Editing and scrolling certainly weren’t slow. True, Word 2016 takes a second or two longer to start from scratch than the previous 2011 release, but this is something Microsoft is working on and has already made massive improvements compared to earlier versions. Performance seemed absolutely fine in our testing. Suggestion Box website perhaps surprisingly, many of these are on their way to being implemented. However, Microsoft invites users to submit suggestions for features or improvements via its Everything you need is present, and more besides. But make no mistake – unlikeĮxcel 2016, which feels only partially baked at the present time, Word 2016 is feature-complete. This can make Word 2016 feel a little unfinished, as well as make users feel like eternal beta testers. For example, recent updates include custom paper sizes, support for custom and common citation styles, screenshot taking and inserting, and New, Print and Save icon additions to the Quick Access toolbar (because, believe it or not, they weren’t present until that point). Not only are bug fixes regularly delivered via the AutoUpdate tool, available on the Help menu, but new features are added too.
You can use the pinch-expand trackpad gesture to increase/decrease the zoom level, though.Īs with all the Office 2016 components, Microsoft has taken a rolling update approach with Word 2016. In fact, Word’s as disconnected from OS X’s useful built-in tools as ever – there’s no file versioning, for example, other than that available via Finder. It’s not entirely unlike the dictionary pop-up in built-in Mac apps that appears if you force-click on a trackpad, but notably there’s support for This provides an online dictionary lookup alongside Wikipedia, Bing search, and so on. There’s a new Smart Lookup pane too, which appears when you highlight a word and select the option from the right-click menu. This can be “torn off” like a browser tab to make it into an always on-top window. Click the Styles Pane button, for example, and a styles listing will appear at the side of the app window.
Notably, the main menu is still present, unlike with the Windows version of Office, so finding most familiar features isn’t hard for upgraders from Word 2011.įans of the floating toolbox window from Office 2011 and earlier and catered for – just about. When we tried an on-demand scan of the same file basket, it took almost the same time as Avast at 6 min 19 sec, and curiously indicated that it had chosen precisely the same number of 23,691 out of around 40,000.Alas, the Ribbon’s promotion means the formatting and standard toolbars of the past 25 years are no longer around although the Home Ribbon essentially replaces much of the text formatting tools that were found there, and is augmented by the Quick Access toolbar that runs across the top of the program window and provides quick access to undo/redo, one-click printing, and file operations. System performance was not hindered whatsoever in our file duplication test, suggesting that no real-time screening is undertaken on files already on the Mac.
And unlike the Windows free edition of a few years ago, there was no nagging to upgrade to a paid-for version – although in this example there is no non-free Mac software anyway.
The lab test had only one false positive and in our testing we saw no evidence of mis-flagging safe files. This suggests that if you installed Avira on an already infected Mac, there’s also a two in three chance it wouldn’t be able to warn you.
When confronted with 107 different stray components of malware already in place on a test machine, it spotted 38, or a little more than one-third of them. Security Spread malware study, Avira identified 399 out of 422 assorted Mac nasties, or over 93 percent of the sample group – a fairly decent result. Heuristic detection is included, to spot as-yet unidentified possible threats