While the look and feel of Office 2016 for Mac is a great departure from the years-old version, it will be familiar to anyone who has been running the beta the past few months. We when it was released on March 5; aside from the visual upgrades, we ran into numerous bugs almost immediately. 'I've barely started using the new Excel and already it has forced me to close the application three times because it wouldn't let me use the mouse to click on different cells,' I wrote at the time. Bugs like that mostly disappeared within weeks, though I always kept the Windows versions handy so I wouldn't have to rely totally on the beta.

I did keep running into a OneNote for Mac bug that prevented me from selecting text until I switched out of the notebook I was typing in. I'll have to use the new, 'final' version for a day or so before I can say whether that bug is gone since it appeared only intermittently. ( UPDATE: The bug has not been fixed.) OneNote for Mac still lacks the kind of offline support offered in the Windows version, which can create new notebooks without an Internet connection and back notebooks up locally. The core Office for Mac applications of Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, can do just about everything their Windows counterparts can.

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In the screenshots above, you'll notice a smiley face in the top right corner. Clicking it reveals the options, 'Tell Us What You Like' and 'Tell Us What Can Be Better.' This is unchanged from the beta; Microsoft may still be expecting users to run into some problems. Listing image by Jon Brodkin Promoted Comments. Ars Tribunus Militum. The core Office for Mac applications of Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, can do just about everything their Windows counterparts can. Unfortunately the new Outlook for Mac is still missing a few features compared to the Windows version, which happen to be a big deal in my environment.

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It can't create contact groups (ie mailing lists) on the server. It can only create them in the local Outlook database. It doesn't have delayed/scheduled send for e-mail. You can't tell it to send a message out at some particular date and time in the future.

Instead you have to save the e-mail as a draft, then log in and send it manually at the time you want it sent. Which can be a problem if you want it sent in the middle of the night, or when you're going to be somewhere with limited, intermittent, poor, or nonexistent Internet service. It also seems to still download and cache all e-mail, going back to the dawn of time (or the account, whichever), without any way to set a limit like the Windows version (which we have set to one year in my environment). In most cases that shouldn't be a problem, but in combination with the local-only contact groups issue, having to back up and restore potentially hundreds of enormous Outlook databases when we re-image or replace Macs is not going to be fun. Especially when we're talking about tenured faculty who either think you're speaking an unknown language when you ask 'do you have any local content?' Or think it's beneath them to know anything about that because that's your job as one of those non-PhD staff peons. The new Outlook client is absolutely an improvement.

But it's also still the red-headed step child. 1803 posts registered Nov 9, 2000.