Oct 10, 2017 Microsoft just released an update to the VB Editor for the Mac 2016 version of Excel. New features include: - Edit and debugging toolbars. Visual Basic Editor (VBA) Updates for Excel for Mac.
Contents. New features Windows New features in the Windows release include the ability to create, open, edit, and save files in the cloud straight from the desktop, a new search tool for commands available in, and named 'Tell Me', more 'Send As' options in Word and PowerPoint, and co-authoring in real time with users connected to. Other smaller features include Insights, a feature powered by Bing to provide contextual information from the web, a Designer sidebar in PowerPoint to optimize the layout of slides, new chart types and templates in Excel (such as, (also known as a ring chart), and, and financial and calendar templates), new animations in PowerPoint (such as the Morph transition), the ability to insert online video in, and a feature in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Microsoft Office 2016 is the first in the series to support the vector graphic format. Microsoft Office 2016 cannot coexist with Microsoft Office 2013 apps, but it can coexist with earlier versions of Microsoft Office, such as 2003, 2007, and 2010.
Microsoft requires that any 2013 versions be uninstalled, which it will offer to do automatically, before the 2016 versions can be installed. Despite not supporting Windows XP anymore, tooltips for various ribbon items (e.g. Paragraph, Font, Footnotes or Page Setup) still show screenshots of Office on Windows XP. Mac New features in the Mac release include an updated that uses, full support for, and new sharing features for Office documents. In Word, there is a new Design tab, an Insights feature, which is powered by Bing, and real-time co-authoring.
In Excel, there is a Recommended Charts feature, and PivotTable Slicers. In PowerPoint, there are theme variants, which provide different color schemes for a theme.
In Outlook, there is a Propose New Time feature, the ability to see calendars side by side, and a weather forecast in the calendar view. Outlook 2016 for Mac has very limited support for synchronization of collaboration services outside basic email. With version 15.25, Office for Mac transitioned from 32-bit to 64-bit by default.
Users that require a 32-bit version for compatibility reasons will be able to download the 15.25 version as a manual, one-time update from the Microsoft Office website. All versions following 15.25 will be 64-bit only. Office for Mac received Touch Bar support in an update on February 16, 2017, following the launch of the. Editions Traditional editions As with previous versions, Office 2016 is made available in several distinct editions aimed towards different markets. All traditional editions of Microsoft Office 2016 contain, and and are licensed for use on one computer. Five traditional editions of Office 2016 were released for Windows:. Home & Student: This retail suite includes the core applications only.
Home & Business: This retail suite includes the core applications. Standard: This suite, only available through channels, includes the core applications, as well as Outlook.
Professional: This retail suite includes the core applications, as well as Outlook, Publisher. It uses the Windows Installer method for offline installation. Professional Plus: This suite, only available through volume licensing channels, includes the core applications, as well as Outlook, Publisher, Access. It uses the Click-to-Run method for online installation. Three traditional editions of Office 2016 were released for Mac:. Home & Student: This retail suite includes the core applications only.
Home & Business: This retail suite includes the core applications and Outlook. Standard: This suite, only available through channels, includes the core applications and Outlook. Office 365.
Main article: The Office 365 subscription services, which were previously aimed towards business and enterprise users, were expanded for Office 2016 to include new plans aimed at home use. The subscriptions allow use of the Office 2016 applications by multiple users using a model. Different plans are available for Office 365, some of which also include, such as 1 TB of storage and 60 minutes per month on the Home Premium plan. Design The user interface design of Office 2016 for Windows is relatively unchanged from its predecessor,.
It retains the that was introduced along with the, albeit with a few modifications to the layout, in order to conform with the design of. When Office 2016 was released, it came with three. The default theme, known as 'colorful', features a solid color on the top band of the ribbon, corresponding to the color of the Office application being used, for example, a solid dark blue is featured prominently in Microsoft Word. The theme had been described as useful in making the tab headings more distinct.
In addition, both the 'white' and 'dark grey' themes from Office 2013 are available as well, though no new backgrounds have been added, nor have any existing backgrounds been removed. A fourth 'black' theme was added as part of an update in January 2016. The update was not released to users of the traditional editions.
Criticism On the 13th of November 2018 a report initiated by the Government of the Netherlands showed that Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 365 do not comply with the GDPR, the European statute on privacy. See also. References. White, Julia (September 10, 2015). Retrieved August 13, 2018. September 22, 2015.
