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Table of Contents.Introduction to Microsoft Office for MacMicrosoft Office was first released in 1990 for Windows 95. The first Mac version, called Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition, wasn’t released until, you’ve guessed it, 1998. It was re-engineered by Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit and introduced the Internet Explorer 4.0 browser and Outlook Express. It also included Microsoft PowerPoint 98, Microsoft Word 98, and Microsoft Excel 98.Today, there’s very little difference between Microsoft Office for Mac and Microsoft Office for Windows. Since the version 15.25, Microsoft Office for Mac has become exclusively a 64-bit application, breaking compatibility with old Mac computers with 32-bit processors. Components of Microsoft Office for Mac 2016The latest version of, Microsoft Office 2016, features the flat design and tabbed user interface that were introduced in Microsoft Office 2013.
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. The Mac lacks integration with SharePoint and Visual Basic. While Word for Mac has some level of support for SharePoint and Visual Basic, it does not support all aspects of these features. Microsoft Word for Mac doesn't support, which is a Windows-only technology. ActiveX is slowly being phased out by Microsoft, but the inability to work with it in Word for Mac may cause problems for users who need that feature. Word for Mac doesn't include Digital Ink and the associated freestyle drawing tools. Word for Mac doesn't include the Document Inspector, which removes personal information and hidden data from a document. Word for Mac doesn't include embedded fonts.
1985: Microsoft released Word 1.0 for the Mac and MS-DOS. 1989: Word 4.0 came to the Mac as part of Microsoft Office. 1993: Office 4.2 included Word 6. This was the first time both Windows and Macs had the same version of Microsoft Word. 2001: Microsoft Word version X was the first version to support Mac OS X. 2004: Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac contained Word.
2010: Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 was released. 2015: Microsoft Word 2016 became available to Office 365 subscribers. Later that year, Microsoft released a one-time-purchase version of Office 2016 for Mac that included Word. 2018: Microsoft Word for Mac 2019 was released as part of a one-time purchase of Microsoft Office software and as part of an Office 365 subscription.
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