Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 helps your family make the most of every opportunity — from managing the family budget and planning important gatherings, to helping your kids with their history project. Now its easier than ever to create great-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. You can communicate and share with family and friends, whether theyre on a Mac or PC. And access your files whenever you need them, using any computer with a web browser and Office Web Apps. Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; and features the best compatibility available with Office for Windows.

Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 includes Mac versions of Word 2011, Excel 2011, and PowerPoint 2011; the most familiar and trusted productivity applications used around the world at home, school, and business.

Word 2011

• Beautify your documents: Create visually rich newsletters, brochures, and more.
• Reveal the power of Styles: Instantly see the styles applied in your document.
• Access your files anywhere: Post, access, edit, and share your files from virtually anywhere.

PowerPoint 2011

• Retouch your photos: Remove backgrounds or add color in just a few clicks.
• Broadcast your slides: Work with others and show your presentations online.
• Manage layers easily: Rearrange layers of text, photos, and graphics quickly with Dynamic Reordering.

Excel 2011

• Manage your data: Organize, filter, and format related data with Excel tables.
• Display data visually: Clarify your data with icons, data bars, and color scales.
• Spot trends with Sparklines: Create small charts in a single cell to discover patterns in your data.

Work More Efficiently

Make the Most of Every Minute
Create documents from polished templates. Rely on Outlook for Mac for your e-mail needs and more. And use the Office for Mac ribbon interface that gives you the tools you need at your fingertips and a familiar Office experience across PC and Mac. What could be more efficient than that?

Template Gallery: More themes, more templates, more customizable.
Easily access thousands of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel 2011 themes and templates, and use them to create beautiful, professional-looking documents. Quickly find recent documents so you can get right back to work. You can also customize and preview any theme or template before selecting it—so you know youve got what you need on the first try.

New Database and Conversation View: Consolidate and easily access your e-mail.
Office for Mac 2011 delivers a new application for all your mission-critical e-mails, scheduling, contacts, and more – Outlook for Mac 2011. The new database stores data in individual, accessible files, making Outlook for Mac compatible with Spotlight and Time Machine. The new Outlook for Mac also enables you to manage long e-mail conversations into a simple, compact form—so you can quickly get up to speed on the whole story.

Perform common tasks, fast.
Office for Mac 2011 features a dynamic ribbon interface that puts commonly used features right where you need them, in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for Mac. Weve translated the ribbon for the Mac to help streamline the creation of polished documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and e-mail. Office for Mac 2011 feels familiar, whether you are a longtime Mac user or use Office on a PC.

More Polished Docs

Rely on professional, polished results
Make your documents as professional as the great ideas behind them. Easy-to-build visuals and graphics underscore ideas and data to make your reports and presentations pop. And you can rely on your documents looking and behaving as you designed them—whether they are viewed on a Mac or a PC.

Excel: Smarter, sharper ways to visualize and present your data.
In Excel 2011, Sparklines give you the ability to easily create charts and graphs that quickly summarize your data. With Sparklines, also available in Windows-based Office 2010, you can see—and show—the story your data is telling, in a compact space. And Excel 2011 PivotTables are easily manipulated and highly compatible with the Windows version—making working with your data even easier and more intuitive.

Photo Editing: Give your projects more visual impact.
Edit images from within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. Recolor photos and images, apply filters and corrections, and even remove extraneous background imagery, right from the application itself. Theres no need to leave the Office applications to create visuals that impress.

Compatibility: You look more professional when youre compatible.
Office for Mac 2011 delivers reliable compatibility between Mac- and Windows-based computers, ensuring that your work looks the way you intended when its opened by teachers, your boss, or your customers. Shared tools and file formats between Office for Mac and Windows-based Office mean that your polished reports, presentations, and spreadsheets look and behave just as you designed them.

Work Better Together

Be more efficient, wherever you are
Work together easily and efficiently, with cloud-hosted Web Apps that let individuals and businesses share, edit, and interact with Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents. Collaboration has never been easier—wherever you, your colleagues, and your clients are located.

Coauthoring: One document, multiple writers.
Coauthor documents in real time, with as many contributors as you like. Office for Mac 2011 gives you better ways to work together—so that you never have to worry about version control again. Its compatible with Office for Windows", so you can share with virtually anyone. And if your team needs to meet, quickly transition to a video or live chat with Messenger for Mac.

Outlook: See your invitations and your calendar, at a glance.
Inline calendaring now happens right in your inbox—so you dont have to switch back and forth from your calendar to e-mail. When you get a meeting invitation, you can instantly see if you have a conflict. You can also see custom calendar views based on categories. And easily plan your day to get more done.

PowerPoint: Put on a show—anywhere—with Broadcast Slide Show.
Now you can remotely present your PowerPoint slides to anyone with an Internet connection. Your viewers dont even need to have PowerPoint installed to view your show. You control the pace and the flow of your presentation, just as if you were meeting face to face. And you dont need to worry about e-mailing big files; just send the URL generated by PowerPoint and let the show begin.

Why you're going to love Office 2011

Office 2011: Our favorite features
Office for Mac 2011 is built to keep up with you and your work. Across the suite, applications launch faster and are ready to get to work when you are. Reorder Objects enables the rearrangement of layers of graphics in Word or PowerPoint with a stunning interactive interface. And Full-Screen View in Word allows you to focus on your work, and lets the interface controls and the distractions of instant messages and email fade way.

Performance improvements: Faster, smoother, better.
Office for Mac 2011 gives you an enhanced user experience overall, as performance and launch times have been improved in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Your documents feel “lighter,” since they load fast, and respond quickly to your commands. And searching text within documents has never been faster.

Reorder Objects: Move objects and data around, and through, your documents.
Word and PowerPoint give you the ability to create rich documents, by layering text, shapes, pictures, SmartArt, animations, and charts. With Office for Mac 2011, you can now easily reorder all these elements with a stunningly simple visual interface that make the management of your sophisticated designs not so complex.

Word Full-Screen View: Let your content be front and center.
Now you can tailor your use of Word depending on whether you want to write your document, or read it. Full-Screen View gives you a limited user-interface and blocks interruptions from email and instant messages, helping you to keep your focus on your content.

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Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 System Requirements:

• A Mac computer with an Intel processor
• Mac OS X version 10.5.8 or later
• 1 GB of RAM recommended
• 2 GB of available hard disk space
• HFS+ hard disk format (also known as Mac OS Extended or HFS Plus)
• DVD drive or connection to a local area network (if installing over a network)
• 1280 x 800 or higher resolution monitor

Additional items or services are required to use some features:

• Certain online functionality requires a Windows Live ID.
• Certain features require Internet access (fees may apply).