Office for Mac 2011 and SharePoint integration features

Office for Mac 2011 will reach end of support on October 10, 2017. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see these resources.

 

Applies to: Office for Mac 2011

Topic Last Modified: 2015-03-09

Users can upload, download, edit, and coauthor Office for Mac 2011 documents that are located on a SharePoint site. With Office for Mac 2011, teams, especially those in a mixed environment of Windows-based and Mac computers, can stay connected and productive, and work collaboratively on documents.

Note

To use SharePoint with Office for Mac 2011, the minimum server requirement is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

The following table compares Office for Mac 2011 and Office 2010 for Windows when used with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

 Feature is included    Feature is not included

Feature	Office for Mac 2011	Office 2010 for Windows
Save and open files from SharePoint sites.
Create new documents in Web browser.
Check out and check in documents to SharePoint sites.
Protect documents from unauthorized access or distribution from within the Office client applications by using Information Rights Management.
Publish Excel sheets to a server for centralized management, browser-based Excel sheet viewing, and access control.
Save multiple documents to the SharePoint site at the same time.
Simultaneously edit a file, posted on a SharePoint site, with multiple authors.
Track document versions from a Web browser.
Track document versions from within Office documents.
Publish PowerPoint slides to a server where they can be easily shared, access slides on Slide Library from within PowerPoint, and receive notification if a slide on the server changes.
Collect metadata automatically.
Start and/or participate in approval or review workflows from within the Office client.
Keep synchronized copies of SharePoint Calendars, Tasks, and Contacts in Outlook.
Enable access to SharePoint Document Libraries in Outlook.
Take a synchronized copy of SharePoint Document Libraries offline in a Groove Workspace.