A Look at Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac

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Posted April 23, 2010 at 12:14pm by Shalom Levytam

An early look at Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac by BGR offers initial impressions and a large screenshot gallery.

Each application has had its UI completely overhauled as Microsoft has made the wise decision to redo the entire layout of the application suite. Instead of the awful configuration found in Office for Mac 2008, 2011 draws from both Office 2007 and Office 2010 for Windows. In fact, it did such a good job that we can’t think of a reason why someone who is used to one OS wouldn’t be able to jump into the other and get work done in Office.

The BGR was impressed with most of the suite; however, they felt Outlook fell short. Although they said, "it’s definitely the best and most powerful email client we’ve ever used on OS X" the site was disappointed with how much more difficult it was to use than the Windows version.

You can take a look at a few screenshots below or hit the link for the complete gallery and review.

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Shank2000 - April 23, 2010 at 2:24pm

Also, Outlook is useless if you are on anything before Exchange 2007 SP1. Connections to Exchange must be done through Enterprise Web Services (EWS) as it appears that WEBDAV is no longer supported. You will need to stay with Entourage for older Exchange versions.

lepaka - April 23, 2010 at 1:38pm

sorry, but this direction no ... i stop by 2008. The office 2010 or 11 have nothing new, nothing!!! just a menu layout change ... and when we change something is for what ... for better, for more productive, is exactly what this office does´t offer. i stay by 2008 and happy.