Customer impact: When using Outlook Web App (OWA) with Firefox, word-wrap formatting does not function properly when composing an email message. Workaround: As a workaround, customers are able to compose email messages with OWA using another web browser (i.e. Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome). You can use the Mini toolbar to format text. You can also turn off the Mini toolbar.
. Microsoft introduced the App Launcher beginning October 2014.
The update is a rolling update and is still being deployed to users. The App Launcher was introduced with the idea that it will be easier to navigate through Outlook Web App. You can also customize OWA so it is faster to get to the items you use most. Below is an image of what your OWA will look like after the change. We have received a few questions as accounts change.
Where did my calendar go? You will need to click on the App Launcher button in the top left and then select Calendar. Where did my folders go? I only see Inbox and Sent Items. You will need to click on More, it will then display all of your email folders. Microsoft is introducing new features to the Outlook Web App this September.
Along with the new features they are renaming the Outlook Web App (OWA), it will now be called Outlook on the Web. Along with the release of new features and new name will also be a new Action toolbar. Below is an image of what your account will look like after the change. We have noticed a few changes that you should be aware of, good and different. The Action toolbar across the top can come in extremely handy for quick actions. The action buttons change slightly based on what is appropriate for what you have currently selected.
The default button when replying to an email is set to reply all. You can change the default back to reply under the options. Click the gear icon in the top right, then select options from the drop down. On the left column under Mail and Automatic Processing select Reply Settings. Click reply selection and Save.
Beginning September 22, 2016, Office 2011 for Mac will no longer be available for installation. Office 2016 for Mac is the recommended version of Office for Mac and includes all the latest upgrades and new features. How does this affect me? You will no longer see Office 2011 for Mac as an option for download.
If you already have Office 2011 for Mac installed it will continue to be supported by Microsoft through October 10, 2017. We recommend that you install Office 2016 for Mac to have the latest and greatest features and support.
Microsoft is introducing a new feature called Focused Inbox. What is Focused Inbox? It’s the way to keep track of what is going on and what needs to get done. Outlook’s Focused Inbox makes this process easier by helping you focus on the emails that matter most to you. It separates your inbox into two tabs—Focused and Other.
Emails that matter most to you are in the Focused tab, while the rest remain easily accessible—but out of the way in the Other tab. You’ll be informed about email flowing to Other, and you can switch between tabs at any time to take a quick look.
What does this mean for me? If you are an Active Clutter user you will have to opt-in to Focused Inbox and will be able to do so from an in-app prompt in Outlook. After you opt-in, you will no longer receive less important email in the “Clutter” folder. Instead, email will be split between the Focused and Other tabs in their inbox. The same machine learned algorithm that moved items to the Clutter folder now powers Focused Inbox, meaning that any emails that were set to move to Clutter will now be moved to Other. This update will be available mid to late November and will take 6-8 weeks to be available worldwide.
For more information about Focused Inbox and turning off the feature check out. Beginning March 1, 2017, Office 2013 for Windows will no longer be available for installation. Office 2016 for Windows is the recommended version of Office for Windows and includes all the latest upgrades and new features. How does this affect me? You will no longer see Office 2013 for Windows as an option for download. If you already have Office 2013 for Windows installed it will no longer be supported by Microsoft.
Critical and important security updates will be released until April 10, 2018. We recommend that you install Office 2016 for Windows to have the latest and greatest features and support. Current status: The issue has been confirmed by Microsoft and Microsoft Engineers have developed a fix and are testing it to ensure remediation once it is deployed. Engineers have determined that the fix was not successful and have resumed the investigation in an effort to identify the correct method to resolve the issue.
Customer impact: Affected users are unable to delegate mailbox and calendar access, or modify distribution groups when using the Outlook desktop client. Workaround: As a workaround, users may be able to delegate mailbox and calendar access when using Outlook Web App (OWA). Next update: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at 4:00 PM EST. Outlook on the Web.
Current status: The issue has been confirmed by Microsoft and Microsoft Engineers are continuing to investigate to determine the source of the issue. Customer impact: Affected customers are unable to connect to Outlook Web App (OWA) when using Internet Explorer. Workaround: As a workaround, users can select the checkboxes to 'Use TLS 1.0', 'Use TLS 1.1' and 'Use TLS 1.2' in the advanced tab of the security section of the Internet options menu of Internet Explorer. Additionally, users can use an alternative browser. Current status: Users are unable to copy/paste from Microsoft Word into an email in Outlook Web App (OWA) using Safari. As a workaround you can use another web browser (ex.
