Office for Mac 2011 Home & Student -Family Pack (3Macs/3User) [Old Version]

by Microsoft

• 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

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B003YCOJAI
• Product Dimensions: 3 x 8 x 12 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Software
• Release Date: October 26, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (566 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #3 in Software > Business & Office > Word Processing
  • #6 in Software > The Mac Software Store
  • #7 in Software > Business & Office > Office Suites

Product Description

Platform: Mac

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With over 1 billion PCs and Macs running Office, Microsoft Office is the most-trusted and most-used productivity suite ever. And Office for Mac 2011 is here to help you do more with your Mac your way. Use familiar applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to help you take your ideas further. And since Office for Mac is compatible with Office for Windows, you can work on documents with virtually anyone on a Mac or PC. Store your files in a password protected online SkyDrive folder to access, edit, or share your work from virtually anywhere with the free Office Web Apps.

Family Pack Version

Licensed for home and student use on three (3) Macs per household; not for use in any commercial, non-profit, or revenue generating business activities, or by any government organization.

What's New and Improved

Powerful writing tools help you create outstanding documents, then store, edit, and share your work easily on the web.

Clarify your financial picture with easy-to-analyze spreadsheets you can post online to view, edit, share, or coauthor with your team from virtually anywhere.

Create powerful, professional presentations that engage and inspire your audience, and present online as effectively as in person.

• Ribbon
  Access favorite commands quickly, and personalize your workspace.


• Office Web Apps*
  Post, edit, and share files from virtually anywhere.


• Coauthoring
  Simultaneously edit a file with authors in multiple locations.


• Template Gallery
  Visually select the perfect template for your next project.


• Photo Editing
  Remove backgrounds or add color filters right within PowerPoint.


• Full Screen View
  Use full screen to maximize space for reading and writing.


• Presentation Broadcast
  Broadcast a presentation instantly online, even to people without PowerPoint.


• Improved Publishing Layout View
  Create visually rich newsletters, brochures, and documents easily.


• Sparklines
  Create small charts in a single cell to discover patterns in your data.


• Visual Basic Support
  Automate repetitive tasks by programming your favorite commands.


• Dynamic Reordering
  Rearrange layers of text, photos, and graphics quickly.

* Requires a Windows Live ID, internet connection and supported browser.

Work the way you want, where you want.

Microsoft Office for Mac adds rich new features to the familiar Office applications you already know, helping you to manage your home and schoolwork the way you want. Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 Family Pack is licensed for home and student use on three (3) Macs per household and is not intended for commercial use. It includes:

Word for Mac 2011

Powerful writing tools help you create outstanding documents, then store, edit, and share your work easily on the web.

• Create visually rich newsletters, brochures, and documents in Publishing Layout view.
• Instantly see styles applied in your document with Visual Styles.
• Work in Full Screen view to maximize space for reading and writing documents.
• Rearrange layers of text, photos, and graphics quickly with Dynamic Reordering.
• View, edit, store, and share documents online with the Word Web App on Windows Live SkyDrive.*
• Share and coauthor Word documents with virtually anyone, whether they're using Office on a Mac or PC.

Excel for Mac 2011

Clarify your financial picture with easy-to-analyze spreadsheets you can post online to view, edit, share, or coauthor with your team from virtually anywhere.

• Clarify your data using Conditional Formatting with icons, data bars, and color scales.
• Spot trends with new Sparklines, small charts that fit in a single cell.
• Spend more time analyzing data and less time sifting through it with PivotTables.
• Organize, filter, and format related data with Excel tables.
• Increase efficiency and save time by automating repetitive tasks using Visual Basic.
• View, edit, store, and share spreadsheets online with the Excel Web App on Windows Live SkyDrive.*
• Share and coauthor Excel spreadsheets with virtually anyone, whether they're using Office on a Mac or PC.

PowerPoint for Mac 2011

Create powerful, professional presentations that engage and inspire your audience, and present online as effectively as in person.

• Remove backgrounds or add color filters to your photos right within PowerPoint.
• Move beyond the conference room and broadcast your presentations online.
• Rearrange layers of text, photos, and graphics quickly with Dynamic Reordering.
• Rehearse, check your timing, and take notes in Presenter View.
• View, edit, store, and share Office documents online with the PowerPoint Web App on Windows Live SkyDrive.*
• Share and coauthor PowerPoint presentations with virtually anyone, whether they're using Office on a Mac or PC.

* Requires a Windows Live ID, internet connection and supported browser.

Product Description

For all life’s opportunities. With over 1 billion PCs and Macs running Office, Microsoft Office is the most-trusted and most-used productivity suite ever. And Office for Mac 2011 is here to help you do more with your Mac your way. Use familiar applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to help you take your ideas further. And since Office for Mac is compatible with Office for Windows, you can work on documents with virtually anyone on a Mac or PC. Store your files in a password protected online SkyDrive folder to access, edit, or share your work from virtually anywhere with the free Office Web Apps. Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 includes Word for Mac 2011, Excel for Mac 2011, and PowerPoint for Mac 2011.Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5.8 or Later.What's in the box: Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Student Edition 2011 (Family Pack) and 90 Days of Tech Support.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

742 of 787 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware early adopter stability issues and problems with product activation November 12, 2010

By amd

Platform for Display:Mac

Office 2011 has a number of new, very useful features, and is a refinement over the previous edition of Office for Mac. The program is cleaner in appearance and much faster to load. There are two glaring issues, however, that would lead me to STRONGLY advise against purchase of the software at this time. First, there are widespread issues with product activation. Office 2011 comes with a new "activation PIN" that must be activated by the sale merchant (similar to how a giftcard will not work unless they scan it at the register). You are then required to enter the PIN on Microsoft's website, at which point (if all has gone well), you will receive your product ID (CD key) that you then use to install the software. In theory, the process should be painless---but Microsoft has been having issues nationwide with activation of the PIN (even if you pay for the software) and I had to deal with about a week's worth of hassles and e-mails/phone calls between Microsoft and my vendor before I could get my legitimately bought-and-paid-for software installable on my computer.

