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Office for Mac 2011 - It's Amazing!

Question on Home & Business version

I purchased the 2011 Home & Business version for 2 Macs. In reading the box it looks like technically it's for "1" user. I have two Macs--one that my wife uses primarily. Is there any reason I can't use this version of 2011 on the second Mac?
 
im using build 100825 but at the apple store they have build 101008

i tried to do a software upgrade... but nothing....
 
when i open this ms word file that i receive from a friend using windows office 07, i keep getting this error "word cannot start spell check. the spelling checker files may be missing. make sure the spelling checker files are installed or use the microsoft office installer to install the spelling checker". does anyone know how to solve this? i tried re-installing the language proof but doesnt work.

seems like i cannot open any words thats was saved from previous version of office 2008 or from other people computer or a document with a different english language (english US, AUS) as my default (english UK)

anyone with a solution?
 
Office 2011 for Mac... It's Amazing... Amazingly buggy...
I mean, this thing is like an ant hill it's so full of bugs!
Excel performance is abysmal!!! Chart redraws are excruciatingly slow and I'm on a i7 with 8GBs of RAM and discrete graphics.

My Outlook problem , in wich all mails are converted to simple text renders the software unusable to me (same machine mail.app doesn't exhibit this problem).

Sorry for almost hijacking this thread but IMO Microsoft did a terrible job and and a disservice to mac users everywhere.

Ok, rant over...
 
baseline01 said:
Office 2011 for Mac... It's Amazing... Amazingly buggy...
I mean, this thing is like an ant hill it's so full of bugs!
Excel performance is abysmal!!! Chart redraws are excruciatingly slow and I'm on a i7 with 8GBs of RAM and discrete graphics.

My Outlook problem , in wich all mails are converted to simple text renders the software unusable to me (same machine mail.app doesn't exhibit this problem).

Sorry for almost hijacking this thread but IMO Microsoft did a terrible job and and a disservice to mac users everywhere.

Ok, rant over...
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I agree. I am so frustrated with Outlook right now. I can't do anything without getting the spinning wheel. Every time I try to click a different folder or open a new email it is extremely slow to the point of being unusable. I had zero issues with Entourage in this regard.
 
nadyne said:
Outlook checks spelling automatically. If you've got a spelling error, it's shown by a red dotted line underneath the misspelled word.



Top-posting has superseded inline replies, so many people complain when we put the signature at the bottom. Damned if you do ... 🙂



When you update your meeting, if the change is just changing participants, you'll get a dialog asking you if you want to send the update to everyone or just to the added/deleted participants.



This is something we're looking at addressing in a future release. I totally feel your pain -- there are hundreds of meeting rooms here, and I'm frequently looking at a bunch of them to see if one is available at the time when I want to hold a meeting.


Thanks for the thoughtful feedback! It's great to see people putting Outlook through its paces. 🙂

Regards,
Nadyne.
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Outlook checks spelling but doesn't correct anything useful unless it has been added to the list in the preference file. This is just dumb to me. For the extra cost of the program compared to Entourage it should be auto correct from the dictionary just as Entourage did. Wish I could get my money back.
 
Excel performance is ABYSMAL.

*Click* ..................... *Wait Some more*.................*does what I asked it to do*.

Why can't you test these things properly MS, FFS.
 
I still use 2003 at work, when I come home to use 2010 (windows) I can't stand it! It looks ugly and takes me twice as long to find things - change isn't always good!
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Hermes, I was using Outlook 2003 also until switching to a MacBook in August. What I'm really missing is the capitalizing of the first word in sentences that Word edit would do in emails. Is that feature in this version?

Thanks,
Anna
 
You guys notice that between Office 2007 for Windows and Office 2011 for Mac the default fonts are exact polar opposites?

I understand that a serif font (Cambria) is traditionally been the choice for body and a san-serif font (Calibri) is for headings but that flip flop in Windows drives me nuts!

Maybe Office 2010 for Windows changed it back to the way it should be from Office 2007. I never tried it so any comments regarding that would be welcome.

