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

ArtOfWarfare said:
Get a vertical monitor. Most applications make much better use of the real estate offered by a vertical monitor than a horizontal ones. About the only time a horizontal monitor is better is if you're doing something with photos or videos. Or games.

Consider how much more often you use your iPhone vertically than horizontally when given the choice.
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+1 for vertical monitor. I had a 23 inch horizontal + and old 19inch which I turn it vertical. Best setup ever, you can read and takes notes, or you can code on the vertical one.

Trust me, vertical monitor does wonders, the entire word document at 150% is shown to you at the same time.
 
I'm sorry Microsoft, my work as betatester isn't free. If you want my services, your 60-day license isn't enough. You need to give me a permanent license, and then we might arrive to an agreement.

On the meantime I'll continue using my 2011 license. Thanks.
 
Freyqq said:
Clearly, you don't work in the business world...
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In the publishing industry, EVERYONE uses Word. Some authors are now starting out with Scrivener, but they still convert to Word when they want to do anything with the file.
 
Note that if you had the previous version of Outlook for Mac (Office 365 version 15.7) installed, the Office beta will overwrite it with Outlook for Mac 15.8. The Outlook about box does not have the word "(Preview)" in it.

juls
 
aajeevlin said:
+1 for vertical monitor. I had a 23 inch horizontal + and old 19inch which I turn it vertical. Best setup ever, you can read and takes notes, or you can code on the vertical one.

Trust me, vertical monitor does wonders, the entire word document at 150% is shown to you at the same time.
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Another +1. And a note that most vertical monitors have the ability to swivel. I use my vertical monitor in normal landscape mode, but just swivel it to portrait when I'm ready to write.
 
JuryDuty said:
And Publisher. I still feel at a loss when wanting to create a quick flyer or church bulletin.
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Pages. Much better page layout program than Word can ever dream of being.

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Freyqq said:
Clearly, you don't work in the business world...
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Clearly neither do you. Many businesses are doing Google Docs, iWork and others. SMB's.

And then there are those of us in large enterprises that do "real work" in LibreOffice.

I'd be interested if Apple uses Office? My guess is no. And they are certainly a large company. They even "get by" without Windows!
 
Yay!!! I'm excited! I can't wait for the full version and the price. Only $599.99 with 1 year membership and student discount. #
 
Working Well

Just finished my install and all is working quite well. Impressive, actually.

I had no problems with Outlook, but I was already running the new Outlook "preview" that was offered several weeks ago. That one carried a version number of 15.6 while this one shows 15.8, so it was upgraded.

My only complaint so far is the lack of iCloud calendar integration. Works on the iPhone/iPad versions of Outlook, but not this desktop. Nothing at all wrong with using Apple's Mail, Calendar, etc., but I have always personally preferred Outlook's "all-in-one-place" functionality.

I actually like these versions so much ... it begs the question ... can MS out-Apple, Apple? The iWork suite, although free of charge, just seems to be lacking in all but visual design.

I'm a big Word user and so I'll test this new version out quite often. My wife, a CPA, is a HUGE Excel geek and hated the older Mac versions. She won't even look at Numbers ... way too simple!! I'll be interested to hear what she says about this new version!!

Cheers!!

Ken
 
itguy06 said:
Pages. Much better page layout program than Word can ever dream of being.

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Clearly neither do you. Many businesses are doing Google Docs, iWork and others. SMB's.

And then there are those of us in large enterprises that do "real work" in LibreOffice.

I'd be interested if Apple uses Office? My guess is no. And they are certainly a large company. They even "get by" without Windows!
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Apple employees do use iWork at their jobs (per the Apple store guy I spoke with last week). My experience seems to be the same as yours: we can get a lot done on any of these suites. It all depends on our needs.

Personally, Pages doesn't meet my needs because it doesn't have reflow for the mobile app and boomarking (09 used to have it). Numbers isn't bad, but I'm an Excel power user at work and find the program just slows me down. Keynote is the only iWork program that I use regularly.
 
From a quick glance, this looks like a big improvement over 2011.

2011 was very sluggish compared with the Windows versions, and I often resorted to running 2010/13 in a VM. The menu bars and ribbons look more consistent too, which will help when trying to show Windows users, who always used to say 'what version is that, it looks different to mine'

Have put them on my Dock and will use in anger next week. My working week is now done :D

Sticking with Mail/Calendar/Contacts for the time being, as I never really like using the Windows version of Outlook.
 
Variant said:
Damn. How stable is it? I don't think I can afford the space to run both 2011 and 2016 at the same time.
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It's feeling as stable as 2011 to me...and a whole lot sleeker. I'm sure there are bugs, etc, but I haven't run into them yet. If nothing else, you could uninstall the 2011 Office apps you use less to free up space and just keep the ones you must have as a "backup" until you're sure the 2016 version works for you.

If this works well for me through the end of the week, I'll be uninstalling 2011 all together.
 
JuryDuty said:
It's feeling as stable as 2011 to me...and a whole lot sleeker. I'm sure there are bugs, etc, but I haven't run into them yet. If nothing else, you could uninstall the 2011 Office apps you use less to free up space and just keep the ones you must have as a "backup" until you're sure the 2016 version works for you.

If this works well for me through the end of the week, I'll be uninstalling 2011 all together.
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It expires in 60 days, as per the web site.
 
itguy06 said:
Clearly neither do you. Many businesses are doing Google Docs, iWork and others. SMB's.

And then there are those of us in large enterprises that do "real work" in LibreOffice.

I'd be interested if Apple uses Office? My guess is no. And they are certainly a large company. They even "get by" without Windows!
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Yeah, no. I work in a relatively large enterprise (approx 3000 people, 2500 in the US) and we use Office with Exchange and Sharepoint. Google Docs just doesn't cut it for us.
 
You know what I'm not testing this for them wage free when they are going to try and shaft me into an annual sub. Office 2011 works just fine for me
 
Office 2011 was crap.
Office 2008 was crap.
Office 2004 was crap.

Problems with Office 2011 (and especially Outlook 2011) have gone unfixed for over 4 years. Obviously they will never be fixed, as Microsoft will just tell customers to buy the new 2016 version if they want updates.

I doubt Office 2016 will suddenly turn my opinion around about the product.
 
Freyqq said:
It expires in 60 days, as per the web site.
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Well, it says each build expires in 60 days so as long as you keep upgrading your build (which is says happens automatically), you'll be fine. And the last build will last 60 days beyond the new release. Since I have Office 365, I'll get final release the moment the preview is over.

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The Mercurian said:
You know what I'm not testing this for them wage free when they are going to try and shaft me into an annual sub. Office 2011 works just fine for me
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If you've bought Office 2011 instead of Office 365, you're right, you wouldn't need this necessarily. But to me, 365 is totally worth it since you can get it on sale for about $65/year and that includes unlimited storage in OneDrive. To me, it's a steal at that price.
 
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