Yes an no. Have a look at this link and see the Outlook features that are supported across different Exchange versions. They all work together of course but not everything is available: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178996.aspx.
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Office for Mac 2011 SP1 Coming Next Week With Outlook Sync Support
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Wake me up when Office for Mac finally has OneNote.
Note: Yes, I've tried all the OneNote alternatives. They all suck. All of them. None even come close. Maybe all of them combined could equal OneNote's functionality, but naturally that's not the case.
I know MobileMe sucks but I just paid for it less than a month ago! 
The only part I care about is the ical and safari bookmark sync between all of my devises.
IDisk is slow and put together like a school project.
The only part I care about is the ical and safari bookmark sync between all of my devises.IDisk is slow and put together like a school project.
I don't know what the griping is about. I use Outlook heavily for calendar and email via exchange. Works flawlessly for me, and is far more lightweight and user friendly than friggin Entourage. Forget that junk.
Apple need to raise the iOS bar and get tasks on the phone to catch up with exchange. Hurry up guys.
Apple need to raise the iOS bar and get tasks on the phone to catch up with exchange. Hurry up guys.
I agree but if it's any consolation the hang up is with apple's way of accessing iDisk (I know, I know, I don't get it either).
If you use an App like transmit the speeds are much much higher.
I hope this will correct the Office 2011 paid beta test!
There are two programs that crash on my Mac on a regular basis. 1-outlook 2-excel and I'm not going to even mention the missing calendar syncing...
For me this release of Office ranks very close to the Vista blunder.
There are two programs that crash on my Mac on a regular basis. 1-outlook 2-excel and I'm not going to even mention the missing calendar syncing...
For me this release of Office ranks very close to the Vista blunder.
Hope they improve performance in Excel
Whilst the overall suite is much better than the 2008 version I have to say the performance of Excel on the Mac is just extremely poor when copying chunks of rows to another sheet it's just painful.
Only talking maybe 10,000 rows and it borks - having used Excel on Windows for many years, including the latest versions capable of handling million row spreadsheets, the performance overall of the Mac version is crap.
Very near to being a great suite but I wonder if they have the inclination to resolve and improve.....
Whilst the overall suite is much better than the 2008 version I have to say the performance of Excel on the Mac is just extremely poor when copying chunks of rows to another sheet it's just painful.
Only talking maybe 10,000 rows and it borks - having used Excel on Windows for many years, including the latest versions capable of handling million row spreadsheets, the performance overall of the Mac version is crap.
Very near to being a great suite but I wonder if they have the inclination to resolve and improve.....
Excellent, I can't wait to be able to sync Outlook with my iPhone again.
I probably shouldn't have upgraded until this feature was available as I've really missed it over the past month. D'oh
I probably shouldn't have upgraded until this feature was available as I've really missed it over the past month. D'oh
I have to wonder about this myself ....
Despite all the marketing hype about Microsoft having an entire "Mac team" that's dedicated to the platform writing all this software? It feels more like they're pressured by the rest of the company to "not make Office for Mac TOO good or functional", lest it hurt sales of Windows. (More profitable for Microsoft if they can get Mac users to buy Office for Mac first, decide it doesn't do everything they need, and proceed to buy a Windows license AND an Office for Windows license to run it virtualized, or even to buy a separate Windows PC for the purpose.)
Back in the PowerPC days, I remember the excuse for poor spreadsheet performance was constantly "a limitation of the CPU itself, because of the way it handles math functions internally". But now we've been on Intel for a while, and we're still not seeing good performance in Excel for OS X.
Despite all the marketing hype about Microsoft having an entire "Mac team" that's dedicated to the platform writing all this software? It feels more like they're pressured by the rest of the company to "not make Office for Mac TOO good or functional", lest it hurt sales of Windows. (More profitable for Microsoft if they can get Mac users to buy Office for Mac first, decide it doesn't do everything they need, and proceed to buy a Windows license AND an Office for Windows license to run it virtualized, or even to buy a separate Windows PC for the purpose.)
Back in the PowerPC days, I remember the excuse for poor spreadsheet performance was constantly "a limitation of the CPU itself, because of the way it handles math functions internally". But now we've been on Intel for a while, and we're still not seeing good performance in Excel for OS X.
when can i/we get rid of microsoft office on/off our macs?
i cannot understand that apple is unable to tweak iWork to replace the microsoft ****
EISH!!!!!!!!!!
Apple can "tweak" iWork all they want, some people still want 100% compatibility for Office documents and the best way to achieve it is through Office for Mac. For good or bad that program is a standard across many corporations. Majority of people use Windows. Ain't no iWork for Windows.
