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Microsoft Office 2015 (2016?)
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im on somewhat similar hardware but not same experience. I have a 2010 macbook pro 13 inch as well, but with 8 gb of ram, and the hdd replaced with ssd. While excel and word might not be the quickest applications, they're not slow by any means. I'm attributing the slight lagginess to still being beta - hope it gets fixed. I haven't been using much of word, but the documents i've opened (only 2-3 pages long) seem to be slower than the work i've been doing in excel. I've been using excel 2016 since it was released as my main app for building financial models. and apart from the general "beta'ness" of the app and some hiccups along the way which are clearly attributable to the fact that its a beta, my experience has been great.
Seems to be working a lot better tonight. Still a bit slow, but not crashing all over the place.
Weird.
Weird.
How much $$$ would it take to get the 16GB RAM? I've got tonnes of room on my hard drive already, I've used up less than a third of it.
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I'm happy to get more RAM, but would I really benefit from replacing the HDD with an SSD?
Basically, I want to have this MBP in a usable state for another year or two before I have to fork out the money for a new one.
I have a base model mid 2010 iMac and 2011 runs very well for me.
right, but we're talking about the Office preview.
Thanks, are you aware of any private pre-release builds between that date and the March publicity by Microsoft?
can someone please check something for me in excel mac 2016. Since yesterday for some reason my eomonth function has stopped working. I have no idea what is going on. It was working fine last week, and since yesterday it hasnt worked. thought maybe there was some issue in my spreadsheet so i created a new one to test it out. same issue, i get a value error.
I insert the date in a cell (6/30/13 - have tried 6/30/2013 as well), make sure its formatted as date, and in the next cell use =eomonth(Cellreference,12). and it gives me a value error. I opened the same spreadsheet, on windows and it works without a hitch.
in fact i just tried the same thing in excel 2011 mac and i get the same value error!! i have no idea whats going on but if someone could test this for me i'd appreciate it.
I insert the date in a cell (6/30/13 - have tried 6/30/2013 as well), make sure its formatted as date, and in the next cell use =eomonth(Cellreference,12). and it gives me a value error. I opened the same spreadsheet, on windows and it works without a hitch.
in fact i just tried the same thing in excel 2011 mac and i get the same value error!! i have no idea whats going on but if someone could test this for me i'd appreciate it.
Well, I cleared out all the caches last night before using Office 2016, and since then it's been way way quicker. Still a tad slower than 2011, but not stalling or lagging for seconds after I type something in a large file.
In Word, in the bottom status bar on the left hand side, there is usually a page count and total, word count and total, and character count. I'm not seeing that in the preview version. Is this just my installation, or is this missing for everyone else too?
I've right clicked and deselected and reselected the option to show this data (it was default selected), but it doesn't change anything.
I've right clicked and deselected and reselected the option to show this data (it was default selected), but it doesn't change anything.
you'll see a day and night difference with an ssd. i used to be skeptical too, but then i went with it. HUGE difference. This machine will probably last me a few more years easily. The only thing i notice is that it no longer runs as cool as it used to, but speedwise i have no complaints. with an ssd you'll also get the instant wake from sleep stuff as well which makes a huge difference. My father has a 2009 macbook, c2d 2 ghz, 4gb ram, hdd, and his has become almost unusable to me while mine is going strong. ssd prices are cheap enough that if you want you can get a 128 gb for around 60-70$.
There new updates guys, just run the updater and you'll see new updates.
Here is the list of change log:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3048768
The update includes all new packages and big updates:
Microsoft Outlook Update 15.9.pkg
Microsoft_PowerPoint Preview_15.9 pkg
Microsoft_Word Preview_15.9 pkg
Microsoft_Excel Preview_15.9 pkg
Here is the list of change log:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3048768
The update includes all new packages and big updates:
Microsoft Outlook Update 15.9.pkg
Microsoft_PowerPoint Preview_15.9 pkg
Microsoft_Word Preview_15.9 pkg
Microsoft_Excel Preview_15.9 pkg
Been using 15.9 Outlook for a while, I've found it very stable and includes the 'propose new time' feature.
Oooh, scrolling performance improvements.
Does anyone notice a difference?
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Besides the highlighted changes in change log, I have noticed:
New theme colours in ribbon for each app
Opening times have significantly improved
Word has utterly smooth scrolling. (Macbook 15 Retina 8Gb Ram and Intel Iris Pro)
Will update more soon
What do you mean by theme colors? You mean so the toolbar looks more like it does on the iPad and less white?
Here are the screenshots for themes, however you can also switch them off and revert to classic ones.
I can honestly say that it is so much refined and yes the scrolling is very smooth.
I can honestly say that it is so much refined and yes the scrolling is very smooth.
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Oh, thank you for post that! I was hoping they'd unify the Windows and OS X themes this way.
And the scrolling makes me very happy. How many pages are you larger files? When I tested scrolling last week it was with a 62 page word file with 7 pages containing graphics.
Would you believe if I say I have 415 pages thesis opened? And I have no lag in scrolling whatsoever
By looking at this update, I am now confident that we will see a very refined version of office by the final release (fingers crossed
That makes my day! Now I'm really excited!
I couldn't resist trying it on my Yosemite flash drive. It is improved. Not perfect, but improved (and the problems may come from my slow flash drive).
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