Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 applications shown on Mac OS X Snow Leopard | |
Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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Initial release | October 26, 2010; 10 years ago |
Stable release | |
Operating system | Mac OS X 10.5.8 to macOS 10.14.6 |
Type | Office suite |
License | |
Website | www.microsoft.com/mac/ |
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is a version of the Microsoft Officeproductivity suite for Mac OS X. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and is comparable to Office 2010 for Windows. Office 2011 was followed by Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac released on September 22, 2015, requiring a Mac with an x64 Intel processor and OS X Yosemite or later. Office for Mac 2011 is no longer supported as of October 10, 2017.[4]
AppleCare+ for Mac Every Mac comes with a one-year limited warranty and up to 90 days of complimentary technical support.AppleCare+ for Mac extends your coverage to three years from your AppleCare+ purchase date and adds up to two incidents of accidental damage protection every 12 months, each subject to a service fee of $99 for screen damage or external enclosure damage, or $299. If you have a one-time purchase of Office for Mac 2011, you’ll need a product key to activate. Find your product key for Office for Mac 2011. In the Get Started wizard, click Enter your purchased product key. Tip: If the wizard isn’t open, start an Office application and click Activate Now.
Microsoft Office 2011 includes more robust enterprise support and greater feature parity with the Windows edition. Its interface is now more similar to Office 2007 and 2010 for Windows, with the addition of the ribbon. Support for Visual Basic for Applications macros has returned after having been dropped in Office 2008.[5][6] Purchasing the Home Premium version of Office for Mac will not allow telephone support automatically to query any problems with the VBA interface. There are however, apparently, according to Microsoft Helpdesk, some third party applications that can address problems with the VBA interface with Office for Mac.[citation needed] In addition, Office 2011 supports online collaboration tools such as OneDrive and Office Web Apps, allowing Mac and Windows users to simultaneously edit documents over the web. It also includes limited support for Apple's high-density Retina Displays, allowing the display of sharp text and images, although most icons within applications themselves are not optimized for this.
A new version of Microsoft Outlook, written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, returns to the Mac for the first time since 2001 and has full support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.[7] It replaces Entourage, which was included in Office 2001, X, 2004 and 2008 for Mac.[8]
Office for Mac 2011 has a number of limitations compared to Office 2010 for Windows. It does not support ActiveX controls,[9] or OpenDocument Format.[10][11] It also cannot handle attachments in Rich Text Format e-mail messages sent from Outlook for Windows, which are delivered as winmail.dat attachments.[citation needed] It also has several human language limitations, such as lack of support for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew [12] and automatic language detection. [13]
Microsoft does not support CalDAV and CardDAV in Outlook, so there is no way to sync directly Outlook through iCloud. Outlook also does not allow the user to disable Cached Exchange Mode, unlike the Windows version, and it is therefore not possible to connect to an Exchange Server without downloading a local cache of mail and calendar data. [14]
Additionally, Office for Mac 2011 also has a shorter lifecycle than Office 2010. Support for Office for Mac 2011 was originally slated to end on January 12, 2016, but because Office for Mac 2016 did not come out until July 2015, Microsoft extended support until October 10, 2017. [15] As 32-bit software, it will not run on macOS High Sierra or later versions of macOS.[16][17]
Two editions are available to the general public. Home & Student provides Word, Excel and PowerPoint, while Home & Business adds Outlook and increased support.[18]Microsoft Messenger 8 is included with both editions, and Microsoft Communicator for Mac 2011, which communicates with Microsoft Lync Server, is available only to volume licensing customers.[19] Office 2011 requires an Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.[20]
Applications and services | Home & Student | Home & Business | Academic | Standard |
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Word | Included | Included | Included | Included |
PowerPoint | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Excel | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Outlook | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Communicator or Lync | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
Office Web Apps | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Remote Desktop Connection | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Information Rights Management | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Windows SharePoint Services Support | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Technical support | 90 days | 1 year | 90 days | ? |
The Home & Student edition is available in a single license for one computer and a family pack for three computers. The Home & Business edition is available in a single license for one computer and a multi-pack for two computers. The Standard edition is only available through Volume Licensing.[21] The Academic edition was created for higher education students, staff and faculty, and includes one installation.[22] Office for Mac is also available as part of Microsoft's Office 365 subscription programme.
Microsoft announced Office 2011 in 2009.[23] There were 6 beta versions released:
Access to beta versions was by invitation only,[25] although leaked copies were circulated among Mac file sharing websites.[26]
The final version was released to manufacturing on September 10, 2010,[27] was available to volume license customers a day later,[28] and made available to the general public on October 26, 2010.[29] Service Pack 1 was released on April 12, 2011.[30]
Wow, your PowerPoint 2011 for Mac slideshow is such a hit , that your boss wants you to broadcast it to the global offices. With Office 2011 for Mac, you can run a PowerPoint slide show with on your computer, and your audience can watch as your show plays live, online, in a Web browser.
The audience doesn’t even have to have PowerPoint, although a high-speed Internet connection is required for both the presenter and the audience.
Here’s how to broadcast a slide show:
Open your presentation in PowerPoint.
Click the Ribbon’s Slide Show tab, and in the Play Slide Show group, click Broadcast Slide Show.
Alternatively, choose Slide Show→Broadcast Slide Show from the menu bar.
Click the Connect button.
Enter your Windows Live ID and password in the text boxes provided.
If you don’t have a Windows Live ID, click the Get a Live ID button and fill in the required information to sign up.
(Optional) Select the check box to save your password in the Mac OS Keychain so that you don’t have to enter it again in the future.
It may take a minute to log in.
After you log in, the Broadcast Slide Show dialog displays and shows the Broadcast Link. You distribute this link to your audience.
In the Broadcast Slide Show dialog, choose how to send your audience the link to view your slide show. You can choose to send it in an e-mail or to copy it into a chat.
When you’re ready and your audience is watching, click the Play Slide Show button.
When the show is over, the presenter’s Mac shows the presentation in Broadcast view, and the show keeps running for the presenter and the audience until the presenter clicks one of the End Broadcast buttons. The presenter can keep the show alive and re-broadcast the slide show using the Broadcast tab of the Ribbon (retaining the same URL) by not ending the show.
There are some limitations to broadcasting a slide show. The most important one is that sounds and movies won’t play to your audience. Animations and transitions may not play. The Pen tool will display lines on the presenter’s screen, but not on the audience screens.