Office Mac 2016

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jinkster

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2,235 posts

155 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Has anyone purchased yet? I understand it has been released.


VEA

4,785 posts

200 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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jinkster said:
Has anyone purchased yet? I understand it has been released.
Just office 365 isn't it?

Durzel

12,232 posts

167 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Office 365 until September this year.

edeath

333 posts

190 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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We have Office 365 and I have moved all our Mac users over to it. Outlook is so similar to the 2015 version we were using before that I thought it hadn't upgraded initially. The other apps however are so much better than the 2011 versions and look and feel very similar to the Windows 2013 versions and are virtually identical to the Windows 2016 version I'm trialling.

I don't use a Mac day to day so cant comment further but our designers have been very complimentary of it.....though the Ops director hates it as Find and Replace in Excel is hidden in multiple menus!

jinkster

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155 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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MrReg

1,930 posts

221 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Yes - excel isn't as good in my opinion, and both excel and word seem to crash a lot.
Outlook I haven't used.
Not worth it in my opinion. If you want to try it sign up to a month of 365 for about £7.

Digitalize

2,850 posts

134 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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I see no reason to pay so much more for them over Pages, Numbers etc.

When I got my Retina MBP it annoyed me that Office 11 didn't support it so just bought them. Granted I'm no power user, but it does everything I need, and the syncing with iOS devices is excellent.

ZesPak

24,421 posts

195 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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Digitalize said:
I see no reason to pay so much more for them over Pages, Numbers etc.
Agreed for home users, although two factors come to mind:
  1. The new software plans are actually not that expensive if you look at the big picture.
  2. Every business I've been in that tried to shun Office in some way, shape or form, spent more money doing that than they would have on just buying office.
The last itterations of office for mac have been very good ime.

AB

16,969 posts

194 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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Just upgraded myself, I like the fresher, more modern look.

I tried the Beta for a bit and found that Excel in particular was very buggy, seems OK now.


Stirlings

317 posts

222 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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The big problem i ve found is that your contacts in outlook no longer sync with an exchanger server to other devices
if you put a contact in outlook it doesn't sync with contacts in iCloud, to go onto your iPad/ iPhone etc

klootzak

622 posts

215 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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It's a massive blow as far as I'm concerned.

Every Powerpoint the the new version touches gets irreparably broken (all the template graphics and fonts are lost). Word files are better, but things like type formatting are all over the place.

The only reason why we keep Office is for compatibility with clients, and with 2016 that's looking distinctly pointless.

k

AB

16,969 posts

194 months

Friday 31st July 2015
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Stirlings said:
The big problem i ve found is that your contacts in outlook no longer sync with an exchanger server to other devices
if you put a contact in outlook it doesn't sync with contacts in iCloud, to go onto your iPad/ iPhone etc
Maybe it's the version of Exchange?

It works fine for me.