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Office for Mac 2011 - It's Amazing!

Powerpoint compatibility with Windows

How is Powerpoint compatibility with the Windows version?

I am a v.heavy user of Powerpoint 2008 and find that it's *not* compatible with Office 2007 for Windows. Small but niggling bugs, such as backgrounds being out of alignment between versions, e.g. write some text then draw a box behind that text for highlighting or showing code. Do this on 2008 and the 2007 version doesn't align with the underlying text.

This sucks. If not because it puts enormous pressure on me to use [fx: spit, choke] Windows. They even offered to give me a [insert adjective, all of mine would be censored] corporate laptop to do my work to replace my MacBook Pro.

Having said that, last year a load of edits I did ended up with lots of images mysteriously disappearing. I had to re-edit a load of files, costing me time and money. So much for Office compatibility.
 
nadyne said:
Thanks! :D

We worked really hard on this, and we're happy to see the good reviews start to appear.

Regards,
Nadyne.
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I don't want to sound like a prude. But you couldn't have worked too hard seeing as you intentionally excluded Exchange 2003 support - basically the only way I can connect to work email without using my work laptop unless I stay on Entourage. I like Entourage and all - it's functional, but I can never go to anything better as long as Microsoft ignores backwards compatibility.
 
shootermac said:
I am noticing when my PC is connected to exchange I am showing 229 contacts but with Outlook 2011 on the Mac (connected to Exchange 2007) there is a slight discrepancy, I am only showing 225 contacts.

Anyone else see this? Thinking maybe they are hiding a couple in Outlook 2011 or combining something (similar contacts or something).

Thanks!
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I have no such issue.
Work PC: check that your "Contacts" is actually your Contacts & NOT your personal address book (.PAB file). PC> Start> Control Panel> MAIL>AddressBooks (in new window), and goto "view or change existing address books (Office 2003) and see if you have a .pab listing. This will be your descreptancy.

Also you can check if there are category's set for your Contacts , but most likely you MAY have no udpated the Cached Mode on either Mac or the PC.
Best way is to logon to OWA check from A listings and Z listings (or closest to the last letter) and see what is missing in OWA. Then check 2011 and then in PC.

Cheers.
 
revelated said:
I don't want to sound like a prude. But you couldn't have worked too hard seeing as you intentionally excluded Exchange 2003 support - basically the only way I can connect to work email without using my work laptop unless I stay on Entourage. I like Entourage and all - it's functional, but I can never go to anything better as long as Microsoft ignores backwards compatibility.
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Backwards compatibility? :rolleyes: It's been 8 years. Get over it. Intentionally excluded? LOL you make it sound as if they were sitting in their smoke filled rooms wondering how to screw you. If it makes you feel better, the Windows version doesn't include it either.
 
Glenny2lappies said:
How is Powerpoint compatibility with the Windows version?

I am a v.heavy user of Powerpoint 2008 and find that it's *not* compatible with Office 2007 for Windows. Small but niggling bugs, such as backgrounds being out of alignment between versions, e.g. write some text then draw a box behind that text for highlighting or showing code. Do this on 2008 and the 2007 version doesn't align with the underlying text.

This sucks. If not because it puts enormous pressure on me to use [fx: spit, choke] Windows. They even offered to give me a [insert adjective, all of mine would be censored] corporate laptop to do my work to replace my MacBook Pro.

Having said that, last year a load of edits I did ended up with lots of images mysteriously disappearing. I had to re-edit a load of files, costing me time and money. So much for Office compatibility.
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I used to work for a consultant company 2yrs back and their consultants, using tablets, HEAVILY relied on PowerPoint and ability to draw on the tabletPC screens and even then issue with presentations having entries (notes, actual pen drawings, etc) be saved or hidden during presentations, etc.

That said - I don't know if this is possible - are you using entries from OneNote into PowerPoint (on the work PC) and I actually have NEVER used PowerPoint myself so I'm very curious if there is an example you can have a few of us try out … maybe even a moc (yet safe & devoid of your work & work data) we can accept, then with your explicit guidance edit it and save the work then send back to you and/or confirm its rendered on say 2003/2007/2010 PowerPoint??
 
