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Third Office for Mac 2011 Beta Reveals New Icons, Splash Screens, and More

Office v. X was really a fantastic product. Office 2004 was OK. Office 2008 was a disappointment.

I’m hoping this release will be better. Office for Mac once had the reputation of being even better than the Windows version.
 
Anybody up for Dock Scrabble?

With all these letter icons I'll bet we could start playing scrabble with our docks. Just think of the words you could spell?

Communicator - Outlook - Word ---> COW

PowerPoint - Outlook - Excel --> POX

PowerPoint - Outlook - Word --> POW

Now if only I could think of a way to work in the QuickTime "Q" on a triple-word score dock position........
 
Made the switch to iWork last well. I ain't looking back. The screenshot of Word looks a mess.
 
Icon design fail... ugh. The 2008 versions were much more finished looking, these seem like a bad design school experiment gone wrong.
 
Ugh. I liked the old icons. These remind me of Adobe AIR, and they don't feel Mac-like.
 
EWWWW, what do they have 8 year olds designing these icons? What is this KidPix? Very unprofessional. AND SCREW MICROSOFT FOR NOT GIVING US ONENOTE. Won't be buying.
 
The last beta is a huge improvement speed wise compared to Office for Mac 2008. However, the applications such as Word and Outlook (which replaces Entourage) are marred with too many "ribbons" and icons, making it arduous to find what you may need. Further, Microsoft still has not incorporate a program to fully import Address Book contacts and iCal calendars into their email client. The use of a third party application is still necessary as Outlook only imports basic contact forms such as text, etc., not even vCards! Complete fail on MS!
 
Wonder if they've been able to work out the problem with Entourage sending meeting invites to Google calendar users (more of a Google calendar problem, really but wishful thinking)...
 
Project Center

Does anybody know if Project Center was retained in Outlook from Entourage?
 
Please tell me they fixed:

  • Non-conventional key strokes (come on MS, everybody else uses the same Mac keystrokes, why can't y'all?)
  • Inability to print page ranges in Excel and Word on a Mac (always printed entire document no matter what you told it)
  • Silly way documents in Word handle headers and footers requiring section breaks for pages to turn them off after the first page. Annoying!
 
RebootD said:
Icon design fail... ugh. The 2008 versions were much more finished looking, these seem like a bad design school experiment gone wrong.
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The old icons suck big time, I actually think these look cool. Let me guess your a fan of the old Mac OS X folder icons too. :p
 
It's highly possible that if these exact same icons were for other apps produced by any other company than Microsoft most people here would like them.

Adobe's icons aren't much to write home about, especially for a "creative suite."

I'm much more concerned with how the Office suite functions than what its icons look like.
 
robbieduncan said:
It's a corporate-usage IM system. Allows large companies to have IM between employees keeping logs of all traffic and messages not leaving the corporate network. Integrates with Outlook.
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You're right about that, but it's the most basic functionality and was previous available to Macs through Communicator Web Access. Also, messages can leave the network through federation with other companies' OCS environments and Public IM Connectivity to communicate with Yahoo!, AOL, and MSN IM clients. Also, the newest feature is an XMPP connector to communicate with Google Talk and Jabber clients.

Then there is the ability to make phone calls over the PSTN, video calls to other users, incoming phone calls that propogate to any of your connected clients including cell phones.

What I really want to see is an official iPhone Communicator client.
 
WickedRabbit said:
I think I'm most interested in seeing how Outlook for Mac turns out. As a power email user, Entourage is still lightyears ahead of Mac's horrible and overly simplistic/lacking Mail, but Entourage itself is a distant shadow to Outlook for Windows. I understand that Outlook for Mac won't be a feature-for-feature copy of its Windows counterpart, but hopefully it's better than what it is now.
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Totally agree. Apple Mail is absolutely horrendous, and lacks in hundreds upon hundreds of features that Entourage has always had. For more details, check out this article:

Entourage vs. Apple Mail
 
I'm glad to see that people here are not just bashing Microsoft or Office here. After the beta leaked, and the story was posted on Insider, the forum was nothing, but microsoft bashing.

I am looking forward to trying 2011 for my macs, 2010 on my PCs have been somewhat fine.. so far I just wish that there was more of a marriage between the windows version and the mac versions. Sadly, the windows version is just more fluid and easier to operate, which I suppose makes sense.
 
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