Most users will likely never do anything sufficiently advanced to run into this problem, but it's infuriating that differences exist at all today.Įlsewhere there are irksome inconsistencies too collaboration, for example, is still much weaker than with Google Docs (and even iWork), and it's not applied evenly. Note, however, that it's imperfect although, for example, compatibility with Excel functions created in Office 2013 on Windows has been boosted not all are supported, which means that despite Microsoft's efforts to appeal to the Excel power user with this update, there is still friction in mixed-platform environments. Office 2016 for Mac isn't about features, then, but about improved cross-platform compatibility and feature parity, and it's great that both the UI is more familiar across platforms and that documents are more portable between them.
