• Microsoft Office 2016 Preview For Mac

Five years after rolling out Office 2011 for Mac, Microsoft has made a first public preview of its successor, Office 2016 for Mac, available to testers for download. Microsoft already has updated OneNote and ) available for the Mac. Today, March 5, the company is delivering refreshed public previews of those two apps in addition to the first public previews of the 2016 versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and is making all five apps available to anyone running Yosemite (Mac OS 10.10). The Office for Mac 2016 preview is, and can be run alongside Office for Mac 2011.

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Microsoft is planning to deliver regular updates to the preview, and will notify testers of availability of those updates via a notification from the Office for Mac Auto-Update tool. Every new preview build will expire roughly 60 days after it's posted and the final preview build will continue to function for roughly a month after Office 2016 for Mac becomes generally available. Microsoft is planning to make Office 2016 for Mac generally available some time this summer, officials said -- likely several months ahead of the release in the. Officials said they'd have more news to share soon about opening up the Office 2016 for Windows suite publicly. (The Windows version has been in private testing for several months.) Microsoft's goal with Office 2016 for Mac is to make it, while not losing the styling that makes the suite feel like it's built for Mac OS X, said Eric Wilfrid, Director of Office Product Marketing. The updated Mac suite includes a newly designed Ribbon that's similar in formatting and organization to the Office for Windows Ribbon. The suite includes full support for retina displays and is built to be 'cloud connected,' so it's tightly integrated with OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint and Office 365.

Office 2016 for Mac allows users to access files across all their devices running Office by signing in with their Office sign-in credentials. This way, a user could start writing a document on Office for Android, access it later on Office 2016 for Mac and then finish it on Office for iPad, while always having access to the most up-to-date version. In the new version of Word 2016 for Mac, Microsoft has added threaded comments to improve coauthoring. In Excel, there's now support for the same keyboard shortcuts as Office for Windows users have. The PowerPoint 2016 for Mac update adds the same presenter view as is available in PowerPoint for iOS. An alleged roadmap for Microsoft's two-year wave of coming Office updates implies Office for iOS and Android may be further away than many industry watchers thought. So far, as is, new features and functionality seem rather limited for the next version of Office for Mac.

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So what took Microsoft so long to bring the coming version to market? Wilfrid said that Microsoft shifted gears after rolling out Office 365 and decided to focus on Office 365 and prioritize some of the new Office mobile releases, such as Office for iOS. Office's focus is now on cloud connectivity, he said, noting that anyone who has a current Office 365 subscription with support for downloadable versions of the Office suite apps will get Office 2016 for Mac as soon as it is released for no additional cost. Microsoft is not yet releasing Office 2016 for Mac pricing for those who don't have an Office 365 subscription. Related Topics.

Microsoft Office 2016 Preview For Mac

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