No more "Read Mode" in Word 2016 for Mac?

I understand that they're updating their websites, but I'd expect more from such a big company. The Word 2016 website that I linked in a previous post was reached by clicking on the Office for Mac announcement! So they announce a product, give you a link to "know more", and the information provided is misleading and wrong.

it's very disappointing, specially because Word 2011 (for Mac) has a similar feature that I often use.

Then the ad is misleading and ambiguous. The proper thing to do. Is have a section Exclusively devoted to Mac Office written up Explaining Features Mac version has or don't. 

All the advertising Hype Microsoft has been putting out is Leading Mac people to believe. That this time Office 2016 supposed to be rewritten on Both ends So they work  almost alike. 

I realize ActiveX will never hit the doors of Apple. If Apple has had 30 year ban, they are not likely to lift it now. In fact from what I've been reading on the Internet Microsoft in designing the replacement of IE has purposefully left out ActiveX. (Perhaps, Activex is on it way out.

The least Microsoft could do to give 100% accurate information. They could create a chart naming Every feature that is available by Ribbon, Main Menu, keystroke, shortcut, or however made available: a side by listing in a Chart Marked with Windows / Mac  and marked with a check mark Example:

And so on. Then Mac Users and windows switchers to Mac will know what to expect.

I fear what will happen is 2016 will be a Modern day version of Office 2008 where everything to do with VBA and Macros was stripped out was never given time to put back. Only 2016 could be far worst. There could be many features stripped away and forgotten. 

Another example  Many College grads were all the time about formatting a Paper, Dissertation according specific Grammar Rules (such as APA). And such was pointed out many a time how to do so in 2011 Mac. Yet in 2016 The are no longer any specific type or Grammar rules you can check (standard, Legal, etc and so on). Now you just have a few basic rules you can turn on and off. So Microsoft has made 2016 useless for College  students to do their work formatted as the college wants. a College supplies Macs to their students then they are going to purchase and install Parallels or some other VM software Windows and a Copy of Windows version of Office. Will that happen. No Universities that key their curriculum around Macs will have to switch to windows based, and start providing Windows machines. So far we haven't fielded such questions in 2016 yet, But the seasons haven't rolled around when this will be important.

Apple won't stand long for such. They will figure out how to put those missing features into iWork And you would have a Mass exodus iWorks already does RTL natively and they are capable exporting Office file formats.  Apple is making new Moves into enterprise after having ignored such. If Microsoft is not careful they will be standing on the periphery Scratching their head trying to figure out what happened. 

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It certainly isn't clearly stated in the article you cited that it refers only to the Windows product... in fact, I would agree that it's misleading, but if you check the fine print @ the bottom of that page you'll see that only Windows versions are specified. No version of Word for Mac is mentioned. Word 2016 for Mac does not have the Focus View provided in Word 2011 or anything comparable to the Full Screen Reading feature in the various PC releases.

Right now, the MS web sites are in a state of flux, & IMHO they've put the proverbial cart way ahead of the horse. Ostensibly, the long-term goal is to make the Windows & Mac versions as identical as possible. As you can readily see, they've not only made negligible progress in that endeavor but also have ripped out numerous features that were included in the Mac product. However, they've redesigned the web sites in such a way that everything points to the PC version, as though feature parity already has been attained. Unless you expressly go digging for Mac-oriented info you won't be guided to anything other than what refers to Office for Windows. A tip, FWIW: If the string mac doesn't appear in the URL, the page most likely is primarily -- if not entirely -- Windows-centric.

The jumping off point for Mac Office info is: https://products.office.com/en-us/mac/microsoft-office-for-mac which does, for the most part, link to more Mac-specific pages. Don't expect to find much you don't already know, though... there's little to brag about, advertise, or even describe in this release as it stands. Improvement is expected to come by way of updates, but what or when has not been announced.

Well looks like a feature the forgot to put in. I read the item then went Word 2016 find it. There is no such thing. Go to Smiley Button then click on What can we do better.

Point out the Links. Then tell them Open Word 2016 and try to find it.

I suppose they know they can get in hot water for false advertising. Either they will get busy and put it in, or Remove the questionable paragraph, or altering it so it says to be added later. 

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If you talking about full screen mode, and using Mavericks or yosemite simply click on the green stoplight button to get out move mouse all the way to very top screen where menu will reappear. Then click green stoplight button again.

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