Trackpad sketching now available in Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint for Mac
There are no Macs with a touchscreen, but the latest version of Office for Mac attempts to address that with the handy new ability to ink with your trackpad.
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Microsoft Office 365 is now available on Mac App Store for the first time
Getting Microsoft’s productivity suite with apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and others has just become much easier and more convenient for Mac owners.
Microsoft is removing Office 365 device install limits
Microsoft is making a Office 365 subscription more valuable beginning on Oct. 2. On that date, it’s removing device install limits and more.
Microsoft is retiring Sway for iOS in December
Microsoft is retiring the Sway app for iPhone and iPad this December, advising existing customers to use a web app instead. The iPhone app provided Office subscribers with the tools to create and share interactive presentations.
Microsoft is working on a big redesign for the Outlook for Mac and Windows apps
Outlook’s upcoming iOS-like appearance was first previewed during an Ignite conference session last month.
Microsoft refreshes OneNote apps with new design and accessibility features
Microsoft has cleaned up the interface in its note-taking apps across iOS, macOS, Android, Windows 10 and the web while introducing new accessibility features.
New Apple ads continue positioning iPad Pro as being better than a computer
Apple today published four new ads on its YouTube channel that continue to position its iPad Pro tablet as being better than a computer. The four new commercials, running sixteen seconds each, use the tagline “Real Problems… Answered” and appear to be based on typical PC user tweets.
The videos promote the tablet as a device that’s free of wires, immune to viruses, faster than most laptops and able to run Microsoft Office apps and connect to fast LTE cellular networks.
Give the new ads a quick watch, then meet us in comments.
New malware uses auto-running macros in Word documents to infect your Mac
Taking advantage of a primitive Windows technique relying on automatically-running macros embedded in Microsoft Word documents, a new type of Mac malware attack has been discovered recently. As first noted in a research compiled by Objective-See, the technique used may be crude but once an unsuspecting user opens an infected Word document and chooses to run the macros, the malware installs itself silently on the target Mac and immediately attempts to download a hazardous payload.
Microsoft previews Touch Bar support in Office for Mac
Microsoft was one of the companies mentioned during Apple’s “Hello again” Mac event last October as working on implementing support for Touch Bar shortcuts in their productivity apps.
Today, the Windows maker launched a preview of Touch Bar shortcuts on the new MacBook Pro available across its suite of Office apps. Beginning this week, users on Microsoft’s beta program, dubbed Office Insider, will be able to test the new Touch Bar support across Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook for Mac.
Quickly change between open documents on your Mac with this keyboard shortcut
Sometimes while handing document files on your Mac, you may end up opening more than one at the same time so you can copy and paste excerpts, or to make modifications to a document while reading another.
Making life easier for switching between those multiple open document files is a handy keyboard shortcut that works not only with Apple’s Pages app, but also with Microsoft Word and a slew of other apps.
Microsoft’s mobile Office apps pick up support for drawing with a finger/stylus on iPhone
Microsoft today issued updates to its mobile Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps on the App Store, adding support for drawing with your finger on the iPhone. Back in January 2016, the Windows maker brought its inking tools to the iPad Pro with Apple Pencil support. With the latest update, iPhone owners can take advantage of the Draw tab to draw, highlight and annotate documents with their finger or a stylus.
Microsoft Office apps updated with support for exporting files in OpenDocument format
Ahead of WWDC keynote at 10am this morning, Microsoft refreshed its trio of Office productivity applications for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad with a notable new export option. Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps can now export documents, spreadsheets and presentations in the cross-platform OpenDocument format, making the mobile apps even more suited for business use.