This security feature requires that you use Microsoft’s Information Rights Management (IRM) tools, which also means that you’ll need a volume license edition of Office 2011 and a Microsoft Rights Management server, but the upside is that you’ll have much finer control over what other users can do with the documents you create. Word 2011 includes support for Microsoft SharePoint, SkyDrive, simultaneous document editing, the option to communicate with others while you edit documents together, and improves the control you have over the kinds of rights users have to review and edit documents.
Word 2011 has significantly improved collaboration tools, making it obvious that Microsoft now considers Word for Mac, and thereby the Mac itself, to be an enterprise-level work tool.
King of the Word: Word’s new UI unifies the interface between Mac and Windows versions and offers Spotlight-like find and replace tools. And because you’re able to hide the Ribbon, you can get it out of the way when all you want to work with are words. While initially the Ribbon may seem daunting to master, in practice I found that I wasn’t wasting time looking for the tools I needed to get my work done. If you’d rather not use the Ribbon, you can hide it. Inserting an image into a document? The Ribbon contains everything you need to resize, color correct, wrap text around, or otherwise format that image. Adding a table or a chart? You’ll find a complete set of tools for editing and formatting the same. Working on a word processing document? The Ribbon displays a set of text formatting tools.
You can download a free trial version, but you'll have to sign up for Office 365 and provide your credit card details. However, the history version allows us to recover documents before any changes were made, therefore, if there were an error, you can always recover a previous version. And all the latter, with space to add comments and replies, so that all members of the team can get to know what design, contents, and format modifications have been carried out. Therefore, if you work collaboratively you'll always have access to the most recent version of the document. That's why it has included file synchronization with OneDrive in order to grant reading and writing permissions with other users. We're continuously connected to the Internet so it sounds fair to encourage this aspect in any program, and Word wasn't going to be any less.
However, if it continues to be the favorite software for millions of users it's because Microsoft has worked to adapt its features to how we work nowadays, both in the professional, educational and domestic scopes.Ī tool present at schools, homes and offices. What you've read until now are some of the general features that we all expect from this program. Insert maths equations with the pencil mode.Receive recommendations about the work you're carrying out.Carry out internal or online content searches.Compatible with ODF (OpenDocument Format) files used in free office suites.Automatically corrects grammar and spelling mistakes.