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. Office 365 subscribers can get the newest version of Office for Mac today. You can also share notebooks with friends, family or colleagues so everyone can work together on travel plans, household tasks or work projects. Bold, italicize, underline or highlight notes, insert files, pictures and tables and organize your notes however you want. Find things quickly with the OneNote search engine that tracks your tags, indexes your typed notes and recognizes text in images and handwritten notes. You can capture your ideas in digital notebooks and access them on any device. OneNote for Mac-OneNote is the newest addition to Office for Mac.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. The improved conversation view automatically organizes your inbox around threaded conversations, so you won’t have to hunt for related messages. The new Outlook for Mac has push mail support so your inbox is always up-to-date. Outlook for Mac-Managing your email, calendar, contacts and tasks has never been easier.The new animation pane helps you design and fine-tune animations, and the latest set of slide transitions add polish to your presentations.
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.For deeper analysis, new PivotTable Slicers help you filter large volumes of data and discover patterns. Familiar keyboard shortcuts, autocomplete and an improved formula builder save you time when creating spreadsheets or entering data. Excel for Mac-The new Excel for Mac helps you visualize your information by recommending charts best suited for your data with chart previews.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. The new Design tab lets you easily apply designer-quality layouts, colors and fonts throughout your document. Word for Mac-Word’s powerful writing and reviewing tools make it easy to create great-looking documents.And it is cloud-connected allowing you to roam with your documents and collaborate with others. Also, it has some Mac capabilities like Full Screen view, Multi-Touch gestures, full Retina display support and more. Office 2016 for Mac comes with the familiar ribbon interface and powerful task panes. Support ended for this version on Octoas Office for Mac doesn't have extended support unlike its Windows counterparts.Microsoft today announced that Office 2016 for Mac is now available to Office 365 customers in 139 countries and 16 languages.
Office for Mac received Touch Bar support in an update on February 16, 2017, following the launch of the 2016 MacBook Pro models. All versions following 15.25 will be 64-bit only. Users that require a 32-bit version for compatibility reasons will be able to download the 15.25 version as a manual, one-time update from the Microsoft Office website. With version 15.25, Office for Mac transitioned from 32-bit to 64-bit by default. Outlook 2016 for Mac has very limited support for synchronization of collaboration services outside basic email. In Outlook, there is a Propose New Time feature, the ability to see calendars side by side, and a weather forecast in the calendar view. In PowerPoint, there are theme variants, which provide different color schemes for a theme. In Excel, there is a Recommended Charts feature, and PivotTable Slicers. But you can do docs, spreadsheets and presentations with ease. Some minor differences: icons slightly different, menus a little different.
Looks and works very well on the MAC OS platform. In Word, there is a new Design tab, an Insights feature, which is powered by Bing, and real-time co-authoring. Former Office user so I was aware of and used to Powerpoint, Word, Excel and Outlook.