Here are a few more shots of the new features, courtesy of Microsoft.Office for Mac 2016 is now available to Office 365 subscribers, bringing OS X-optimised features to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote applications.Ī preview version of the office suite has been available since March, with participants from the trial influencing the final versions of the applications, which are similar to the PC and iPad editions, but with the Mac’s full screen support, multi-touch gestures and full Retina display capabilities. You can read hands-on previews at The Verge and MacWorld. The full version is expected to come out this summer for an unannounced price. Microsoft's major goal with Office 2016 for Mac isn't to reinvent the wheel, but rather to close the gaps and bring some of the cool stuff back to the Mac. Outlook gets the 'conversation view' that lets you organize email chains into threaded conversations, support for external apps, weather information right in the app, Online Archive support, and other minor improvements. PowerPoint presentations get more slide transition options. Excel's keyboard shortcuts are now the same between PC and Mac, which will probably save at least a few users some headaches. Otherwise, there are a lot of little improvements: Word gets better formatting options and a navigation pane that makes it easier to find specific spots in long docs.

It also gussies up the suite's look across Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, and Outlook, making it way prettier -including retina display, a redesigned Ribbon interface, and full-screen view support. On the collaboration front, Word also gets the ability for co-authors to work on a document simultaneously, Google Docs-style. This is the first new version of Office for Mac in five years, and brings a lot of features Windows users have had for some time.įor instance, all of these applications now integrate with Microsoft cloud storage, meaning you can save to and open files from OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint. Microsoft has released a preview of Office 2016 for Mac, free to all users of Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite until its official release later this year.

Office for Mac 2016 will let you store files to the cloud, as Office for Windows has done for some time. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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