Writing texts, designing presentations, managing email accounts, creating spreadsheets and writing notes - Office Home and Business 2016 for Mac offers these functions, making the advantages of two systems accessible. The developers are targeting particularly demanding private users as well as small businesses with the program. The package offers the popular Office applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and, for the first time, OneNote. Office 2016 Mac Home and Business has been adapted to the special functions of Macs.

Sharper display than ever before

Getting started with Office Home and Business 2016 for Mac is made easier with thousands of professionally designed online templates. Text and graphics are now sharper than ever on your Retina displays. In addition, Mac users will quickly find their way around documents, presentations and spreadsheets thanks to the familiar multi-touch operation. Microsoft Office Home and Business 2016 Mac also has a new ribbon that makes it easy to intuitively arrange all the commands you want.

With Outlook, you can manage your emails, contact details, tasks and appointments quickly and easily. With the help of Office Mac Home and Business 2016 push notifications, your inbox is always up to date. Moving older emails to the online archives gives you more space in your inbox. You can also position calendars next to each other to better coordinate appointments.

Word, Excel and Co. offer many new features

With the new "Draft" tab, you can quickly access draft elements in Word and create a professional document in no time. Office Home and Business 2016 for Mac simplifies teamwork by improving sharing options and allowing comments to be left in text. The Insights option gives you the chance to search for contextual information via Bing while you work on a text.

In Excel, the "Recommended charts" function helps you to find the optimal chart for your data. In Office Home and Business 2016 for Mac, so-called pivot table data slices help you to find patterns in large amounts of data and simplify them for evaluation and processing. The improved formula generator helps you to create special formulas for your evaluations.

The developers of Microsoft Office Mac 2016 Home and Business have also upgraded PowerPoint: The improved speaker view helps you keep track of things during the presentation. You can take notes, set a timer and see the next slide in advance, while your audience only ever sees the current presentation view. You can also integrate animations into your presentation in Office Home and Business 2016 for Mac and change the design with a single click.

OneNote included in the package for the first time

For the first time, Microsoft Office Mac 2016 Home and Business also includes the OneNote digital notepad. You can use it to keep track of all your notes, add text, photos and links and organize your notes by category.

Together with the OneDrive cloud service, Office Mac Home and Business 2016 creates a flexible working environment that adapts to mobile working habits. From now on, you can access your data, documents and photos from anywhere and work on them together with colleagues. You can also access all documents from your iPhone or iPad.