It's invaluable for ensuring lengthy documents are consistently formatted. Styles are a handy way of saving combinations of text size, alignment, font choice and other formatting options so they can be applied to single sentences or large blocks of text with a single click. The previously all-encompassing Formatting palette is still present and has been renamed but still contains the buttons and controls of important functions such as Styles. This soup-to-nuts guide gets the Mac crowd up to date quickly and easily. Their presence makes it easier to discover and learn keyboard shortcuts than in the almost menuless Windows versions.įor determined Ribbon-haters there's also a Formatting toolbar containing the most frequently used text formatting buttons. Get up to speed on the revolutionary changes in Office for the Mac The 2011 version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for the Mac sports major changes from what Mac users are accustomed to.
Veterans of Office 20 for Windows will feel most comfortable with it, but unlike those versions of Office the traditional Mac menus are still available as an alternative. The Ribbon takes some getting used to as it's unlike the interface of any other Mac program, but it's worth bearing with as it generally is easier to use than the interfaces of previous versions of Word.