Chrome or Mozilla Firefox). The issue has been confirmed by Microsoft and the Microsoft Product Group is looking into addressing the issue in a future release. At this time, there is no ETA for when the issue will be corrected.
Customer impact: Unable to Copy/Paste from Microsoft Word into an email in Outlook Web App (OWA) using Safari. Workaround: As a workaround you can use another web browser (ex.
Chrome or Mozilla Firefox) if you need to copy/paste from Microsoft Word. Estimated time to resolution: At this time, there is no ETA for when the issue will be corrected. Current status: Attachments are being reported as missing when the e-mail is received.
After further investigation this issue seems to be related to e-mails sent to listservs using an Outlook client in rich text format mode. As a workaround we recommend sending your e-mail through OWA or changing your Outlook Client to send in HTML format. When sending the e-mail without those changes it will attach a winmail.dat file and in most cases the recipient will not receive the original attachment.
Customer impact: Attachments are being reported as missing when the e-mail is received. Workaround: As a workaround we recommend sending your e-mail through OWA or changing your Outlook Client to send in HTML format. When sending the e-mail without those changes it will attach a winmail.dat file and in most cases the recipient will not receive the original attachment.
Preliminary root cause: After further investigation this issue seems to be related to e-mails sent to listservs using an Outlook client in rich text format mode. Current status: Newly composed messages stay in the Drafts or Outbox folder rather than being picked up for delivery. Microsoft engineers are working to determine the cause and remediate the problem. As a workaround, you can open messages in your Sent or Drafts folder and press the send button again to get the system to try to resend it. More information will be provided as we receive it from Microsoft. Customer impact: Newly composed messages stay in the Drafts or Outbox folder rather than being picked up for delivery.
Workaround: As a workaround, you can open messages in your Sent or Drafts folder and press the send button again to get the system to try to resend it. Estimated time to resolution: More information will be provided as we receive it from Microsoft. Current status: Multiple users are reporting that their e-mail clients setup with IMAP are unable to connect and/or are unable to retrieve messages. Microsoft made a change that stopped email clients from being about to connect to podxxxxx.outlook.com. After changing the server to outlook.office365.com the issue was resolved.
Customer impact: Users are reporting that they are continuously being requested to type in their password or their account is not being updated. Workaround: As a workaround we recommend adding the account again. If you choose to delete your previous account please be aware if you have local mail. Another work around would be to setup the account as an Exchange account. As always you can access your e-mail via OWA. Closure summary: Microsoft made a change that stopped email clients from being about to connect to podxxxxx.outlook.com. After changing the server to outlook.office365.com the issue was resolved.
The deployment has been completed. Customer impact: Some users are reporting that messages sent from the Microsoft Office 365 e-mail system to L-Soft ListServ lists are appearing as improperly formatted upon receipt, 'garbled text'. This issue has been replicated with sending text-only messages, as well as messages with attachments.
In messages with attachments, the attachments are being displayed, encoded, in the message body, instead of being attached to the message. Please note: This problem appears to affect e-mails sent from the Microsoft e-mail system to L-Soft ListServ systems in general.
L-Soft ListServ, the Mason ListServ software Thus, if you use a non-Mason L-Soft ListServ you could experience the problem there as well. L-Soft ListServ is the Mason ListServ software. Workaround: As a workaround if you have a small list of users on your ListServ you can send an e-mail to those users directly instead of sending the e-mail to the ListServ. Estimated time to resolution: A case was opened with Microsoft and they confirmed the issue. Microsoft is currently deploying a fix and expects that it will take approximately 2 weeks to be deployed to all of our users. This deployment should be completed by approximately July 23rd. Closure summary: The deployment has been completed.
Current status: The issue has been confirmed by Microsoft. Microsoft Engineers have identified a potential code issue with a recent service update.
Microsoft found a fix and it is now being deployed across the affected infrastructure. The deployment of the fix is approximately 96.5 percent complete. They believe they fix will be 100 percent complete sometime in the middle of next week.
Until the fix is completely deployed a viable workaround is using Outlook on the Web. Customer impact: Users may be unable to see the sender's name when viewing previously received messages in Outlook (desktop). Impact appears to be specific to messages received starting November 2, 2016.
