I am told that word is still having accessibility issues on the Mac so make sure you try it out first.
Also, on a positive note, I’ve been using outlook on the Mac for a while now and it’s very accessible and works well. So they are making progress. > On Aug 27, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK, so I just called Microsoft for you to ask about this, as I was actually > curious myself. > > So, here's the deal. Office 2016 for the mac is available, yes, not even as > the public preview. It's out, but! hold on! there is a little small catch. > It is out, yes, but right now, it's only available to Office 365 subscribers. > Not to official non-365 subscribers who just want it as is, full fledged. > However, on the plus side of this, it is apparently supposed to be fully > released without the need for Office 365 come next month. > > Once this is done, they will also then be releasing Office 2016 for Windows > for both 365 members as well as non-365 full fledged users. > > Please realize that none of what I am saying here breaks any NDA. I'm > telling you exactly what I was directly told by a Microsoft sales agent named > Hermon. > > If you want to get either of the versions out now of Microsoft Office for a > mac, or a Windows PC, then here's what you need to do. > > First off, be sure you're subscribed to Office 365. You can do this through > > http://www.office.com > > Once you have done this, go back to the above link, and sign in with your > Microsoft passport. > > Once in, click on the link for my account. > > I think a more direct link actually is: > > http://account.office.com > > It might be > > http://myaccount.office.com > > It's one of the two, I just don't recall which. > > Once you're at this page and logged in, you should see a section for > installation. If you look under here, you'll see the option to download > either of these installers, for the mac, or for a PC. Pick the one you want, > download it, and install it by running the installer. Then, make sure during > the installer that you sign in with your Microsoft passport if asked to do > so. It's been a while since I've needed to install, so I don't recall > exactly what that process is, but I know it's very very straight forward. > > Once done, you're good to go. > > As for the accessibility, I've not used it in a while, but I did try one of > the older public previews, and for what it was worth, yes, there were some > major issues, but for the most part, unless you were doing really really > really heavy editting, it worked quite well. Even MS Word finally has been > fixed where now you can read the document window. Remember that this was > quite a few preview builds back though, so I'd honestly give it a shot. I > think you'll be at least somewhat, if not very impressed. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Quinn" <jdawg1...@gmail.com> > To: "mac list" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 12:12 PM > Subject: Office 2016? > > >> Is ms office 2016 for the mac out yet? If so is it accessible? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
