• Microsoft Office For Mac

Free Office Trial on your PC and Mac. Download and install your Office apps on your desktop for free. Includes a free trial of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and more. Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Student 2011 = $149.99 Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Business 2011 = 279.99 These prices are from Microsoft’s website but if you go to Amazon, you’ll get good discounts and can purchase the same suites for a lot lesser prices.

Office for Mac 2011 trial is equivalent in functionality to Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 which includes all the functionality of Office Home and Student, plus Microsoft Outlook. You do not have to download the trial if you already have Office for Mac 2011 installed. If you like to continue after 30 days – you can purchase an Office for Mac 2011 product key online or from your retailer. You can also buy the full Mac Office software from Amazon. Share with friends.

Step 8 Start your 30-day Office 2011 trial! Need some help getting oriented?

All was well. Recently, my Office installation has been playing up (Math-type is impossible to remove) so I uninstalled it. Now, when I go to the MS website (which is, by the way, awful, so many broken links) I am told that if you have no optical drive, like me, to either download and activate the trial (as I did in the past) or enter your product key and they will provide you with the relevant download link. So I enter my key and get told I am not eligible for download.

For example, click Customize if you don't want to install Office Fonts, Dock Icons, or certain applications such as Microsoft Messenger, Remote Desktop, or Microsoft Document Connection. Notes: • If you use Apple Remote Desktop to install Office for Mac 2011 on another computer on your network, Dock icons are not installed. • Duplicate fonts are moved to the Fonts Disabled (/Library/Fonts Disabled folder or the /Users/ username/Library/Fonts Disabled) folder during installation. • If prompted, enter your Mac user name and password to allow the installer to make changes, and then click OK. The installation is complete you receive a message that says, The installation was successful. • When the Welcome to Office: Mac 2011 screen appears, select the option, Enter your purchased product key.

Better slide transitions and animations in Office 2011 for Mac make it easy to create a pro-level presentation with new 3D effects, and a new tab in the Ribbon dedicated to Transitions keep them close at hand for on-the-spot changes. Possibly the best-looking feature of all in PowerPoint 2011 is exclusive to the Mac version of Office and very useful for managing complex slides.

Though Microsoft released in 2010, they did release a free Office 2011 trial only now. We had been waiting for this free download for long, but were surprised that microsoft wasn’t making it available to its Mac users!

From there you can make customizations to your template to make the project your own. We particularly like the ability to mouse-over templates to view multiple-page layouts; it saves you a lot of time to not have to open each template to see what type of elements are used on each page. Media Browser Whether you're making a brochure, a newsletter, or a business presentation, you're going to want eye-catching multimedia to make your project pop. In Office 2008 this meant you would be searching through the object palette of the toolbox or sifting through your media folders in the Finder. The new Media Browser gives you a centralized location to browse images, video, iMovie projects, iPhoto libraries, and your music (from iTunes) so you can grab what you need quickly whether you are in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, or Excel.

Microsoft Office For Mac

Also, with Office 2011's new co-authoring technology, you won't get locked out of a document when your co-worker goes offline; all of your content is still available so you can continue working. Conclusions Does Office 2011 for Mac offer enough to make it worth the upgrade from earlier versions? With all the new features that will save you time from quick image edits within the suite to easy sharing of your work, and much more, Office 2011 is a huge improvement over Office 2008. New templates and quick access to video- and image-editing tools are welcome additions for those who create visual presentations of their content. Serious spreadsheet power users will like the new features that tie data together in Excel while making complex data more accessible in the Ribbon and more exciting visually with Sparklines. Outlook's new conversation-view features for saving time managing your e-mail could save daily e-mail users a lot of time, if they're willing to learn the ropes initially.