Advertisement Did you know that Microsoft Office was released for Mac before Windows PCs? This now-ubiquitous software has been around since 1989, and is still going strong today as one of the most popular choices for an office suite. There have traditionally been both good and bad differences between the Windows and Mac versions, so we were wondering if this was still true today.
Let’s take a look at how Office for Mac it compares to its Windows cousin, among other OS X office suites. Compatibility Since the introduction of the document formats (namely.docx,.xlsx,.pptx, among others), compatibility between Mac and Windows versions has been excellent.
The new document formats usher in an emphasized importance on document standards (although Microsoft still isn’t willing to move over to the OpenDocument formats). This is really good news since most documents that circulate now use one of these formats. Therefore, you should see absolutely no difference when using either version of Office. There may be very small differences when using the older formats, primarily because they aren’t looking for maximum compatibility through strict standards.
Interface and Features Although the current version of Office for Mac is two years older than the current version available for Windows, there aren’t really many differences between the two. Office 2011 for Mac has the same ribbon interface that Office 2013 for Windows uses, and this is probably because the ribbon interface hasn’t changed much since being introduced with Office 2010. When comparing both versions, there really isn’t a lot of difference. The layout may be different but virtually all of the included functions are available in both versions, as long as you can find it. I do have to admit though that the interface in Office for Mac 2011 is somewhat clunkier than its newer Windows counterpart. In the Windows version, there are only a few shortcut buttons in the top left corner, within the “title bar” area, besides the ribbon tabs and respective buttons. On a Mac, you have the title bar, menu options, a longer list of shortcut buttons, and then the ribbon tabs and respective buttons.
I really hope that Microsoft considers cleaning this up in their next release. At least there’s one advantage to the Mac interface that the Windows version doesn’t have: a dedicated “search in document” box where you can easily search for something specific in your document. Although not part of the traditional set of apps under the “Office” brand, the recently released OneNote app gives a hopeful preview for future interface improvements. As you can see above, the interface is much cleaner.
There are a few differences in functionality between the two versions. You can’t use ActiveX in the Mac version (as ActiveX is a Windows-only technology, albeit an unsafe one) nor use OpenDocument formats such as.ODT, commonly used by LibreOffice and similar open source editors. Support for right-to-left languages is also absent. Outlook specifically does not support CalDAV or CardDAV, nor does it allow Cached Exchange Mode to be disabled. If you receive Rich-Text Format files from users of Outlook for Windows, you won’t be able to open them as they’re saved as winmail.dat. Most other things should be possible, though there may be a different route to get where you want.
Careful use of the Help menu will be very important if you’re jumping ship to the OS X version. It’s been a while since there’s been a major update to the office suite since its release in 2011, although the absolute latest point release came out over 3 months ago. However, there are rumors going around that Microsoft is set to announce a new version of Office for Mac – but we’ll just have to wait and see what Redmond’s next move is. Cost and Product Availability So there really isn’t much difference between versions, but what about the cost?
If you subscribe to Microsoft’s newer (which includes 5 PCs for $9.99/month), you’ll be able to install Office on as many computers as you’re allowed to – and that doesn’t matter whether it’s a PC or Mac. Unfortunately it’s not quite that straightforward though. While you’re paying the same to get Office for Mac, you’re not getting the same. For Mac, you only get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. There’s no Access or Publisher. This could be a problem if you depend on those apps, or if you happened to pay for a higher tier of Office. Besides the Office 365 subscription-based offering, you can also buy the more.
These bundles are one-time purchases of just one version. You can receive updates for that version, but you’re out of luck when a new version comes out.
Home & Student which includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can be had for $139.99. Home & Office, which adds Outlook, can be had for $219.99. The benefit to these bundles is that you make a one-time purchase and won’t have to continually pay, but the downside to this is that you’ll need to pay for every upgrade.
