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1. #MICROSOFT OUTLOOK MAC 2011 REVIEW FOR MAC#
2. #MICROSOFT OUTLOOK MAC 2011 REVIEW PC#
3. #MICROSOFT OUTLOOK MAC 2011 REVIEW SERIES#
4. #MICROSOFT OUTLOOK MAC 2011 REVIEW MAC#

As a result, Outlook 2011 takes a step back when it comes to drag and drop. Some of the user interface (UI) lags in Entourage while checking mail or doing other tasks never appeared or were far less annoying than in Entourage.Ĭocoa magic aside, drag and drop in Carbon applications always works more intuitively. Outlook 2011 launches minutes faster for me on the first launch of the day after a shutdown.

#MICROSOFT OUTLOOK MAC 2011 REVIEW MAC#

And the Mac suite will be using the most up-to-date version of Visual Basic, so it’ll be much more compatible with Office for Windows than the Visual Basic in previous versions of Office for Mac.Though I did no benchmark testing, Outlook 2011 feels faster than Entourage. Microsoft says it began work on that port as far back as 2008-before the last Mac Office shipped. Visual Basic was dropped from Office 2008 in part because it was too technically difficult to port it to the Mac’s then-new Intel CPUs. “Outlook’s new database is more reliable, faster, and fully supports Time Machine and Spotlight,” Schmucker said.įinally, power users will be glad to see the return of the Visual Basic macro language.

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IRM support in Office 2011 is aimed at Mac users in cross-platform environments, Schmucker said: “It’s been a blocker for some companies because the Mac support was not there.”Īnd Microsoft has re-engineered the Outlook message database system to be a series of small files, so it’s more easily backed up with Time Machine and searched in Spotlight. Previously-Windows only, IRM is required in some corporate settings. It will also support Microsoft’s Information Rights Management (IRM), which allows senders to specify what recipients can do with messages (print, forward, and so on).

#MICROSOFT OUTLOOK MAC 2011 REVIEW PC#

The new Outlook will support PST imports (allowing you to move an Outlook installation, including all your old e-mails, from a Windows PC to a Mac). Unlike the Elements Gallery, the ribbon is customizable and, if you want more screen space, completely collapsible. This new Ribbon is designed to give users quick access to each program’s most commonly used tools. (If you want a preview, check out Office for Windows the ribbon is already in there, although the Microsoft Mac team members we spoke to said they had learned a lot from the criticism the Ribbon took when launched on Windows.) The Mac version of the Ribbon doesn’t replace any menu bars, but it does replace Office 2008’s controversial Elements Gallery, which took some fire from Mac users for its size and inflexibility. Most notably, there’s a new Ribbon at the top of each document window. Microsoft also says it’s learned from user feedback about Office 2008 and has tweaked the user interface accordingly in Office 2011. In this preview image from Word 2011, you can see the new Ribbon, a paragraph being edited by another user, and a list of all users editing the document. Mac users will have the same experience in the their versions of Safari and Firefox as Windows users get with their browsers, Schmucker said. You’ll also be able to edit those same documents from any computer, using Office’s Web apps. The paragraphs your collaborators are working on will be locked out until they’re done. A pop-up in Word will show you who’s working on the document click on that list, and you’ll be able to send them a message (as long as everyone is using Outlook or Microsoft’s Messenger IM application). You could, for example, create a document in Word on your laptop, save it to SkyDrive, then share it with others. Those online tools will allow users to collaborate on documents with other Windows and Mac Office users in real time, much as you can in Google Docs now.

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With Office for Mac 2011, Mac users will be able to share files and collaborate on documents with other Mac and Windows users via Microsoft’s SharePoint, SkyDrive, and Office Web Apps. To that end, the new version of Office will incorporate document-collaboration features that take advantage of Microsoft’s online storage features.