Search giant Microsoft has rolled out new updates for the company's office productivity package, the Microsoft Office 2016 apps. The company claims that the new update brings new features, improvements, security enhancements and major bug and minor fixes.
There are at least four programs that will receive the new updates, namely: Excel, Powerpoint, Word and Outlook. It was said that the aforementioned apps have also received security tweaks in an attempt to reduce the vulnerabilities of any device. The tweaks allow a remoted code execution in case another user opens a crafted file, a report from Macrumors said.
iPhone Hacks has listed the essential updates and improvements for the Microsoft Office applications, which are the following:
"Outlook
- New Chinese and Japanese default fonts. Existing Japanese and Simplified Chinese fonts in Outlook for Mac have been updated to have a unified modern appearance and behavior.
- Visual Basic Editor improvements. You can now add modules and references and use debug shortcuts in the Visual Basic Editor.
- Software updates that include the following:
- Improved VoiceOver support for weather in the Calendar feature.
- Email address is now included in the default message attribution when you reply and forward.
- Message list is now displayed correctly when you switch folders by having the Reading Pane turned off.
- Improved Reminders functionality to reduce CPU consumption.
- Improved use of advanced search operators for non-English languages.
Word
- Visual Basic Editor improvements. You can now add modules and references and use debug shortcuts in the Visual Basic Editor.
- New Chinese and Japanese default fonts. Existing Japanese and Simplified Chinese fonts in Word for Mac have been updated to have a unified modern appearance and behavior.
- Ribbon extensibility. Use ribbon customization XML to customize the ribbon the way that you want it.
- Software updates that include the following:
- Custom paper sizes in Page Setup are now supported.
- Find/Replace is corrected to move to the next matched word when Track Changes is turned on.
- Fixed crashes that occur when you use Mail Merge together with Outlook.
- Headers/Footers: Page numbering: Number of Pages option is corrected to display numbers greater than two digits.
Excel
- New Chinese and Japanese default Fonts. Existing Japanese and Simplified Chinese fonts in Excel for Mac have been updated to have a unified modern appearance and behavior.
- Visual Basic Editor improvements. You can now add modules and references and use debug shortcuts in the Visual Basic Editor.
- Ribbon extensibility. Use ribbon customization XML to customize the ribbon the way that you want it.
- Software updates that include the following:
- Improved support for pasting from external applications.
- Scroll bars now correctly respect OS X scroll bar settings.
PowerPoint
- New Chinese and Japanese default fonts. Existing Japanese and Simplified Chinese fonts in PowerPoint for Mac have been updated to have a unified modern appearance and behavior.
- Visual Basic Editor improvements. You can now add modules and references and use debug shortcuts in the Visual Basic Editor.
- Ribbon extensibility. Use ribbon customization XML to customize the ribbon the way that you want it.
- Software updates"
"The updates are available now for those who already have Office 2016 installed on their Mac. It's available through Microsoft's AutoUpdate tool. Unfortunately it is not clear at this time whether or not this update fixes crashing issues that many OS X El Capitan users have been experiencing with Office 2016 apps," the report said.
