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Product Information
Office for Mac Home and Student and Home and Business editions are complete suites of Office applications for the Mac for creating documents, spread sheets, presentations and emails. Office for Mac 2011 comes with a range of new features to create stunning documents including new picture editing capabilities, real-time co-authoring functionality - for PC and Mac, a new user interface along with much more. This release also debuts Outlook for Mac, the replacement for Entourage, which comes with a range of new features and capabilities. Office for Mac 2011 boosts your efficiency with its streamlined interface, advanced design tools and greater compatibility with the Windows-based Microsoft Office suite.
Please note: the Home and Student edition is licenced for home and student usage on one Mac computer (The Family Pack permits use on three Mac computers). They should not be used for any commercial, government, non-profit or revenue generating business activity.
Editions
Home and Student Edition
- Word for Mac 2011
- Excel for Mac 2011
- Powerpoint for Mac 2011
- Messenger (Personal - connect to Windows Live only)
- IRM - consume rights-managed documents
- Support for SkyDrive, Office Web Apps
- Basic (90-day) product support
Home and Business Edition
Everything in the Home and Student Edition plus:
- Outlook for Mac 2011
- Remote desktop connection
- Windows SharePoint Services support
- Premium product support (1 yr)
Standard - available on Volume Licensing only
- Word for Mac 2011
- Excel for Mac 2011
- Powerpoint for Mac 2011
- IRM - consume rights-managed documents
- Support for SkyDrive, Office Web Apps
- Outlook for Mac 2011
- Lync for Mac 2011
- Remote desktop connection
- Windows SharePoint Services support
- Communicator
- IRM add/modify permissions
- Office Web Apps internal licence (internally hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote)
System Req.
Processor: Intel only
OS: Mac OS X v10.5.8 or later
Memory: 1 GB of RAM or more
Hard disk: 2.5 GB of available hard disk space - HFS +, also known as Mac OS Extended format
External disk drive: DVD drive (or connection to a local area network if you are installing over a network)
Monitor: 1280 x 800 pixel or higher resolution
Input device: Mouse or compatible input device
Microsoft Exchange Server: Connectivity to Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB952580) or later
Additional requirements:
- Certain online functionality requires a Windows Live ID
- Access to files stored on a SharePoint server requires connectivity to Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or later
- Safari 5 or later (recommended)
New Features
New co-authoring capabilities
Work on Word, PowerPoint and Excel files together with teammates in real time from different locations. It's even compatible with Office for Windows and you can keep track of your team with the Presence Everywhere feature that gives you real-time status updates on who is working on what.
Office Web Apps
Use Microsoft Office Web Apps for a simple way to access and share Office documents from any computer with an Internet connection. Office Web Apps are available to both home and business users (across platforms) and allow documents to be stored via your Windows Live ID account or on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies.
New template gallery
Access thousands of Word, PowerPoint and Excel themes and templates to create professional-looking documents and customise and preview any theme before you select it.
New user interface
Use the new dynamic ribbon interface that puts the most commonly used features within easy access for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. The ribbon delivers a modern and fluid experience and helps provide a consistent user experience across Windows and Mac. The new design also continues to use the classic Mac menu and standard toolbar thereby giving you the best of both worlds.
New Outlook for Mac
Outlook for Mac replaces Entourage and has been completely rebuilt using Cocoa for improved integration with Mac OS X. It leverages the Exchange Web Services protocol directly and features a reliable, high-speed, file-based database with Spotlight search and back-up support from Time Machine. It can even import .PST files from the Windows version of Outlook. Outlook for Mac also provides Information Rights Management to help prevent sensitive information from being distributed to or read by people who do not have your permission to access the content.
New Excel features
Sparklines give you the ability to provide a quick at-a-glance visual summary of your data in a compact space. And the new Excel 2011 PivotTables are easily manipulated and highly compatible with the Windows version—making working with your data even easier and more intuitive.
New photo editing capabilities
Edit images from within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. Recolor photos and images, apply filters and corrections, and even remove extraneous background imagery, right from the application itself.
PowerPoint broadcast slide show
Remotely present your PowerPoint slides to anyone with an Internet connection. Your viewers don’t even need to have PowerPoint installed to view your show.
Word full-screen view
Full-Screen View gives you a limited user-interface and blocks interruptions from email and instant messages, helping you to keep your focus on your content.
Performance improvements
Office for Mac 2011 gives you an enhanced user experience overall, as performance and launch times have been improved in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
Visual Basic support
Automate repetitive tasks by programming your favourite commands.
Licensing
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