That being said, it's easy enough to change the default template if I wanted to have the Office 2007 defaults. But I can't seem to get rid of the (Heading) and (Body) names besides the Calibri and Cambria entries in the font format drop down.

Like I said. This drives me nuts! Especially when Excel and PowerPoint 2011 uses Calibri as the default body font.

Otherwise, I'm super happy with Office 2011 for Mac.

I'd be perfectly happy with a san-serif default body font, if the other Office apps all follow suit. Great consistency MS!
 
I've just installed Office 2011, and so far I'm impressed.

Right now I've just got Outlook using two of my accounts, my MobileMe and my domain. Not using an Exchange server.


Two questions though:

I'd like to maintain the MobileMe address book syncing. What I'd like is for Outlook to read/write from/to the Address Book on the Mac, and the Mac to continue using MobileMe to sync that Address Book with 'the cloud'.
Thus when a new contact is made on my iPhone it's instantly in Outlook, and vice versa.
Is there a way currently to do this? As I've only had it a few hours I haven't exactly discovered where everything is yet!

MobileMe Calendar. Outlook seems to be using it's own calendar, not the MobileMe Calendar. How do I tell it to read/write from/to the MobileMe calendar, as that'll then be synced through 'the cloud' to iPhone/iPad/other Macs?
 
Westyfield2 said:
MobileMe Calendar. Outlook seems to be using it's own calendar, not the MobileMe Calendar. How do I tell it to read/write from/to the MobileMe calendar, as that'll then be synced through 'the cloud' to iPhone/iPad/other Macs?
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You can't do that. That feature is gone.
 
I've been using Office 2011 now for about a week instead of iWork. I'm a student and mainly use Pages, but I've been typing up assignments in Word this past week. Here are some thoughts on Word. (I don't really use Excel or PowerPoint).


  • Word lets you change the line spacing of text in tables, which is something that Pages wouldn't let you do. (This is a big thing for me, because my faculty has strict formatting guidelines).

  • It loads in about the same time as Pages did, however the word document gallery seems to bog down a little bit (cold start).

  • It looks more professional and feature packed than Pages. Pages looks very stark and bare (some would say that's good), but you don't have to dig through the menus as much in Word because it's in the Ribbon.

  • When you go into Full Screen View in Word, you can change the backgrounds, which is a nice feature. However, it doesn't show you the word count in this mode, which Pages does.

  • AUTOSAVE!!! This is a feature that iWork really should have, you shouldn't have to press Command + S every 10 min.

  • The application icons for Office are kinda boring. They have a nice 3D effect, but look kinda boring compared to the iWork icons.

  • No smooth scrolling in Word. Not a biggie, but it makes the application feel clunky when you move up and down a document.

Does anyone know how to change the font used when Word opens up?

Other than that, I'm quite pleased with Office 2011, but look forward to see what the next version of iWork will bring.
 
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clearyjp said:
I've been using Office 2011 now for about a week instead of iWork. I'm a student and mainly use Pages, but I've been typing up assignments in Word this past week. Here are some thoughts on Word. (I don't really use Excel or PowerPoint).


  • Word lets you change the line spacing of text in tables, which is something that Pages wouldn't let you do. (This is a big thing for me, because my faculty has strict formatting guidelines).

  • It loads in about the same time as Pages did, however the word document gallery seems to bog down a little bit (cold start).

  • It looks more professional and feature packed than Pages. Pages looks very stark and bare (some would say that's good), but you don't have to dig through the menus as much in Word because it's in the Ribbon.

  • When you go into Full Screen View in Word, you can change the backgrounds, which is a nice feature. However, it doesn't show you the word count in this mode, which Pages does.

  • AUTOSAVE!!! This is a feature that iWork really should have, you shouldn't have to press Command + S every 10 min.

  • The application icons for Office are kinda boring. They have a nice 3D effect, but look kinda boring compared to the iWork icons.

