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Microsoft Launches Office 2016 for Mac Preview, Available for Free to Mac Users

FieldingMellish said:
A lot of fancy words from Microsoft that I interpret as Subscription Plan.

What are the fine point that would make me love a Microsoft subscription?
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What BasicGreatGuy said plus if you have a family, each one gets the 1TB of storage. It covers 5 pc/mac, 5 tablets, and 5 phones. That just on the reg home version, not premium.

I'm not sure if this is possible but if you have 2 friends you could all go in together on it. Lessening the $99 cost. Most people I know are paying around $75-85. Like with anything, value is in the eye of the beholder.
 
Can anyone speak to how it handles large datasets?

I've taken to booting into Windows for any serious work, as I can't even scroll smoothly on the Mac version of excel with any datasets larger with more than 500 rows.
 
Elbon said:
I'm surprised how many MR readers are actually excited about this. I have to use the Windows version of Office on a daily basis and I can't stand it. I find it extremely difficult to use - it was much easier to understand and interact with several versions back.

I guess I'm in the minority but I prefer the simplicity of iWork.
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I used iWork for a year and stopped. When I saw what some meticulously created documents looked like when opened them in the iPhone version. Many of the formatting was lost.
 
C DM said:
And that says what? :confused:
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It says that he must not get out much because Office still dominates in the professional world. I use it at work every day. Not much at home though, hopefully I'll be able to snag this for $10 on the Microsoft HUP like I did 2011.
 
gramtrax said:
I can't believe I'm actually rooting for Microsoft to beat Apple at their own game. Pages and Numbers are lame for anything but the most basic document or spreadsheet, and Apple's quality really sucks these days.

Powerpoint needs to die in favor of Keynote, though. Can't we get something better than either of these options?
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I am in the same boat. I keep sending feedback to Apple on Pages and Numbers. Keynote is actually pretty close to perfect for my needs, but PowerPoint is nothing to sneeze at IMHO.

As it stands, I am coming to terms with the reality that Microsoft is offering us a good deal for $100/year. 5 machines with full MS Office plus 1TB of cloud storage for those family videos and pictures that we would weep over to lose if someone stole our computers and time machine backups. It makes too much sense for me to ignore lightly.

Honestly, MS does good work with Office. They just need to give us the option to turn the darn headspace hogging ribbon into a sidebar. That's my only complaint with them really.
 
Working great for me so far. I just started working in Word and I'm SOOO pleased they finally added the ability to click on the break between pages and make it disappear when writing. Nice!
 
brianvictor7 said:
I am in the same boat. I keep sending feedback to Apple on Pages and Numbers. Keynote is actually pretty close to perfect for my needs, but PowerPoint is nothing to sneeze at IMHO.

As it stands, I am coming to terms with the reality that Microsoft is offering us a good deal for $100/year. 5 machines with full MS Office plus 1TB of cloud storage for those family videos and pictures that we would weep over to lose if someone stole our computers and time machine backups. It makes too much sense for me to ignore lightly.

Honestly, MS does good work with Office. They just need to give us the option to turn the darn headspace hogging ribbon into a sidebar. That's my only complaint with them really.
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OneDrive now with unlimited storage for Office 365 subscribers

Of course there's this problem.
 
BasicGreatGuy said:
It does look a lot like it.
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I've put 2013 on my work VM up against the 2016 preview, and at least for Word and Excel, the UI is identical. Zoom to 133% on the Mac version and the page/grid size is also identical. It looks like a very straight port of the Windows UI, and that's a good thing - not that the UI in Windows Office 2013 is anything special, but switching between the two should not be difficult. The Mac version has the omnipresent menu, as well, but I don't know how it compares to previous Mac versions. I just use the Windows version when I need it.
 
Only just after installing, I've noticed some already much improved things:
  • Browsers don't need to be shutdown to install
  • Remove Desktop and Messenger extra installations are not put on the system
  • All items are not automatically installed on the dock
  • So far, I haven't seen any "Microsoft User Data" added to the Documents folder. I'd have to test a clean install though.
 
19 hours is nothing compared to 5 years of waiting!

... But please, come on, faster!

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itguy06 said:
The CAPS for the headings is annoying and ugly.
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You know, I changed that so long ago I had forgotten it was the default.

So, my main question, since I am nowhere near a Mac with Yosemite, does it offer real adjustments to the Ribbon? Can you make your own tabs?
 
Is there anything evolutionary/revolutionary new? I don't get it, it looks like the 2011 office, but with a different color scheme.
 
Thank god the ordinary shortcuts will work on mac Excel now.

Will Excel on mac finally be able to utilize more than one core for computations?!
 
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