Microsoft Highlights Compatibility, Graphing and Photo Editing in Office for Mac 2011
Microsoft has posted a new video clip highlighting some of the features of its Office for Mac 2011 suite due for release in late October. Among the features touched upon by Microsoft's Senior Evangelist for the Macintosh Business Unit Kurt Schmucker:
- Compatibility: Microsoft has focused on making Office for Mac 2011 more compatible with the Windows version than ever before, ensuring that users and documents can move seamlessly between platforms.
We'll take a document and print it out with Word for Windows and with Word for Macintosh. Take the two sheets of paper, overlay them...hold them up to the light. If we see any difference, we consider that a bug that we have to fix.
-Graphing: Office for Mac 2011 brings a number of new tools to help users display data in graphical formats, including the Sparklines feature that debuted in Office for Windows 2010. Sparklines allows users to display simple data in small graphs that fit right into the cells of Excel spreadsheets to provide a significant amount of information at just a quick glance.- Photo Editing: Available throughout the suite, photo editing tools will allow users to perform a number of tasks such as filter application, background removal, and color correction without having to leave the document on which they are working.
The video is part of a continuing series of behind-the-scenes previews of Office for Mac 2011. The first video posted in late July discussed template galleries, Outlook features such as Conversation View, and the ribbon toolbar.
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19 months ago
What about equations?
I want the newfangled Office 2007 equation editor. The old one that shipped with 2008 has existed since 1997.:mad:
I want the newfangled Office 2007 equation editor. The old one that shipped with 2008 has existed since 1997.:mad:
19 months ago
he looked like he was tied up to a chair while he was giving this presentation. no emotion, no tone, just monotone.
ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........
:apple: FTW
ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........
:apple: FTW
19 months ago
Great to see how hard they're working on Mac OS/Windows Compatibility :)
Interesting that after all of the negative criticism regarding the age of the employees in the previous video, this new one now uses someone who looks more experienced. Coincidence?
Interesting that after all of the negative criticism regarding the age of the employees in the previous video, this new one now uses someone who looks more experienced. Coincidence?
19 months ago
What about Microsoft Office for iPad. That would be a real winner.
I will be waiting for it, too!
19 months ago
Am I supposed to be impressed with the "holding the paper up to the light" comment ? I would hope that would be the case.
19 months ago
What about equations?
I want the newfangled Office 2007 equation editor. The old one that shipped with 2008 has existed since 1997.:mad:
They've added this in the new version. I've seen in (and used it) in the beta version.
Now if they could lower the price that would be great. Compared to iWork, MS Office is way too expensive.
19 months ago
I can't believe that here we are coming to the end of 2010 and in today's world there are still some incompatibilities between a PC version of Word and Mac's version before Office 2011 comes out...
What is soooo hard Microsoft???? It is a file format.
If someone creates a PSD in Photoshop on a PC (for what reason, I have no idea) and sends it to me, I can open it with no issues what so ever, barring any system font issues. If Adobe can do it with things a lot more complex than words in a document, Microsoft should be able to handle it too.
I will say though that file compatibility issues have continued to decrease over the years since Mac Office 98, but still....
What is soooo hard Microsoft???? It is a file format.
If someone creates a PSD in Photoshop on a PC (for what reason, I have no idea) and sends it to me, I can open it with no issues what so ever, barring any system font issues. If Adobe can do it with things a lot more complex than words in a document, Microsoft should be able to handle it too.
I will say though that file compatibility issues have continued to decrease over the years since Mac Office 98, but still....
19 months ago
It's going to stink like all the other versions have. They always say it will be perfect and even better than on Windows. And it never is.
19 months ago
I think the world would be a much better place if the had taken this same approach of comparing an overlay when they set about designing, and redesigning, and redesigning again, Internet Explorer.
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