For example Outlook’s Insert | Attach File has a welcome surprise – a list of recently used documents. Sometimes the most welcome changes are the little things that Microsoft doesn’t bother promoting. You’ll see mentions of various new Office 2016 features like Insights, which we can’t find in current Office 2016 Preview.Ĭollaboration has been improved (again) with ‘real time’ collaboration where you can see where each online author is in a document and the changes they are making almost instantly.Ĭlutter is a machine learning tool to organize your Inbox, but it’s an Exchange Server feature not Outlook 2016 so it isn’t available unless you have the right server software. It’s buggy and doesn’t have all the features that are promoted for the final release. It not only gives help but can display the feature you’re trying to find.Īs always, be careful with Preview/Beta software. It’s been in Office online for some time and works fairly well. The other obvious change is ‘Tell me what to do’ which is a new natural language help system. Light Gray (above), Medium Gray, Dark Gray, White and Colorful (we’d rename it ‘Ugly’ but it has the virtue of giving a different color to each Office application). There are some different color schemes available from Options | General. There’s the usual interface revamp that comes with every new Office version but it’s basically the same. The currently Office 2016 Preview has little that’s obviously new or radical. We found a couple of exceptions where we had to change a setting that didn’t migrate but nothing major. We were using Word 2016 and Outlook 2016 long before the installation officially ended.Īs you’d expect, your settings from an earlier Office are mostly used by Office 2016. From that point you can click on the new programs and start using them (the installer with prioritize features you try to use). The key moment in the installation is at roughly 60-65% mark when the Office 2016 menu items show on the Start Menu.
Microsoft office 2016 mac preview download#
In our tests the download took a long time, probably because the download servers were overloaded. Run that to commence the streaming install.
Microsoft office 2016 mac preview install#
That will download the tiny install starter.
Go to your Office 365 account page then Language and Install options | Additional Install Options then choose Office Preview from the pull-down list (32 or 64 bit). The Office 2016 Preview option is buried quite deep. This is a ‘streaming installation’ which might be preferable because the Preview can be updated more easily. If you have an Office 365 package with Office software, the Office 2016 Preview can be downloaded as part of your allowable Office licences. There’s a traditional download (MSI) preview version available on that page with a Product Key displayed. Other versions of Office should be uninstalled before getting Office 2016.
Office 2016 Preview cannot co-exist with any earlier version of Office on the same computer. Similar memory and drive space requirements to Office 2013. The Preview version comes with the 2016 versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, OneNote and Publisher. Microsoft has released a preview/beta version of Office 2016 to effectively all comers.
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