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Microsoft Updates Office 2016 for Mac Preview with Updated Look and New Features

Rigby said:
Has anyone checked whether Outlook finally supports Exchange Activesync in the new version? So far there is still nothing on the Mac that allows syncing Outlook.com contacts/calendars, which seems like a strange oversight on Microsoft's part ...

Also, it would be much appreciated by many if it could directly work with .pst files (as opposed to just importing them, which is a one-way street).
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I think it's by design to force those who want those features to buy an O365 email plan. They have an exchange-only plan for $48/year. Same reason they dropped personal domains from Outlook.com in 2013.
 
Anyone else having trouble with Excel Macros?

Every time I click a button with a Macro assigned to it the application crashes.
 
jc1350 said:
I think it's by design to force those who want those features to buy an O365 email plan. They have an exchange-only plan for $48/year. Same reason they dropped personal domains from Outlook.com in 2013.
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Could be, but then why does the PC version support EAS?
 
I am at present not able to use this update on a Mac, so therefore I would like to ask you who can, about these three features:

1. Is it possible in Write mode to have two pages of a single document side by side on the screen?

2. Is it possible in Write mode to have two pages from two different documents side by side on the screen?

3. Is it possible in Writing mode to eliminate the (for most of us non-used or non-useable) two vertical columns on the left and right side of the screen? (Take a look at the illustration/screenshot in the very first post of this thread to discover how awfully lot of much-needed screen real estate that is vasted, IMO, on the left and right side of the screen because of these vertical "columns".) Further, as a 3.1: Is it possible likewise to eliminate the upper and lower "bar", so that it will be possible to use the screen's full height for writing?

Thanks in advance if anyone can find this out:)
 
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Lots of issues in Excel with switching tabs by holding alt and using the left/right error. Other have the same problem?
 
TMRJIJ said:
What the heck are you smoking?! I want some of that! :cool:
Windows 8.1 is ugly as crap to me.
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I hated XP and 7 because of how clunky and unpolished they feel, and greatly preferred using OS X and [inser Linux distro here] over them.

Windows 8.1 is pretty and smooth as butter. I frequently switch between OS X and 8.1 now and am starting to find 8.1 to be much more stable and well thought out than I've ever felt OS X to be.

ctg7w6 said:
Wow, "colored"? What were you, born in the 1920s?
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Ain't never gonna see no colored windows from MY lawn!
 
CreatorCode said:
The official word is that Lync will never see another version, and Skype for Business will be the replacement. (Microsoft owns Skype.)
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No Mac Skype for Business client until 2016 though, lots of people are very angry about it on the Skype for Business Yammer. Microsoft have promised to continue with quarterly updates to Lync until then, but they have never really added much in these updates in the past.

At least if its going to that them that long it should be rebuilt from scratch and not just evolve from Microsoft Messenger and Communicator like the current Mac client.
 
Coloured title bars

Can anyone help?

My word, excel etc title bars are grey by default and I can't find how to change them to blue, green etc.

Under the ribbon tab in preferences, everything is greyed out so nothing can be altered.

Thanks
 
Gonna be migrating from iWork and Dropbox to Office 365. Better value for money. Also one of the first times I've paid for Microsoft software. I hope Office 2016 performs very well and OneDrive syncing is flawless.
 
When I run any of the new preview apps, each continuously asks me to sign in with my organizational account. I log in correctly, but it keeps popping back up. I'm not entering in the information incorrectly, either. When I put a bad password in, it notifies me that is the problem.

How frustrating. The new apps are unusable for me. Goodbye, preview version!
 
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EW800 said:
Can anyone tell me if this impacts Office 365 at all, or what version Office 365 is for Mac? I am preparing to switch to a rMBP now and have an Office 365 subscription.
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It's my understanding that you get the preview free, but will need to buy it or have 365 once it's released.

The download for mac is office 2011 with the new outlook.

I almost waited to get 365 until the preview went live, but office 2011 on mac didn't have a feature I needed in excel and 365 let me download the windows version for my win8 VMware use.
 
simonmet said:
Would you say FCP X follows the standards of and looks and feels like the OS?

