microsoft office home and student 2016 for mac

Office 365 Groups – an easy way to collaborate with a team of people using email, chat, SharePoint and OneNote – is driving new services like Planner (a Trello-like collaborative planning tool), and the new Slack-like Microsoft Teams service that combines threaded chat for Office Groups with Skype voice and video calls.

Work off! Microsoft Office 2016 vs Office 365 vs Office Online.

Both the Skype for Business and OneDrive for Business clients have had updates since Office 2016 first launched in particular the latter is now much more reliable. Office 365 services have also witnessed improvements: SharePoint 2016 has completely overhauled page authoring and publishing features, along with mobile applications that highlight news and new documents you need to know about (and again it’s getting regular updates with new features). In brief, though, we’re talking about the likes of the ink tools for Word that let you delete paragraphs by scribbling them out, or the PowerPoint Designer service that gives you advice on how to lay out your slides for more impact. So what sort of regular enhancements are we talking about across the Microsoft Office platform? Well, we’ve just fully updated our Office 2016 review detailing all the latest improvements to the suite, so head on through to the second page of this article to get stuck into that. Microsoft is trying to make sense of the core Office tools across multiple platforms, and to make the Office 365 subscription a tempting deal with a solid version of Office that gets new tools and improvements frequently.

Microsoft Office 2016 at Walmart for $89.95.

The touch version of Office for Windows 10, otherwise known as Office Mobile, sits somewhere between Office for iPad and the Windows RT version of Office for Home and Student, but brings in features from Office Online.

If you want the complete lowdown on the Mac version of Office, check out our full (and recently updated) review here. The monthly updates are really paying off here, introducing key features gradually which all add up to significant improvements. It doesn’t have all the Office applications and it doesn’t have all the Windows Office features, but what you get has both the feel of a real Mac application and the tools of a real version of Office.

Office 2016 for Mac gains many new features (or at least, features that are new to Mac users) and its OneDrive integration is excellent.

And though it might be hard to keep adding major features to something with this much power already, some very welcome improvements have been made since launch – but also some changes you need to be aware of.

Windows still gets the lion’s share of tools and features simply because it’s had the most attention over the years.

Microsoft office home and student 2016 for mac