Office 2016 for Mac price & buying advice: UK pricing for Office for Mac, plus new Touch Bar features, incremental updates for 2017

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www.office.com/setup Blogs: Office 2016 for Mac is here, so we bring you everything you need to know about the new version of Office for Mac 2016, including Office 365, UK pricing, new features and more.

Office for Mac 2016 first launched as part of Office 365 in July of 2015, but Mac users wanting to buy a copy outright, rather than subscribe, had to wait for Microsoft to launch the boxed version. That finally happened in September 2015, when those Mac users got their wish and Office 2016 for Mac became available for £119.99 upfront. Here, we talk you through the features in Office for Mac 2016, and help you decide whether to subscribe to Office 365 or buy a copy outright. Plus, we share Office for Mac 2016 UK pricing for each version.

A number of new features for the MacBook Pro Touch Bar have been added as of February 2017, these are discussed here.

Don't expect Microsoft Office for Mac 2017 anytime soon (or at all, for that matter). There was a five year gap between this current version of Office for Mac and its predecessor, Microsoft Office for Mac 2011.

However, those with an Office 365 account will get regular, automatic updates since it is an online subscription. If you buy Office outright as a one-time software download, you won't get these benefits, so something to bear in mind.

Microsoft Office for Mac 2016 UK price: How much does Office for Mac 2016 cost?

Office Home & Student 2016 for Mac costs £119.99 ($149.99) and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. It's available to buy from Microsoft UK here or Microsoft US here.

Office Home & Business 2016 for Mac costs £229.99 ($229.99) and includes Outlook as well as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. It's available to buy from Microsoft UK here or Microsoft US here.

These versions are only available for one Mac. To install on more than one Mac Microsoft appears to be pushing users towards the 365 subscription model.

If you buy a copy outright, you will only be able to install the copy on one Mac and it comes with 15GB of OneDrive cloud storage. Subscribers, on the other hand, get more OneDrive storage, Outlook, and depending on the subscription package, can install the software on multiple Macs, iPhones and iPads.

Office 365 UK price: How much does an Office 365 subscription cost?

For business users, an Office 365 subscription is available in a number of different packages. Businesses can sign up for £7 a month (or $8.25 per month) for the package that doesn't include email or video conferencing, or £3.80 per month ($5 per month) for just the email, online apps and video conferencing. If you want both, the Business Premium package costs £7.80 per user per month ($12.50 per month) and combines the feature set of the two cheaper packages.

Home users can sign up for Office 365 Home subscription at £7.99 per month or £79.99 a year ($9.99 per month or $99.99 per year in the US) and get access to the features, including being able to create and edit documents, as well as desktop versions of the Office apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access. The software can be installed on five Macs (or PCs), five tablets and five phones.

There is also an Office 365 Personal subscription option that costs £59.99 a year or £5.99 a month ($6.99 per month or $69.99 per month). This includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access, but the software can only be installed on one Mac, one tablet and one iPhone.

Students can get Office 365 University for £59.99 ($79.99) for four years to install on two Macs, PCS, or tablets and two phones. If your school subscribes to the service you may be able to get a copy for free. In the US those in education have been able to get Office 365 for free since 2013, but Microsoft has now extended this beyond the States. You can find out if you are eligible by adding your school email address here. Students get access to the Office suite of products, as well as 1TB of OneDrive storage and access to Office Online via a browser.

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Office Home & Student 2016 for Mac costs £119.99 and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. While the Office Home & Business 2016 for Mac costs £229.99, and includes Outlook as well as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Office 2016 for Mac requires Mac OS X 10.10 and 4GB RAM.

How does Office Home & Student 2016 one-time purchase compare to the subscription model?

