This feature requires a Document Server (SharePoint) in order to be able to authenticate against a corporate server to retrieve the user information. For some people you may wish to assign the ability to edit the document, but for the rest it may be read-only. With Document permissions you are able to assign certain people certain abilities. This is a must have for many businesses to be able to figure out what has been altered within a document and, more importantly, by whom.Īnother new feature, somewhat related, is Document Permissions. Word 2011 extends tracking by allowing you to view only the changes made by a specific reviewer. In Word 2008 this was under a toolbar that was not readily available. This can be found under the ‘Review’ tab. The first - and biggest for many - is the revamping of Tracking and Reviewing. There are some new features available within Word 2011. This is a much more elegant and cleaner implementation of searching. You will notice that the magnifying glass has a drop-down and the drop-down includes the replace and ‘List matches in Sidebar’ option. Now with Word 2011 your cursor jumps up to the top of the document window and inserts itself into the search bar. In Word 2008 when you would hit the command-f key combination, you would receive the following dialog box. There is still some scrolling however, it’s much less than in Word 2008. Well in Word 2011, this has been changed to incorporate drop-down menus instead of scrolling. Here’s an example of the scrolling that I’m referencing. Since I did not use Office 2008 on a regular basis, I am not sure how much of an annoyance having to scroll through pages of items just to find the one you wanted would have been, but I know for me it would not have boded well. By reducing the font, Microsoft has been able to put two additional tabs in approximately the same amount of space. These bubbles have been replaced by smaller fonts. Many of the bubbles that were within the toolbars are all gone. Word 2011 shows a less ‘Mac’-like experience and has more of an iTunes look and feel about the application. The next item that you’ll notice is that the entire interface has been changed. This is a much better implementation than in Word 2008. The fonts are now incorporated in the toolbar itself. I am somewhat glad I didn’t use Word 2008 that much, otherwise that floating toolbox would be the end of me. The next big change with the toolbar is that the font window is no longer floating. If you hover over the icon it will explain what the item does, so a new user is not completely lost. Many of these icons have remained the same between versions. You will see that the text on the top toolbar row has been removed entirely and in its place is just icons. Below is the Office 2008 default Word toolbar.
The first and most noticeable is the tool bar. Office 2011 makes some interesting changes from Office 2008.
Here are some of the changes and my thoughts regarding them. However, I figured that I’m already paying for Office 2011 through TechNet, so I might as well give Office 2011 a test run. I tend to lean towards just doing things in a text editor and if I need something a bit more powerful, I’ll use Pages before jumping to Office. I have never been a big Office user on the Mac. Sure, I - like most working-stiffs - have to use PCs at work, so it’s not like I never use Office, it’s just Office 2010 instead of 2011. This is harder for me to do with Office because I typically use TextEdit for all of my reviews and TextWrangler for coding. Typically, when I do reviews, I use the product for a while and give my thoughts and highlight any problems I notice.
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Being a TechNet subscriber, I opted to download it and test it out on my three-year-old MacBook. So, I reported, a week ago or so that Office for Mac 2011 was available for Microsoft’s TechNet subscribers for the first time.