Microsoft has posted today on The Office for Mac Blog a new video giving a first look a the Office for Mac 2011 compatibility features along with other new tools such as Excel Sparklines and Photo Editing tools.
“Everybody speaks Office, and that’s why Office for Mac 2011 brings a level of compatibility between the Office for Windows suite and the Office for Mac suite that’s never been achieved before,” explains Microsoft Senior Mac Evangelist in the Macintosh Business Unit [MacBU] Kurt Schmucker.
According to Microsoft, the following are video highlights:
- Visualize Your Data with Sparklines: Now in Excel 2011 you can create Sparklines for large amounts of data to get a quick visual summary of data using tiny charts that fit within a cell near its corresponding values. Use Sparklines to show trends in a series of values, such as the price of your home, or your monthly expenses. Sparklines debuted in Excel for Windows 2010, and due to our close working relationship with the team, we are also able to provide them in Excel 2011 – making it easy to share workbooks across platforms.
- Photo Editing with Ease: Across the new Office for Mac suite, users now have the ability to do basic photo editing tasks in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2011. No need to leave the application you’re currently working in to do photo editing, even complex tasks like background removal or color correction. With new and improved picture editing tools and SmartArt graphics everyone can feel like a design pro.
Office for Mac 2011 will be made available sometime in October of this year. Users can expect to pay $119 for the Home and Student Edition and $199 for the Home and Business Edition. The suite will be released in more than 11 languages including Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish,and Swedish.
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