Office 365 Home

Subscribe for £79.99 a year ($99.99)

Subscribe for £7.99 a month ($9.99)

Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote PLUS: Outlook, Publisher, and Access

Install on: 5 PCs or Macs, 5 tablets and 5 phones

OneDrive storage: 1TB per user

Skype: 60 minutes per month for 5 users

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Office 365 Personal

Subscribe for £59.99 a year ($69.99)

Subscribe for £5.99 a month ($6.99)

Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote PLUS: Outlook, Publisher, and Access

Install on: 1 PC or Mac, 1 tablet and 1 phone

OneDrive storage: 1TB

Skype: 60 minutes per month

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Office 365 University

Subscribe for £59.99 for 4 years ($79.99)

Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote PLUS: Outlook, Publisher, and Access

Install on: 2 PCs or Macs or tablets, 2 phones

OneDrive storage: 1TB

Skype: 60 minutes per month

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Office Home & Student 2016 for Mac

Pay £119.99 ($149.99)

Includes: Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote

Install on: 1 Mac

OneDrive storage: 15GB

Skype: n/a

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Office Home & Business 2016 for Mac

Pay £229.99 ($229.99)

Includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook

Install on: 1 Mac

OneDrive storage: 15GB

Skype: n/a

See now on the UK Microsoft Store | See now on the US Microsoft Store |  See now on Amazon

Will my Mac run the Office for Mac 2016

Office 2016 for Mac requires Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite and 4GB RAM.

The following Macs should therefore be able to run Office 2016 for Mac.

Are there versions of Office 2016 for iPad & iPhone?

Apple has launched iOS versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, read about the versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook for iPad and Phone here.

Microsoft Office for Mac 2016  features: latest Touch Bar updates

New features added to Microsoft Office for Mac in February 2017 include a number of new functions made possible by the Track Pad on the MacBook Pro.

Microsoft released Touch Bar support to all Office for Mac users, giving the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps new contextual capabilities on the new MacBook Pro.

Microsoft also added a new slider to the Touch Bar so you can rotate an object - like an image or a new layer - more precisely.

Touch Bar features in Word:

In Word, you can use the Touch Bar to insert photos, hyperlinks, or comments in your document.

The Word Focus Mode feature hides all ribbons and controls from the screen so that you could focus on writing in Word, while keeping the most relevant commands at your fingertips thanks to the Touch Bar.

Touch Bar features in PowerPoint:

In PowerPoint, the Touch Bar gets “view-specific controls” to present a slideshow.

The Touch Bar integrates slide thumbnails so you can move through your presentation, and it also includes a timer to keep you on time.

Touch Bar features in Excel:

In Excel, pressing the equal sign launches the most recently used commands on the Touch Bar. From there you can tap to select a range and perform a specific function.

Touch Bar features in Outlook:

Microsoft confirmed that Touch Bar support for Outlook and Skype for Business would be coming soon.

When it does, the following features will be available: When composing an email, for example, the Touch Bar will surface recent files so that you can add an attachment with one tap.

In Outlook’s Today view, you can use the Touch Bar to get a quick glimpse of your calendar events for the day, or quickly launch a Skype for Business call.

MacBook Pro users can access these features by going to Help > Check for updates in any of their Office for Mac apps.

Office for Mac 2016 features

The 2016 Office software products feature a number of new features, including a greater focus on co-authoring and other collaborative features, and stronger unity across multiple platforms. In theory, an Office user from PC should be able to jump on a similarly equipped Mac and start working straight away, given how closely aligned the two interfaces have been designed.

Of course, we know most of the product details already, having tried out the previews extensively since before the final launch (more on the previews below and in the individual preview articles above), but the company pointed out that it has made numerous tweaks to the preview versions based on the thousands of pieces of feedback it has received from the trial programme: "Since the start of the preview in March, we released 7 updates and improved the performance and stability of the applications, and added features like improved Mail Merge in Word, Propose New Time in Outlook, and support for External Data Connections in Excel."

"The new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote provide the best of both worlds for Mac users - the familiar Office experience paired with the best of Mac," said Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team.

"If you already use Office on a PC or iPad, you will find yourself right at home in Office 2016 for Mac. It works the way you expect, with the familiar ribbon interface and powerful task panes. Mac users will appreciate the modernized Office experience and the integration of Mac capabilities like Full Screen view and Multi-Touch gestures. With full Retina display support, your Office documents look sharper and more vibrant than ever.

"Office for Mac is cloud-connected, so you can quickly get to the documents you've recently used on other devices and pick up where you left off. New, built-in document sharing tools make it easy to invite teammates to work on a document together. When sharing documents, you won't have to worry about losing content or formatting, as Office for Mac offers unparalleled compatibility with Office on PCs, tablets, phones and online."

The preview versions of Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Word are still available for all to download and try, and will remain available for another month, expiring on 9 August. Here's how to download the Office 2016 for Mac previews.

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