This issue affects the Outlook desktop client only, Outlook on the web is not affected. Workaround: As a workaround you can check email using Outlook on the Web as it is not impacted Incident start time: Monday, November 07, 2016 at 12:49 AM EST Next update: Monday, November 14, 2016 at 3:00 PM EST. Outlook for Mac.
Current status: The issue has been confirmed by Microsoft and Microsoft Engineers are working on the issue. Deployment completed and the issue was successfully fixed on Tuesday, October 28, 2014, at 9:00 AM. Customer impact: Affected users may experience intermittent connectivity to their mailbox when connecting with the Macintosh Outlook client.
This is not affecting Windows Outlook clients. Workaround: As a workaround, users may be able to connect to email via Outlook Web App (OWA). Incident start time: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 4:00 AM EST Preliminary root cause: A recent update to the environment caused impact to Mac Outlook Client connectivity. Incident end time: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at EST Closure summary: Closure Summary: On Thursday, October 23, 2014, at approximately 12:00 PM, Microsoft engineers identified an issue in which some users may have experienced intermittent connectivity issues when connecting to the Exchange Online service with the Mac Outlook client. The investigation determined a recent update to the environment caused impact to Macintosh Outlook Client connectivity. At 9:00 PM on October 23, 2014, Microsoft engineers began implementing a fix to resolve the underlying cause of the issue.
Users began to experience service restoration as the fix was deployed across the affected environment. Deployment completed and the issue was successfully fixed on Tuesday, October 28, 2014, at 9:00 AM. Current status: Microsoft has resolved the issue that was causing the Offline Address Book (OAB) for Outlook 2011 clients to not get updated correctly. However, if you are still unable to see your Resource calendars or new Office 365 users, please contact the ITS Support Center so that they can assist you with getting your Offline Address Book updated. Customer impact: Users are unable to view Resource Calendars or new Office 365 Users while using Outlook 2011. Workaround: As a workaround you can type in the email address of the new Office 365 user and you can contact the ITS Support Center so they can assist you with getting your Offline Address Book updated.
Outlook for Windows. Current status: On January 8th Microsoft released and update to fix the issue causing Outlook 2010 to launch in Safe Mode. The initial update causing the issue was on Tuesday, December 8., Microsoft pushed an update that affected Outlook 2010 causing it to launch in Safe Mode. Microsoft has since pulled the update and recommends uninstalling the update to get Outlook to open normally.
Information about the initial update can be found here: Information about the update to fix Outlook can be found here: Customer impact: Outlook opens in Safe Mode which disables some features. Workaround: Microsoft is recommending to uninstall the Windows Update (KB3114409). Directions to uninstall the update can be found on the Microsoft Support page. Microsoft has posted an update: Incident start time: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 at 8:51 AM EST Estimated time to resolution: A new update has been released to fix this issue. The previous update was removed from Windows Update.
Incident end time: Friday, January 08, 2016 at EST Closure summary: On January 8th Microsoft released and update to fix the issue causing Outlook 2010 to launch in Safe Mode. Information about the update to fix Outlook can be found here. Current status: On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, at approximately 12:00 PM, Microsoft Engineers received reports of an issue in which some users were intermittently experiencing connection issues when using the Outlook 2013 client. The investigation determined a portion of capacity that handles connections to the service was in a degraded state. Engineers introduced additional capacity and restarted affected system services to remediate impact. The issue was successfully fixed on Tuesday, October 21, 2014, at 6:15 PM. Customer impact: Some users were intermittently experiencing connection issues when using the Outlook 2013 email client.
Workaround: As a workaround, affected users could connect to their mailbox via Outlook Web App. Incident start time: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at 12:00 PM EST Preliminary root cause: A portion of capacity that handles connections to the service was in a degraded state. Incident end time: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at EST Closure summary: On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, at approximately 12:00 PM, Microsoft Engineers received reports of an issue in which some users were intermittently experiencing connection issues when using the Outlook 2013 client. The investigation determined a portion of capacity that handles connections to the service was in a degraded state. Engineers introduced additional capacity and restarted affected system services to remediate impact. The issue was successfully fixed on Tuesday, October 21, 2014, at 6:15 PM.
Outlook on the Web. Current status: The issue has been confirmed by Microsoft. The Microsoft Product Team has confirmed this issue in code level and identified the fix. The fix will be included in the new service build (Version 16.0, Build 326).000 or higher that will be eventually deployed to all users. Depending on the deployment schedule, this may take about 4-6 weeks or longer. Customer impact: When using the Firefox browser and attempting to move through the either the day, week or month views using the menu bar, you can only move forward or back once.
