Will this change your life? But I found it just the slightest bit entertaining, and I, for one, can use all the entertainment I can get when I'm using a spreadsheet. Not everything is rosy in this new version of Excel, though. You can't build pivot charts in Excel, which is unfortunate, because they're a great way to present complex information at a glance, and are useful when creating dashboards meant to display a great deal of data at once. PowerPoint 2016 PowerPoint has gotten the same kind of collaboration features as Word and suffers from the same limitation --- it's not true real-time collaboration because changes don't show up until the person you're collaborating with saves them. The new Presenter view may be PowerPoint's best new feature. On the plus side, I found the new Presenter view an excellent addition.

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—you’ll need to split senders into relevant groups, but once you do, you can separate out messages from your boss, family, or whatever other group you need at the touch of a button.

Microsoft has released Office 2016 for Mac – a full set of Office programs for Macintosh OS X computers. There’s updated programs for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. All the new programs support Mac goodies like Retina display, Full Screen and Multi-touch. Office 2016 for Mac was a long time coming, but it brings plenty of new features and better feature parity with the Windows version than ever. Microsoft has done a lot to streamline the experience.

• Open Terminal (click the Spotlight search glass in the top right corner and type terminal) • Type: defaults delete com.microsoft.Outlook (to delete the old preferences) • Type: killall cfprefsd (to kill the cached prefs) • Launch Outlook Did this Peter character ruin Outlook for me permanently? What can I do to make any preference changes stick? Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

It's easy to overlook, because it's available only on the Home tab. To use it, go to the Home tab and click the Styles Pane icon on the upper right of the screen -- and the pane appears. Click the icon again to make it go away. Word 2016 also adds another useful new pane, the Navigation pane, which lets you navigate through a document via search results, headings and page thumbnails.

The Ribbon is far more prominent and now sits close to the top of the screen rather than (as before) beneath a long row of icons for doing things such as opening and closing files, printing and so on. The usual Mac menu that sits atop Mac applications is hidden as well, although you can reveal it by moving your cursor to the top of the screen. It's a clever way to bridge the worlds of Office and Mac OS X. Not everyone is a Ribbon fan, though, and those who wish it were gone, or just want to give themselves a little more screen real estate, can hide it by clicking a small up arrow at the Ribbon's far right. The Ribbon goes away and the arrow turns to face downwards.

Ignore tells Outlook to send past and future Conversation messages to the Deleted Items folder. A handy way to skip past in-house email exchanges that you can live without. OneNote 2016 for Mac OneNote for Mac has most of the features you’ll need. But it can’t embed videos and searching isn’t as complete at Windows users will be used to.

Flipbook creator for mac. • Open the template that you want to use as the new default template. • On the Excel menu, click File, and then click Save As. • In the Save As box, type: Workbook, and in the Format pop-up menu, select Excel Template (.xltx) or Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook (.xlsm), whichever appropriate. • Use the column browser to select Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Startup/Excel, and then click Save.

Familiar way to open Excel Options if you have If have installed Classic Menu for Office on your computer, you will discover that the classic style drop down menus and toolbar come back into Ribbon under Menus. So you can follow your use habit in Excel 2003 to seek for Excel Options in Microsoft Excel 2007/2010/2013: • Click the Tools drop down menu under Menus tab; • Then you will view the Excel Options item. Click it, and you will enter into Excel Options window. Figure 1: Open Excel Options window from Classic Menu Open Excel Options from Excel 2007 Ribbon if you do not have • Click the Office button at the upper-left corner; • At the bottom, you will view the Excel Options button. Click it into Excel Options Window. Figure 2: Excel Options button in Excel 2007 Ribbon Open Excel Options from Excel 2010/2013/2016/2019 Ribbon if you do not have • Click the File tab jumping into backstage view; • Then you will view the Options button at left bar.

To participate in the work to improve Office products, follow these steps. • In an Office program, on the File tab, click Options.

And it's also great for adding multiple animations to a slide, because you can use the pane to easily change the order of the animations, delete animations and add news ones. Outlook 2016 If you feel that Apple Mail is purgatory, Outlook 2016 will be a must-have.

