Features:

  • Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 Family Pack includes Mac versions of Word 2011, Excel 2011 and PowerPoint 2011 English DVD,license qty: 3
  • The most familiar and trusted productivity applications used around the world at home, school, and business.
  • Reliable compatibility with the over 1 billion Macs and PCs running Office worldwide ensures you have the right tools to create, share
  • And collaborate with virtually anyone, anywhere with no worries
  • Office for Mac 2011 offers top-of-the-line software with the most complete feature set
Updating for Lion

I purchased Office for Mac 2011 to get ready for a O/S Lion upgrade. It worked great on my two iMac's & one MacBook. The exception was with PowerPoint on one iMac. This was not a Office 2011 problem. I had one presentation that showed the first slide and all others were blank. At first I thought it was a Font problem. It wasn't. There is a program in the startup items that conflicted. To prove it wasn't a Microsoft Office Mac 2011, I made a new user. I then opened Powerpoint & the document in the new user & it worked fine. I like the looks & feel of 2011. Hope this might be of help to others. It handles earlier version documents fine in all applications.

This is a great bargain.

Everyone knows about Microsoft office. This is the 2011 version of it and you can install it on 3 computers for your family. We bought this because we bought my wife a new computer and mine was still running the 2003 version of office. W got it for a great price and there was no problem installing this on either of her brand new MacBook Pro or my 5 year old MacBook. The software itself still does all of the necessary things you need it to do. Somethings are changed around and it just takes a bit getting used to, especially if you are converting from a very old version of office. I highly recommend!

Mac User

This is my first MAC Office package so I can't comment on how it compares to previous versions. I am a former 2003 & 2007 Windows user and this version seems largely the same as the Windows versions. I did have one problem with controls on some of my spreadsheets (buttons). Apparently I had used the ActiveX version of the controls, not the "form" version. Those don't work on the Mac so I had to replace them with the "form" version to get them to work (the form versions aren't as "cute", fewer options for things like color). The macros behind them seemed to work. This saved me from the complexity of running the Windows version inside Windows inside Parallels or Fusion.

This is a good version of Office

I've taught computer classes for many years. This is a good version of Office, and it may be one of the last versions that may be purchased outright before they require an online subscription to the "service" of Office (what a money-extorting thing that will be!). Office for Mac is always going to be less impressive than Office for PC (for obvious competition reasons). With that said, this does pretty much all I would expect it to do. Discovering what it won't do is a little annoying, but I'm probably more apt to know what the differences are than the average person. As long as this is being used for standard day-to-day files, it will likely be the right purchase for you. If you have very specific needs (like truly scientific formulas in Excel, for example), you may be mildly frustrated.

What can you say. Works like it should with minor differences

I bought this to install on my daughters MacBook Air that she uses for college. The college is primarily PC based and all Microsoft Office. We did try the iWork office equivalent from Apple, but it would have a lot of trouble when opening and saving MS Office documents. There would be many formatting errors or changes which caused a lot of extra work just to print and turn in an assignment. After installing this, it is so much better. There are subtle differences between MS Office for PC and MS Office for Mac, but it pretty much operates the same way and will exchange files back and forth with ease. I have only had a couple minor formatting issues opening files from an older Office 2003 format but nothing 30 seconds couldn't correct. If you are going to be exchanging files with MS Office users, save yourself some money and many headaches, just get this to begin with.

Works great for me

First off I should mention that I am not a power user of Office products, so there is no way I can discuss some of the more advanced features. I can say that I have tried all three applications and have had no stability issues. I have many very old documents that have been opened without issue by the new product. And I have no issues with the user interface. Since I installed the product a month ago there have already been two updates, which I find to be encouraging as it shows that Microsoft is actively maintaining this version despite its age. I don't plan on using the web document sharing capabilities although I can see where this would be very useful for those needing to collaborate on document development. My only concern is the licensing strategy, I have read that if you install the product on a single Mac, but have two users on that Mac, it uses up two of the licenses. Having two Macs at home, and my wife and I sharing them both, would mean we need four licenses if we want to use Office. I would much prefer that it be licensed for three machines, not three users. I have also read that it is difficult to activate the product again if you replace your Mac - apparently you need to go through Microsoft to deal with that issue and it isn't an easy process. Having said all that, I haven't experienced any licensing issues yet myself but have read of numerous issues on various online forums.

Absolutely excellent

ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT!! Screw Microsoft with their STUPID STUPID rounds of updates that make their software worse and worse and they force you to use it. This old version is perfect - the best version of excel available

Office for Mac 2011

Wow what a program! I went and got the book that shows you all the things you can do with this program and then threw it in the corner since I know I will never email two hundred video copies of any future colonoscopy to a preset mailing list based on a age and sex based address book. It would be possible. The greatest thing about this program is that it is similar enough to the last version to get through real things like writing letters and sending of printing them without a sixty hour course in using the Cyrillic script alphabet, which it will also do. I have not discovered if the program will shine my shoes and improve my sex life but it fills my simple needs and works with the latest operating systems that my new computer came with. Oh PS it has only crashed for unknown reasons twice in about six weeks. Go Microsoft!!!!

2011 was the best version. I had to put the newer version ...

2011 was the best version. I had to put the newer version (2016?) on my newer computer and I don't like it as much. It is full of changes that increase sophistication but decrease usefulness. I will only stop using my 2011 when my computer dies...

So Glad That I Purchased the Disc Version of This Product

So glad that I purchased the disc version of this product. By buying this version I get three installations for three users. The download version is one installation for one user. Office 2011 is a real solid performer. Installation is a snap. Also, as I have upgraded computers and changed computers I can easily install the software on my new machine without the massive hassles of downloaded software. Office 2011 does not have the drab, flat look of Yosemite. But rather it's pleasant to look at and a joy to use. Highly recommend for any Mac owner.

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