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However, I found the integration to be so problematic that I finally gave up. In the preview, you have a choice of opening or saving files either to the cloud-based OneDrive or on your Mac's hard disk.

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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 this preview of Office 16 for the Mac.

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But it's a shortcoming of the Mac version of Office, even if it's only a minor one. It may be that they're hidden so deeply I couldn't find them. In the Mac version, you do that in the Review tab.Īnd I couldn't locate two other features of Backstage anywhere in the Mac version of Office: Checking a document to see whether it contains hidden personal information and managing previous versions of a file. But that still won't offer other Backstage capabilities, such as controlling what changes people can make to a document. You can do some of what Backstage offers in the Mac version - for example, you can open files by either clicking on a folder icon just above the Ribbon on the left-hand side of the screen or by pressing the Command-O keyboard combination. In the Windows version of Office, when you click the File tab, you're sent to what Microsoft calls Backstage, for doing things such as opening a file, viewing cloud-based services associated with your accounts and so on. I found that exceptionally useful, and hope that Microsoft eventually introduces it in the final, shipping version of Office 2016 for the Mac.Īnother difference: The Ribbon doesn't have the File tab. Not in the Mac version: The color is only at the bottom.Īlso 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. However, in the Windows version, the color is applied to the title bar as well as the bar across the bottom of the screen. As with the Windows 2016 preview, on the Mac the applications are color-coded: Blue for Word, green for Excel and red for PowerPoint. However, there are still some differences between the Mac and Windows Office previews.

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In Office 2016, Microsoft is bringing a common look and feel to the suite across all platforms, which is why this Mac version looks much like the recently released Windows-based Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview. Also, I use the Windows version of Office, and because the Mac version now closely mirrors it, I found switching between Office on Windows and Office on the Mac to be largely seamless. You'll find similar reorganizations throughout all of Office.įor me, this reorganized Ribbon has made Office more usable and far more pleasurable to use than the previous version.

In Office 2011 you had to go on a treasure hunt through many different tabs to find all that.

So now, you use the Insert tab when you want to insert anything, whether it be art, a table, header, link and so on. For example, Word's confusing Document Elements tab is gone most of what was there can now be found in the more logically-named Insert tab. Not only has the Ribbon been moved but it's been reorganized, which is all to the good. Click the arrow to make the Ribbon come back.

The Ribbon goes away and the arrow turns to face downwards. 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.

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It's a clever way to bridge the worlds of Office and Mac OS X. 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. 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. That's largely in part because the Ribbon has been redone, and now looks and works as it does in the Windows version of Office. It's less cluttered, cleaner and sleeker-looking, more logically organized, more colorful and simpler to use. The moment you run any Office application in the preview, you know you've left the aging Office 2011 behind. I found all the applications to be stable, although one time I did have a problem saving a file - Word froze and I had to use a Force Quit to close it. Keep in mind, though, that this is a preview, and so you should be careful about using it for important work.

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