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 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.
iOS 11.0.1 fixes email sending issue with Office, Outlook & Exchange accounts
You can now access emails on your Office, Outlook and Exchange accounts without issues.
Apple promises a fix for iOS 11 Mail issues affecting Office, Outlook & Exchange accounts
If you can‘t send an email with iOS 11 and an Outlook.com or Exchange mail account, you’re not alone.
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 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.
Google updates Docs, Sheets and Slides with Trash view
Google has updated its productivity mobile apps on the App Store—Docs, Sheets and Slides—that act as alternatives to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The new versions of these apps have added a brand new Trash view which lets you easily recover previously deleted documents, spreadsheets and presentations. In addition to Trash, the most recent updates to Docs, Sheets and Slides come with the usual bug fixes and performance improvements.
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.