Again, there’s no Access or Publisher. Unlike the PC version, you also can’t enjoy the flexibility of buying apps “a la carte”. At least you’re not missing out, because each app costs a whopping $109.99 when purchased this way. What about OneNote? Historically it hasn’t been available for Mac, but it was recently released (March 17 to be exact) as a free app that you can download. Compared to iWork New Apple computers come with iWork preinstalled.
This means that besides iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand, you also get Pages (which is a There are plenty of lightweight and easy-to-use text editors for Mac users, but for projects requiring desktop publishing features, Apple's recently overhauled Pages is still a good solution.), Numbers, and Keynote — the equivalents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These programs are also pretty good at creating documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and you may even be inclined to use it because you didn’t have to pay any extra to get them. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote come with pretty good support for the Microsoft formats. I didn’t have any problems opening or saving to these formats, although there was one document that rendered slightly differently due to custom indentations in a numbered list. Users with an Apple ID can access web versions of these apps from, in the same you can access web versions of Office apps in. Alternatives There are a few alternatives to both Office and iWork. If you’re looking for a cloud solution, Google Drive is always there.
If you’re looking for other Mac apps, try using, a Try out a simple word processor for Mac. Maybe you're unwilling to fork out the funds for Apple's Pages or Microsoft's Word.
Maybe you're looking for something lightweight and speedy? Or maybe you just like., or, an Be it a school paper or a blog post, all of us at some point find ourselves in the position of having to dump a bunch of characters into a text file. While cell phone., which is available for iOS as well. Conclusion So there you have it: Office for Mac is pretty darn close to its Windows cousin. While I certainly hope that the interface gets prettier with the next release, it at least supports all of the same features and tries to look as similar as possible to Office for Windows. If you were set on Office and just wanted to make sure that it didn’t suck – it doesn’t. What do you think about Office for Mac?
What could it improve on? Will 2014 see a new version? Add your thoughts in the comments!
The first time I realized that there were differences in Microsoft Office for Mac, I was waist-deep in a complicated Excel table. I knew that there must be some clever way to solve my data dilemma, so I Googled a solution. And I found one, right away! Only to discover that, mystifyingly, the tool I needed simply didn’t exist. I had the right version of Excel, and the tool wasn’t just somewhere else. That’s when I first found the differences in Microsoft Office for Mac. Turns out that there are many disappointing differences in Microsoft Office for Mac when compared to Microsoft Office for Windows.
Unavailable Applications There are a number of office applications that you simply won’t find on the macOS version of Microsoft Office. Microsoft Publisher: This desktop publishing app aimed at beginners isn’t a major loss for Mac users. There’s plenty of other apps that can do the job, from something as simple as Pages to something more complex like InDesign.
And there’s plenty in between: one thing the Mac doesn’t lack is creativity software. Microsoft Access: this database management tool is a much more useful application.
It’s often used to take the place of unwieldy Excel databases. While it’s not the best version of the software available, it does come with Office, making it an attractive addition to the normal productivity suite. Unfortunately, Mac users won’t have access to this application. Differences in Microsoft Office for Mac Here’s a list of the major features you won’t find in Microsoft Office for Mac. It’s not guaranteed to cover everything, but it should hit in the highlights.
Office Suite There’s some stuff missing from all parts of the Microsoft Office for Mac suite. Visual Basic: This proprietary programming language is available on the Mac. However, some functions are missing, and the implementation is not as fully-featured as the Windows version. Code that works in Windows might not work in macOS.
And it’s generally harder to write and execute. SharePoint Support: SharePoint is used for sharing files and distributing data in corporate environments.
Office for Mac does include support for SharePoint, but some features are missing. Accessibility Checker: checks your document for formatting or content that might make it difficult to read for users with disabilities.
If you have government-mandated reporting styles, or your organization cares about accessibility, this can be a great help. Office Roaming: Windows users can connect to a streaming copy of Office on a PC for temporary use. Right-to-left Language Support: Hebrew and Arabic text direction is not supported. ActiveX: you might be most familiar with these macro-style document plugins as security risks. They also allow for significant programming within the Office environment. Document Inspector: Scans for hidden data and personal data in documents, helping you stay safe when sharing files.
