Microsoft Launches Office 2016 for Mac Preview

[spikey57]

Had an issue for me where Outlook would just crash before launching. Splash screen, crash, splash screen, crash

 

[Spitfir3]

Huzzah, equations made in the Windows version now display correctly

On the other hand, just loading Powerpoint makes my fan spin up to what seems like 100%

 

[TriedandTested]

Had an issue for me where Outlook would just crash before launching. Splash screen, crash, splash screen, crash

There aren't any splash screens.

 

[TriedandTested]

Big updates available for all the apps.

 

[Irish_Tom]

Have they fixed the copy/paste issue that Word 2011 suffers from?

There's always a massive lag when copying or pasting from or into Word.

 

[UberTiger]

Had a bug where it wouldnt let me save any of my excel documents, rather annoying as I'd done a couple of hours work on it at the time. Hopefuly these updates will have fixed it.

Likewise, I was also getting excel hanging a lot too working on a very simple spreadsheet on a Macbook Pro

 

[MagicBoy]

Big updates available for all the apps.

I'd love to know what Autoupdate is doing. It's swallowed up 24GB of RAM! With compressed memory I've got under 512Mb left of my 16GB.

 

[Chives]

Keep getting an error when I attempt to do the latest updates. "Sorry, there's a problem with the downloaded file, so you can't update now. Please try again later." I've tried several times now and get the same error

Anybody got any ideas?

 

[TriedandTested]

Yeah, i had that for the office update - the actual app updates installed fine.

In the update info box, click the link and download the file manually e.g. Office2011-1449Update_EN-US.dmg

 

[Chives]

Yeah, i had that for the office update - the actual app updates installed fine.

In the update info box, click the link and download the file manually e.g. Office2011-1449Update_EN-US.dmg

Thanks, doing that now

 

[lamboman]

Installed this a week or so ago as I needed Office with decent performance (i.e. not in a virtual machine). Honestly, while it is a huge improvement over the old one (essentially bringing it more in line with what the Windows version offers), I think we'll need to wait until the final release to get a better idea on overall performance. Right now it's pretty terrible.

 

[UberTiger]

Does MS not make Publisher for Mac?

What's the best way to open and edit an existing publisher file on a mac?

 

[lamboman]

Does MS not make Publisher for Mac?

What's the best way to open and edit an existing publisher file on a mac?

Publisher for Windows, to be brutally honest.

Do the Office for Mac products worked properly with documents created on Office for Windows products? Essentially a friend has a Mac and needs to work on Excel documents with other people on a regular basis, but it's common for those people to use Windows PCs. In the past she's tried using Numbers, but that often throws up loads of issues - she said something about the formulae messing up when going between Excel on Windows and Numbers on OSX, etc.

So, would Excel for Mac work completely fine... or should she consider Parallels/Bootcamp?

Excel for Mac would work absolutely fine. As I stated in my previous post, the preview may have performance issues but she shouldn't have too many problems.

 

[UberTiger]

Publisher for Windows, to be brutally honest.

Fair play, I should be able to figure a way of getting publisher installed on my Windows desktop instead.

Will try that tomorrow instead of figuring out something on the mac.

 

[Tummy]

I have office 365! When is this all updated and shizz? (I've not read the thread sorry)

 

[Valo]

Just seen that Office 2016 for Mac is now available as a one-time only purchase.

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/22/office-2016-mac-now-available-one-time-purchase/