Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License)

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

I have Parallel and should have installed it then installed regular Microsoft suite. Outlook is toilet in comparison to Pc version (many options missing, freezes and is slow

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

I had previously used the 2004 (I think) version for MAC and this is WAY better. Macros functionality is a huge plus. Better design, easy to use! This is for my parents and they have had no trouble picking it up! I have iWork 09 and fell in love with that, but this version might make me change back! Great Office software!

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

Good product.

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

much more better like office for windows

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

Best price available bar none - from B&H. I have been a life-long user of Office for both PC and Mac. While the new Office for PC is a pain to use - they confusingly re-arranged everything so they could call it "new and improved", I just bought Office 2011 for Mac and am pleasantly surprised about many of the changes they made - like returning the use of the solver and macros to Excel!! The new threaded navigation interface is also a very nice upgrade from the 2008 version and the entire suite seems much more responsive and cleaner in general.

That said, there is one huge disappointment...Outlook, which I purchased this product primarily to use. While still very useful and similar in many ways to Entourage, many of the changes only made things worse. Argh. The devil is in the details - check the MS Office 2011 blogs and feedback for full details first BEFORE buying. For example...Nothing has been upgraded for the Import/Export functions, which is completely unacceptable (eg, it STILL asks if you want to import something from Eudora...??!! Why not from/to something more USEFUL and CURRENT like NowUpToDate or iCal??) and still will NOT import into Calendar. In general, Outlook is much LESS customizable than Entourage was. Entry fields in Contacts are less flexible to work with in various ways, Custom fields can no longer be renamed (??), selecting default formats for entering phone numbers often doesn't work, sorry but no more two-line addresses (!!??)...the Contacts List View must still all be squeezed into one small window when displaying multiple column fields and STILL can't scroll left or right to accommodate additional columns of info. Ugh. Overall very few truly logical and USEFUL improvements were made, and if anything, were removed. I don't get it...MS upgrades the interface but then removes useful functionality from a product whose source code is already good to begin with...so why not BUILD ON THAT and make it BETTER and MORE useful, not less...? True quality seems to be a fast dying art and concept these days unfortunately.

While still very capable, faster and snappier to use, and Exchange Server compatible apparently, making significant and meaningful improvements to Outlook over Entourage was seemingly an after-thought in most ways, in not all. So it's a toss-up. I LOVE Excel and needed to use macros, and was looking forward to using Outlook, but not anymore. If you don't absolutely need Outlook, I would stick with the Student version - which is very good, especially since the Business version doesn't buy you much except seemingly downgraded tools (that used to be better and included with the Student version previously!) and an even more limited license/install agreement over the 2008 version.

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

IT IS FOR MY FAMILY USE.

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

I waited to upgrade to Office 2011 till the dust settled, so have just installed the product. Installation was seamless, and Outlook transferred my info from Eudora for Mac almost perfectly. Some problems: messages that had been moved from the inbox to folders in Eudora or had been deleted in Eudora showed up again in the Outlook inbox and had to be deleted again, or duplicates resolved, and Outlook combined info from various fields when transferring the Eudora settings to make it impossible to send or receive mail, and that also needed to be sorted out. I find Outlook for the Mac to be more cumbersome than Eudora in the area of setting up groups: in Eudora you can copy a list of people into a group at one go, with Outlook you have to do it painfully, one at a time, so I will need to keep Eudora alive to send my large distribution lists. Outlook also has no delete from server when deleted from the inbox capability, you have to do it one email at a time, even with Junk Mail. But all in all, I'm more satisfied than I expected to be with Outlook, and the other programs work well as expected. Thanks, B&H, for good service with a good product.

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

I,m looking forward to increase productivity.

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

I have an iMac and run Windows Outlook on it.

I'm transitioning from Windows Outlook to Mac Outlook. I use Outlook because I like having Address Book, Contacts, and Mail all in one program. The look and feel of Outlook for Mac is similar to Windows and after a week of using it I have only discovered one glaring omission.

I have over 200 contacts and over 40 different contact groups. In Windows Outlook, when I want to address an email to 20 groups, I simply select BCC for example which then automatically opens my entire address book where I can easily select my 20 different groups.

This is not possible at this point in Outlook for Mac. You must select each individual group and for each group, you then select BCC or CC or TO. This is quite cumbersome and time consuming and until this is corrected, it pretty much makes Outlook for Mac unusable for me. I've gone back to WIndows until (hopefully) a software update corrects this.

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

Word has come a long way since my last install (2008). I'm enjoying using this version. The only bug I've found is that find/replace doesn't allow me to copy and paste anything. I have to type it into the find or replace window authentically and this slows me down and is a huge disadvantage when it's something that can't be typed in.

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

I definitely like Office for Mac 2011 better than any other MS Office or other branded productivity software I have used in the past. iWork does not compare.

It is easy to create professional-looking documents, charts, presentations, etc. with the shortcuts in the Office Ribbon. Word, Powerpoint, and Excel are fine--no comment is needed for them.

Now, Outlook organizes contacts far better than the default Mac Address Book, so if you need to do some serious networking or organize contacts for a business, Outlook is a definite minimum requirement. (I don't really know how it compares to software designed for business contacts, though) Another note: you can still use Mail as your default e-mail provider if you want to, because Outlook will sync your data with other programs.

There are only two bad things I have noticed so far. Sometimes it takes several seconds to open the programs--something I am not used to with my Mac. The other issue is a bit more serious: one time Outlook deleted all my calendar events, contacts, e-mails, and settings. Fortunately, I had backed them all up. I would suggest that you do likewise.

Other than that, I love Office for Mac. Word, Powerpoint, and Excel are definitely necessary for college. Outlook makes a nice upgrade if you want to maximize your scheduling or contacts, but I would only recommend spending the extra money if you need to be able to organize a high number of contacts according to different criteria.

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

Best office for Mac so far, but not in love. In General Microsoft's latest versions of office a hard to look at. Like the older versions better.

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

Our company ordered Office to replace our Mac package and thus, to function as our address book, calendar, and email provider for quick and easy desktop use. In addition, Office has the ability to automatically integrate information on different computers within the Server, which is the deciding element in our switch.

While we are on the brink of full integration, the simplicity of the Office software is similar to the Mac package. However, what sets it apart is what will come upon integrating all the computers on the Server.

Our desired end result is to have the ability to share selected contacts, calendar events, and specific files with all and/or selected users/computers on the server. This will do wonders for the efficiency of what we do.

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

Its my texttool among other things. Its works well with ID

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

Great software, it's indispensable

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

I converted from a PC to a MAC a few monthes ago and I felt that I had stepped back with the mail and Microsoft Office programs. I am very pleased that 2011 has the features that the PC had in 2007/2010.

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

Long waited improvement. My company has mix of pc and mac users. the compatibility has always been a headache. this new version with more compatibility shows signs of union of two parties with smooth communication. Now mac users can use more functions naturally. Highly recommended.

Comments about Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business Edition 2011 (2 Computer License):

I like the look and feel of the new Office for MAC. I am almost to the point where I don't need Parallels anymore except for One Note. Why doesn't this include One Note for MAC? That is my only complaint.