I'd like to know too. The site looks a bit dodgy and the price too good to be true.
Has anybody tried this?
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I'd like to know too. The site looks a bit dodgy and the price too good to be true.
Has anybody tried this?
www.journeyed.com
Yesterday here in the States I was able to purchase and download Office 2011 for the Mac from www.journeyed.com for $84.98 USD.
A couple of tricks, however:
- This was not the academic version - this was academic pricing on the what I believe to be the Home & Business, as it came with Outlook.
- I now cannot find the product number on the site (grr).
Here's the information from my email receipt:
Microsoft: Microsoft Office Mac 2011 (Download) (Mac)
Product ID # 1466259 Qty: 1 Price: $84.98
Download took a bit, about 45min, but very consistent transfer rate around 350kb. I paid the $2 for automated student verification and that worked very well. I received my confirmation emails with product keys and download URLs within an hour or so of ordering.
Yesterday here in the States I was able to purchase and download Office 2011 for the Mac from www.journeyed.com for $84.98 USD.
A couple of tricks, however:
- This was not the academic version - this was academic pricing on the what I believe to be the Home & Business, as it came with Outlook.
- I now cannot find the product number on the site (grr).
Here's the information from my email receipt:
Microsoft: Microsoft Office Mac 2011 (Download) (Mac)
Product ID # 1466259 Qty: 1 Price: $84.98
Download took a bit, about 45min, but very consistent transfer rate around 350kb. I paid the $2 for automated student verification and that worked very well. I received my confirmation emails with product keys and download URLs within an hour or so of ordering.
I can 100% confirm this is legit! It comes to £39.90 once you add vat and im downloading it now. Its 890mb and you get the activation key and download link immediately after you click pay!
Office 2011 for Mac HUP
This is the lame response I received from Microsoft. Come on, if they don't know when it's supposed to be released on HUP, who does, oh yeah... the HR department? Isn't the HUP program intended to promote the same software you use at work, you use at home?!?!?!?
Thank you for contacting the Microsoft Home Use Program online store.
We understand that you have inquiries, if the Office for Mac 2011 will
be offered through Microsoft Office Home Use Program.
Unfortunately we can't provide you any information regarding Mac 2011 if
when will it be available under Microsoft Office Home Use Program.
Please be advised that the current product that is offered in Microsoft
Office Home Use Program is the Office for Mac 2008.
We suggest that you check your Benefits Administrator for which programs
your company is eligible to purchase. For information on how to contact
your Benefits Administrator, you should contact your Human Resources
Department.
I'm hoping to get it for $9.95.
I see Office 2008 for Mac on the Microsoft's HUP site, does anyone think/know if they will offer Office 2011 for Mac with MS's HUP?
This is the lame response I received from Microsoft. Come on, if they don't know when it's supposed to be released on HUP, who does, oh yeah... the HR department? Isn't the HUP program intended to promote the same software you use at work, you use at home?!?!?!?
Thank you for contacting the Microsoft Home Use Program online store.
We understand that you have inquiries, if the Office for Mac 2011 will
be offered through Microsoft Office Home Use Program.
Unfortunately we can't provide you any information regarding Mac 2011 if
when will it be available under Microsoft Office Home Use Program.
Please be advised that the current product that is offered in Microsoft
Office Home Use Program is the Office for Mac 2008.
We suggest that you check your Benefits Administrator for which programs
your company is eligible to purchase. For information on how to contact
your Benefits Administrator, you should contact your Human Resources
Department.
There are already 2 version made specifically for this purpose.
1. Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Student 2011
2. Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Business 2011
Unless the Academic version has changed within the last couple of days, then you will have received a kosher version. Academic has always included Outlook unlike Home and Student Retail.
The site is legit and has been around for a while. It pops up all the time on HKUD and the like because it makes zero effort to verify your student status and consequently looks a bit shady. Suffice to say, a good proportion of their sales never goes near a classroom.
on sale
looks like it will be going on sale NEXT WEEK for about 20-33% off.
http://www.macworld.com/article/155821/2010/11/office_sale.html?lsrc=rss_main
looks like it will be going on sale NEXT WEEK for about 20-33% off.
http://www.macworld.com/article/155821/2010/11/office_sale.html?lsrc=rss_main
Apple's Store for Education has a glitch. The text says you can buy MS Office 2011 for Mac Home and Business edition pre-installed on a new Mac, but they don't actually offer that option.
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Attachements not visible in Outlook?
I have a problem I can't find an answer to ....
Some email messages in Outlook show up in the list as having attachments, however I can't see them in preview pane or when I open the message. Also, in the menu the ption to save attachments is greyed out.
Someone any clue??
I have a problem I can't find an answer to ....
Some email messages in Outlook show up in the list as having attachments, however I can't see them in preview pane or when I open the message. Also, in the menu the ption to save attachments is greyed out.
Someone any clue??
I have had this with both attachments and links. I found I had to fully open the message. Neither the attachment nor the links would open from the preview pane. However this is inconsistent; sometimes it happens; sometimes it doesn't. Typical Microsoft "featurette". I am also finding that Javascript link buttons rarely work but I think this is due to the Javascript issue in 10.6.5 and nothing to do with MS. If the attachment still will not open from the full message, you may need to rebuild Launch Services. The free utility ONYX will do this for you.
Wilson
I got this reply from the U.K Hup
Thank you for contacting the Microsoft Home Use Program online store.
We understand that you're inquiring about the Office for Mac 2011
through HUP.
Office for Mac 2011 will be available for purchase through the Microsoft
Home Use Program (HUP) on December 9th, 2010.
