Microsoft Posts Second Video Highlighting Compatibility and Photo Editing in Office for Mac 2011

Submitted by lalit on August 18, 2010 - 1:47pm.

Microsoft today posted second video highlighting new features coming in Office for Mac 2011. The first video released last month showed the UI, Outlook and template gallery, whereas this video focus professional looking visuals, graphics and compatibility. Following features were shown in the video:

  • Excel: 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: 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. There’s no need to leave the Office applications to create visuals that impress.
  • Compatibility: Office for Mac 2011 delivers reliable compatibility between Mac- and Windows-based computers, ensuring that your work looks the way you intended when it’s 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

Check out the video below in which Senior Evangelist, Macintosh Business Unit, Kurt Schmucker talks about new features in Office for Mac 2011 that will ship in October this year.