Workaround: Use a browser other than Firefox when managing calendar entries with OWA. Closure summary: The fix will be included in the new service build (Version 16.0, Build 326).000 or higher that has been deployed to all users. Current status: The issue has been confirmed by Microsoft and Microsoft Engineers are working on the issue. Engineers are deploying a fix to remediate end-user impact.
The issue was successfully fixed on Thursday, August 28, 2014, at 12:00 AM. Customer impact: Users are unable to open the print dialogue window in Outlook Web App (OWA) with Internet Explorer. Workaround: As a workaround, users can use a keyboard shortcut such as 'Control + P' to initiate the print dialogue window on their browser. Alternatively, you can also use a different web browser. Incident start time: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at 10:13 PM EST Estimated time to resolution: The deployment process is expected to complete by Friday, August 29, 2014, at 5:00 PM. Preliminary root cause: A coding issue within the print feature for OWA caused compatibility issues with internet browser pop-up blockers.
Next update: Friday, August 29, 2014 at 5:00 PM EST Incident end time: Thursday, August 28, 2014 at 5:00 PM EST Closure summary: On Thursday, August 21, 2014, Microsoft received reports that some users were intermittently unable to open the print dialogue window when accessing Outlook Web App (OWA) with Internet Explorer. Investigation determined that a coding issue within the print feature for OWA caused compatibility issues with internet browser pop-up blockers. Microsoft engineers developed and deployed a fix to remediate end-user impact.
The issue was successfully fixed on Thursday, August 28, 2014, at 12:00 AM. Current status: Affected customers are unable to open hyperlinks in Outlook Web App (OWA) when clicking the URL in the body of a message. The issue has been confirmed by Microsoft and Microsoft Engineers are working on the issue.
Engineers developed and deployed a fix to remediate end-user impact. The issue was successfully fixed on Wednesday, September 10, 2014, at 11:00 AM Customer impact: Affected users are unable to open hyperlinks in Outlook Web App (OWA) when clicking the URL in the body of a message. Workaround: As a workaround, affected users can right-click the URL and open it in a new tab or window. Additionally, if the message is opened into a separate window, clicking on the URL will work as expected.
Incident start time: Sunday, September 07, 2014 at 6:20 PM EST Estimated time to resolution: The deployment process is 90% complete and is expected to complete by Wednesday, September 10, 2014, at 12:00 PM. Preliminary root cause: A coding issue prevented URLs from loading correctly within Outlook Web App (OWA). Next update: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 12:00 PM EST Incident end time: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 12:00 PM EST Closure summary: On Friday, September 5, 2014, at 5:23 AM, Microsoft received reports of an issue in which some customers were unable to open hyperlinks in Outlook Web App (OWA). Investigation determined that a coding issue prevented URLs from loading correctly within OWA. Engineers developed and deployed a fix to remediate end-user impact.
The issue was successfully fixed on Wednesday, September 10, 2014, at 11:00 AM. Current status: On Monday, October 5, 2014, at approximately 9:07 PM, Microsoft engineers received reports of an issue in which some users were unable to search their Inbox folders within Outlook Web App (OWA) when the Inbox was not set to conversation view. The investigation determined an update to the environment caused impact to the OWA search feature. Microsoft engineers developed and deployed a fix across the affected environment to remediate the impact. The issue was resolved on Monday, October 13, 2014, at 7:00 PM Customer impact: Users are experiencing problems with the search function within OWA. Workaround: As a workaround, you can use the search function in Outlook Online mode or you can enable 'Conversations' setting in OWA. Incident start time: Sunday, October 05, 2014 at 9:07 PM EST Preliminary root cause: A recent update to the environment has impacted OWA search functionality.
Incident end time: Monday, October 13, 2014 at EST Closure summary: On Monday, October 5, 2014, at approximately 9:07 PM, Microsoft engineers received reports of an issue in which some users were unable to search their Inbox folders within Outlook Web App (OWA) when the Inbox was not set to conversation view. The investigation determined an update to the environment caused impact to the OWA search feature. Microsoft engineers developed and deployed a fix across the affected environment to remediate the impact.
The issue was resolved on Monday, October 13, 2014, at 7:00 PM. Current status: On Thursday, May 8, 2014, at approximately 12:15 PM, engineers received reports of an issue in which some customers may have been unable to use the word-wrap formatting function when composing an email message in Outlook Web App (OWA) using Firefox. This issue did not occur when accessing OWA with other internet browsers.
