Karamjit Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Redmond releases new update for Office 2016 preview Microsoft has just released a new update for Office 2016 Preview, providing users with a bunch of improvements for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, all of which can be tested right now by simply joining the program and registering to download pre-release software.Scheduled to launch later this year, Office 2016 comes with several improvements as compared to its predecessor, but the most striking change is definitely the addition of a new dark theme that brings the productivity suite in line with the design of Windows 10, which also comes with a dark visual style.New charts and InsightsToday’s update brings new charts for Microsoft Excel, including Waterfall, Histogram, Pareto, Box & Whisker, Treemap, and Sunburst, but also real-time typing in Word to see what others are working on as they make changes to a document.“To try this, save a document to OneDrive for Business and invite your colleagues to join you in a simultaneous authoring session,” Microsoft explains.For Excel and PowerPoint users, there’s also the new feature called Insights, which was previously available for Word and Outlook users exclusively. This particular option makes it possible to integrate contextual information from the web into Office documents using Bing, and everything you need to do is right-click a specific word or phrase and hit the option called “smart lookup.”Other new features that are part of this update are “Tell Me,” which is an assistant that helps you find information on performing certain tasks, but also options to convert hand-written equations to text in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint when using a digital pen, a mouse, or a finger on touch screens.If you want to download this new preview, you must register here with your Microsoft account to get access to the new release. Keep in mind that this is pre-release software and bugs are very likelySource Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjall Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 so is this a desktop version or web application version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan de Souza Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 so is this a desktop version or web application version?Desktop.I see there is no fixes yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geeteam Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Offline installer?Anyone tried on Windows 10 build 10162? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notam Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Offline installer?Anyone tried on Windows 10 build 10162?Working fine on win 10 10176 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjall Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 i found the preview as a torrent but no RTM release yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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