Apart from Apple being pretty inconsistent and increasingly unclear and flippant, apps with lots of features really have to abandon a simple OS-like interface (such as Preview app for instance) and find the best way to organise and present those functions to the user. This necessitates a departure from the OS standards to make a better app in certain instances.

Apple has never really had an entirely uniform, consistent and clear UI and bundled apps. In its latest incarnation it used translucency in strangely selective ways (such as sidebars) where it didn't really even enhance anything or provide anything useful.

Like it's apps, Apple's UI direction seems increasingly driven by fad rather than than thought and purpose. In some ways Windows 8.1 looks better than OS X now.
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No and it should look like the rest of the OS. I've also always hated that iTunes was always used as a test bed for new UI ideas and would look different from other apps (in Yosemite it's almost the first time that it does match the OS)

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rvinny said:
And I prefer when the app looks consistent across different OS's.

Po-tay-to
Po-ta-to

Kudos to MS for giving us both options in preferences.
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Honestly the colours make it stand out both on OS X and Windows and that's bad. It should look right at home on both systems instead.

But I do agree that giving the option of turning off the colour is great
 
Not used this yet, so can anyone tell me if the new apps are "proper" Mac apps (i.e. all the app resources in one container with preferences in a plist file in Library etc) or if they still create a horrific mess of nested resource folders in your Applications folder?
 
Does anyone have the issue that when saving a new file, the Office apps hide the extension even though the preference has been set to show extension?
 
Rigby said:
Could be, but then why does the PC version support EAS?
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The Windows software side of MS and the Mac Software side are two separate units and an article I read a while ago indicates they are actually forbidden from working across that line. They have different plans.

This article says it "does not currently support CalDAV or CardDAV" then suggests using iCloud for calendars and contacts. It's near the bottom of the page. That leads me to believe it's not a priority or in the plan and either way, there's no mention of activesync. :(

Purely my speculation, but we are talking about MS, a company that in my opinion purposely cripples its Mac software for the sake of the Windows side.

lsh said:
It's my understanding that you get the preview free, but will need to buy it or have 365 once it's released.

The download for mac is office 2011 with the new outlook.

I almost waited to get 365 until the preview went live, but office 2011 on mac didn't have a feature I needed in excel and 365 let me download the windows version for my win8 VMware use.
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The bold part is correct. The preview is free so they can get real-world user testing. Once it's live it will require an Office 365 subscription. Each preview version has a built-in kill date, so sticking with a preview version after the go-live date won't work. "Enterprise customers" (those using a traditional in-house Exchange server) will need to purchase the MSDN version (or whatever it's called). I'm not 100% sure, but I read a footnote on one of the preview pages that leads me to believe where will be one available for corporations, but it won't be sold in the traditional consumer markets.

I do know in the end that MS is trying to push EVERYONE to the O365 subscription platform. I have a close relative who works for MS as an Exchange consultant and he's very clear about MS's goal. Whether or not MS eventually succeeds depends in part on how many corporations refuse O365. My employer was against it until they were for it. Over the last year we've been rolling out O365 in a hybrid configuration.
 
TMRJIJ said:
What the heck are you smoking?! I want some of that! :cool:
Windows 8.1 is ugly as crap to me.
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And yet Yosemite took a leaf out of Windows 8's book with the flat colourful theme. Personally, I prefer the Windows 8 look too. Much better design, a far clearer interface without windows and backgrounds bleeding into each other next to blinding white-on-white objects like on Yosemite.
 
Oooh look what happened when I tried to update!

This popped up, as well as another dialogue telling me i've run out of space on the startup disk. http://cl.ly/image/1W2K1l0K1s2i

The computer subsequently completely froze (despite being a highly specced Mac), and on the next attempt I had a squiz at Activity Monitor:http://cl.ly/image/3b441j1B2f1M

Luckily, it did end up completing and downloading and installing the update went fine.

However, looks like they've got a serious memory leak issue!
 
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