Prom1 said:
I have no such issue.
Work PC: check that your "Contacts" is actually your Contacts & NOT your personal address book (.PAB file). PC> Start> Control Panel> MAIL>AddressBooks (in new window), and goto "view or change existing address books (Office 2003) and see if you have a .pab listing. This will be your descreptancy.

Also you can check if there are category's set for your Contacts , but most likely you MAY have no udpated the Cached Mode on either Mac or the PC.
Best way is to logon to OWA check from A listings and Z listings (or closest to the last letter) and see what is missing in OWA. Then check 2011 and then in PC.

Cheers.
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Thanks for the reply.

So i start with a clean address book on a Win 7 machine running Office 2010. I import the address book into outlook on the PC, moments later the address book appears in Outlook 2011 on the Mac, however missing about 4 entries (to be honest I cant be certain they are actually missing, I haven't had the time to go through 200+ contacts to be certain). I know that in Outlook 2010 the total contacts count is 229, and on Outlook for Mac it shows 225. I have deleted multiple times.

This is all through exchange server on SBS 2008 that I host myself.

Not a huge issue, just curious if others have noticed this.

Thanks again!
 
im using MSN MEssenger 8 final, each time i turn on my computer after have using msn the previous session, in my trash i get recovered files folder with messengercache in it each time. is anybody else getting this issue, is there a way to stop it?
 
KirkL said:
Backwards compatibility? :rolleyes: It's been 8 years. Get over it. Intentionally excluded? LOL you make it sound as if they were sitting in their smoke filled rooms wondering how to screw you. If it makes you feel better, the Windows version doesn't include it either.
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Here's the deal.

Despite how much time has passed, the majority of businesses that are still on Exchange have not moved to 2007. Why? Vista, for one. Same reason businesses were slow to adopt 2007 Office and 2008 Server.

It would not have killed Microsoft to allow 2003 server support. And oh by the way, Outlook 2010 DOES work with Exchange 2003 with no issues, on Windows. The Mac Team just doesn't fully get it.
 
N-Y said:
im using MSN MEssenger 8 final, each time i turn on my computer after have using msn the previous session, in my trash i get recovered files folder with messengercache in it each time. is anybody else getting this issue, is there a way to stop it?
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You may have cached messages enabled; that's just a WILD guess though. I've had MSN from the 2nd beta left installed and thus never used the newer version from beta6 but I don't get the issue you've described on either my OSX 10.6 machines.

@Shootermac,

I can't begin to guess how you're still off by 4 contacts.
guesses:
where any of these contacts sourced originally from a blackberry and imported? (if so then filters like business/personal may be hidden from view)
^ doubtful that's the case though.
Contacts is split up in 2: My Computer vs Exchange - see if those 4 are on "My Computer" which for some odd reason not synching back to the cloud and thus not on the PC. Also come to think of it check your Notes to ensure those are all up to date as well. You may have found a bug.
 
Excel 2011 maximum rows

Could anyone check if Excel 2011 goes beyond the 64K rows limit of the 2008 version?
 
Migra said:
From Mac version to Mac version I guess still no :( , but since version 7 I tried from Mac version to Win version and you can do offline msgs
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Well, but in any case, you still won't receive any offline msgs people left for you - that's even more important for me.
 
I must say office 2011 is pretty nice. Word 11 has a similar template gallery like Pages, with a lot of cool templates.

Best of all, all the programs start up a hell lot quicker than the 08 versions. very nice!

Outlook is cool too. They've integrated quick look, import from Apple Mail is smooth, and much cleaner than entourage. I'd say MS has done well.
 
i cant wait for this to be released so i can move on from Office 2004.

but

can anyone explain why microsoft seems to have had so much trouble over the years simply making the PC and MAC versions consistent with each other. i cant think of another instance where a software company touts "we made it the same as other versions" as a huge bonus, thats normally expected isnt it?

"hey guys, this is our best ever version of office for mac, its not unstable, incompatable with PC users, lacking features for no good reason and bloated"
cool.
 
DARKJ3DI said:
I never thought I would say this again: Good job Microsoft.
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Not so fast...

