over the most recent update cycles for OS X Yosemite and Office for Mac 2011 Word, Excel and PowerPoint have become even slower (running on an iMac 21.5", mid-2011, 2,8 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB). While never really fast, recently I get the spinning beachball even when copying and pasting. All other programs are running on my Mac without a hitch. So I reckon the problem is Office related, not hardware related. Anyone else experience this?
Kind regards
Coltaine
The only thing that significantly sped up Office 2011 on my 2012 Mac Mini was replacing the old spinning HDD with a SSD. Office flies now compared to beachball city before.
I have a 2013 rMBP with PCIe based flash and Office is still laggy; it's the slowest app on my system. Launching any app on my system for the first time takes about 1-3 seconds depending in thr app. Office takes 5-8. If I'm opening Word for the first time by opening a document from the Finder, I often get the beach all while the UI loads.
I also get the beachball when copying and pasting occasionally. Word and Excel also lags when scrolling through large files and Excel always beachballs the first time I use a formula.
This is on a clean install of Mavericks with a fresh install of Office. MS just needs to do a major performance boost.
This is definitely one of those YMMV sorts of things. I have been using OneDrive to sync my work files on my work MacBook, my home Mini, and my iPad, and have really come to love it. I keep SyncMate running on the notebook syncing my OneDrive folder to a flash drive every 15 minutes or so to capture changes. This gives me all my work stuff on every platform I use, plus a flash drive for emergencies. It's a really great setup, and awfully stable, at least in my experience.
Here's hoping Office is worth the wait!
To be worth almost 5 years of waiting, it must be at least equal to the Windows version. And that is not going to happen.
Help Me Understand...
If I purchase a subscription to Microsoft Office 365 Home for my Mac's, what I'm actually going to get is the ability to download Office 2011. Is it a fair assumption that when Office 2015 for the Mac is released, it will be available as a part of the Office 365 subscription?
My parent's need to replace their version of Office 2008, and I'm debating on the most cost effective way to do that, and update my own macs when the time comes.
If I purchase a subscription to Microsoft Office 365 Home for my Mac's, what I'm actually going to get is the ability to download Office 2011. Is it a fair assumption that when Office 2015 for the Mac is released, it will be available as a part of the Office 365 subscription?
My parent's need to replace their version of Office 2008, and I'm debating on the most cost effective way to do that, and update my own macs when the time comes.
Anyone download and install the Office for Mac 2016 Free Preview???
http://products.office.com/en-US/mac/mac-preview
Looks pretty cool. The basic apps (Word, Powerpoint, etc) are working fine so far. However, Outlook keeps crashing on me every time I open it.
http://products.office.com/en-US/mac/mac-preview
Looks pretty cool. The basic apps (Word, Powerpoint, etc) are working fine so far. However, Outlook keeps crashing on me every time I open it.
Yup. And so far, I'm happy.
No full feature parity compared to the Windows counterpart, but it's a giant leap in the right direction.
It took a while to download. Kept stalling. But locked in for the last GB and it just flew.
It is large.... very large. I heard it is the fonts in each major app duplicated?
Running on a 2014 MBA 8 GB. It is working just fine. I am sure I'll find bugs. But it opens much like mobile versions for selecting documents/new etc.
I had downloaded OL earlier and had One Note already on computer. It did nothing to 15.8 Outlook, it did update ON to 15.8. In other words, it did not dupe those applications. 2011 folder still there.
I like the look a lot. I will say without getting too far into testing that there is definitely much surface, maybe not so much depth changes.
It does go full screen with everything except Outlook which just fills screen but does not remove Dock or Menubar. That remains the same as previously.
Yosemite only.
I can't tell you how bitterly upset I am. I'm so tired of Office 2011's bugs and performance but it looks like that's my suite for a good long time.
I could see Lion only, since that introduced full screen mode and the Retina Display, or even Mavericks only, but Yosemite only?
It's like a big middle finger. Microsoft should know more than anyone that now all users updated to the latest OS.
I can't tell you how bitterly upset I am. I'm so tired of Office 2011's bugs and performance but it looks like that's my suite for a good long time.
I could see Lion only, since that introduced full screen mode and the Retina Display, or even Mavericks only, but Yosemite only?
It's like a big middle finger. Microsoft should know more than anyone that now all users updated to the latest OS.
Has anyone tried Outlook yet? I downloaded the preview and I thought I read that you didnt need a 365 subscription, but when I tried to open the app it said Outlook was offline unless you had one.