Microsoft has released Office 2016 for Mac – a full set of Office programs for Macintosh OS X computers. Windows or mac for college. 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.

Microsoft Access is not available for Mac. However you can use some alternatives or viewers to use or view access database. One of the viewer is: MDB/ACCDB Viewer for Mac You may try 5 Ways to Access Access on a Mac. Hope this helps.

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. For example the Design tab, threaded comments in Word. Excel’s formula builder, external data connections and ‘new’ PivotTable Slicers. Outlook’s push mail, conversation view and mail preview. All these things and more will be very familiar to users of Office 2010/2013/2016 for Windows.

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.

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) The Styles gallery is a little different in Word 2016 for Mac.

There are left/right buttons to scroll through the styles plus a down arrow to display a full list. Quick Access Toolbar There is no Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) in Office 2016 for Mac. At least not like Office for Windows. You might think those buttons above the tabs are a QAT. Unlike the Office for Windows QAT, the Mac equivalent isn’t configurable at all.

There’s no way to add more buttons or menus. Cloud connections No surprise that there’s direct connections to OneDrive and OneDrive for Business accounts, but disappointingly not Dropbox or Box. To enable an OneDrive connection, click on the ‘File’ button on the top row. Click on your account icon at the top of the File menu, then the plus sign next to ‘Connected Services’. Then choose OneDrive or OneDrive for Business.

Download dj app for mac. Are you a MegaSeg user who uses this feature?

Hopefully more on this list in future. There’s always the option to include other cloud storage options by installing the sync software separately then opening documents from the synced copy. Here’s a look at some of the ribbons in Office 2016 for mac a more detailed view than Microsoft is providing. Note that the top buttons (File, Save, Undo, Redo) aren’t customizable like the Office for Windows equivalent ‘Quick Access Toolbar’. Word 2016 for Mac The Design tab, familiar to users of Word 2013 for Windows is now available for Mac users. There’s a Developer Tab and tools for Word and Excel.

Turn on from Preferences View Document Compatibility Office 2016 for Mac is almost fully document compatible with Office for Windows and other Office apps. 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.