By An add-in enhances or works with Office 2011 for Mac software in some way. Add-ins are sometimes called plug-ins or add-ons. Here are three examples of excellent commercial-quality add-ins that work with Mac Office: • EndNote (www.endnote.com): A high-end bibliography product for Microsoft Word. • MathType (www.dessci.com/en/products/MathType_Mac): The full version of Equation Editor that’s included in Office. It lets you put mathematical symbols in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. • TurningPoint (www.turningtechnologies.com): Use clickers to capture audience responses in real time and present the results on PowerPoint slides.

This software is used in classrooms, quiz shows, marketing studies, and more. Many add-ins made for Office for Windows can work on your Mac, so be sure to check their system requirements. Almost all add-ins can be made Mac-compatible with a little effort, but you may have to request the developer of a nonfunctioning add-in to make that extra effort. You can put add-ins anywhere in Finder. If you want to make an add-in available to all Mac OS X user accounts on a computer, put them into Applications:Microsoft Office 14:Office:Add-Ins. The Documents folder is a good place to put add-ins to be used by a particular OS X user account. A few commercially produced add-ins are installed using the Mac OS X installer program.

Because making an installer is an art of its own and takes extra time and effort on the add-in developer’s part, you install most add-ins manually using the Add-Ins dialog in Office. A Word add-in is a template file that contains VBA (Visual Basic Editor) code. You can add such a template to the Templates and Add-Ins dialog. In PowerPoint and Excel, an add-in has a special file extension and is not necessarily a template. Add-In Extensions Application New Add-In File Extension Old Add-In File Extension Word.dotm.dot Excel.xlam.xla Excel macro enabled template.xltm.xlt PowerPoint.ppam.ppa PowerPoint macro enabled template.potm.pot To open the Add-Ins dialog, here’s what you do: • Word: Choose Tools→Templates and Add-Ins.

Update the software on your Mac You can find the latest update for Office for Mac 2011 at this link: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.5.6 update Updating these both should have your app launching with macOS Sierra as you expect it to. Works On: Windows 7,Vista,XP- Mac OS X In this computer based training course, expert author Guy Vaccaro teaches you how to get the most out of Word 2011 for the Mac. Presented in the form of various projects, you will learn by actually creating useful documents. Starting with a letter, you learn about setting up your document.

• Excel and PowerPoint: Choose Tools→Add-Ins. • Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: Click the Developer tab on the Ribbon and then click Add-Ins→Add-Ins. When you have the Add-Ins dialog open, you can do the following simple tasks to add, remove, load, and unload add-ins: • Load: Same as selecting the check box next to the add-in’s name. Loading also runs the add-in. (Available only in Excel and PowerPoint.) • Unload: Same as deselecting an add-in’s check box. Unloading disables the add-in. (Available only in Excel and PowerPoint.) • Add: Click to open the Choose a File browser, where you can browse to an add-in template in Finder and add your add-in to the list.