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Microsoft offers new details, video of Office for Mac 2011
By Jim DalrympleJuly 28, 2010, 10:00 am PT
Microsoft on Wednesday released a few new details about the next release of Office for Mac.
Microsoft confirmed that Outlook for Mac, the new email application that will come as part of Office for Mac 2011, will include a Conversation View. Using this view, users will be able to sort emails in a new way, helping them to find conversations quickly.
Outlook is also Spotlight and Time Machine friendly, which means emails can be found using the system search and then backed up using Apple’s tools.
Office will include the Office for Mac ribbon, which the company said was designed as an evolution of the Office 2008 Elements Gallery. The ribbon can be minimized if you want more screen space or if you’re used to the keyboard shortcuts and don’t need the buttons.
Microsoft also confirmed a new Template Gallery in Office for Mac 2011, allowing users to pick from a variety of templates to get a head start on a project.
Microsoft said earlier this year that Office for Mac 2011 would be available in time for the 2010 holiday season.
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Microsoft offers new details, video of Office for Mac 2011
By Jim DalrympleJuly 28, 2010, 10:00 am PT
Microsoft on Wednesday released a few new details about the next release of Office for Mac.
Microsoft confirmed that Outlook for Mac, the new email application that will come as part of Office for Mac 2011, will include a Conversation View. Using this view, users will be able to sort emails in a new way, helping them to find conversations quickly.
Outlook is also Spotlight and Time Machine friendly, which means emails can be found using the system search and then backed up using Apple’s tools.
Office will include the Office for Mac ribbon, which the company said was designed as an evolution of the Office 2008 Elements Gallery. The ribbon can be minimized if you want more screen space or if you’re used to the keyboard shortcuts and don’t need the buttons.
Microsoft also confirmed a new Template Gallery in Office for Mac 2011, allowing users to pick from a variety of templates to get a head start on a project.
Microsoft said earlier this year that Office for Mac 2011 would be available in time for the 2010 holiday season.
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That ribbon’s still hilarious. But it’s a bit more like a huge, cluttered toolshed wall. It’s not a feature, it’s a self-inflicted wound. Both the Office team and Adobe’s Acrobat team appear to suffer from the same car-salesman compulsion to display everything at once.
I’m really on the fence for buying Office 2011.
It’s been forever since I last opened Excel, Powerpoint only comes out when I need to do a presentation and Word is a big clusterfuck of stuff I only every once in a while.
For the quick letter Papers is more than capable enough.
And I’m thinking of buying a licence for Scrivener for upcoming university papers, because it integrates with bibliography software nicely and I have the option to turn to LaTex for the layout, even if I still have to learn LaTex.
Meh, Office has run its course…I only use it so I can interact with others at work, and more and more recently I have just been using my crummy work PC.
If they have a good deal on “Black Friday” then I’ll pick it up for cheap, but otherwise, I’m going to skip this version.
More and more, for my own writing, I’ve been using a plain text editor, or Bean, which I really love. Excel and PowerPoint? Pretty much useless…
Agreed. If it’s cheap enough, I’ll get the next version after this one, unless a client absolutely requires that I support features specific to the current product.
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948