The new version of Outlook Online synched really well with Mac Office 2011. The next morning, I decided I really loved having Microsoft Exchange as my backup, online, email client. The MSFT agent told me I had a 90 day grace period to re-activate my subscription and all I had to do was to login to my account and start my subscription again.
I was offered two months free if I stayed, but I was so hazed out from trying to get Office 2011 to work that I just cancelled everything. I called MSFT to cancel my E2 subscription. I could not find a way to edit those files online.
I had to purchase Office 2011 for Mac from Amazon for around $160.00USD to get the plan to work, and while the 2011 version of Mac Office is 100% better then Mac Office 2008, I could in no way find out how to save my local Office files to my Office 365 setup. I first signed up for the Office 365 E2 plan - there are way too many plans to choose from - because I wanted to run Office on the web. This is the story of how it all played out. I was right and I was wrong to try Office 365. Notes can include a mixed bag of text, Web pages, and graphics, especially handy for, say, college lectures that combine a variety of media.Last week, I signed up for Microsoft Office 365 and, even though I’m on a Mac, I thought the online email and team and website services would be a good and solid backup for the life I have heretofore entirely and exclusively run on Google Apps. You can save your notes in notebooks that reside in the cloud.
The newest addition to the Office for Mac suite is OneNote, Microsoft’s note-taking app for Windows and mobile platforms, although OneNote did launch as a standalone Mac app in 2014, and it’s on iOS too. New PivotTable Slicers also help you filter large volumes of data, Microsoft said. Outlook contains a conversation view and threading (nothing really new where email is concerned, of course), and Excel will do a better job of recommending specific charts to showcase your data to best effect. Microsoft highlighted a few of the improvements that it provided for each specific Office application: in PowerPoint, for example, the new improved Presenter View shows you your current slide, the next slide, your notes, and a timer, while your audience sees only the presentation itself. Google has offered this with its online Google Apps suite, but it’s a feature that Office has lacked until recently. A good example is real-time collaboration, where users can edit a document simultaneously, rather than send it back and forth for updates and other edits. The new Office suite also addresses general shortcomings with the suite that Microsoft has struggled with, regardless of platform. OneNote makes its first appearance in a Mac office suite with Office 2016, although it did launch as a standalone Mac app in 2014.
Microsoft has also tried to differentiate itself from other office suites by adding intelligence to both its software and data sets that you can connect to-providing up-to-date sales data in a spreadsheet, for example, rather than just a moment in time.
But Microsoft’s argument is that, with Office, your work is connected and stored in the cloud-available on basically whatever platform you wish. Why this matters: In the intervening five years since Microsoft last released a version of Office for the Mac (Office 2011!), numerous other office suites have put down stakes on the Mac, not the least of which has been Apple’s own iWork productivity suite.