First of all, I am a big fan of Apple and the iWork '09 suite of products. Furthermore, I anticipate very much the update to the iWork package, which as you might know, will be available only as a download.
Whenever possible, I use Apple products. Now consider this: I am a big fan of Office 2011 for Mac.
I do so with some tugs on my conscience, but I want to tell you that if you are using Office for PC elsewhere in your life, this suite will simplify your life a great deal while you stick to using your Mac.
My organization uses Office 2007 for PC/Windows and I have had not a single compatibility or formatting issue using documents created and/or saved between the two platforms. I didn't always have this when using iWork '09.
Now, when iWork '11 comes out, maybe it'll be a very different story. I might just buy that program then.
In the meantime, I'm enjoying the templates, ribbons and familiar features of Office 2011 and while I have this job using PCs at work, it's even sweeter.
What could be better? I'm using my Mac and easily tranferring files between home and work. Office Mac Home and Student 2011 - Family Pack (1 User/3 Installs) [Download]
Love the convenience of amazon's new software digital download store. Can download again on other computers or if my drive ever crashes (amazon stores the software license so you can always download again). Also price is a little cheaper than buying the boxed version.
Just upgraded to Mac OS X Lion, and this software DOES work flawlessly with the new OS. I had read that others have had problems, but we have intel iMacs and Mac Minis in our offices and it works great on all of them.
We were using the windows version of office 2010 with parallells on our Macs, but the dedicated Mac version of Office is much more user friendly and elegant.
Yes, the download and install from Amazon was seamless. I only use Word, so take that into consideration when reading this review. The application is a bit snappier than the previous version, but the new Find/Replace functionality in Word is an abomination. There's no telling how it's going to work from one use to the next. Overall, this is bloated software that continues to get more and more bloated. Millions of preferences and features aren't worth much if they're buried in unintuitive menus and "ribbons", and they're worth even less if they don't work. My advice: if you don't absolutely have to use this, then don't. Not recommended.
I was very nervous to buy the online download versus the actual disc but everything worked out great. Used all 3 licenses and had no problems with the install. It was very easy to do and worked great.
If you need Word for whatever reason, then this is currently the best version available for the Mac, but I'd only recommend buying it if you absolutely needed it for compatibility with the Windows world, or you have a need to do business-class spreadsheeting. If you don't fall into either of these camps, save your money and buy iWork instead. Your sanity will thank you.
I was excited to find a 2011 version of Office Mac that was downloadable. That excitement turned to frustration and more costly and time consuming than it should have been. First off in got stuck 1/2 way through the download process. After several attempts I called Amazon and went through a lengthy conversation with the end result being told that the settings on my Macbook Air were not working properly and I need to take my Macbook into Apple. After waiting a few days for an appointment to have my computer checked out i was told that my computer was fine. I went to install it again and the same process got stuck. Amazon then told me to call Microsoft. Microsoft in not so complimentary terms said that the place I purchased it from did not have very well trained techs. Hmmmmmm...........I finally got it installed and now it works at both my home and Macbook computers. I was also told that it is much less hassle to wait the few extra days and to order the actual CD. To make matters even more frustrating there are new changes and updates that I had to figure out in order to do my school work. It is so new that I can't find a manuel to the program in any libraries to check out and I haven't even bothered to look and see if one is available to buy new as I am close to broke from my educational expenses.
I had been working with office 2004 and it just couldn't keep up anymore. The apple updates made pieces of the software not even work. I had to upgrade to office 2011. I'm so glad that I did. it really gave so much more functionality and intigration with the windows counterpart. I really like how it's working so far.
Been using this software for about a month now and it works as described. The main programs used are MS Word and MS Excel. I have used powerpoint once to create a full size photo montage with no problems. Both Excel and Word have new layouts compared to Office 2k7 and 2k3 so it took some time to figure out where everything is located. Its like walking into someone else s kitchen looking for the steak knife. You know its there in the kitchen but which drawer? Amazon delivers with its download feature as I had to return my imac to the apple store for the HD recall and was able to reinstall this purchase again. Also, I have a MacBook Pro which i was able to install the night this software was purchased. Very convenient.
I upgraded from the earlier version based on all the glowing articles that appear when a new version of Office is released. My old copy of Word had some undesirable "features" and the magazine articles seemed to indicate that with this version of Office, Microsoft had finally released a version of Word that worked properly.
Boy, do I regret upgrading.
First of all, they screwed up Find and Replace, apparently by attempting to copy the fantastic Search pane in Apple's Pages word processor.
If Word's search results pane doesn't say "Matches: Searching..." and hang forever, when a list of hits actually appears, you can click on one to go to it and edit it. But when you do, the search results become invalid and you have to run the whole search again. At least, that's the behavior I remember, because after a recent update, no hits ever appear in the search pane for me anymore.
Unfortunately, Replace uses the broken Search pane, so I cannot tell you what its result would normally be: Because searching never displays any hits, the replacements don't happen for me.
To get a find-and-replace feature that actually works, you have to do a lot of clicking with the mouse to use Edit > Find > Advanced Find and Replace. That's where they hid *most* of the old functionality.
I say *most* because the old way to avoid all the clicking to do the same Find over and over again was to use the little widgets on the scrollbar to pop to the PREVIOUS and NEXT hits. Those have been entirely divorced from the working Advanced Find and Replace in this version. Now both the PREVIOUS and NEXT widgets do exactly the same thing: They seek the next occurrence of whatever word you last searched for using the new, broken search features. There is no way I have found to actually find a previous occurrence.
Find and Replace is a feature done successfully in word processors for something like three decades now, and I guarantee you have never seen such a faulty, screwed up, useless implementation of it as in this new version of Word.
Any previous version you have is sure to be superior to this one.
Why do I even use this disaster of a product? I need Word mostly for the Track Changes feature. As ever, it is loaded with bugs they never seem to fix.
I can highlight text in a comment, but pressing DELETE or attempting to type over it doesn't work. When editing comments, I have to delete character-by-character.
If there are tracked deletions in a document, you will sometimes find your insertion point "stuck" when you attempt to delete all the extra spaces Word loves to leave behind. Apparently, it has trouble deleting to the left when it runs into already deleted text.
And, seriously, Word loves to either leave behind or insert extra spaces when you delete text with Track Changes turned on. And, of course, you can't simply use Find and Replace to reduce all doubled-up spaces to one space, because the existence of the tracked, deleted text interferes with Find's ability to "see" the doubled spaces. I'm having to do a second pass through something I'm editing today, looking at every line, to spot extra spaces.
I have experienced frequent crashes when spell-checking with the grammar checker turned on. - Buggy - Os X - Macintosh - Microsoft Office'
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