The Home & Student edition is available in a single license for one computer and a family pack for three computers. Office 2011 requires an Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.8 or higher. Microsoft Messenger 8 is included with both editions, and Microsoft Communicator for Mac 2011, which communicates with Microsoft Lync Server, is available only to volume licensing customers. Home & Student provides Word, Excel and PowerPoint, while Home & Business adds Outlook and increased support. Two editions are available to the general public. It also cannot handle attachments in Rich Text Format e-mail messages sent from Outlook for Windows, which are delivered as winmail.dat attachments.

It does not support ActiveX controls, OpenDocument Format, or right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew. Office for Mac 2011 has a number of limitations compared to Office 2010 for Windows. In addition, Office 2011 supports online collaboration tools such as Windows Live SkyDrive and Office Web Apps, allowing Mac and Windows users to simultaneously edit documents over the web. Support for Visual Basic for Applications macros returned after having been dropped in Office 2008. It replaces Entourage, which was included in Office 20 for Mac.

A new version of Outlook, written using Mac OS X’s Cocoa API, returns to the Mac for the first time since 2001 and has full support for Exchange 2007.

Its interface is now more similar to Office 20 for Windows, with the addition of the Ribbon. Microsoft Office 2011 includes more robust enterprise support and greater feature parity with the Windows edition. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and is comparable to Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows. Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is the most recent version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X.

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