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Connecting to remote drives from the Mac was, and is, as painless as you might imagine. After moving to a LDMO in 2009 and using Windows daily, I longed to be able to move back to using a Mac at work, and this came one step closer to reality thanks to a kind soul who, instead of surplusing an older MacBook Pro, transferred it to me. You can imagine my joy when I read that Outlook 2011 would finally handle these files. If you work at an LMDO you might do the same.
#OFFICE 2011 FOR MAC REVIEW ARCHIVE#
It fills up rather quickly, and the solution is to create an archive stored on that home drive. The issue isn't so much my Exchange server mailbox, but its size, as set by the LMDO IT overlords. I hoped the arrival of Office 2011 and the replacement of Entourage with Outlook 2011 would mean that finally it wouldn't even matter what OS I used. The way they're handled makes a lot of sense, but at the same time has dashed my hopes of true platform independence. pst files, which is the format that archived messages are stored in. Probably the most requested feature has been support for. If you're an LMDO user and just have a single Mac that you access your work e-mail from, this is a good thing. Now, your e-mails are individual files, meaning faster indexing, faster backing up, and less chance for catastrophe. It also meant that Time Machine backups got to be huge, as each new e-mail meant the database file had to be copied anew.
#OFFICE 2011 FOR MAC REVIEW UPGRADE#
This meant that, for a long time, Spotlight searches were out of the question-until a point upgrade worked some sort of magic that allowed Spotlight to index the giant file. This is down to the fact that the Mac Business Unit (MBU) has revamped the bits under the hood significantly.Įntourage stored all your e-mails in a single giant database. Spotlight searches may very well be faster than those done within Outlook, although I couldn't say for sure because they were all pretty quick. Searches can be performed in the app or by Spotlight, and the internal search works very well. Then again this also happens when syncing with Google, so it's not something for which I'd blame Microsoft. You can sync your personal contacts with Address Book, but I find that using sync services can lead to contacts multiplying out of control. Global address books work without a hitch and, to my mind, look much nicer than on Windows each contact gets a little box with the relevant details instead of a line in a table.
That last statement may draw ire in the comments, but the ribbon can be hidden, and the tabs make finding functions easy and logical.
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The borders around windows are much smaller, and I'm happy about the introduction of the ribbon, a series of icon-filled tabs that make the toolbox unnecessary. Yes, I said it: from where I sit, Outlook 2011 is nicer to stare at than Entourage.
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I have yet to come across anything I can't to do with Outlook 2011 that I'm currently able to do on the PC side of things, and I like the UI much better than Entourage. Up and running, it's actually a great e-mail client if you work for an LMDO.
The same is true for Gmail, MobileMe, and the service Ars uses. For Exchange accounts, it's as simple as entering your e-mail address, username, and password.
Setting it up for the first time is a cinch. Entourage is now history, though, and Outlook 2011 is here to meet your e-mail needs, especially if you work in a large Microsoft-dependent organization (referred to as LMDOs from here on out). The original version had workable Exchange support, but it gradually got better. The next three installments of Office all came with Entourage. These didn't ship with Office, which came with Outlook Express and later with Entourage, and they only worked with Exchange servers, but I remember using Outlook '98 (I think) as a young grad student. Those of you with keen memories will remember that, pre-Mac OS X, Mac users actually did have native versions of Outlook.
In later articles, we'll take a look at Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, but first up to bat is Outlook. That's understandable really if you're not working in a corporate environment, solutions like iWork or Google's cloud services (as well as OpenOffice and other fringier products) leave little reason to stay in the Microsoft orbit.īut there are many of us who do still need to use Office, and on the Mac side of things, Office 2011 is here to show us what it can do that its predecessors couldn't.
#OFFICE 2011 FOR MAC REVIEW MAC OS X#
Even though many of us in the Orbiting HQ use Mac OS X these days, the latest Mac version of Microsoft Office hasn't generated much buzz among the staff at Ars.
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