There is now a somewhat awkward collaboration feature that lets two people work simultaneously in the same document. In theory it sounds nice; in practice, I wasn't impressed. You don't see the changes your collaborator makes until she saves the document, and she won't see your changes until you save it. That's not exactly real-time collaboration. Nice try, but I won't be using the feature any time soon -- Google Docs is far superior in this area, because it uses true real-time collaboration. Word and the other Office applications get the full-blown ribbon treatment in Office 16 for Mac. On the plus side, there's a new Styles pane that lets you apply pre-set styles to text and paragraphs.

Personal, Work, Hobby etc.). Go to Outlook Preferences General Group similar folders, such as Inboxes, from different accounts. Outlook 2016 for Mac also has Conversation view. It’s not as compact as Outlook 2013/2016 for Windows, taking up the reading pane. Some people don’t like and Office-Watch.com was once among them.

Also brought ‘Into line’ is the interface which is more consistent with Office for Windows and the various phone/tablet apps. • • • • • • • • • • • • • Office 2016 times two There’s now two ‘Office 2016’ products. One for Mac and the upcoming Office 2016 for Windows. That’s a nuisance because, until now, we’ve been able to tell Mac and Windows versions of Office apart simply by the ‘year’ – for example Office 2011 always meant the Mac version because there was no ‘2011’ Office for Windows. Install Office 365 customers (personal, student or organization) can go to their My Account page, choose Office 2016 for Mac. There’s a 1.1GB download, then installation.

It may be that they're hidden so deeply I couldn't find them. But it's a shortcoming of the Mac version of Office, even if it's only a minor one. Integration with OneDrive Microsoft has been integrating its cloud-based service OneDrive into both Windows and Office, and so, as you would expect, access to OneDrive is built right into Office 16 for the Mac.

To change the number of recently opened files that appear, follow these simple steps: • Choose File→Options→Advanced or press Alt+FTA to open the Advanced tab of the Excel Options dialog box. • Type a new entry (between 1 and 50) in the Show This Number of Recent Documents text box located in the Display section or use the spinner buttons to increase or decrease this number. • Click OK or press Enter to close the Excel Options dialog box. If you don’t want any files displayed in the Recent Workbooks list, either on the Excel or Open screen in the Backstage view, enter 0 in the Show This Number of Recent Documents text box or select it with the spinner buttons. Select the Quickly Access This Number of Recent Workbooks check box on the Advanced tab of the Excel Options dialog box (right below the Show This Number of Recent Workbooks option) to have Excel display the four most recently opened workbooks as menu items at the bottom of the File menu in the Backstage view. That way, you can open any of them by clicking its button even when the Open screen is not displayed in the Backstage view. If four workbook files is too many or not sufficient, you can decrease or increase the number of files shown at the bottom of the File menu by replacing 4 in the text box that appears to the right of the Quickly Access This Number of Recent Workbooks check box option.

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Some people don’t like and Office-Watch.com was once among them. However we’ve come around and now use the view constantly. Corporate users will greatly miss the Ignore button – still missing from Outlook 2016 for Mac. Ignore tells Outlook to send past and future Conversation messages to the Deleted Items folder. A handy way to skip past in-house email exchanges that you can live without. OneNote 2016 for Mac OneNote for Mac has most of the features you’ll need. But it can’t embed videos and searching isn’t as complete at Windows users will be used to.

Overall, there’s little surprising or truly new in Office 2016 for Mac. The ‘new’ features boasted by Microsoft are really features from Office for Windows that have finally made it to Office for Mac.

As with the Windows 2016 preview, on the Mac the applications are color-coded: Blue for Word, green for Excel and red for PowerPoint. Also missing in the Mac version is one of the more useful features of the Windows version: A box on the far right of the ribbon with the text, 'Tell me what you want to do.' Type in a task, and you get walked through doing it via options and menus.

As with the other applications in Office 2016, Outlook has gotten a visual makeover to make it look and work more like its Windows counterpart. Clutter has been reduced, although it still relies on a menu above the ribbon for many tasks.

