Microsoft are going to include photo editing in it?s Mac version of Office. And mini charts will be included it it?s version of Excel. Office for Mac 2011 should be out in October according to Microsoft.

A video post on the Office for Mac website said the new Mac version will give Apple lovers the ability to edit photos in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. office 2010 already has this feature, which was released this summer.

Microsoft have also said it?s added the Sparklines feature to Excel. The Sparklines tool allows for miniature charts that fit in a single cell, which gives users the ability to track individual trend data points.

So the Mac version office has been pulled more into line with the Windows version by Microsoft.

An evangelist with Microsoft’s Mac team, Kurt Schmucker said: "What we’ve been able to do in Office for Mac 2011 is to bring a lot of power to bear to produce a professional-looking document that’s still compatible with Office for Windows,"