Video: Microsoft details new Office for Mac 2011 features

Microsoft on Wednesday released a new video detailing a couple of new features that will be available in its Office for Mac 2011.

One of the new features, Sparklines, allows Excel users to get a visual summary of your data. Microsoft says this is a good way to quickly show trends in your data. I imagine this would be especially useful with large amounts of information.

Another new feature is the ability to do basic photo editing. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2011 will now be able to do tasks like background removal color correction and many other tasks within the applications.

Microsoft also said it made some enhancements to PivotTables. This feature summarizes and analyzes your data and now you can add totals, subtotals, or switch to a compact, outline, or tabular layout.

In late July, Microsoft detailed some of the new features that would be available in Outlook, the mail mail client that will replace Entourage in Office for Mac 2011.

Microsoft said earlier this year that Office for Mac 2011 would be available in time for the 2010 holiday season.

http://www.marketingtactics.com Dave Barnes

All that matters with Excel is that it is 100% compatible with the Windows version.
http://www.mauricekessler.com Moeskido

But… but Microsoft also said Macs don’t like to share! I’m so confused….

Jim Dalrymple

LOL
Eric

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http://kpbonline.com Ken Berger

The video made me sacred to upgrade – the last thing I want is Word dumbed down to “print just like the Windows Version”, did they take the good fonts, and font rendering out?

DId they force Office to use some lame windows based non postscript based imaging model?

The photo editing looks cool and the ability to run basic in Excel would have been great a few years ago but all the data sources I work with that “required” VB have long since be updated to work useably without it.

What they are not talking about is are all the apps native 64 bit coca? Is Word much faster, so that it is useable again for simple tasks?