The boxed copies of both the Windows PC and Mac versions of Office 2016 are both available through Microsoft's online and brick-and-mortar stores as of today, September 22. (I asked if they also were for sale via other retail outlets, but no word back from Microsoft.) Office Home & Student 2016 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote 2016. Office Home & Business 2016 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook 2016. The Professional version includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access. The Office 2013 version of Windows cost $140 for Home & Student, $220 for the Home & Business edition and $400 for Office 2013 Professional. Home & Student 2011 cost $120 and $200 for Home & Business. A subscription to Office 365 Personal -- which includes Office 2016 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access -- for installation on one PC or Mac (plus one phone) is.

For many common purposes, you can open an Office document, worksheet or presentation in any Microsoft Office program. If the program strikes something it can’t deal with (like the Equation Editor) then it should ignore that part but still save it back to the edited document. Microsoft calls this ’round tripping’ of Office documents. Like many Microsoft promises, ’round tripping’ was dynamite in demos but less than perfect in the real world. Over the years ’round tripping’ has gradually become more reliable. Font embedding still missing There’s one missing part of Office 2016 for Mac that makes document compatibility very difficult. We regularly hear complaints about Word for Mac documents that look wrong when opened in Word for Windows.

Microsoft has released Office 2016 for Mac – a full set of Office programs for Macintosh OS X computers. There’s updated programs for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. All the new programs support Mac goodies like Retina display, Full Screen and Multi-touch.

Supports all languages, and all new commands of 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 have been added into the classic interface. It includes Classic Menu for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, Access, InfoPath, Visio and Project 2010, 2013 and 2016. It includes Classic Menu for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook 2007. Screen Shot of Classic Menu for Excel.

Here's some helpful information you should know about helping us improve Office: • If you are willing to participate, you don't have to do any additional work. You never have to complete a form, fill out a survey, or answer a telephone call. • Microsoft automatically collects information from your computer, including the error messages that are generated by the software and when they are generated, the kind of computer equipment that you are using, whether your computer is having any difficulty running Microsoft software, and whether your hardware and software respond well and perform rapidly. In general, this information is collected once each day.

Stand-alone, single purchase Office 2016 for Mac will be available in September. One advantage of the Office 365 subscription/rental is that you can switch between Windows and Mac without cost. If you’re thinking of switching to a Mac computer, you can simply download and install Office for Mac without paying more. Ribbon comparison The Word Home ribbon looks much the same in Word 2016 for Windows (top) and Word 2016 for Mac (bottom).

With it, while you're projecting a presentation, your audience will see the current slide, while you'll also see your notes, the next slide and a timer. That makes it easy to read from your notes and know what's coming next when giving your presentation. A new animations pane is useful for creating and previewing animations in your presentations. I found it exceptionally useful because it let me control pretty much everything about animations in slides, including customizing the duration of the animation, whether to play sound along with it, and a number of effects options.

Bottom line With this version of Office, the Mac is no longer the poor stepchild in the Office world. All versions of Office, whether on a Windows PC or a Mac, look and work alike, and also resemble the Office you experience on the Web and on tablets. This is good news for Mac users, because the new interface and features, as well as the improved performance of Outlook, make it a considerably better suite. And it should also mean that Office on the Mac will no longer trail behind its Windows counterpart, and will be updated on a similar schedule. In fact, the final Mac version of Office 2016 was released before the Windows version, which won’t be available until later in September. But there’s something even more important than the release schedule about this latest iteration of Office for the Mac: It’s a winner.

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• Type a new entry (between 1 and 50) in the Show This Number of Recent Documents text box located in the Display section or use the spinner buttons to increase or decrease this number. • Click OK or press Enter to close the Excel Options dialog box. If you don’t want any files displayed in the Recent Workbooks list, either on the Excel or Open screen in the Backstage view, enter 0 in the Show This Number of Recent Documents text box or select it with the spinner buttons. Select the Quickly Access This Number of Recent Workbooks check box on the Advanced tab of the Excel Options dialog box (right below the Show This Number of Recent Workbooks option) to have Excel display the four most recently opened workbooks as menu items at the bottom of the File menu in the Backstage view. That way, you can open any of them by clicking its button even when the Open screen is not displayed in the Backstage view. If four workbook files is too many or not sufficient, you can decrease or increase the number of files shown at the bottom of the File menu by replacing 4 in the text box that appears to the right of the Quickly Access This Number of Recent Workbooks check box option.