Also, please be informed that Office for Mac 2008 or Office Enterprise
2007 HUP customers, who have not purchased Office Professional Plus
2010, are able to purchase the new Office for Mac Home and Business
2011.
We appreciate your interest in our products.
Sincerely,
Bessie Mae J.
Microsoft Home Use Program online store
Customer Service
From what I've read it seems like Microsoft is finally treating the Mac like it has a spot in the workplace. Compatibility between the Windows and Mac versions of Office seemed to be their highest priority this time.
I sometimes wonder if iWork isn't just a big Apple ruse that was designed to cause this.
I sometimes wonder if iWork isn't just a big Apple ruse that was designed to cause this.
With Office 2011 for Mac, is it possible to use ONLY Word and Excel, while still using Mail as my email client and Keynote for presentation? Can I either not even load Outlook and Power Point, or load them and hide them?
Yes. I use Excel, Word, PPT -- then use Mail, iCal, Address book. You can easily choose what to use. I suspect you could delete the apps you don't need but I haven't done that. I just don't use the others. The entire folder is about 1.34GB so there is room to delete things.
Well it doesn't seem to be available yet.
Am I interpreting the above correctly in that they are saying if you have purchased Office 2010 for PC you can't purchase Office 2011 for Mac?
HUP: We too heard the 9th of December from individuals at our firm. As the user above mentioned, it's still not available as of today (the 9th) at 9AM. Microsoft is three hours behind me (EST), so I'm hoping we'll see it later in the day.
Downloaded yesterday around 5.30pm EST.
Everything perfect.
I was entitled to do it even if a couple of months ago I already downloaded Office 2008.
Everything perfect.
I was entitled to do it even if a couple of months ago I already downloaded Office 2008.
Don't get too excited, it sucks.
I believed the hype that it was getting on a par with Office for PC functionality.
Outlook has stuff missing including the crucial ability to connect through a proxy server, which means I can't use it. Spent a good chunk of the day looking for solutions but it seems most people are in the same boat unless they are lucky enough for their server to support EWS.
Thank God I only wasted £8.95.
I believed the hype that it was getting on a par with Office for PC functionality.
Outlook has stuff missing including the crucial ability to connect through a proxy server, which means I can't use it. Spent a good chunk of the day looking for solutions but it seems most people are in the same boat unless they are lucky enough for their server to support EWS.
Thank God I only wasted £8.95.
more idiocy in Outlook
I just cannot understand the level of idiocy that seems to have been present in the coders of Outlook and either the beta testers were useless or more likely, MS in their usual arrogance ignored everything they were being told.
Other than the layout, missing re-send button, missing templates, I have now found that the operation of "Signatures" is wrong. I spend 6 months in the UK and 6 months in France each year. I have personal and business signatures for each country and also one without contact phone/fax/mobile numbers, when I wish not disclose these. In Entourage this worked well and there was the additional option of "No signature". In Outlook, if you change the signature with the signature button, it adds rather than replaces the existing signature. Well that's something you would really want. The "no signature" option is missing, so I set up a null signature in the signature menu but of course this does not work, as it only adds a blank line rather than replacing the default signature with null. I have sent feedback but I always have the suspicion that this goes straight into the low level cylindrical filing system.
Wilson
I just cannot understand the level of idiocy that seems to have been present in the coders of Outlook and either the beta testers were useless or more likely, MS in their usual arrogance ignored everything they were being told.
Other than the layout, missing re-send button, missing templates, I have now found that the operation of "Signatures" is wrong. I spend 6 months in the UK and 6 months in France each year. I have personal and business signatures for each country and also one without contact phone/fax/mobile numbers, when I wish not disclose these. In Entourage this worked well and there was the additional option of "No signature". In Outlook, if you change the signature with the signature button, it adds rather than replaces the existing signature. Well that's something you would really want. The "no signature" option is missing, so I set up a null signature in the signature menu but of course this does not work, as it only adds a blank line rather than replacing the default signature with null. I have sent feedback but I always have the suspicion that this goes straight into the low level cylindrical filing system.
Wilson
I tried the 'trial' version of Office 2011 and Outlook is nothing less than a giant disappointment. Are there some positive points? sure, it now uses the Cocoa integrated dictionary, uses the language settings as defined in the system preferences but those good points have been far out weighed by the negatives. All I can say is you're better off getting the version sans Outlook and just adapt to using the mail application included with Mac OS X or maybe using Thunderbird. I'm hoping that maybe the first service pack may address some of the issues but I doubt we're going to see things improving in Outlook over the cycle of the maintenance cycle of the product.
iWork suits me fine
Our small office (3 people, 4 macs) works well since 4 years on iWork. Spreadsheet, Word processing and presentation are all used intensively and when needed shared with clients in pdf format or printed.
We use hosted MS Exchange which works a charm on Snow Leopard.
It is really a matter of what you are used to, and I fully understand people that are too busy to start using new uncomfortable software to get basic office work done - but iWork is not inferior to Ms Office in a sense that matters to most people in most businesses. The integration across Apple applications alone makes for a great workflow.
Our small office (3 people, 4 macs) works well since 4 years on iWork. Spreadsheet, Word processing and presentation are all used intensively and when needed shared with clients in pdf format or printed.
We use hosted MS Exchange which works a charm on Snow Leopard.
It is really a matter of what you are used to, and I fully understand people that are too busy to start using new uncomfortable software to get basic office work done - but iWork is not inferior to Ms Office in a sense that matters to most people in most businesses. The integration across Apple applications alone makes for a great workflow.