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Microsoft Releases Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2
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Have been interested to see the negative comments about versions, while I like Pages a lot, and use it for my personal documents and work documents that I'm unlikely to share, I've yet to get my head round versions. Glad it's not just me. Word is definitely more powerful but I rarely need the more powerful features and think Pages handles graphics better than Word.
Glad word now has full screen but would like to see some Magic Trackpad support like pinch to zoom.
Glad word now has full screen but would like to see some Magic Trackpad support like pinch to zoom.
You are not alone...
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I hate versions because I like to know how and where my files are being stored. Versions removes that somewhat. I don't mind autosave and such, but doggone it, I might want to open a file, redo some things and save it as a different file. Which I do quite often.
Just saying that it is not necessarily because i'm a dumb human who doesn't like to change.
and I really need to change my signature stuff... :0
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This upgrade totally messed up my Outlook Identity. It was was a real effort to get it working again as it kept asking me to rebuild the database and identity without success. I also had to set up the send and receive button through scheduling which was an unnecessary extra pain.
Be wary it was not a smooth upgrade for me....
Be wary it was not a smooth upgrade for me....
Outlook (and other apps) Scripts Folders Relocated
This update relocates Script Menu Items folders from /users/username/Documents/Microsoft User Data to /users/username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office but it does not seem to copy any custom scripts over. You have to manually move those.
This update relocates Script Menu Items folders from /users/username/Documents/Microsoft User Data to /users/username/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office but it does not seem to copy any custom scripts over. You have to manually move those.
Hate to bash microsoft
but, they could do a better job with updates, for one. It seems that I've missed an update. Rather than having me complete the missing update, required for this new update, microsoft update allowed me to waste my time downloading the newest update, even though the prior update installation was required. It's sad that Apple has been able to mask updates until older updates were applied. Seems to be technology way beyond microsoft's ability. Of course, the newest update won't install on my MacBook Pro. Reason it's not very clear about
Not the only half day's work microsoft has done. It's bad enough that the update requires Safari to be quit, but the installer won't run until microsoft update is quit too. Maybe they could program it to do this automatically. Maybe every update diesn't require these apps to be quit ?
Go figure
Cheers !
Not the only half day's work microsoft has done. It's bad enough that the update requires Safari to be quit, but the installer won't run until microsoft update is quit too. Maybe they could program it to do this automatically. Maybe every update diesn't require these apps to be quit ?
Go figure
Cheers !
Before updating, is there any improvement at all in Outlook? I stopped using it due to reliability issues a while back...ANybody tried going back yet?
Safe Boot, then install Office and/or the SP2.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564
and
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455
I saw the update and got excited... "Wow! Fixes for Exchange stuff! YAAAAY". I then installed on the 3 computers i have running it (2 of which are fresh installs and working perfectly) only to have Outlook still crash occasionally for no reason. This is the issue i've always had with Outlook for Mac.
For corporate email, NOTHING beats Exchange. I only wish the Outlook forMmac was as great as the PC version. Then again, i do love typing a long email. hitting send, Outlook crashes and then reopens with only 1/4th of my email saved in drafts. It's a huge productivity boost.
Autosave = (COMMAND+A) , (COMMAND+C) every few mins.
For corporate email, NOTHING beats Exchange. I only wish the Outlook forMmac was as great as the PC version. Then again, i do love typing a long email. hitting send, Outlook crashes and then reopens with only 1/4th of my email saved in drafts. It's a huge productivity boost.
Autosave = (COMMAND+A) , (COMMAND+C) every few mins.
I still use Apple Mail to access my Exchange email. But lately it's become much slower syncing than Outlook - I sometimes have to wait a few minutes to view the content of a message. So I may switch to Outlook for my email as well as my schedule and contacts.
I was disappointed to see that Microsoft still hasn't implemented dual time zone support in Outlook, which has been available in Windows for years. Entering times for flights that span time zones is a pain without this feature. I used to use floating time zones in iCal, but there's no equivalent in Outlook, so I enter flight times in my local time zone.
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Probably because they were used to doing things the same way for years, Versions isn't intuitive, and Apple didn't do a very good job explaining how it works. I wasn't thrilled with it when I installed Lion, either, but I was forced to use it in several Apple apps and I'm beginning to like it more.
I installed the trial version of Mac Office 2011 and really like it. It's slick, stable and makes me want to get down to some serious work. My only stumbling block is the absence of Publisher.
My work place are stubbornly holding on to Windows PCs and their app of choice for seemingly everything they want me to work on is MS Publisher. Will there ever be a Mac version of this powerful but exclusive little gem?
I know there is plenty of Mac-compatible software that does similar things (I currently use "The Printshop" for my own projects) but if I need to do anything for work, I have to do it "at" work.
Adobe InDesign can't do what you're looking for?
I like versions most of the time but I hate it because I have a form that I have to fill out with different information. I can't do a save as to save the new document. It just won't let me I guess the theory is that versions has the old doc saved but then it's a pain to have to copy the doc every time I deed it wast of time. Versions could be cool if they still gave us a save as option. Just saying.
Duplicate does the same thing as Save As plus it gives you more options. Open the form, click Duplicate, and then make your changes. When you click Duplicate it does what "Save As" used to do.
Or if you don't want to do that up front, just edit the original and then at any point you can choose "Duplicate" and it will let you make those edits a new file. You also get to choose if you want to revert the original back to what it was before you started editing it.
In office 2011 i'd like to be able to save in multiple places at once. Like a flash drive and the 500gb hdd that my dads imac has. I am disappointed that this feature has not been implemented yet.
When I edit it on the flash drive and stick it back in the iMac I wish i could just somehow easily update the other file (on the imac hdd). Then i could save the file once on the imac and it would save the changes in both locations.
Just would make things easier. So i don't have to make sure the files are the same.
When I edit it on the flash drive and stick it back in the iMac I wish i could just somehow easily update the other file (on the imac hdd). Then i could save the file once on the imac and it would save the changes in both locations.
Just would make things easier. So i don't have to make sure the files are the same.
I think it has more to do with how the Versions & Duplicate features were implemented.
Personally I wish it had been implemented along side traditional "save" and "save as" rather than a replacement of them.
When I do a save, it should save versions of the document, but we should still have "Save as" and you can hold down the option key to switch "save as" to "Duplicate" (or vise versa, default as Duplicate and hold option to switch to "Save as")