True, but other 'Office' applications are able to save as .rtf docs right from the outset. There is something more sinister here in my opinion - Microsoft perhaps threatening not to release office for Mac if iWork saves text files. I don't use Pages simply because the extra step of exporting to rtf is a pain when you send lots of email attachments etc etc.
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Why can my Apple iPhone 4.3.1 work perfectly with our company Exchange 2003 server - but my Microsoft Outlook 2011 can't?
Microsoft pisses me of sometimes.
I buy Office 2011 for my Mac and it doesn't work with my company exchange server. Microsoft says upgrade the exchange server. My company says buy a PC, Outlook 2010 on the PC works just fine with their Exchange server.
So if MS is supposedly ditching whatever they use for OutlookPC->Exchange2003 connectivity then fine. Why can't MS do what the iPhone and iPad do to talk to Exchange2003?
What can I use on my Mac to hook up to Exchange 2003 so that I don't have to use a PC?
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one of the big things that stopped me from moving over to mac in the past was office, and the ability to play games when i wanted
having only recently made the switch -no regrets
i purchased office for mac, then i purchased iwork and omg i prefer pages for an everyday word processor - office has become too complicated and user unfriendly - i only use itonce in a while for pro docs creation
having only recently made the switch -no regrets
i purchased office for mac, then i purchased iwork and omg i prefer pages for an everyday word processor - office has become too complicated and user unfriendly - i only use itonce in a while for pro docs creation
Office 2011 Piracy Detection is also BROKEN!
If you change a Hard disk in a Mac Pro. Add one, Change one, add one to the pool over ESATA, etc, it's detected as a change in the hardware footprint and requires you to reactivate.
It forced me to stop using office 2011 as I commonly access archive disks...
If you change a Hard disk in a Mac Pro. Add one, Change one, add one to the pool over ESATA, etc, it's detected as a change in the hardware footprint and requires you to reactivate.
It forced me to stop using office 2011 as I commonly access archive disks...
Pshh I'm still on office for Mac 2003, I'm not spending a zillion on this. It's awesome but all I need is a simple word doc.
Good question; they re-wrote Outlook with a Cocoa front end - why can't they do the same to the other components of Microsoft Office? why don't they integrate with Mac OS X better and use the settings I provide in 'System Preferences' instead of detecting the language I want through the keyboard (I have Australian for my keyboard but I want English UK for the dictionary).
iWork is no better, here we are sitting almost 2 years after the initial '09 release and it still doesn't have built in bibliographical functionality (a must for any university student, no I'm not going to use 'third party' applications that require me to copy and paste, if I'm going to do that I might as well manually do my bibliography), then there is the interoperability, the templates demonstrate a complete lack of professionalism when compared to what Microsoft provides etc.
Like any operating system it is choosing the one that sucks the least.
Hope bug is corrected that causes PASTE to crash Word
As quite a few people, I have been victim to rather frequent crashes when using the paste command in Word 2011. Nothing seems to help: (real) full clean re-install, removing duplicate fonts, etc, etc.
The crashes were so frequent that I went back to Word 2008. If this is solved I'd be happy to go back to 2011....
As quite a few people, I have been victim to rather frequent crashes when using the paste command in Word 2011. Nothing seems to help: (real) full clean re-install, removing duplicate fonts, etc, etc.
The crashes were so frequent that I went back to Word 2008. If this is solved I'd be happy to go back to 2011....
stuck with 2008 edition
The 2011 is such a P.I.A. to use. I only use Word, but I disliked the 2011 even more than the 2008 edition.
Thankfully, my job offered us Office for about what's it worth ($25), so I don't feel too badly about throwing the 2011 disk into my cabinet and not into my Mac.
I'm glad folks are using this and that MS are going to offer patches (fixes), but the more I think about my usage, Office is just not for my personal work.
Too much hassle for too little usage. So it's either TextEdit or Pages for me.
The 2011 is such a P.I.A. to use. I only use Word, but I disliked the 2011 even more than the 2008 edition.
Thankfully, my job offered us Office for about what's it worth ($25), so I don't feel too badly about throwing the 2011 disk into my cabinet and not into my Mac.
I'm glad folks are using this and that MS are going to offer patches (fixes), but the more I think about my usage, Office is just not for my personal work.
Too much hassle for too little usage. So it's either TextEdit or Pages for me.
when can i/we get rid of microsoft office on/off our macs?
i cannot understand that apple is unable to tweak iWork to replace the microsoft ****
EISH!!!!!!!!!!
You must be using it wrong. Office 2011 is excellent.