And it can save to, and open documents from, Microsoft’s free online SkyDrive file repository, or its SharePoint online service for businesses. Unlike the 2008 version, the new Mac Office can seamlessly interact with Microsoft’s new stripped-down, free, online version of Office, called Office Web Apps. It can read and write Office files without any conversion or translation, so a document produced in, say, Word for the Mac, can be read by a user of Windows Word without the latter even knowing it was created on a Mac-and vice versa. Like the prior Mac version, Office 2008, released nearly three years ago, the new Office 2011 uses the same file formats as the Windows version. In general, there’s now more parity between the two. And, while there are some features in the Windows version still missing in the Mac edition, there are also some new Mac-only features. So, even Mac Office users who don’t use Outlook will be pleased by the changes. While it isn’t an exact clone of Office for Windows, I found in my tests that each of its key components-Word, Excel and PowerPoint-has been significantly improved and made more compatible with its Windows sibling.
I’ve been testing this new version of Mac Office-in fact, I’m writing this column in its new edition of Word-and I like it a lot.
But now, they can use a native Mac version of the program that can import data directly from Windows Outlook. These folks already have been able to use the Windows version of Outlook on their machines, using special software that lets the Mac run Windows.
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The advent of a robust, full-featured Outlook for the Mac isn’t all that’s new in Office for Mac 2011, but it’s a big deal, especially for Mac users, or those wishing to switch to the Mac, who work in companies where Outlook is the standard.
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