James Gordon

With Office 2011 for Mac, you can check spelling and grammar in languages other than English. Word 2011 for Mac comes with foreign-language dictionaries such as Czech, French, Russian, and more. The default dictionary determines which language’s proofing tools Word uses for spelling and grammar. You can change Word’s default language dictionary: Choose Tools→Language.

From pictures and graphs to SmartArt, you can easily add all sorts of objects to a Word document in Office 2011 for Mac. But after the object is inserted in your Word document, you’ll probably need to control how text wraps around it. You can adjust text wrapping in Print Layout, Notebook Layout, Publishing Layout, and Full Screen views.

PowerPoint 2011 for Mac offers all kinds of visual effects for you to use in your presentations. When you have a placeholder with bulleted text to work with on your PowerPoint 2011 slide, you can apply an Entrance effect to the placeholder. This will introduce the bulleted points one at a time. Here’s how to apply entrance effects to your PowerPoint 2011 slides: Select a text placeholder containing bulleted text.

You can easily add all sorts of objects to a Word document in Office 2011 for Mac. Word 2011 gives you shortcuts to position an object in your document. Here's how to get at them: Select an object. On the Ribbon’s Format tab, go to the Arrange group and click the Position button. Choose a position from the gallery.

With Office 2011 for Mac, your guide to mail merging in Word is Mail Merge Manager. You can invoke Mail Merge Manager by choosing Tools→Mail Merge Manager from the menu bar. It’s designed to be used starting at the top in Step 1, and you work your way down to Step 6. The steps in the Mail Merge Manager are as follows: Select a Document Type.

You can use an Excel workbook as your Word 2011 mail merge data source in Office 2011 for Mac. Get ready by preparing an Excel workbook with a data range or table that’s set up as a mailing list and a new, blank document in Word. To make labels from Excel or another database, take the following steps: In the Mail Merge Manager, click Select Document Type and then choose Create New→Labels.

Making a form in Word 2011 for Mac is as simple as choosing appropriate form controls from the Developer tab of the Ribbon in Office 2011 for Mac, placing them in your Word document, and then enabling your form by turning protection on. Sometimes you don’t need a text field for a response, and a check box is enough.

In a Word form in Office 2011 for Mac, a combo field is a pretty neat thing. Use a combo when you want the user to choose an entry from a list of choices. The Combo Box field is also referred to as a Drop-Down Form field. Follow these steps to create a combo box: Click in your document at the position to insert the form field.

In Office 2011 for Mac, Excel’s simple Paste option handles most of your ordinary pasting requirements, but it's a one-shot deal — you can choose only a single option. On the other hand, the Paste Special feature in Excel 2011 for Mac lets you pick and choose exactly what individual or combination of attributes you want to paste.