Home & Student provides Word, Excel and PowerPoint, while Home & Business adds Outlook and increased support. Two editions are available to the general public. It is also not officially supported on macOS High Sierra or macOS Mojave. As 32-bit software, it will not run on macOS Catalina or later versions of macOS. Support for Office for Mac 2011 was originally scheduled to end on January 12, 2016, but because Office for Mac 2016 did not come out until July 2015, Microsoft extended support until October 10, 2017.

Office for Mac 2011 also has a shorter lifecycle than Office 2010.

Outlook also does not allow the user to disable Cached Exchange Mode, unlike the Windows version, and it is therefore not possible to connect to an Exchange Server without downloading a local cache of mail and calendar data. Microsoft does not support CalDAV and CardDAV in Outlook, so there is no way to sync directly Outlook through iCloud. It also has several human language limitations, such as lack of support for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew and automatic language detection. 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, or OpenDocument Format. Office for Mac 2011 has a number of limitations compared to Office 2010 for Windows. It replaces Entourage, which was included in Office 2001, X, 20 for Mac. It also includes limited support for Apple's high-density Retina Displays, allowing the display of sharp text and images, although most icons within applications themselves are not optimized for this.Ī new version of Microsoft Outlook, written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, returns to the Mac for the first time since 2001 and has full support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. In addition, Office 2011 supports online collaboration tools such as OneDrive and Office Web Apps, allowing Mac and Windows users to simultaneously edit documents over the web. There are however, apparently, according to Microsoft Helpdesk, some third party applications that can address problems with the VBA interface with Office for Mac. Purchasing the Home Premium version of Office for Mac will not allow telephone support automatically to query any problems with the VBA interface. Support for Visual Basic for Applications macros has returned after having been dropped in Office 2008. 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.

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