Office for Mac 2011 Behind the Scenes: Sparklines, PivotTables & Photo Editing!

[repenning1]

Word 2011 is a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT! Having pixel identical printouts from Macs and PCs sound like a great idea but I cannot even paste an image into an outline and have that reliably show up. In most cases, even with small images, it will either just not show up or show a lame you ran out of memory problem. Shame on you..

[TalesOfWar]

Load times are still atrocious for me. I thought 2008 was bad, I see no improvement in 2011 so far as how long it takes to actually load the application. Loading documents and so on when they're open is more snappy, but actual app loading is... yeah. It's faster for me to reboot into Windows and load up Word or whatever there or run Parallels than it is to open Word 2011. I don't get this either because they seemed to have sorted this problem with 2010 on PC from 2007's slow ass loading.

[inspir8me]

A template "is a template", so easy a caveman can do it...

[harlequin75]

Kurt Schmucker eh?

[jumpymouse]

Does Office 2011 remember Window Placement? Office 2008 never will open fully maximized, it always leaves a little screen space around the top and sides.

[Timothy656]

@jumpymouse I know that always bugged me! Since I have a 13inch screen I always wanted to get it fully maximized on start up! So I had to click the green button to get rid of the space!

[jumpymouse]

Just downloaded Office 2011. Word 2011 has the exact same problem as Word 2008. It does not remember your window position nor does it maximize correctly. This is very irritating especially because one of Microsoft's employees told everyone on Ars Technica that this issue was FIXED! NO IT IS DEFINITELY NOT FIXED!

Interestingly, Excel 2011, Powerpoint 2011, Outlook 2011 do not have this issue. Unfortunately, I use Word far more often than all of the other programs.

[jumpymouse]

After Downloading Office 2011 I can answer this question - NO IT DOES NOT!!!

Word 2011 behaves just like Word 2008. Microsoft has fixed the problem in Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook.

[KyleOutrage]

Microsoft Office for Mac has probably sold more copies of Apple's iWork than anything else.

[janmadmax]

NERD.!

[mitrieD]

I use iWork '09 and I haven't had to many problems yet....

[THeFLoA]

sorry but the icon letters at 0:19 look like crap.

[GotKn1fe]

@THeFLoA Cry some more, you are spending time inside the program 

[TalesOfWar]

@THeFLoA They remind me of 90's or early 2000's icons, at the very latest, web 2.0esque lol. I don't get why they can't use the same ones they use in Office 2010 but maybe add a little more shine. They'd fit much nicer with the other icons typically on your dock (actually I know for a fact they do, from running Office 2010 apps in Parallels lol).

[hurric]

finally they put someone who looks older than a high school kid haha

[canuxfan44]

"New photo-editing capability"? HAH! You mean "Photo-editing capability that we blatantly stole from iWork"?

This looks like absolute garbage. If Office didn't have Excel with VB & Macro support, there would be absolutely zero reason to ever use Office for Mac. Over-priced, terrible GUI, awful templates, unprofessional looking "presentations" with PowerPoint, etc.

Pages blows Word out of the water. Keynote blows PowerPoint out of the water. Excel is still better than Numbers. iWork costs $79

[dynaco]

Oh God, how do Microsoft manage to get it wrong so consistently. Who wants to hear from a self-proclaimed evangelist? Not me.

[henriok]

Yes there is: Office 2008 is the name of the latest Macintosh version.

[typtyphus2]

0:43 If they'd only took the same effort with Internet Explorer.......

The interwebs would be a better place.

[raveen69]

Still no HD videos? WTF? I'd never share this video with others it's such crap quality!

[hobmcd]

OMG I'M OUT OF FOCUS HAAHAHAHAHAHA... :-/

[Michael4072]

How about some RTL support?!

[GBOPossum]

May I remind you about claims Microsoft makes "Office 2008 for Mac is the best option for Mac users who share documents at home, work, or at school. It comes packed with powerful features for creating artful documents, dynamic spreadsheets, and effective presentations. Plus it’s compatible. You can be confident that your documents will open correctly on Mac or PC."

[Evanblive91]

@GBOPossum There is no Office 2008, just 2007 and 2011 now

[blitzzmann]

@Evanblive91 the office for mac product is generally release 1 year after the PC version and yes, there is an office for mac 2008

[canuxfan44]

@Evanblive91 Uhh... yes there is. PC = 2003, 2007, 2010. Mac = 2004, 2008, 2011.

[GBOPossum]

Mr Schmucker

Excel 2008 doesn't support Color based data filters, Top 10 filters, advanced conditional formatting, advanced filtering, sort by color, macros, VBA, the list goes on

Which incompatibilities have NOT been fixed in 2011?

[fyfaen1000]

Apple really needs to consider to upgrade iwork. If not microsoft will fire apple's ass.

[henriok]

On my 2 GHz MacBook Pro it's faster to open VMWare Fusion, boot Windows, find the document on my Mac's desktop and open it in Office 2007 for Windows, than just open it from the desktop into Office 2008.

My old 800 MHz Pentium 3 laptop with XP showing 40 thumbnails in PowerPoint 2003 is almost instantaneous but it takes about 20 seconds on my 2 GHz MacBook Pro in Office 2008.

You can actually see that in the video, at 0:20!

Hey Microsoft! Do you consider THAT a bug?

[auxent]

@henriok Forget Office 2008 experience. Just test Office 2011 and take your words back.

[henriok]

@auxent I must admit that it looks good at first glance. It opens documents faster and shows thumbnails faster. Still trailing Windows Office by an order of magnitude though. I nice addition was that you can now chose from more than 30 colors as a background color in a cell in Excel! Wow.. Welcome to the 1990s Microsoft!

[groleb]

sounds good. hopefully still after buying. haha.

[Kaiyaraj]

Thai still bad as ever

[Xehanortheartless]

Sounds nice. Sure I'll buy it!!!