Microsoft AI tools to take down Windows support scam masterminds While Microsoft is encouraging users to get its latest Office suite by subscribing to Office 365 (consumer and/or business), those who shun subscriptions can still buy the latest bits. A one-time purchase of Office 2016 - for either Windows PCs or Macs - costs $149 for the Office Home & Student; $229 for the Office Home and Business; and $399 for Office Professional. The boxed copies of both the Windows PC and Mac versions of Office 2016 are both available through Microsoft's online and brick-and-mortar stores as of today, September 22. (I asked if they also were for sale via other retail outlets, but no word back from Microsoft.) Office Home & Student 2016 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote 2016. Office Home & Business 2016 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook 2016. The Professional version includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access. The Office 2013 version of Windows cost $140 for Home & Student, $220 for the Home & Business edition and $400 for Office 2013 Professional.
The PowerPoint file format is also generally recognized by most other presentation apps, including Google Slides, Microsoft Office, other versions Remember, the preview versions of Microsoft Office 2016 suite for Mac is a free download, and the Microsoft Office apps for iOS are free to download too.
Home & Student 2011 cost $120 and $200 for Home & Business. A subscription to Office 365 Personal - which includes Office 2016 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access - for installation on one PC or Mac (plus one phone) is.
A subscription to Office 365 Home, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access, for installation on up to five PCs/Macs and five phones - is $. Office 365 business subscriptions, some but not all of which include rights to download Office apps to local machines,.
The 'perpetual'/boxed Office 2016 releases represent a 'snapshot in time' of features. In other words, these versions won't be updated multiple times per year, unlike the Office releases that users obtain via Office 365 Personal, Home or Business subscriptions. When Microsoft made in July, officials said the company planned to make available a non-subscription/boxed copy of the new suite in September.
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Office for Mac 2011: PowerPoint Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 As with Excel, the number of slideshow and presentation applications are few. On the Mac side, there are basically only two: PowerPoint and Keynote. As I stated in the other Office for Mac 2011 reviews, I am not the biggest Office user. I prefer to try to avoid it, even at work. I tend to do things using the simplest mechanism I know, and most of the time that is creating a custom webpage to do things that I need to accomplish. However, for presentations it is much easier to use either Keynote or PowerPoint. And if you have a choice between PowerPoint versions, I would recommend PowerPoint for Mac 2011.
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PowerPoint 2008 was not intuitive. What I mean by this is that the application opens to a blank presentation and finding where in the world to change the bland white to a theme is beyond me. Yes, I know you can change the color pattern for the presentation in the toolbox, and you can change the background color to one of 12 choices, but this is not how most people want to operate. After a bit of searching, I did manage to find that you can add a theme by clicking on the ‘Slide Themes’ tab at the top, but it is not intuitive to find within the menus. PowerPoint for Mac 2011 changes all this. When you first open PowerPoint, you are presented with 57 different choices for potential templates. You can take any one of these templates and modify it to your liking; however, you are given a choice.
This makes it much easier to see if a color scheme is already set that will match the topic of your presentation. Once you click on a theme you want to use, you are given a set of options on the right side.
You get a preview of the title slide, you can choose the color scheme, fonts, and even the slide size. The options within the slide size are ‘Standard (4:3)’, ‘Widescreen (16:9)’ and ‘Widescreen (16:10)’. The ability to choose which slide size you want allows the user to tailor the presentation to the size of screen. Once you change the screen size option, the preview automatically adjusts to give you a preview of what it will look like.
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This is a nice addition to accommodate the differences in monitors. Another new feature that PowerPoint for Mac 2011 incorporates is the ability to recolor pictures. A savvy user might ask, why would anybody want to recolor an image within PowerPoint?
Why not just load up an image editor? While those are very good questions, you do have to remember the target market. A less-than-experienced user may not want to have to open a heavy editor like Photoshop just to adjust the color of an image. Sure it can be done in iPhoto, but do you really want a CEO to be editing photos, occupying an hour of tech support’s time just to be able to change the color of an image.
I sure don’t. As with Word and Excel, you are able to utilize the Media Browser to add images, audio, and other media instead of being forced to browse for the item.
Additionally, like the other Office applications, you are able to export your presentations to Microsoft’s Sky Drive cloud storage to be able to access them from almost anywhere. PowerPoint for Mac 2011 is a solid upgrade that makes the creation of presentations more user friendly. PowerPoint for Mac 2011 refines the process of creating presentations. With additional templates and the ability to preview the template, you can find exactly the theme you want to use to wow the crowd.
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