Microsoft said:
Microsoft, as part of its commitment to Interoperability with the European Commission, includes support for ODF 1.1 in Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft Word 2010, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. With the inclusion of ODF support in Office 2010, Microsoft added a file format selection screen to enable you to select the default file format for these products.
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/w...mat-in-microsoft-office-2010-HA101878944.aspx

So what about Office for Mac 2011 and ODF?
Is there any support?
 
Prom1 said:
You may have cached messages enabled; that's just a WILD guess though. I've had MSN from the 2nd beta left installed and thus never used the newer version from beta6 but I don't get the issue you've described on either my OSX 10.6 machines.

@Shootermac,

I can't begin to guess how you're still off by 4 contacts.
guesses:
where any of these contacts sourced originally from a blackberry and imported? (if so then filters like business/personal may be hidden from view)
^ doubtful that's the case though.
Contacts is split up in 2: My Computer vs Exchange - see if those 4 are on "My Computer" which for some odd reason not synching back to the cloud and thus not on the PC. Also come to think of it check your Notes to ensure those are all up to date as well. You may have found a bug.
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so i used msn messenger 8 last night, this morning i get up, turn on my computer and notice my trash has something in it now, i have Recovered Files fodler in there, i look in that folder i have 2 things there a file called wkresources and a folder called messengercache.

how do i disable cache messages
 
graham1971 said:
It's very disappointing that the Outlook calendar doesn't sync with iCal.
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Hopefully a patch in the future may address that.

Other than that myself, I have to say OFM2011 is certainly the best Office suite available on the mac, and a gigantic leap in performance over previous Office for mac releases.

The ribbon is fantastic, going back to 2008 it's like Night & Day the difference the ribbon makes to flexible productivity.
 
Outlook crash

Outlook will not start. Crashes with a following error
Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0

Error Signature:
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS
Date/Time: 2010-09-29 20:40:50 +1000
Application Name: Microsoft Outlook
Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Outlook
Application Signature: OPIM
Application Version: 14.0.0.100825
Crashed Module Name: OutlookLegacy
Crashed Module Version: 14.0.0.100825
Crashed Module Offset: 0x0028a55d
Blame Module Name: OutlookLegacy
Blame Module Version: 14.0.0.100825
Blame Module Offset: 0x0028a55d
Application LCID: 1033
Extra app info: Reg=en Loc=0x0409
Crashed thread: 0
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Reverted back to Entourage.
Any ideas how to fix it?
 
Prom1 said:
You may have cached messages enabled; that's just a WILD guess though. I've had MSN from the 2nd beta left installed and thus never used the newer version from beta6 but I don't get the issue you've described on either my OSX 10.6 machines.

@Shootermac,

I can't begin to guess how you're still off by 4 contacts.
guesses:
where any of these contacts sourced originally from a blackberry and imported? (if so then filters like business/personal may be hidden from view)
^ doubtful that's the case though.
Contacts is split up in 2: My Computer vs Exchange - see if those 4 are on "My Computer" which for some odd reason not synching back to the cloud and thus not on the PC. Also come to think of it check your Notes to ensure those are all up to date as well. You may have found a bug.
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Thanks again for the reply. Fortunately there have been no Blackberries involved, only iPhone and activesync. I am a bit obsessive with organizing my contacts so I am certain there is nothing amiss (oddly formatted contact, etc). It always seems to be one off, I can test this by deleting one contact and both sides get reduced by one, so it appears to be syncing correctly. I think it just might be a bug. This same account correctly shows the amount of contacts on my iPhone and multiple Windows based Outlook connections, and also did display correctly in Entourage.

Thanks again for your insight.
 
I have had a crash every two days with Outlook. That wasn't happening with Entourage.

Outlook doesn't have the option to redirect or resend emails, which is very annoying.

I'm considering going back to Office 2008.
 
Is font size handling improved? Something that always bugged me about Mac Office was that fonts looked much smaller when viewing a document on a Mac than when viewing on a PC. If you increased the font size or adjusted the zoom level so it looked OK on the Mac then the font was huge when viewed on a PC. Font size handling in Entourage was especially messed up - you'd send an email that looked fine on your Mac and the recipient would get it in a huge looking font when viewed on a PC in Outlook. Any improvements here?
 
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