whecities.blogg.se

There are other limits, possibly imposed by Apple, on what Office for Mac can do with the Touch Bar. I would like to see Microsoft add access to presenter notes on the Touch Bar. I also appreciate that Microsoft chose to add a clock on the Touch Bar so you can keep track of how long you’ve been presenting. Tapping it transforms the Touch Bar into a thumbnail view of your presentation that you can slide through and tap on to bring any slide into view on the main screen. When it’s time to present, the Touch Bar shows you a presentation button. It even offers the ability to move objects back and forth in the object stack. The integration includes text formatting, bullet lists, the creation of new slides and text boxes.

I think I could almost create an entire presentation without accessing the traditional menu. PowerPoint may have the best Touch Bar menu. Credit: screen captures/composite/mashable What the Touch Bar looks like for (top to bottom) Word for Mac, Excel for Mac (second and third), and PowerPoint (fourth, fifth and sixth) for Mac. Additional menu choices like Comments and adding Hyperlinks are on the Touch Bar, too, but you'll need to slide to the left to see them - still faster than hunting it down with your trackpad or mouse. That option, along with Bold, Italic, Highlight, Bullets, Text Color and even the Clipboard are all still a touch away. For example, as I wrote this review I considered underlining the words “which is fine” in the previous sentence. While you use the Touch Bar, the onscreen ribbon disappears, which is fine, since the actions you need are still there, and you get an bit of screen space back. It’s sort of a visual manifestation of the 80/20 rule (80% of people use 20% of an app’s features). The Touch Bar is there to surface what Microsoft assumes are your most often-used features. The limited screen real estate means you won’t find all the control you gain through the ribbon on Word or Excel, but that's kind of the point. As expected, the Touch Bar's OLED screen adapts to the the specific app, but it also varies quite a bit within application tasks. On the beta version of the software I tried, I didn't have to do anything to activate Touch Bar controls. Similarly, Touch Bar integration works just as you'd expect it to across the Office suite. (opens in a new tab) (Opens in a new tab)

If you’ve ever used Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook on Windows or even on the web via Office 365, the macOS version will be instantly familiar. MacBook Pro with Touch Bar banned from bar exam in multiple statesįor those of you unfamiliar with Microsoft’s productivity suite on macOS, it’s just as powerful and smooth as it is on Microsoft’s Windows 10.