Investigation determined that a coding issue caused compatibility problems between OWA and Firefox. Engineers developed a fix and deployed it across the affected capacity to remediate end-user impact. The issue was successfully fixed on Friday, May 09, 2014, at 8:30 PM. Customer impact: When using Outlook Web App (OWA) with Firefox, word-wrap formatting does not function properly when composing an email message. Workaround: As a workaround, customers are able to compose email messages with OWA using another web browser (i.e. Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome). Incident start time: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 4:00 PM EST Incident end time: Friday, May 09, 2014 at EST.
Current status: Update: 4/16/2014 - Microsoft now fully supports IE 11 for use with OWA. While in Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) some users see the Light Version of OWA. Check Windows update to make sure you have the current version of Internet Explorer. If you still see the Light Version you will need to add the website in the Compatibility View Settings. Open IE 11, press Alt on the keyboard to pull-up the menu bar. Select Tools, click on Compatibility view Settings.
Add the website and click Add. Make sure 'Display intranet sites in Compatibility View' and 'Use Microsoft Compatibility Lists' options are checked. Click close, restart IE. Current status: Microsoft has received reports of an issue in which some customers using Firefox 23 or Firefox 24 are experiencing issues when composing new mail in the Outlook Web App (OWA). Customers may see the form begin to load, then see the tool bar disappear. Engineers are continuing to deploy a patch to address the issue.
The current workaround is to expand the Firefox browser to full screen mode, where the tool bar will re-appear. The deployment of the fix has been completed. Customer impact: While attempting to compose a new message in Firefox 23 or 24 the tool bar is missing.
Workaround: The current workaround is to expand the Firefox browser to full screen mode, where the tool bar will re-appear or use another web browser. Current status: Multiple users are unable to use the 'Search Mail and People' function in multiple versions of Safari and Firefox on Mac OSX. As a workaround you can use Chrome, OWA light version, or an e-mail client for searching. The issue has been confirmed by Microsoft and the Microsoft Product Group is investigating the issue.
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It has been determined to be an issue with the latest update to OWA that was recently rolled out. Microsoft has deployed a patch to fix the issue.
The deployment of the fix has been completed. Customer impact: Multiple users are unable to use the 'Search Mail and People' function in multiple versions of Safari and Firefox on Mac OSX.
Workaround: As a workaround you can use Chrome, OWA light version, or an e-mail client for searching. Preliminary root cause: It has been determined to be an issue with the latest update to OWA that was recently rolled out. Microsoft has deployed a patch to fix the issue. Current status: Users are unable to add text to the body of a new message in Outlook Web App (OWA). The issue only occurs after adding a contact to the recipient field of the message, and using the 'open in a separate window' feature to pop out the composition window. As a workaround you can save the message as a draft, and then continue editing the message body from the drafts folder using inline compose.
If the message window is popped out a second time, you can also edit the message text without issue as long as another contact is not added to the recipient line. Microsoft Engineers have identified an issue with the editor feature and are currently implementing a fix to mitigate impact. The deployment of the fix has been applied. Customer impact: Users are unable to add text to the body of a new message in Outlook Web App (OWA). Workaround: As a workaround you can save the message as a draft, and then continue editing the message body from the drafts folder using inline compose. Because Mason’s email and calendar is a cloud service, in some cases only Microsoft has access to the settings and systems necessary for issue resolution. In these cases, details of the process may be unavailable to Mason, with the result that we unfortunately may be unable to provide the community with as much specific information as we would like to.
When this occurs, we still work hard to follow up, ensure Microsoft staff understand the issue, and establish the root cause to reduce the possibility it will happen again. We and our support partners at Microsoft are committed to working together as diligently and quickly as possible to fix problems.
We encourage users or their support providers to contact the ITS Support Center for each user affected by unexpected behavior or difficulty with campus IT services like email and calendar. Doing so will help compile accurate statistics on how broadly a problem is impacting the Mason community and help collect data that might lead to a resolution. Overall, cloud services bring many benefits to Mason.
Mason’s contract with Microsoft and other vendors specifies support levels to be provided to Mason and we strive to ensure our vendors meet these requirements in order that the benefits are realized as fully as they can be. If you have a question, please contact the.
