• Microsoft Office 2016 16.14.1 For Mac Reviews

Office 2016 for Mac is definitely more powerful than Office for iPad, as you would hope, and it has far more features than the Windows RT version of Office, Office Online or the new Windows 10.

Microsoft Office 2016 16.14.1 For Mac Reviews

It’s been five years since Microsoft last launched a new version of Office for OS X, which makes it long overdue an update — not least since has debuted in the meantime. As it turns out, Microsoft is updating both Mac and Windows versions of Office at more or less the same time for the first time in, well, ever with Office 2016 for Mac and released within weeks of each other. Interface changes Mac users have arguably had an easier time with Office than their Windows brethren over recent years, though that’s largely due to the lack of updates. Microsoft’s Ribbon UI made its first appearance on OS X with, but its implementation was very diluted. Windows users, on the other hand, have been subject to countless cosmetic tweaks that last resulted in a ruthlessly flattened and desaturated interface. Thankfully, Office 2016 for Mac continues this trend and not a great deal has changed, interface-wise, beyond a general streamlining and polish. The UI is flatter and, and the layout much more logical than that of Office 2011 (Mac) and 2013 (Windows).

Word 2011 for Mac (top), Word 2013 for Windows (middle), Word 2016 for Mac (bottom) It also adheres to operating system conventions more closely than Office 2013, with a menu bar and a largely standard File Save/Open dialog box, rather than the window-swamping ‘Backstage’ that Windows users are saddled with. Just bear one thing in mind before you rush to upgrade. Needs OS X 10.10 Yosemite and while Apple’s latest operating system might be a free download, it only runs on. Not-quite-complete cloud storage support Office 2016 for Mac consists of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook — Access and Publisher are only available in the Windows version of the suite.

As with Office 2013 for Windows, support for Microsoft’s own cloud storage services (Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint) is built in — just click the ‘Online Locations’ button in the Open/Save dialog box to switch between storage types. Noticeably absent, however, is integrated Dropbox support, despite its inclusion in Office for iOS. Office documents stored in Dropbox can still be opened in Office Online via its web interface, but that’s really a workaround rather than a solution. Shared editing made simpler Even so, one thing that Office 2016’s cloud support greatly simplifies is collaboration, whether co-authoring documents or merely giving feedback. Once a document is saved to the cloud, additional users (using Office 2013 or later) can then be invited to view or edit it. Multiple simultaneous edits can then be made in real time, but they don’t appear on a local document immediately. Instead, they’re only rolled out to everyone else when the editor document is saved, at which point they see a clickable notification to see them.