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Office 2021 for Mac Available October 5 With New Collaborative Features
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On further examination, mainly by checking both Mac Outlook and (in Parallels Desktop) Windows Outlook — I was going to do a brief one-month subscription to MS 365 anyway for other reasons, so I went ahead and did it today — it appears I was right after all and this is still different between Mac and Windows versions. In the Windows version, you can click on a little drop-down arrow next to a conversation/thread and see all the emails, including yours, listed. In the Mac version, clicking the arrow shows all emails except yours; to see yours, also, you have to click on a "talk bubble" icon inside one of the emails in the conversation/thread. Whether this is true in the Office 2021 version as opposed to the Microsoft/Office 365 version, of course, I don't know.
Is this a major issue? No. But I find the extra step and inconsistency annoying, and don't understand why this one feature can't be as convenient in the Mac version as in the Windows version.
Apparently that’s all Mac users care about in MS Office. If I was a Microsoft product manager, I would point to all the Mac user posts about color themes, icon designs and other eye candy. Since those Mac users hardly post anything about matching the functionality of Office for Windows, I would say Mac users don’t care about that.
Terrible use of space in the UI. It would be hard to make the top part of the interface, together with ribbon thicker than in this new 2021 MS Office.
The only thing worse that I have seen this year is MindManager for Mac v13.
What a joke🤦♂️
The only thing worse that I have seen this year is MindManager for Mac v13.
What a joke🤦♂️
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I know right. You can get office for a single price without paying a subscription though, $149.99.
Yeah, Google did a much much better job in terms of online collaboration.
Well I’m a Mac user and need the functionality
I'm surprised of the bashing, especially regarding Excel. It is an excellent program and useful to me every single day. Perhaps people are using it for tasks it wasn't meant for?
My excel 2011 is what keeps me on Mac Os 10.14.
My excel 2011 is what keeps me on Mac Os 10.14.
I hate to break it to you, but Outlook is being ported to Electron, effectively becoming a web app. I am guessing it will end up resembling Microsoft Teams, which I really hate using.
Well thank God for Numbers, pages and keynote! Should be a matter of time before most people shift
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Sure *this* problem is annoying. I hate it but live with it. The one that's mindbogglingly critical is autocomplete of your email recipients.
Of the three, only keynote is better than the microsoft equivalent. And if people haven't switched by now, after all these years, I'm curious what "a matter of time" means.
You need to be using the new Outlook for Mac, and there's a setting in Outlook Preferences, under General. I think it should be enabled by default though. (Also make sure you don't have 'Reduce transparency' enabled in macOS's Accessibility settings, under Display.)
You don’t understand why a software company that has employees that need to be paid charges money for software?
This is a program that was specifically made not by programmers, but by a huge number of users, thanks to the constant use of it over the years. This is the same for Photoshop or Illustrator. They can take money for cloud or hardware, as Apple does.
What? It was made by programmers. There’s an entire Office division. Microsoft makes a huge investment every year to keep office going. What a strange thing to suggest they should just give it away.
Programmers have already done their job here a long time ago and received money for it.
Yes, the investment concerns Microsoft 365. The office has unfortunately become a simple bait to lure people into the microsoft environment.
Believe it or not, each year many programmers continue to work to bring us the newest versions of office. It’s not like Microsoft wrote word in 1988 and stopped working on it.