1. Microsoft Office For Mac New Release Date
2. Using Microsoft Office On Mac

Today’s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team.

Today we are taking a big step forward for Mac® users—Office 2016 for Mac is now available in 139 countries and 16 languages. Based on feedback from the great Mac Office community, we’ve made major updates to each of the apps, and we couldn’t be more pleased to deliver it first to our Office 365 customers.

In an unusual move, Microsoft announced an update for both the Windows and Mac OS versions of Office simultaneously in late 2018. The new features in Office 2019 largely consist of those that have been issued as updates to the Office 365 subscription version of the product since the last big Office release in 2016. To see similar information about other Office for Mac apps, go to Release notes for Insider Fast builds of Office for Mac. Learn how to install Office for Mac updates, and check out the information below to learn about each Insider Fast release. New Outlook for Mac. On November 6, 2019, the new Outlook for Mac was announced at Microsoft Ignite.

Unmistakably Office, designed for Mac

The new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote provide the best of both worlds for Mac users—the familiar Office experience paired with the best of Mac.

If you already use Office on a PC or iPad, you will find yourself right at home in Office 2016 for Mac. It works the way you expect, with the familiar ribbon interface and powerful task panes. Mac users will appreciate the modernized Office experience and the integration of Mac capabilities like Full Screen view and Multi-Touch^TM gestures. With full Retina® display support, your Office documents look sharper and more vibrant than ever.

Office for Mac is cloud-connected, so you can quickly get to the documents you’ve recently used on other devices and pick up where you left off. New, built-in document sharing tools make it easy to invite teammates to work on a document together. When sharing documents, you won’t have to worry about losing content or formatting, as Office for Mac offers unparalleled compatibility with Office on PCs, tablets, phones and online.

Five modern, first-class applications

Word for Mac—Word’s powerful writing and reviewing tools make it easy to create great-looking documents. The new Design tab lets you easily apply designer-quality layouts, colors and fonts throughout your document. You can work on the same document simultaneously with your teammates and use threaded comments to have a conversation right next to the corresponding text.

Excel for Mac—The new Excel for Mac helps you visualize your information by recommending charts best suited for your data with chart previews. Familiar keyboard shortcuts, autocomplete and an improved formula builder save you time when creating spreadsheets or entering data. For deeper analysis, new PivotTable Slicers help you filter large volumes of data and discover patterns.

PowerPoint for Mac—PowerPoint’s improved Presenter View gives you full control when you present by showing you the current slide, next slide, speaker notes and a timer on your Mac screen, while the audience only sees your presentation on the big screen. The new animation pane helps you design and fine-tune animations, and the latest set of slide transitions add polish to your presentations.

Outlook for Mac—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 organizes your inbox around threaded conversations, so you won’t have to hunt for related messages. And the new message preview shows 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.

OneNote for Mac—OneNote is the newest addition to Office for Mac. You can capture your ideas in digital notebooks and access them on any device. Find things quickly with the OneNote search engine that tracks your tags, indexes your typed notes and recognizes text in images and handwritten notes. Bold, italicize, underline or highlight notes, insert files, pictures and tables and organize your notes however you want. You can also share notebooks with friends, family or colleagues so everyone can work together on travel plans, household tasks or work projects.

Made better by Mac users

The customer participation in our Office for Mac preview since its launch in March exceeded our expectations, making it our largest Office for Mac beta ever. Many thanks to everyone who participated in the preview program and helped us improve the product.

Mac preview participants provided us with over 100,000 pieces of feedback. Based on this feedback, we released seven updates in four months with significant improvements in performance and stability. We also added features like improved Mail Merge in Word, Propose New Time in Outlook and support for External Data Connections in Excel.

And the best news is that Office for Mac will continue to see ongoing improvements over time. We plan to release updates and new features for Office 365 customers at least once per quarter.

Available today for Office 365 customers

Office 365 subscribers can get the newest version of Office for Mac today. All you need is an Office 365 subscription (Office 365 Home, Personal, Business, Business Premium, E3 or ProPlus), which includes the rights and access to use Office applications on Mac, Windows, iOS and Android devices, along with additional value in OneDrive and Skype.

Here are a few different ways to get Office 2016 for Mac today:

• Already an Office 365 customer? On your Mac, just browse to your account page (office.com/myaccount), sign in and follow the installation instructions. If you have Office 365 through your organization, go to portal.office.com/OLS/MySoftware.aspx.
• Are you a student? You may get Office 2016 for Mac for free or at a substantial discount. It takes only 30 seconds to find out at office.com/student.
• Otherwise, go to office.com/mac or buy an Office 365 subscription at your local retailer.

Office 2016 for Mac will become available as a one-time purchase option this September.

We hope you’re as excited as we are about the new Office for Mac. It’s one of many important releases this summer where we are improving the Office experience across devices and platforms. We released Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android phones just two weeks ago, which join Outlook and OneNote for Android phones, and we are just weeks away from delivering Office Mobile apps for Windows 10.

Please keep sending us your feedback and suggestions, and we will continue to improve your Office experience.

—Kirk Koenigsbauer

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Microsoft has released its monthly build of the Office suite of apps to Insiders in the Slow ring on macOS, bringing the version number to 16.36. This month's release has a few new features, mostly for PowerPoint and Excel.

For all three major Office apps - Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - Microsoft has added a new Tell Me button on the toolbar. Clicking it will let users perform a text search for the feature or tool they're looking for. Additionally, sensitivity labels can now allow users to set custom permissions. When assigning a label to a document, if the label is configured to allow custom permission, the user will be prompted to assign permissions to the desired users.

Microsoft Office For Mac New Release Date

For PowerPoint, the highlight of this release is the ability to sync slides in real time, even while presenting. This change is aimed mostly at collaborative projects, and it allows other users to make changes to a presentation while it's being presented, and have those changes reflected right away. When changes are made during a presentation, the presenter view will show an 'Update slides' button.

Other changes to PowerPoint include the ability to link to a specific slide in a presentation by right-clicking the slide in question, as well as easier renaming of sections.

For Excel, Microsoft is once again announcing the ability to recognize new data types, such as stock market information and geographic locations. Entering location names or stock ticker symbols will prompt users to convert the text into one of the data types. This feature had already been announced in the previous release, but the changelog seems to have been altered, so it's unclear what changes were made.

Using Microsoft Office On Mac

Excel also now allows users to view a summary of their workbook, such as what's the last cell being used, how many cells have data, and more, by going to Workbook Statistics in the Review tab. Finally, making a return from Excel 2011 for Mac, print settings can be set on a worksheet level, so if you have multiple worksheets with different orientations, each of them can be printed in the appropriate way.

As usual, the update should be making its way to users over the coming days, but you can always try checking for updates manually if you'd like the new features right away.