  • No smooth scrolling in Word. Not a biggie, but it makes the application feel clunky when you move up and down a document.

Does anyone know how to change the font used when Word opens up?

Other than that, I'm quite pleased with Office 2011, but look forward to see what the next version of iWork will bring.
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Haven't you heard on the last keynote? 🙄

I got Office:Mac 2011 and so far I'm pissed off because I haven't found a way to purchase a single license but the family pack.

I'm going to try Word these days. Anyway look like an hybrid Office/iWork.
 
is there an option in outlook to generate read receipts? if not then is there an option for this on Mail on Mac? because i might switch to Mail if there's an option fo this..
 
1) I don't use Excel, so cannot speak to it.
2) Keynote remains vastly superior to PowerPoint, so I make presentations in the former, and export to the latter so others can grab the slides if they so wish
3) Word 2011 is the Mac word processor I have wanted for a long time. It's fantastic.
4) I tried Outlook 2011 using an Exchange account (with 22,000-ish emails in the inbox, and various other folders.) Constant beachballs, laggy, slow, and the contact manager is awful. Ditched.

So, my current tools are: Word 2011; Keynote; Mail 4.3.
 
I was using Word today and my CPU was going crazy when I was making something like this: (see pic).

And I had some lag as well.

PS: Now I got used to Pages and Keynote, Office doesn't feel intuitive to me, and I hate the million ribbons.
 

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Back to 2004 for me

I'll accept the odd excel crash to have smooth scrolling, an interface that suits me and all the speed I had before (and then some).

Shameful hype and marketing, misleading reviews and a massive waste of money.
 
I am the only one having problems with shortcuts in word.
One time shortcuts functions well, the other not.
When there is problem, they do not even appear inside the menus.
I reinstall the package, I repaired permissions, nothing gone better, the problem is still here.
 
strang said:
You guys notice that between Office 2007 for Windows and Office 2011 for Mac the default fonts are exact polar opposites?

I understand that a serif font (Cambria) is traditionally been the choice for body and a san-serif font (Calibri) is for headings but that flip flop in Windows drives me nuts!

Maybe Office 2010 for Windows changed it back to the way it should be from Office 2007. I never tried it so any comments regarding that would be welcome.

That being said, it's easy enough to change the default template if I wanted to have the Office 2007 defaults. But I can't seem to get rid of the (Heading) and (Body) names besides the Calibri and Cambria entries in the font format drop down.

Like I said. This drives me nuts! Especially when Excel and PowerPoint 2011 uses Calibri as the default body font.

Otherwise, I'm super happy with Office 2011 for Mac.

I'd be perfectly happy with a san-serif default body font, if the other Office apps all follow suit. Great consistency MS!
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Just change your normal file... Takes a couple of minutes.
 
insertion point disappears! Fix?

FRiC said:
I don't know if it's just me, but the cursor (insertion point) in Word still disappears while typing, making it completely impossible to judge when to stop if I were typing or deleting a lot of spaces, and quite difficult if I'm moving around with the cursor keys.
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Did this issue get resolved? If so please let me know how! I'm having the same problem and its incredibly frustrating.

Thanks!

-Aira
 
jms969 said:
Just change your normal file... Takes a couple of minutes.
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Normal.dot is the standard template. I would NOT change this - I'm unsure Word 2011 will rebuild if deleted - but changing this even in the windows world causes issue down the road. Rename the Normal.dot to Normal.dot.OLD for safe keeping and create a new one saving your preferences.
 
Go here and download the document
http://word.mvps.org/mac/bend/bendwordtoyourwill.html

It's fabulous and although not written for Mac Office 2010, will really, really help you get to grips with Word and how to best set up templates - and why it's best NOT to change the Normal template but create and a brand new one of your design.

I like Gill Sans - looks good on LCD and printed out.


Oh - here's a link to my old rant about Word 2008 - includes some stuff about setting up keyboard shortcut so any time you open a document it'll open up at your desired window size and position and at your desired zoom level....

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/826047/
 
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