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Microsoft announced that Office for Mac major updates coming soon

Microsoft has released Insider Fast version of Office 2016 for Mac for Office Insider test users this week and said a lot of new features will be available in the next few weeks for regular consumer versions. In the Insider Fast version, Microsoft also provides a preview of the major upgrades for Office for Mac. The new version of Office for Mac integrates a lot of high-voice features and fixes bugs for Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

 

Word will add a new auto-include feature that automatically saves files to OneDrive and SharePoint. This feature is similar to the automatic saving of Google Docs and can be disabled in settings.

Word also supports real-time collaboration and sharing capabilities, Office 365 subscription users can work with other users to create OneDrive and SharePoint summary of the file. Microsoft also added a series of new charts in the new version of Word, including Waterfall, Histogram, Pareto, Box & Whisker, Treemap, and Sunburst.

In addition to supporting collaboration, Excel adds new IFS and SWITCH functions to simplify and shorten formulas. The new version of Excel also better support PivotTable data source, and Table Slicer, you can quickly filter. PowerPoint’s new features include real-time collaboration, change tracking, and more. Outlook upgrades are less, just adding some Emoji support.