Outlook users will get not only native Apple Silicon support, but support for iCloud accounts as well, allowing them to sync their email, contacts, and calendars to the app if they use Apple’s service to store them.
Office users who have automatic updates turned on should have the new versions sometime today, and anyone else can update it through the Mac App Store or Microsoft’s AutoUpdate software (depending on if you downloaded Office through the App Store or directly from Microsoft). It seems like you’ll have to stick with the emulated version for now, if your team uses Teams. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s main communications competitor, Slack, has native support available in a public beta. Microsoft promises they’re working on that platform in their blog post, but the company hasn’t announced any sort of timeline. If you’re a heavy user of Teams, you may be disappointed to hear that it hasn’t been included in today’s rollout of updates. The updates are making the apps universal ones - meaning these versions will run on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, so any upcoming updates or features will be coming at the same time for both platforms. The apps getting the updates are Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote. And as long as you don’t use a Mac-specific font, going back-and-forth with Office documents shouldn’t be a big problem.If you’ve been using Microsoft Office on an M1 Mac, it’s about to get better - Microsoft is announcing an update today that brings native support for Apple’s new custom chip architecture to the Windows productivity suite. The iWork suite lets you import and export documents in Microsoft Office formats (it will save to the iWork format by default, though). The same goes with Pages-moving text, images, and graphs around is a seamless experience that doesn’t make you want to pull your hair out. When you create something in Keynote, chances are you’ll end up creating something beautiful. While customization options are limited, everything that’s available is quite polished. Once you get used to them, they’re actually pleasant to use (something we can’t necessarily say about Microsoft Office).
I am trying to upgrade the OS on my MAC Airbook and the new OS does not support a 32 bit. Since all three apps are now matured, all the basics are covered. Hi, I need to update my Microsoft office app. And you don’t have as many options as the Microsoft Office suite. Instead of being top-heavy, the options show up in a contextual menu on the side. Pages, for instance, is one of the best Word alternatives for Mac.Īs these are Mac-centric apps, the UI is quite different. These are Apple’s own alternatives to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Included with your Mac is the iWork suite: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
Conversely, LibreOffice’s track record in the recent past has been great. So we advise you to stay away from OpenOffice. But OpenOffice hasn’t seen any meaningful updates recently, and its management is considering retiring the project.
LibreOffice actually grew out of OpenOffice, which used to be the de facto alternative to Microsoft Office. Even complex Excel spreadsheets imported into LibreOffice Calc work as they should. LibreOffice also does a good job in regards to formatting when importing Microsoft Office documents. Select Language: Download DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer This update fixes critical issues and also helps to improve security.
So you can sync files from Google Drive or OneDrive and edit them right in LibreOffice (there’s no collaboration feature, though). Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.7.7 Update Important Selecting a language below will dynamically change the complete page content to that language. To make the deal even sweeter, LibreOffice recently added an online component.
Open an Office app such as Word, then on the top menu, click Help > Check for Updates.
Unlike Google’s apps, the LibreOffice suite comes with featured-packed offline desktop apps with all the pro features you expect. If you dont see Check for Updates, run the latest version of Microsoft AutoUpdate tool, then check for updates again. If you’re used to the Microsoft Office user interface (pre-Ribbon era), it won’t take you long to adjust to LibreOffice.