One of the major new changes to the suite (on the Windows side, too) is the ability to collaborate and share your work using Web apps. Add the ease of compatibility with a strong feature set across the entire suite and you have a desktop office package that's almost a must-have in both large and small businesses, and even home productivity settings. But if you work with primarily Windows users who use Office, it's tough to beat the automatic compatibility of using the same programs. Certainly many Mac users will look first at Apple's iWork for a productivity suite, and it is a great office suite in its own right. Once we dug deep into the feature set of Office 2011 for Mac, we saw there were several enhancements that made the whole suite better, and some of the niftier tweaks are even Mac-exclusive. Not only has it nearly reached feature parity (and cross compatibility) with the Mac counterparts to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, but it has finally added Outlook, the e-mail and scheduling client Mac business fans have been clamoring for for years. Though the latest package is still not on par with the Windows version (you get only the four main programs-a big difference when you consider the Windows version has 10), Microsoft made a big leap with this latest version for the Mac in several other ways.
If you continue to experience problems after you restart, reinstall Office from your original installation disk, and then install this update again.įor additional assistance, visit the Microsoft Web site.Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 offers a solid update to the Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the other members of the productivity suite.
For more information about administrator accounts, see Mac Help. Make sure that the user account you use to authenticate the update installer is an administrator account.Restart your computer and try installing the update again.
If it is at another location on your computer, move it to the Applications folder on your startup volume, and then try installing the update again.
Note This update is also available from Microsoft AutoUpdate, an application that can automatically keep your Microsoft software up to date. To remove the update installer, first drag the Microsoft Office 2011 14.7.7 Update volume to the Trash, and then drag the file that you downloaded to the Trash.