Microsoft announced today that they will begin a video series showing off the various new features in Office 2011. The first video, which was just placed online, shows the Outlook Conversation View and the new Template Gallery that launches when you open an application.

The Template Gallery enables you to pick a template with built-in designs and several thousands to choose from online, while the Conversation View allows you to sort emails with ease. The new database, which is Spotlight-friendly, also enables for a quick search through your files.

In addition, Outlook 2011 is Time Machine capable, allowing you to backup files with ease. There's also a new Ribbon feature that is an evolution of the bar that was created in version 2008. This feature was met with some uncertainty from PC users, so it'll be interesting to see how Microsoft manages to implement it into Mac OS X.

You can see the video on the Mac Mojo blog (embedded below). This is the same place where more videos will be posted in the future.