Tuesday 29 September 2015

What's New in Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac

Word

Create, polish, and share beautiful and professional documents. The state-of-the-art authoring and reviewing tools in Word make the creation of polished documents easy. The new Insights pane shows relevant contextual information from the web inside Word.

The Design tab enables you to manage layout, colours, and fonts across a document.

Get more done by working together using built-in tools to share and review documents. Several people can work on the same document simultaneously and use threaded comments to have a conversation.

Word 2016 for Mac

The Design tab provides quick access to design elements to make your documents look great. 

The new Insights pane, powered by Bing, shows relevant contextual information from the web right inside Word.

Threaded comments enable you to have useful conversations right next to relevant text. 

Sharing options. Easily share your work and invite others to review or edit your documents. 

Coauthoring enables several people to work simultaneously in the same Word document. 

Mail Merge. Prepare correspondence using Word, Excel and Outlook.

Excel

Analyse and visualize numbers in new and intuitive ways. The new Excel for Mac enables you to turn numbers into insights. Familiar keyboard shortcuts and data entry enhancements like formula builder and autocomplete immediately make you more productive.

Excel also helps you visualise your data by recommending charts best suited for your numbers, and letting you quickly preview the different options. New PivotTable Slicers help you discover patterns in large volumes of data.

Excel 2016 for Mac

Recommended charts. Choose the best chart that Excel recommends for your data. 

PivotTable Slicers help you discover patterns in large volumes of data. 

Use the Analysis Toolpak add-on to perform complex statistical or engineering analyses.

The Formula Builder pane helps you create formulas that enable you to tap into the full power of Excel's formulas.

Most Excel 2013 for Windows functions are supported for easier file sharing between Mac and PC. 

Print Improvements, including the ability to print to a single PDF file. 

Familiar keyboard shortcuts of Excel for Windows are now also available on Mac.

PowerPoint

Create multimedia presentations and present your ideas with confidence. Walk into your next presentation with complete confidence. The new Presenter View in PowerPoint displays the current slide, next slide, speaker notes and a timer on your Mac, while projecting only the presentation to your audience on the big screen.

A new Animation pane helps you design and fine-tune animations, and refined slide transitions ensure the finished product is polished. 

Easily share your presentation and invite others to work on the same presentation simultaneously.

PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

Threaded comments enable you to have useful conversations right next to relevant text. 

Change the style of your presentation using theme variants, different colour schemes for a theme. 

Presenter View gives you the tools to present with confidence, displaying the current slide, next slide, speaker notes, and a timer on your Mac, while projecting only the presentation to your audience on the big screen.

The Animation pane helps you design and fine-tune animations.

Coauthoring enables several people to work simultaneously in the same PowerPoint presentation. 

The Conflict Resolution view lets you visually compare conflicting changes, so you can easily decide what version to keep.

OneNote

Harness your thoughts in your very own digital notebook. Capture, organise, and share your ideas with digital notebooks that you can access on any device. Find things quickly with a powerful search engine that tracks your tags, indexes your typed notes, and recognises text in images and handwritten notes.

Bold, italicize, underline, highlight, insert files, pictures and tables—format your notes like you want.  

Easily share notebooks with friends, family, or colleagues so everyone can work together on travel plans, household tasks or work projects.

OneNote 2016 for Mac
Capture your notes. Harness your thoughts in your very own digital notebook.

More than text notes. Bold, italicize, underline, highlight, insert files, pictures, and tables—format your notes like you want in a free form canvas. 

Stay organised. Create, move, copy, reorder, rename, colour code, search, and delete pages, sections, and notebooks to organize your content as you'd like. 

Tag your notes. Check things off your to-do list and help remind yourself to ask that question.

Share your notes. Easily share OneNote notebooks with friends, family, or colleagues so everyone can add their notes and work together on travel plans, household tasks, or work projects.

Outlook

Stay organised with an email and calendar experience that's fast and looks great. Managing your email, calendar, contacts, and tasks has never been easier. The new Outlook for Mac has push mail support so your inbox is always up to date.

The improved conversation view automatically organises your inbox around threaded conversations, so you'll never hunt for related messages again. And the new message preview gives you the first sentence of an email just below the subject line, so you can quickly decide if you want to read it now or come back later.

Outlook 2016 for Mac
Easy navigation between the five main Outlook elements: Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks and Notes. 

Push Mail support ensures that your inbox is always up to date. 

Move messages from your inbox to an Online Archive on the server to make space in your mailbox. An online archive folder in the navigation pane provides access to your archived messages when you need them.

Propose New Time. When you receive a meeting request for a time that is not preferable, you can propose a new meeting time. The meeting organiser can easily accept or decline your proposal.

Side by Side Calendar. See multiple calendars in parallel. 

Weather Forecast in Calendar. Will it be sunny or rainy? No need to look up your local weather forecast because Outlook shows the weather info right in the Calendar view. 

Category Sync. Categories, including their names and colours, are now synced and the same in Outlook for Mac, Outlook for Windows and the Outlook Web App.

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