In typical Apple fashion, the 2013 update introduced a new look and feel to the suite, and laid the groundwork for many more features to come. So while we don't have a fully-functional suite at the moment, it will be developed into something great over time. This is how Apple works, it upsets power users (like you and me) at the offset, but we are thankful later, when many more useful features are added.
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Microsoft Updates Office 2016 for Mac Preview with Updated Look and New Features
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In typical Apple fashion, the 2013 update introduced a new look and feel to the suite, and laid the groundwork for many more features to come. So while we don't have a fully-functional suite at the moment, it will be developed into something great over time. This is how Apple works, it upsets power users (like you and me) at the offset, but we are thankful later, when many more useful features are added.
Sometimes I am thankful... sometimes I'm not. The 2013 obviously helped in some aspects but in others its still truly annoying and the updates are so slow
Eh, I'll consider updating if they put the toolbars from '04 back in. I seriously can't even use the new Office.
What the hell is wrong with them!?
You would assume that after apple iWork finally got support for right to left languages, MS would follow them and add the support to Office too.
I really don't underatand why! They already have it on their windows version!
I wondered if you could now do crazy things with Outlook: things like having start and end times in different time zones for flights and so forth. You know, stuff the PC version has had for years...
Yep I had this issue as well as a few others by the looks of it.
Try this link instead:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3048768
Agreed I think it's pretty cool. As much as I like Pages...etc (still called iWork?) my work/uni use M$ office and I like my documents to be consistent.
INO the update looks great and I'll definitely purchase the final version.
The UI improved a lot. Actually I've deleted my 2011 version and using the preview one - surprisingly crashes less.
Did they finally include the Excel "find all" feature yet?! It is ridiculous, that it was missing at the Office mac so far.
Why did they remove the stoplight buttons? Never mind. They edited the screen shots to be without them.
Anyway, on Office 2016 for Windows the colorful theme is optional. Hopefully it will be the same on Mac.
Edit 2: And it is optional!
Never mind. They edited the screen shots to be without them.Anyway, on Office 2016 for Windows the colorful theme is optional. Hopefully it will be the same on Mac.
Edit 2: And it is optional!
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Apple has a long way to go. They were nowhere near the functionality Office provides before the 2014 downgrade. Now they're even further away and with the recent trend Apple have with removing features, it doesn't look like they want to position iWork as an Office competitor at all.
Apple did a full code reset. Removed and new features will be added in time. They said so themselves.
Still not supported On the positive note, in the latest updated they added ability to propose new time for calendar invites.
On the positive note, in the latest updated they added ability to propose new time for calendar invites. Doesn't matter. iWork wasn't even close to Office before the 'full code reset.' It's now 2015 and I haven't seen many of the features they promised would return, actually return. If they want iWork to be a true competitor to Office, they have a lot of work ahead of them.
As a writer, taking features from my writing software and promising them back later is just plain ****** in my eyes. And as a result, I don't use Pages for new documents anymore.
iWork is just a giant stick that Apple uses to smack Microsoft whenever they feel the version of Office available for iOS or OS X is less than it should be. Apple doesn't actually want to make productivity software - they just want to make sure that what their users can install is as good as what their users could get on any other OS. So when Microsoft slouches on iOS or OS X, Apple releases an update to iWork so that Microsoft feels the pain when people stop using Office. Apple maximizes that pain by offering iWork for cheap or free.
Without iWork, Microsoft would feel content to let OS X have a decade old version of Office with numerous features missing and a ridiculous price. Without iWork, Microsoft has no incentive to offer better.