Microsoft publishes Office 2016 for Mac preview

The Office 2016 for MAC preview includes an existing version of Outlook and OneNote, as well as a new version of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that you can run on OS X Yosemite. According to Microsoft's timetable, the final version will be launched in the second half of 2015, and Office 365 subscribers will be updated the first time. Microsoft may split the Office suite separately for sale, but did not confirm the news.

The overall page style of the software is very close to the existing OneNote and Outlook on OS X, and the Ribbon interface is more similar to Office 2013 for Windows, and the existing office for MAC is the same as Windows Version close. This difference in style and temperament allows you to clearly identify the software from Apple. On the functional side, Office 2016 has very good compatibility with OS X Yosemite, such as full screen mode, sandbox, and Retina high split screen.

From the existing user feedback, the preview version of the Office suite and OneDrive compatibility is better than the previous version, supporting the common collaborative editing features on other platforms, updates will be prompted to "Updates Available" to easily see their colleagues on the document update; Excel 2016 uses the same shortcut key settings as Windows to reduce the cost of user migration between Mac and PC; Powerpoint 2016 joins the presenter perspective, where you can see the current presentation page and the corresponding notes, the preview of the next page, the timer, and all the slides underneath.

In Excel, you can use Excel's new features to quickly refine the story behind the data. Charts, graphs, shortcuts, and enhanced data entry, such as Formula Editor and Auto match, make your productivity instantly doubled. In addition, the new analysis toolset provides a wide range of statistical functions, including moving averages and exponential smoothing methods. The PivotTable filter (slicer) will also help you to easily sort out the huge amount of data and find the answer to the problem.

The new PowerPoint version will be the center of command for the speaker. It can display the current slide, next slide, notes, and timings on your Mac screen, but only project the presentation to the audience on a large screen. and the new animated panes can also help you create your presentation more quickly, and so on.

In addition, the recently released Outlook for Mac is also part of the preview version. The new outlook for Mac not only improves the conversation view, but automatically organizes messages based on dialog threads, and the new message preview also displays the first sentence of the message body below the subject of the message so that you can quickly decide whether to read it now or see it later. In addition, OneNote is included in the preview version, but its version is the same version that was released on February 19.

Most importantly, the Office 2016 for Mac is driven by cloud services, and with the integration of OneDrive, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint, you can log on to the new Office for Mac and easily access the documents you have recently used.