
Like the excellent Windows 8.1 search, it has proven quick and quite adept in our testing, making it a welcome addition given the programs’ feature glut and the opaque nature of Office dropdowns.

Office 2016, Tell me what you want to do… So a search for “pages” brings up options for inserting page breaks, viewing multiple pages, adding a cover, and more. This long overdue addition, which first appeared in the Office Online service last year, searches Office commands with a simple keyword and activates them with a click. Within Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, users will find the same menu options for File, Home, Insert, etc., but also a new “Tell me what you want to do…” search box. This is all part of the new “Colorful” Office Theme, though the White and Gray options remain in various shades for those put off by potentially garish styling.

Outlook and Visio are a lighter shade of blue seems an odd design choice given there are more colors in the rainbow than blue, red, and green. Word is blue, Excel green, and PowerPoint red, which is very pronounced in the ribbon area atop the programs. In fact, there are significant changes and features that should make many Office users happy.įirst and foremost, the Office programs adhere to the same color scheme set forth by the recent Android and iOS releases. That’s not to suggest there is nothing but limitations in store for Office 2016 users. For example, it might prevent an end user from putting confidential sales data into a PowerPoint presentation, or emailing customer data. With it, IT admins can create and enforce policies that restrict sharing potentially sensitive or confidential information. It’s already available on Microsoft’s cloud and sharing services, in addition to Exchange and Outlook. Foreground network calls have been eliminated for a more responsive Outlook on unreliable networksĭLP is a big deal, and will directly impact many enterprise end users.Multi-factor authentication in Outlook through Active Directory Authentication Library.

