![]() This is now tightly integrated since you can see your co-author type on the collaborative document in real-time. Microsoft now enables real-time co-authoring for as long as all participants are using Office 2016. There’s also an option to auto hide the ribbon, which is useful when working with smaller displays.Ĭollaboration has improved with Office 2016, this is a feature that competing products and even free services had an advantage for some time. Guess what, in Word 2016, you can press one tiny arrow on the right hand side and the entire ribbon magically vanishes until you need it. It still morphs and resizes at will depending on what the application you are using thinks you are trying to do but all-in-all it has now become pretty unobtrusive and almost invisible.įunny that there are now dozens of writing applications that preach simplicity and their biggest feature is a plain jane screen to ‘simply type, without distraction,’ an obvious dig at how cluttered and apparently over featured Word has become through the years. The ribbon interface which some of us liked and many of us initially hated, has been refined and improved. Other improvements include a colour coded look for each of the major Office apps, Word and Outlook are blue, Excel is money green and PowerPoint is orange. Simple processes like opening documents, saving documents and launching and shutting down Office documents seems so much faster. I’ve been using both Mac and Windows 10 versions of Office 2016 and find that there are palpable speed increases. While certain things work faster on PCs (like speed backspacing to erase lines of text), the Mac version at least looks and works generally the same. Possibly an edict from CEO Satya Nadella, the Office 2016 on Mac and on Windows is very similar. That has always been the case, until now. Office for PC has always run faster, been more efficient and looked better than what was given to Mac users. Parity between Mac and Windows platforms has been an elusive and almost impossible dream for many users. This is why I don’t bat an eyelash when renewing my yearly Office 365 subscription, for me and my family, it has become a necessity and as normal as paying for hydro or Internet access. docx format, they’re nowhere close to the features, convenience, cloud-connectivity and familiarity that Microsoft Office offers. It is the standard for creating text documents and while there have been countless pretenders that can edit or save in. I rely on Microsoft Office, specifically Microsoft Word, more than any other software program (okay, Adobe’s Photoshop is a very close second). Now that Windows 10 has is literally being given away gratis to existing Windows 7 and Windows 8 users, it’s the one product people have to pay for or subscribe to. Microsoft Office is the crème de la crème of Microsoft’s software empire, their most important and steady profit center. What does Office 2016 on Mac and PC have to offer? What’s more, Office 2016 is out and available on both PCs and Macs plus there are very serviceable versions for iOS and Android as well. Windows 10, which is a massive and major release for Microsoft, has received unprecedented adoption at 130 million installs in just eight weeks. ![]() ![]() Before that, they had major game releases on Xbox One (which is currently routing PS4 in terms of popularity and games worth playing). Just look at all the notable and premium hardware they’ve released in the past week alone. ![]() It’s been a momentous year for Microsoft. Kindle Oasis (2017) - The Perfect eBook reader ScoopFree Original Self Cleaning Litter Box Bissell CrossWave PetPro Multi-Surface CleanerĢ018 Hyundai Ioniq Electric Plus PHEV Driverĭyson Pure Cool HEPA Air Purifier and FanĪcer Windows Mixed Reality Headset and Controller
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