In the charts below, Schmucker breaks down feature-by-feature exactly what you get (and don’t get) in each of the different versions of the productivity suite including Office 2016 and 2013 for Windows, Office 2016 and 2011 for Mac,. The full charts (below) show suite-wide differences between the versions such as missing apps, lack of support for Visual Basic and ActiveX, right-to-left language support, accessibility features, AppleScript and much more. Other charts in the study show feature variations for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, with the majority of the features listed unavailable for iPad users and a mixed bag for the other versions. Did some research and bought a download license for Office 2011 for mac. When the package came in, the box and Key was labeled 2013 for Mac. Wife does not want to upgrade to higher OS for Mac. And Schmucker points out two things regarding the iPad specifically. One positive is support for right-to-left languages, which he notes is something that Mac users have bene asking for but have yet to receive, while a negative for the iPad is lack of multiple selection support in PowerPoint, something Schmucker notes is a pretty basic but crucial function for the app. In the end, he concludes that a mix of the various Office suites is the best approach but admits that his main, go-to version is MacOffice 2011 (apart from using the latest version of Outlook due to enhanced performance): “I worked for the MacOffice team at Microsoft for several years, and at that time I also worked closely with colleagues on the WinOffice teams. Because of this background, I am often able to pick just the right Office app that will make a given task the easiest to do. One task might be particularly well suited to MacWord 2011 because Publishing Layout View— a feature only in that one Word version— will make this task easy. Another task might be suited to WinPPT because of the Animation Painter, which is not in any MacPPT version. Yet another task might be best suited to WInPPT 2013 because it needs an Office extension not available in other Office suites.” And this is what Schmucker’s setup looks like with various versions of Office installed on Mac and using virtual machines: • MacOffice 2011 is my main productivity suite and is installed on my El Capitan MacBook Pro. MacOutlook 2016 came out long before the entire MacOffice 2016 suite, and because of the vastly improved performance of MacOutlook 2016, I use it as my main email client, instead of MacOutlook 2011. • WinOffice 2013 is installed in a Windows 7 virtual machine (VM) (under Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition) on my MacBook Pro. • iPad Office is installed on my iPad. ![]() As you saw in the tables above, iPad Office is lacking many of the features of WinOffice and MacOffice, so I also have on my iPad which lets me access and run the full featured versions of any Office suite (or any other application) on my computers and use them with natural iPad gestures. (You can download a free trial of Parallels Access for iOS and Android to access your Mac and/or PC at ).w • MacOffice 2016 is installed in an El Capitan VM (under Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition) on my MacBook Pro. • WinOffice 2016 is installed in a Windows 10 VM (under Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition) on my MacBook Pro. Click the charts below to view them in full size. Office 2013 boasts a whole host of improvements, including support for touch-based devices, cloud-based storage via SkyDrive, and the introduction of Yammer, a private social network for businesses. The only part of this Mac users will enjoy, however, is SkyDrive integration. The Verge reports that Microsoft has confirmed that an update to Office 2011 for Mac will introduce SkyDrive integration and the ability to store your Office documents in the cloud. Documents opened using File - Open in Word open as expected. If I double-click a Word document in Finder, the Word application launches, but the document Clicking the Window menu confirms that no documents are open. Dragging the document onto the Word icon in the Dock doesn't work either. Hi - I'm using Word for Mac 2017 (version 15.37), and whenever I go to edit a Word file from Box (either directly through Box Edit or download then edit), they always open in [Compatibility Mode] and even automatically If you save as.docx then the new document will not be in compatibility mode. Word for mac opens all documents. Close all open documents in Word for Mac, and then open a new blank document. For more information, see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article: 953266 Documents do not open in Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac that were created in an earlier version. Like Dropbox, SkyDrive allows you to send your files to the Internet, rather than storing them locally, which allows you to access them from almost any Internet-connected device. The update will arrive alongside the Office 2013 release, and that appears to be all you’ll get if you use a Mac. Discussing the possibility of a future Office for Mac edition, Microsoft confirmed to us that there is no Office for Mac 2013 release planned. “We haven’t announced the next release of Office for Mac,” says a Microsoft spokesperson. Although Mac users won’t be interested in the software’s new Metro user interface anyway, it’s still disappointing news to those who have remained loyal to Office.
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