(This is the password that you use to log in to your Mac.)
Note: If you want to only install specific Office apps and not the entire suite, click the Customize button and uncheck the programs you don't want.Įnter your Mac login password, if prompted, and then click Install Software. The steps to install these versions can be different depending if you got Office through one of the following ways: Some versions of Office such as Office Professional Plus 2021, Office Standard 2021, or a stand-alone app such as Word 2021 or Project 2021 don't have an associated Microsoft account, or work or school account. *If you don't have a product key or an account
You'll sign in with your work or school account for these versions of Office. Once you verify you have a license, anytime you need to install or reinstall Office you can go straight to the section below, Sign in to download Office and select the tab for steps to install on a PC or Mac.
Learn how to check this in What Microsoft 365 business product or license do I have? or if you're a Microsoft 365 admin responsible for assigning licenses to people in your organization, see Assign licenses to users. It’s not as beautiful or well integrated as the iPad version, but Office for Mac 2016 is a major leap forward from previous versions and scores where it counts: in functionality and power.If your Office for business subscription plan includes the desktop version of the Office apps you won't see an option to install it unless someone in your organization assigned a license to you.
For now, use the download link above to activate a free 30-day trial of the Office 365 service using your Microsoft Account. Note: only Office 365 users can use Office for Mac 2016 at the moment - the standalone version launches in September. If you’re looking for a serious office package, this is it. Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft on the Mac platform, there’s no doubt this is the slickest, most feature-packed version of Office yet. Version 15.8 improves its sharing capabilities. The Mac version of the latter remains less powerful than on other platforms, but is slowly catching up. The suite is rounded off with the latest version of Outlook for Mac, recently released as a standalone product, and OneNote. PowerPoint debuts a new Presenter View that makes it easier than ever to present your slideshow, plus a new animation pane is supplemented with a number of new slide transition effects. Word users gain a handy new Design tab for managing a document’s layout, and a Navigation sidebar (confusingly referred to as Document Sidebar) for working more efficiently with larger documents.Įxcel’s new features bring it in line with Excel 2013 on Windows, and include a new Analysis Toolpak offering a wide number of statistical functions, as well as a PivotTable Slicer, which is designed to pick out patterns from large volumes of data. Veteran users will notice the ribbon has been updated along with the task pane to make features more immediate and visible. Like the previous version, it consists of five apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, and each has been updated and redesigned to fit in with the modern Office look that’s been rolled out on other platforms while ensuring it fits in with the OS X look. Its codebase has been completely refreshed and optimised for modern Macs, and it’s designed to work beautifully on Retina displays. Office 2016 is all about the cloud – it’s tightly integrated into Microsoft’s OneDrive and SharePoint services.
Office on the Mac has always been considered a bit of an after-thought, but with Apple’s dumbing down of its iWork apps, Microsoft has gone to great lengths to give the first new version of Office in five years a real shot in the arm.