Microsoft Word For Mac Looks Grainy

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I’m ready to switch from Apple Pages to Microsoft Word and hear that Microsoft just released an entirely new and updated Office 2016. What’s the easy way to upgrade? You’re correct that Microsoft has just released a completely new, completely redesigned version of its flagship product, Microsoft Office, for Mac systems. In fact, it’s a cross-platform release and is new for Windows systems too, along with iPad, Android and Windows tablet support and a completely different way of working with OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage system (that competes with iCloud, Apple’s cloud storage system). The entire Microsoft Office 2016 suite for Mac includes Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Word and Outlook, though it sounds like you might only be looking for the word processor piece of that (Microsoft Word). Unlike previous years when it was priced at almost $500 for the entire suite of programs, Microsoft’s apparently rethought its pricing strategy too and you can get everything for $150 in the Home & Student download edition through, for example,. We were lucky here at AskDaveTaylor in that Microsoft sent us along a license key for testing and review purposes.

That’s my disclosure too, in case you’re wondering. 🙂 To get started with the download, you can log in to the after you’ve received your license key (either from Amazon, Microsoft.com, or from purchasing a license at the local retail store).

It’ll look like this: If you look closely, you’ll see that mine shows “PC/Mac Installs Used: 0”. This is a big deal, actually, because for the first time I can remember, Microsoft is using the same license for either platform. With this license, I get five installs, whether I want to use them on Macs, Windows systems, iPads, or my Windows Phone is up to me. Very nice improvement over the Mac license as completely separate from a Windows license. To proceed, I’ll click “Install >”.

Look at that list of “Other Devices”. Shou mach en vivo. So impressive! But let’s stay focused on the Mac side.

You can see that since I am already on a MacBook Pro, it’s default selected “Office 2016 for Mac” as the version to install. A click on “Install” and it’ll download the Office Installer: I found this download to move pretty quickly, but depending on connectivity, it might take you a few minutes to get the entire package. Once downloaded, the installer should pop right up and start: If you’ve used the Mac for any length of time, you’re already familiar with this process. Let’s look at one thing, however: disk space required.

That’s shown on a subsequent screen: It’s slightly disappointing that there’s no way to pick and choose which of the Microsoft Office 2016 tools you want to install — in your case, perhaps just Word, in our case, everything but Outlook — but that’s something that can hopefully be tweaked after installation. Meanwhile, just notice the install takes up 6.78GB of space on your computer. Before you start the install, then, make sure you have that much disk space!