Word for Mac Having started life on the Mac, Word already has very much the same features as on Windows (and much the same as Word 2011) – in fact Word for Mac 2016 keeps a feature lost in Word 2013. When you control-click on a misspelled word to correct it, you can choose AutoCorrect to have the same mistake fixed automatically in future, which saves an enormous amount of time. (The same option is in the Excel spell check dialog, but again it was removed in Excel 2013.) When it was first released, that meant the changes in Word 2016 were mostly to the interface. The ribbon is now all but identical to the Windows version – instead of spraying tabs for SmartArt, Tables, Charts and Document Elements across your screen, Word for Mac now arranges those tools more logically into Insert, Design, Layout, Mailings and References (where they are in Word on Windows). You get the same drop-down galleries and context-sensitive extra tabs for editing and formatting objects, including some task panes for detailed settings like Format Text Effects (although there are still plenty of floating dialogs too). The new Smart Lookup feature is a neater version of a similar option in Word 2011.

But again, since release, the monthly updates have been adding in more of the features previously only in the Windows version – in particular, Word now has the Selection Pane object browser from Windows. The Focus mode that hides everything except your document was originally missing in Word 2016 for the Mac; but it’s back, and now hides all the toolbars. You can quickly insert a screenshot into a document. And Word now lets you use the same Add-ins as Word on Windows – everything from an emoji keyboard to plagiarism checkers. If you collaborate on documents and work with comments, you’ll be delighted to see that Word now supports threaded replies, making conversations much clearer.

In short, having started as a minor refresh back when this suite was first released last summer, Word for Mac is growing into a closer cousin of Word for Windows. Excel for Mac Like Word, Excel 2016 has an improved ribbon using the same tabs as Excel 2013, but the similarities are now deeper than just the interface. More importantly, Excel for Mac 2016 includes more of the functions and formulas that are in Excel for Windows (including the Analysis Toolpak for complex engineering and statistical analysis), and the improved Formula Builder is still easier to use than in Excel 2013. On Windows, it’s a pop-up dialog with a second dialog that helps you fill in the terms of a formula, but is usually on top of the cells you’re working with.

Before you save it, be sure the Save to Sidebar is enabled. Set up the type of search you want, such recent PDFs, and then save the search to your Documents folder, or wherever you want to locate it. From there, click on the + button on the left side of the search, and then add another search criteria, as show below. How to clear recently opened documents in excel for mac 2011.