Word Embed Fonts: When sharing documents on Word for Windows, you can embed custom fonts to display with your document. MacOS users instead must save out PDFs, which don’t allow users to easily edit them.
Booklet Printing: Printing for booklet binding is not available in Office for Mac. Open and Repair: Office for Mac can try to open damaged files, but it won’t do as much to fix them as Windows’ Open and Repair. Built-in Screenshots: Word for Windows includes a built-in screenshot tool, which can automatically take screenshots and insert them in to your document. MacOS has a pretty powerful screenshot tool that can help make up the difference, however. Smart Lookup: This tool search through Bing for the selected text. Useful for quickly defining a term or acronym you’re not familiar with, but hardly essential.
Digital Ink: this digital drawing and annotation tool won’t be found on the Mac version of Word. Excel PivotCharts: these charts work with PivotTables, visualizing information created by your new layouts to reveal patterns. While some of this functionality can be captured manually, the automated features of PivotCharts won’t be available.: this ultra-powerful add-in version of PivotTables isn’t available on the Mac. Built-in Database Connectivity: Mac Excel cannot sync with data from external databases.
Some data can be imported from external sources, but updated sync is not possible. Customized shortcuts: You can’t assign your own keyboard shortcuts in Excel for Mac. All the modifiers are different too, so your muscle memory is probably shot.
Outlook Outlook users might have a problem that’s more annoying that missing features. The email and calendar app is not super compatible with iCloud calendar, especially not when it comes to the iPhone and Windows machines. So if you’re a big iCloud user, you might look elsewhere. Google Security: Outlook for Mac is not as secure as its Window’s counterpart when it comes to Gmail addresses. You’ll need to explicitly permit less secure apps to get Outlook to interface with your Gmail address.
This is not so for the Windows version. Email editing and exporting: tables in email and composing emails in Word are both excluded. “Save As” for emails is also not present. Exchange: In general Exchange is supported, but certain features like managing distribution lists or supporting all Exchange Server versions are not. Voting Buttons: not available in the Mac version Social Connector: likewise, not available in any Mac version of Outlook A Solution?
These missing features will almost certainly not be added to Office for Mac in the future. If you absolutely require the missing features, you can install to run the more complete version of Office or install Boot Camp on your Mac. Just keep in mind that single-license users can only install the suite on one machine. Multi-license users could install Office on both Windows and macOS.
But pure cross-compatibility seems to be out of the question for now. You might also like the following posts. Accessibility Checker wasn’t in early versions, but it was added a few months ago, this may be true of some of the other missing things as well, or it may come in a future update which happen every month or so in the regular stable version (more often if you change your settings in AutoUpdate “Insider Builds” Slow is still pretty stable, but gives you access to new features a few weeks at least before it makes it to the standard updates) If it doesn’t show up in your office, make sure to run the updates. (it can also help to run the office updates if one of the apps starts having issues after a macOS update – have seen this at least a couple of times with Outlook especially) I did a quick check on a few random other features listed here, and also found that PivotCharts were also added in October 2017 And this bit of news from last month on how much they are trying to get feature parity –. I’ve been a Mac user since its birth in 1984.
Microsoft is the Evil Empire! I have the latest Microsoft Office for Mac, but only because I was a federal government employee (we used Windows and MS Office) and purchased it for $19.90 plus S&H of about $1.90. I NEVER use it, unless absolutely necessary. I pretty much have jettisoned EVERYTHING Microsoft and use other, better software for word processing, etc. On the Mac: Nisus, Mellel, and SoftMaker Office 2018 for Mac (coming soon) are at least as good, if not better. Once I retired, I got rid of Microsoft almost entirely, turned my Windows laptop into a Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) machine. I like it SO much better than Windows (Windows is HORRIBLE software).
Both Mac and Linux are SO much better, and never crash as Windows does so often. Yes, Linux doesn’t have a really robust word processor yet, but it’s coming soon.
