I installed Sierra on a separate partition (clean install). My main working environment is El Cap and experience the very high CPU usages. It seems to be a fairly common issue as googling Office 2016 CPU brings up a mountain of threads.
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I installed Sierra on a separate partition (clean install). My main working environment is El Cap and experience the very high CPU usages. It seems to be a fairly common issue as googling Office 2016 CPU brings up a mountain of threads.
I have it on a MackBook El Capitan and I'm not having unusual CPU usage or battery consumption. If you haven't done so, check what apps or processes are driving CPU usage and probably also consuming battery.
I mainly use Word and Excel, and they work. I have a subscription, and I like the fact that OneDrive seems to work well for MS documents. I can open my Excel spreadsheet just about with any device anywhere in the world with an internet connection, work on it, and finish it when I am back home. Excel does really well with huge spreadsheets and Microsoft releases a lot of updates. Nothing to complain about -- free would be even better, but you know, you get what you pay for.....
I'd say it seems to demand more system resources on Mac which can make it feel unresponsive at times. It's forced me to look at the iWorks collection
Pages, Numbers and Keynote and realize they are quite good alternatives, in particular Keynote which is really tops.
Pages, Numbers and Keynote and realize they are quite good alternatives, in particular Keynote which is really tops.
I mainly use Word and a bit of Outlook. Word has crashed about half a dozen times so far since about 2 months ago and runs out of memory dealing with a few figures. I'm glad I paid only $11 for the entire Office 2016 suite (through MS Home Use Program). I actually prefer LibreOffice.
This is very disappointing, and the reason why I'm looking for alternatives after all these years of using Outlook in a Windows setting. It is unfathomable -- and in this day and age unacceptable -- why Microsoft refuses to budge and provide support for CalDav, iCalendar, and CardDav, and the like. Indeed it is the most popular request in the Outlook for Mac suggestion box run by Microsoft (https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/293343-outlook-for-mac/category/103440-calendar).
Also, OneNote is an app that I have tried to like, particularly in light of the restrictions now placed by Evernote. But OneNote for Mac unfortunately does not print correctly. When printing, regardless of the font setting, it prints out in huge fonts. In fact the font is so huge that it is unprintable in a standard 8.5 x 11 paper. It cuts off the last line, and runs over to a second page. Quip is my go-to application in lieu of OneNote and Evernote.
I wasn't aware of that, since I work on a desktop.
It's always good to know, though.
it eats up a bit of CPU on my hackintosh too (although it's hardly noticeable in terms of performance) since the i5 6600K is so much more beefier than the i5 in macbook pro 2010.
Not a heavy user of Word, Excel or PowerPoint, but they all work fine for me on a top-end iMac 5K.
I do not use Outlook.
I do not use Outlook.
Office 2016 for MAC (via O365) is working well on my 5k iMAC even with my minimal amount of ram (which I plan to upgrade).
Great info. I installed and so far everything is running smoothly.
However Im struggling a bit with the shortcut key combinations - On a windows computer they seem more consistent while some mac programs seems to have unique functions for a certain combo of shortcut keys.
How do more experienced mac users handle this ?
Im kind of used in having shortcuts that are firmly etched into my reptilian brain.
However Im struggling a bit with the shortcut key combinations - On a windows computer they seem more consistent while some mac programs seems to have unique functions for a certain combo of shortcut keys.
How do more experienced mac users handle this ?
Im kind of used in having shortcuts that are firmly etched into my reptilian brain.
Mac keyboard shortcuts - Apple Support
Also it may be worth familiarising yourself with shortcuts that can be used for Universal Access (see System Preferences).
Also it may be worth familiarising yourself with shortcuts that can be used for Universal Access (see System Preferences).
not sure for all of the shortcuts, but excel jet has a nice wall chart & free PDF that shows all of the keyboard shortcuts for excel Mac & windows. I bought a copy of the chart (you can also just download the free version) and keep it by my computer to refer to the shortcuts quickly until I get used to them.
I have a 24 column by 86 row spreadsheet. Not particularly complicated, though there are about 50 sheets in the file. Formulas are only multiplication and addition. My cells that sum a column sometimes do not update, which causes my totals for the sheet to not equate with my other cross-checking formulas. Very frustrating to find! I have to back through and open each of the cells that sum the columns and hit enter again to get them to update, although, sometimes if I wait long enough the cell will eventually update (sometimes 10-15 minutes later).
Just an odd note in favor of Word 2016. As a newsletter editor, I would occasionally get weirdly formatted Word documents. Word-2011 had trouble with many of these and an excursion through Pages, LibreOffice, NeoOffice, Mellel and others was needed to get, or try to get, a usable document out of the weird ones. Word-2016 seems to do a far better job of handling these oddball documents ---- so far, at least. Pages, by the way, was second best at this task.