Second, despite its flashiness and cosmetic improvements, this software is just not ready for prime-time in terms of stability. This is an essential point for anyone that works on important (or long) documents--you do not want to risk using this product, because it has not been adequately beta-tested or debugged, and the development team and Microsoft have not provided its customers the courtesy nor respect in ensuring data loss is minimized when using their software. The previous version of Office for Mac has been out for a while and has had hundreds if not thousands of megabytes worth of updates and patches over the years, which makes it relatively reliable to work on.... Prior to purchasing Office 2011, you should be aware that there are significant stability issues with MS Excel that make even window-rendering painfully (and reproducibly) difficult (this is on a well-equipped Core i7 Macbook Pro)--where the screen stutters and ghosts when you try and resize documents, for example. MS Word has a glaring bug in it that causes it to, at times, abruptly quit, or worse, convert lengthy documents into asterisks without warning (or option for recovery). Microsoft has been notified of these issues but it is unclear whether or if they are working on solutions. I would recommend sticking with the previous iteration of MS Office, wait for at least 6-8 months prior to purchasing this, or use something alternatively that has an established track record of stability, ease-of-use, and features, such as Apple's iWork. Read more ›

100 of 109 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes! Actual Compatibility Between the PC at Work and my Mac at Home October 26, 2010

By L. Gildart TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Platform for Display:Mac|Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)

UPDATE: Outlook is now included! Yay! Thank you Microsoft! It does cost extra, but that is to be expected.

I work with legal documents that have stringent formatting requirements, so for a word processing program on my Mac to actually help me it has to preserve formatting across conversions. This does. I'm not a huge power user. I'm a disabled former lawyer who helps out with cases from my former law office when my old colleagues are extra busy or want help for a new associate. I am nearly always working with documents that have been formatted by someone else, and it's my job to return those documents with that formatting intact.

Which just doesn't happen with most Mac versions of Windows programs.

Which is why I run a copy of Windows on the Mac Mini I have in the living room and a Windows-based copy of Office in that partition.

But I'm not going to need to switch off my laptop to help revise a brief or check a motion. I can copy captions and have them come out the way they went in. My son has had similar issues converting his schoolwork back and forth, and he, too, is much happier with the new version of Office.

The updated User Interface is interactive without being annoying, and the programs feel refreshed without having a steep learning curve price to pay for the improvements. Excel now has a mini-graphing feature that can show you patterns in your data in real time. Powerpoint is cool. It's not something I've used professionally, ever, but it really is easy and fun to put together presentations.

The price is not cheap, even for three licenses. I would deduct half a star, if I could, for price gouging.... But if you need true compatibility with work or school pcs running appropriately licensed Office programs, this is a much easier and less expensive way to get it than installing Windows on your Mac and running the pc version of the program. I'm using the Home and Student version, which works just fine for what I need (word processing and light number crunching for my "work" as a classroom parent at my kid's school and occasionally helping my old colleagues). If you are looking to use the program commercially, you should get the business version. Read more ›

157 of 176 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Excel is seriously broken November 3, 2010

By Thomas O'Connor

Platform for Display:Mac|Amazon Verified Purchase

I like the interface, a combination of the Window's ribon I hate, but have learned to deal with and the menus I know so well. I like the ribbon on this version more than the floating tool bars in Excel 2004. This is the good.

However within moments of first opening Excel 2011 I went to see if the most annoying bug from Excel 2004 had been fixed. When you try editing a formula in a conditional format in Excel 2004, you cannot use the cursor keys for editing. All cursor keys do is to add cell references. My work around is to have a text editor handy so I can copy the formula, edit in the text editor, and past back into Excel. One would think that after 8 years, Microsoft would have had lots of opportunity to fix this. Not so. Same bug.

I need to keep an Excel 2003 for Windows format for most clients, so I set the default file format to be Excel 97-2004. I also tend to use a lot of conditional formats. But when I saved a file with those same conditional formats I created in Excel 2004 (that is I didn't add any new conditions), Excel 2011 added sheet references in the format formulas, which is not recognized by older versions. When I enabled strict backward compatibility, Excel removed those references, but changed every cell reference to the first row. I spent 2 hours fixing this in the 2004 version of Excel.

Try copying an existing worksheet to a new worksheet. Works just fine. Well, unless you have a filter in that existing worksheet, and you highlight the whole (filtered) worksheet, then copy and try pasting into a new worksheet. Excell 2011 appears to freeze, until it finally tells you it ran out of memory.

I have some fairly large worksheet with conditional formats which use formulas.... No where near the limit of Excel 2004's capability, but enough that it slows a recalculation down to about one second. That same spreadsheet takes Excel 2011 nearly a minute to recalculate. Funny when Excel 2004 is running in a virtual machine emulating a PowerPC, and Excel 2011 is running in native Intel mode.

I can't speak to the other applications in the suite, I tend to use iWork for editing and presentation, but I live in Excel, and I've had to remove Excel 2011 in order to be able to get anything done.

Excel Mac for 2011 still seems to be missing some of the events in the Windows version, like Worksheet_FollowHyperlink(). Either that, or macros are really flaky, haven't really tested that aspect just yet.

I've seen Alpha software which was more reliable. I can't believe Microsoft actually released this version. Apparently they don't have any power users in their test cadre.

If Microsoft gets their act together and fixes these defects, it might be a decent upgrade. But if you do anything more than the basics (which Apple Numbers does just fine), stick to the 2004 version. Amazon still sells it. Read more ›