Office 2015 Preview for OS X is now available

[Victorious Secret]

 

Rejoice OS X users, for you are no longer stuck in the barren wasteland of shitty Office releases of past. Thats being too kind. Office on Mac was a goddamn nightmare of nightmare proportions. Awful, truly awful. 

 

Maybe this time around, MS is going to give it the TLC that users would actually enjoy instead of making us want to claw our eyes out, fire up Bootcamp and run the better version of Office. Which is what I do now, since its really the last piece of software I use that is just disgustingly bad for OSX. 

 

This suite is fully updated for all the Retina products and has the OneDrive support baked in, it will receive updates up until its release later this year. Its a less than 3GB download, so if you want to give it a go by all means do so and let us know what you think. 

 

 

 

 

 

Word

 

Excel

 

Powerpoint

 

Onenote

 

Outlook

 

Unmistakably Office

 

The familiar Office you know and love.

With the redesigned Ribbon and your favorite cross-platform features and keyboard shortcuts, you’ll be up and running with the new Office for Mac in no time!

 

 

Designed for Mac

 

Thoughtfully optimized for your preferred device.

The new Office for Mac user interface is designed from the ground up to take advantage of the latest Mac features, including retina display and full-screen view support.

 

Cloud connected

 

Your documents, anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Sign into the new Office for Mac and easily access your recently used documents on any device with seamless integration with OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint.

 

 

Word

Create, polish, and share beautiful and professional documents.

The new Word for Mac has state of the art editing, reviewing, and sharing tools. The new Design tab provides quick access to features and the new Format Object task pane gives you complete control over pictures, shapes, and effects.

 

Excel

Analyze and visualize your data in new and intuitive ways.

The new Excel for Mac brings you a fresh user interface as well as many functions from Excel 2013 for Windows. You’ll even be able to use your favorite keyboard shortcuts, giving you a more consistent cross-platform experience.

 

 

 

PowerPoint

Create, collaborate, and effectively present your ideas.

The new PowerPoint for Mac brings new slide transitions, an improved Animations task pane, and an improved coauthoring experience, including threaded comments alongside your slides and the ability to visually compare version conflicts and confidently choose the right one to keep.

 

OneNote

Harness your thoughts in your very own digital notebook.

Whether you are at home, on the go, or in the office, OneNote allows you to take your notes wherever you go while sharing and collaborating with others.

 

 

 

Outlook

Enjoy an Outlook mail experience that's fast and looks great.

New features in Outlook include Online Archive support, category list sync, weather in calendar, apps for Office, and side-by-side calendar.

 

http://products.office.com/en-US/mac/mac-preview#faq

 

[Earache]

Hey, it's like the version for Windows, except on a Mac!

[ShadowCaptain]

yay

[Jaybird]

hopefully its not as blinding white as the windows version. 

 

 

aw, no app store support. wait, so how do I get this onto my macbook pro retina?

[Victorious Secret]

hopefully its not as blinding white as the windows version. 

 

 

aw, no app store support. wait, so how do I get this onto my macbook pro retina?

 

For now you download directly from MS here: http://products.office.com/en-US/mac/mac-preview

[RH00D]

Finally, Mac users are getting a version of Office that looks like its actually made by the same company that makes the Windows version.

 

 

Microsoft has announced today that the Office 2016 Mac Preview is now open to everyone and if you want to try out the new bits, hit the source link at the bottom of this post. This is the first large update for Office on OS X in many years as the last major release was in 2011.

 

This release of Office comes with updated versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook. As soon as you open the apps, you will notice that the UI has been refined, there is a new task pane and a bunch of other tweaks to modernize the platform. And being on a Mac, the app suite does support the Retina display too.

 

If you want to see all of the features that are new, you can check out the feature page here.

 

As with all other previews, Microsoft is letting consumers download and try out the new productivity suite today free of charge. The company is looking for feedback as well; you can send feedback from inside the app with the smiley face in the top right corner of each app.

 

It's important to point out that Office 2016 for Mac Preview is supported only on the latest version of Mac OS X: Yosemite (10.10). Also, if you currently have Office 2011 installed, these apps can be used alongside the older Office apps.

 

The download weighs in at over 2.5GB and takes up roughly 6GB of space once installed; plan accordingly if you don't have much free space on your machine. And as always with preview software, there could be bugs, features that are broken and the like, so make sure you take this into consideration before using the tools in a production environment.

 

Word:

 

2011 style:

2016 style:

 

Excel:

 

2011 style:

2016 style:

 

PowerPoint:

 

2011 style:

2016 style:

 

Direct Microsoft Download Link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=523849

 

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-announces-office-2016-for-mac-preview-download-now-available

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/hands-on-with-word-for-office-2016-for-mac

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/hands-on-with-excel-for-office-2016-for-mac

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/hands-on-with-powerpoint-for-office-2016-for-mac

[Hans Christian | Teri]

I wonder how many people actually use this. I know plenty of people who use Mac (myself included) but not a single soul that's running Office on it.

[the jolly roger]

#officelibremasterrace

#openofficemasterrace

#googledocsmasterrace

[DarrenP]

I wonder how many people actually use this. I know plenty of people who use Mac (myself included) but not a single soul that's running Office on it.

Almost everyone I know who runs a Mac uses Office for mac, As Apples Program, Pages. Is absolute shit. 

[jayctech]

I wonder how many people actually use this. I know plenty of people who use Mac (myself included) but not a single soul that's running Office on it.

My boss is a 365 reseller. So basically all our Mac clients have it.

[RexinOridle]

That first photo reminds me, #fuzzyotterballs

[RH00D]

How in the blue hell did I not see that you posted this already, @Victorious Secret. I lurk every thread you make.

[Victorious Secret]

How in the blue hell did I not see that you posted this already, @Victorious Secret. I lurk every thread you make.

 

I'm glad they preserved your post, it was well done. 

 

Also, (ಠ‿ಠ)

[awesomes8wc3]

lol i know plenty of people who use macs, all of which use something like final draft or pages. im guessing if this is any good that might change.