Microsoft Office remains the gold standard of productivity suites, but there are several different versions/editions of Office available for users of Apple hardware. Together with and, the Apple user can access just about any of these versions/editions on each of their hardware platforms.

Uninstalled Mac Office 2011 and deleted library entries per instructions. Reinstalled (still under user P) and still can't open Word, Excel etc. Out of curiosity switched to user A, who did not install the software and who did not have any dashboard icons for the programs. Nov 16, 2015  Excel 2011 on Office 365 I have an Excel add-in that cannot run on later version son Excel than 2011. I have a subscription to Office 365, and I'm told by the add-in company that I can install a previous version of the software, but I'm not finding it when I.

While Microsoft produces all of these suites and the suites have a very high degree of similar functionality and visual fidelity, they are not identical, and no single suite has all the features of the entire group. This blog post will enumerate most of the differences between the following suites and their apps: • Office 2016 for Windows (“WinOffice 2016”) • Office 2016 for Mac (“MacOffice 2016”) • Office 2013 for Windows (“WinOffice 2013”) • Office 2011 for Mac (“MacOffice 2011”) • Office for iPad (“iPad Office”) The vast bulk of the content in this post is in the following five tables, which list the differences I found. Note that because the tables lists differences, no row of the table will be all checkmarks (since this would mean that all the suites had this feature, and thus this wasn’t a difference) nor will any row be all “X”s (since this would mean that no suite had this feature, and thus it isn’t a difference either). I am listing the differences because listing the similarities would take much too much room—the suites are that identical. Hopefully, this will assist you in choosing the best version/edition for your use. In addition, I will describe my personal Office setup.

Here are the five tables ( click on each thumbnail for an enlarged view): Table 1: Suite-wide differences. Figure 1: Arabic text in iPad Word on iPad Pro No multiple selection support in iPad PowerPoint: All Office programs provide some way to select content in a document (text, cells, or shapes, for example). This is needed so that the user can apply some operation on just that content (change the color, for example). The Windows or Mac Office applications also provide for “advanced” types of selections. In Word, this is non-contiguous text selections; in Excel this is non-contiguous cell selections; and in PowerPoint this is the simultaneous selection of multiple objects.

In Word and Excel, these really are advanced types of selections that are rarely needed by even sophisticated users of Word or Excel. (See Figures 2 and 3.). Figure 4: Multiple selections in MacPowerPoint 2011. Visio program for mac.

I wasn’t surprised to learn that non-contiguous selections were not supported in iPad Word or iPad Excel, but I was astonished and very disappointed to learn that multiple selections were not supported in iPad PowerPoint. My Use of Office So, which do I use? The short answer is that I use all of them. I worked on the MacOffice team at Microsoft for several years, and at that time I also worked closely with colleagues on the WinOffice teams. Because of this background, I am often able to pick just the right Office app that will make a given task the easiest to do. One task might be particularly well suited to MacWord 2011 because Publishing Layout View—a feature only in that one Word version—will make this task easy.