I’m a Beta tester for SoftMaker Office 2018 for both Mac and Linux, and it seems pretty damned good. It should be released on both systems this year, already exists for Windows. It is fully compatible with the Windows version and MS Office on all platforms BTW, in my 30+ years of using the Mac, MS-DOS and Windows, and Linux, the Mac works best, hands down; Linux is next, and Windows works horribly. And Windows is losing market share rapidly. The future is UNIX®/Linux.
I’d be interested to know what there is in Office for Mac that isn’t in Office for Windows – I suspect you’ll find that the differences go both ways. Outlook, for example, was heavily revised last year following the acquisition of another mail app (can’t remember which one, off-hand). As for SharePoint – Microsoft’s attitude to the latter is ambivalent, to say the least. Have you tried tracking down detailed information on SharePoint recently? It’s remarkably hard to find – OneDrive is being plugged as the be-all and end-all of shared storage, which IMHO rather misses the point of SharePoint’s many other features, but suggests Microsoft may be moving away from it and focusing on alternative solutions (see the double launch of collaborative tools at the end of 2017).
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Microsoft is working on a big redesign for its Outlook for Mac and Windows apps. The software giant revealed teasers for the new design during an, and the goal is to simplify the user interface on both Mac and Windows versions.
Spotted by, a lot of the changes look very similar to the Outlook for iOS app, with a single-line ribbon and a smaller set of default commands. Reducing complexity is one of the key aims of the redesign, to make it easier for new and existing Outlook users to navigate the email app. A new customizable ribbon will let Outlook for Mac and Windows users control which buttons are available, so you can tailor the email interface to your own common tasks. The left navigation panel will include quicker access to folders across multiple accounts, and looks like the switcher in Outlook for iOS. Outlook for Windows Microsoft is also focusing a lot of the design changes on Outlook for Mac. The software maker admits “MacBooks are popular amongst key influencers and decision makers,” and that the company “needs to win these users by delivering the best Outlook has to offer.” The overall interface will pick up the same ribbon changes and left navigation panel, but Outlook for Mac will also include improvements to search and calendar. Search will be faster and more reliable, and easier to discover in the top right corner of the app.
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Calendar will also be improved with fly-outs of information, and a better interface for managing appointments. While it’s not clear exactly when this design will be made available, Microsoft is already testing internal versions for both Mac and Windows. In the interim, features like sliding on a trackpad to delete messages and the ability to insert tables into emails are coming soon to Outlook for Mac. Expect most of these design and feature changes to be made available to Office 365 subscribers first, and then in Office 2019 updates. Outlook for Mac calendar changes.
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Hi Bullibasha, I understand you're trying to determine the difference between the Trash and Deleted Items. I totally understand you're confusion, so I'll see if I can't explain it! So, the label 'Trash' is a holdover from when Outlook for Mac was Entourage. There, the folder where deleted emails go was called Trash. In recent years though, they have tried to unify the UI so that Outlook for Mac generally looks and feels the Windows version, so what was once the Trash is now the Deleted Items folder.
That said, once you delete an email from your inbox using Outlook 2016, it will end up in the Deleted Items folder. From there, you can 'recover' the email by going to the Deleted Items folder and dragging it back to your inbox. I hope this helps!
When searching for a word, I must oarganise the search list by folder, or otherwise I do not see which folder they are in. This I have to do each, it takes several klicks. I would like this to be the default view, how is that done?
Then I see that there are more than one folders with the name Deleted But they do not appear in the navigation bar (side bar) along with the other folders So where are these Deleted folders in my Outlook App? There are both Trash and Deleted folders for each account? May I ask which version of Outlook for Mac you're using, and what e-mail provider you're using? GMail, for example, refers to the location deleted items are sent as 'Trash'.
As far as documentation or tutorials go, there are several resources Microsoft has for this: Outlook video training - you'll need to scroll down to the 'Mac, iPhone, iPad' section: Outlook 2016 for Mac documentation: Office for Mac quick start guides - very handy for jumping into an application quickly: I hope that helps! I use Outlook app version 15.39 with Yahoo mail.