Here are some early thoughts on 2011. 2008 was very limited but (in the end) it became a stable release, after 2 years of bug fixes. Not totally stable, but acceptable. 2011 (other than the horrible Ribbons) can be configured pretty much like 2008. Of course 2011 is a new release so it has a "few" bugs (although it's stable for me). I am working with some pretty complex 80+ page formula-laden documents. It seems to open 2008 documents well without corrupting their Equations. This is a big deal for me.
Excel now launches without the stupid "print view" default that dims out everything outside a typical page view. In other words, 2011 Excel seems to behave pretty much like normal Excel. It also seems fast. The pivot table is the new Excel 2010 for Windows-style where you must deselect everything you don't want. It takes getting used to, but ultimately Excell 2011 is a huge, huge upgrade (considering VBA, the speed improvement, general compatibility).
Office 2011 ain't perfect but it is hard to imagine a bigger upgrade from 2008. It's a very impressive upgrade. PowerPoint is beautiful too, BTW.. its templates far better than Keynote IMHO (90% of Keynote templates appear designed for a small florist, yoga studio or similar, not business or academic). PowerPoint 2011 stepped up big time. Nice work Microsoft.
Can you place a picture object and move it to a desired placement on a blank page yet? Or do you still have to get Steve Hawkins and the entire Mensa membership on the phone to walk you through the 4 day process?
Yes, you can. You just need to set the Text Wrapping properties to "Behind Text". Office have several text wrapping options. Just Right Click on any picture and see the many Text Wrapping options. They are many good flexible options.
I needed to use a raw query for the purpose of building a set of email addresses for which one or more of those addresses would result in a match (the "OR" case he mentions below). The way I did it was to compose it in Spotlight, using "OR"'s between each item, then I saved the query to the saved searches. From there I was able to "Get Info" on the saved search and copy the raw query over into Outlook. This worked perfectly.
Not elegant, but it works...
A million thanks. I registered just to leave this feedback thanking you. No more trying to remember or look up the awful metadata attributes just to search a group of messages "x OR y..." and build an incomprehensible query by hand. Now instead of this "...kMDItemTextContent = "0188577*"cdw) || …" I just type "0188577 OR …" and let spotlight do the work.
I needed to use a raw query for the purpose of building a set of email addresses for which one or more of those addresses would result in a match (the "OR" case he mentions below). The way I did it was to compose it in Spotlight, using "OR"'s between each item, then I saved the query to the saved searches. From there I was able to "Get Info" on the saved search and copy the raw query over into Outlook. This worked perfectly.
Not elegant, but it works...
A million thanks. I registered just to leave this feedback thanking you. No more trying to remember or look up the awful metadata attributes just to search a group of messages "x OR y..." and build an incomprehensible query by hand. Now instead of this "...kMDItemTextContent = "0188577*"cdw) || …" I just type "0188577 OR …" and let spotlight do the work.
The biggest trouble with Microsoft Word is that it crashes a lot. It crashes for me at least 2 or 3 times a week. Some files it crashes routinely on and have to be opened in older versions of Word, especially when you are changing the address on an envelope and enabling the bar code and some files that use pdf files as images in the document. This is a primary reason why I have still not migrated to Lion as I can't yet give up Word version X which is fully stable and never crashes and is my back up version whenever Word 2011 crashes.
The biggest trouble with Microsoft Word is that it crashes a lot. It crashes for me at least 2 or 3 times a week. Some files it crashes routinely on and have to be opened in older versions of Word, especially when you are changing the address on an envelope and enabling the bar code and some files that use pdf files as images in the document. This is a primary reason why I have still not migrated to Lion as I can't yet give up Word version X which is fully stable and never crashes and is my back up version whenever Word 2011 crashes.
Perhaps you should upgrade to (Mountain) Lion as my Word 14.2.5 doesn't crash. Ever. Their patches do seem to fix things, actually.
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Excel now launches without the stupid "print view" default that dims out everything outside a typical page view. In other words, 2011 Excel seems to behave pretty much like normal Excel. It also seems fast. The pivot table is the new Excel 2010 for Windows-style where you must deselect everything you don't want. It takes getting used to, but ultimately Excell 2011 is a huge, huge upgrade (considering VBA, the speed improvement, general compatibility).
Office 2011 ain't perfect but it is hard to imagine a bigger upgrade from 2008. It's a very impressive upgrade. PowerPoint is beautiful too, BTW.. its templates far better than Keynote IMHO (90% of Keynote templates appear designed for a small florist, yoga studio or similar, not business or academic). PowerPoint 2011 stepped up big time. Nice work Microsoft.
Can you place a picture object and move it to a desired placement on a blank page yet? Or do you still have to get Steve Hawkins and the entire Mensa membership on the phone to walk you through the 4 day process?
Yes, you can. You just need to set the Text Wrapping properties to "Behind Text". Office have several text wrapping options. Just Right Click on any picture and see the many Text Wrapping options. They are many good flexible options.
That's the point, dude!
I refuse to call these stupids "Experts".
Right Click on the picture and set the Text Wrap option to "Behind Text". Then drag the picture to anywhere you like.
How hard is that?
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I needed to use a raw query for the purpose of building a set of email addresses for which one or more of those addresses would result in a match (the "OR" case he mentions below). The way I did it was to compose it in Spotlight, using "OR"'s between each item, then I saved the query to the saved searches. From there I was able to "Get Info" on the saved search and copy the raw query over into Outlook. This worked perfectly.
Not elegant, but it works...
A million thanks. I registered just to leave this feedback thanking you. No more trying to remember or look up the awful metadata attributes just to search a group of messages "x OR y..." and build an incomprehensible query by hand. Now instead of this "...kMDItemTextContent = "0188577*"cdw) || …" I just type "0188577 OR …" and let spotlight do the work.
Thanks.
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Originally Posted by rma774
I needed to use a raw query for the purpose of building a set of email addresses for which one or more of those addresses would result in a match (the "OR" case he mentions below). The way I did it was to compose it in Spotlight, using "OR"'s between each item, then I saved the query to the saved searches. From there I was able to "Get Info" on the saved search and copy the raw query over into Outlook. This worked perfectly.
Not elegant, but it works...
A million thanks. I registered just to leave this feedback thanking you. No more trying to remember or look up the awful metadata attributes just to search a group of messages "x OR y..." and build an incomprehensible query by hand. Now instead of this "...kMDItemTextContent = "0188577*"cdw) || …" I just type "0188577 OR …" and let spotlight do the work.
Thanks.
Perhaps you should upgrade to (Mountain) Lion as my Word 14.2.5 doesn't crash. Ever. Their patches do seem to fix things, actually.