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Outlook has some behind-the-scenes changes too. Pictures taken on your phone will no longer end up on their side or upside down when you stick them into a Word document. In 2016, this can be cut to 1, 3, 7, or 14 days.Īlso handy for mobile users: Office apps will now respect orientation information embedded into photographs. Outlook 2013 defaults to storing one month of mail locally. In its smallest single pane view, clicking an e-mail will open it in preview, with a back button at the top left to go back to the list of messages.Įnlarge / I don't really use Word, but the e-mail address identification of each account and top Browse button are both marginal improvements.Īs another nod to small devices, Outlook can sync fewer mails. Instead of the usual three pane view (a list of folders on the left, a list of e-mails in the middle, and the e-mail itself on the right), it'll shrink down to a two or one pane view, as dictated by the size. When the Outlook window is made particularly small, it changes behavior to work more like a mail client on a phone or tablet. Of the apps themselves, Outlook's modifications are probably the ones that will be most widely appreciated.
The Browse button is also consistently at the top.īrowsing for files to send as attachments should also be simpler, or even eliminated entirely, as the "add attachment" button in Outlook now provides quick access to all recently opened Office documents. Perhaps most usefully, the e-mail address for each online location has been added below the location's name, making it much easier to distinguish between home and work accounts. The "backstage" area used for saving, opening, print previewing, and similar tasks has also been slightly spruced up. Advertisementįile this one under "why didn't they do this in Office 2007?" Though there used to be add-ons, such as Scout, they weren't as convenient or built-in. It's less clear why they haven't added this to all the apps. This "Tell Me" feature has been in the Office Web Apps for about a year now adding it to desktop apps has been a long time coming. The next thing you'll notice is that some of the apps-Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio-have a new special entry on their ribbons: "Tell me what you want to do." Type what you want to do, and it'll show a sensible list of options. It's not quite the same blue as Visio or the same blue as Word, but you know, it's all pretty damn similar, and I wish they'd bring back Outlook's gold color to distinguish it from its siblings.) (Well, except Outlook, which still uses blue. While the old white scheme (and several others, including a dark theme for those who find Office 2013 too bright) is still available, by default each Office app uses the app's color in its title bar and ribbon area, making the different apps a lot more distinctive. On starting the apps, one change is immediately obvious. By default, the updating should be automatic and fairly transparent.Įnlarge / Why oh why oh why oh why isn't Outlook orange-gold anymore? Also, Access' colors are broken. Microsoft says that it will be releasing monthly updates to the preview and that the current version isn't complete.
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The preview will keep itself up to date using the same Click To Run download and deployment system that Office 365-provisioned versions of Office 2013 also used. Removing both and reinstalling 2016 appeared to work, however.
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2016 did not install properly, and it instead left broken remnants of 2013 behind. On our test system, however, this was unsuccessful. For reasons that aren't immediately obvious, Office 2016 cannot coexist with Office 2013. Signing in to the beta is done through Microsoft's Connect site, and in theory running the installation script Should Just Work™, but it's not always smooth sailing. The install process also seems to be a little janky.
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Last year's Outlook for Mac update was similarly an Office 365-only benefit.
A consumer-oriented preview should be released later in the year, but it's pretty clear that Microsoft wants people to subscribe to Office 365, and the company is going to continue to offer small perks for having a subscription. The preview is currently aimed at IT professionals and developers, and as such it requires an active Office 365 subscription. This is a minor update with some small new features and a visual refresh. Office 2013 is fresher than Office 2011 was, and so it's not altogether surprising that Office 2016 is to Office 2013 much the same as what Office 2013 was to Office 2010.
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In fairness, Windows isn't in such desperate need for an updated Office. Hot on the heels of Office 2016 for Mac, Microsoft today released a preview of Office 2016 for the operating system that it actually earns money from.
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