It doesn’t matter that you don’t think Microsoft Word doesn’t matter anymore. It does—for tens, hundreds, thousands of people, Microsoft Word is an every day event. An indispensable tool for getting daily business done. And without it, whether you like it or not, much of what must get done in the world of words wouldn’t, if it weren’t for Word.
What matters most to those users is how it works. Whether it works well. Whether it will get the job done without getting in the way.
What matters to the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve traded up from a PC to a Mac and the tens of thousands of IT professionals who have to support them is whether or not Word on the Mac works in the world they work in. Is it invisible. With few exceptions, is exactly that. Word for Windows and Mac now look substantially the same, although you may find that not all of the Windows’ features are available on your Mac. As a word processing tool, Word 2016—which, at present, is only available as part of an Office 365 subscription—hasn’t changed much since its last major release as. (Students, parents, and teachers may be able to get Office for free or cheap. Check out ) How you create, edit, and style text remains the same as it ever was.
What you may notice is that Word now supports some Mac OS-only features such as full screen mode, multi-touch gestures, and retina graphics. Microsoft has also added some Mac-only features of its own, including a Smart Lookup feature that integrates Bing searches and other contextually relevant information from the web when you use the tool on selected text. All of the Office products also include something that Microsoft now refers to as the Task Pane, which, for my money, is an awful lot like Office’s old Floating Palettes, without the floating.
In short, the Task Pane provides an easy way for you to make quick formatting changes to text and other document elements without having to rely on a menu or Ribbon element. Need a little more detail on that word or concept? Word’s Smart Lookup pulls in more details from the Web. Over the past several years Microsoft has undertaken a massive redesign of its Office products for Mac and iOS. These updates have streamlined the look and feel of Office apps, making them more like their Windows versions, but with what I find to be a far less cluttered look and feel. In fact, the new Mac version is as clean as Word on the iPad, which is an excellent app, and it also has some of the same limitations. The upside to this sameness is that, whether you’re working on a PC at your office, your iPad on the train, or your Mac at home, you’ll find the tools you need in substantially the same places.
A simple click on the current editing tab hides the Ribbon and gives you more room for words. While there is an essential “sameness” to all these apps, you will still find that some features found in the Windows version are nowhere to be found on the Mac.
For example, the option to add a pop-up calendar to a table—a feature you’ll find in the Windows version—isn’t available on the Mac. But.if you use your Mac to add a properly formatted date to a document with a table including that feature, the field will retain the calendar option when you open it again on a PC. This raises an important point: Word for Mac is top-notch when it comes to collaborative work. This is obvious when it comes to basic document editing. Email a document to someone, have them make changes, and send it back to you. If they’re using the current version of Word on the device they edit with, the transition is seamless.
But, better yet, share your document using, or a, and you can have dozens of people working on the same document at the same time, each without interfering with the other’s changes. Word’s collaborative tools also include threaded comments, so you can see and interact with others within the comments on a document.
Word 2016 offers excellent collaboration features with tools for resolving conflicts for edits in the same part of a document. Word 2016 isn’t without disappointments, but they are by no means deal killers. Word takes no advantage of Apple’s Autosave and Versions features. So you’re stuck with what now seems like a vestige of some ancient past. Have a power failure? Dog step on your power strip?
You’re relegated to the weeping and gnashing of teeth you no longer expect when bad things happen and you have unsaved changes in a document. This also seems to be tied to Word’s collaboration features, which, while excellent, are not as dynamic as I’d like them to be. If you’re editing a document while someone else is also making changes, you don’t see their changes until both they and you save the document. (Compare this with Pages, which updates changes almost as soon as they’re made, no matter who is editing the document.) Finally, Word doesn’t support Yosemite’s option to rename and/or move a document using the menu in the document’s title bar. Word 2016 doesn’t support Yosemite’s Autosave features, so you can forget about the power going out and your unsaved changes still being in your document. Bottom line Microsoft Word 2016 is an excellent update to what is, for most users, an important business tool.
Changes to the program’s user interface make it easy for anyone to bounce from Word on a Mac to Word on any other platform with a minimal transitional curve. Word’s collaboration features make it possible for business users to work on the computing platform of their choosing without making significant sacrifices. While the program doesn’t support some of Yosemite’s more important, user friendly, and bacon-saving features—such as Autosave—the overall user experience is superb. In short, Microsoft Word gets the job done without getting in the way, If Word is your primary tool for getting work done with words, run, don’t walk to upgrade to Word 2016.