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And give it a thumbs up. Big Update to the VB Editor for Mac I know many Mac users have been waiting along time for this, and I'm excited to share that an update to the VB Editor is finally here! Microsoft just released a new build of Excel that contains a new VB Editor, which we use to write VBA macros in Excel. The new VB Editor contains a lot of the features we are used to seeing in the Windows versions of Excel, or Excel 2011 for Mac. In the video above I highlight some of the many new improvements to the editor. Here is a list of the major new features. Intellisense drop-down menus for auto-filling code.
Toolbars with buttons to for commands like: indenting, comment blocks, run, reset (stop), step into, etc. VBA Project, Properties, Immediate, Locals, and Watch windows. Debugging features and options. Keyboard shortcuts listed next to each command on the top menus. This new VB Editor feels a lot more like the VB Editor we are used to on the Windows version of Excel. The one notable feature that is missing right now is userforms. The latest version (7.1) does not have any features that allow you to create, modify, or even view an existing userform.
I'm hoping that will be updated in the near future as well. You can on the Excel UserVoice site. Microsoft uses this site to help prioritize feature updates, so please vote there if you want userforms back. Even with the absence of userforms, this new VB Editor is a huge leap forward from the editor that was originally shipped with Excel 2016 for Mac. If you are a Mac user, you will now be able to write macros to help you automate Excel and save time with your job.
If you are new to macros or want to learn more, checkout my upcoming. Get the Office Insiders Fast Pre-Release Build Important Note: You no longer need the Insiders Fast build to get the new VB Editor.
You might just need to update Office which can be done from the Help Check for Updates menu. Here is the page with the that lists all the recent updates. To get the updated version you will need to be on an Office 365 subscription and on the Office Insiders Fast Program. That program is free to join and open to everyone.
It allows you to download and install pre-release builds of Excel. The latest build is 16.6 at the time of this writing, and it includes PivotCharts and a new VB Editor for writing VBA macros. Two awesome updates for Mac users. It's really easy to do! Help Microsoft with Feedback As part of the Pre-release Program, Microsoft would love to get your feedback on how to make pivot charts better.
If you find any bugs or have any suggestions you can provide feedback by:. Clicking the smiley face icon in the top-right corner of Excel. Click the “Tell Us What Can Be Better” option.
Complete the form and hit Send. The Excel development team will receive the feedback and use it to make Excel even better. If you are excited about this update, please leave a comment below and let us know. August 4, 2018 Yikes!
And thanks Ian! ? Just to clarify, I was referring to the VB Editor that was originally shipped with Excel 2016 for Mac. It wasn’t much of an editor and looked like the following. No toolbars or debugging capabilities.
This new editor is definitely a step forward, even with the absence of userforms. I realize that Excel 2011 for Mac did have userforms, so compared to that it is still lacking features. You can run userforms on the Excel 2016 for Mac. They will just have to be developed in either a Windows version or Excel 2011.
I realize this is frustrating if you are only using Macs. In the past I have used Parallels on a Mac to run Windows, and it worked great. This is another option if you want to get the best of both worlds.
Yes, it will come at a price, and no, I don’t get paid by Microsoft. I hope that helps. August 4, 2018 You can also vote for the userforms feature on the Excel UserVoice site. Here is a link to that page. I added a link in the article above as well.
Microsoft uses that site to help prioritize updates based on votes. I think it’s also important to note that Macs still only make up about 8%-10% of total market share for personal computers. And MS and Apple are still competitors. So those two factors will probably always give priority to Windows versions of Office. Don’t get me wrong.
I love Apple products too. Our house is full of them. We just can’t expect our sports car to be good at off roading ?. Mark - January 9, 2018 Hi Jon, Thanks for your video above. I’m contemplating moving from PC to Mac, and trying (without much success) to understand how complete the VBA implementation is in Mac Office 2016. I recently tested an xlsm file I wrote in PC Excel 2007 on a friend’s Mac Office 2016, and it choked on trying to create a Word file from within Excel. This uses the lines: Set objWord = CreateObject(“Word.Application”) Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Add Is there a newer way to do this in the most recent Mac implementation?
I read something about sandboxing on the Mac Office, which makes me think “no”. Wondering in general how complete the port of Excel VBA was to the Mac version.