Test-drive Office for Mac 2016 in 16 languages

The Office for Mac 2016 Preview was announced today. It includes updated versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook and is available in 16 languages:

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Norwegian Bokmal
• Polish
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish

If you are already using Office for Mac 2011, you can use the preview builds of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for Mac alongside your existing version.

Check out the Office Blogs and the Office for Mac Preview page for more information, incl. installation instructions.

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 05, 2015
  Will the final release support right to left languages like Arabic and Hebrew?? I don't understand why there is no support for these languages in the new version while Apple's iWork suite support it!
• Anonymous
  March 06, 2015
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• Anonymous
  March 06, 2015
  No right-to-left script support (Arabic, etc.)?!?!?!
• Anonymous
  March 07, 2015
  Please tell me there will be iCloud integration such as you do with the iOS versions. I really don't want to be forced to use multiple cloud solutions.
• Anonymous
  March 08, 2015
  Where is the Right to Left support? It is really disturbing after such long wait. We have moved a lot of business to Middle East and still cannot use Office.
• Anonymous
  March 08, 2015
  Where is turkish languages???
• Anonymous
  March 14, 2015
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• Anonymous
  March 15, 2015
  its is simply anti apple and anti mac
• Anonymous
  March 17, 2015
  Add Arabic & Hebrew support, this is not a request.
• Anonymous
  March 19, 2015
  No Arabic or Hebrew?
  
  Your customers are more important then narrow imagined gains.
• Anonymous
  March 19, 2015
  Add Persian to these right-to-left languages. It is a shame that we can not have right-to-left office on OSX.
• Anonymous
  March 19, 2015
  Please make a solution arabic language it is humble request Please Please
  
• Anonymous
  March 20, 2015
  Please enable right to left language support for Arabic and urdu languages please
• Anonymous
  March 20, 2015
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• Anonymous
  March 21, 2015
  the new Office looks great!, I get there's no right to left writing, but hey. Microsoft atleast should've told us, or even opened a program for developers from all over the world to join & make that functionality possible.
  i know that i shouldn't say this & that it's their product, but don't get me wrong, it just hurts. keep up the great Office!
• Anonymous
  March 23, 2015
  Where is RTL?!
• Anonymous
  April 07, 2015
  And it is a SHAME that we have no Arabic support in office for mac in 2015 !
  
• Anonymous
  April 08, 2015
  Where is person language??? right to left????????
• Anonymous
  April 08, 2015
  microsoft and apple are both big racists.
• Anonymous
  April 09, 2015
  Any Right to Left for hebrew support?
• Anonymous
  April 09, 2015
  Please add right to left language , like Persian and Arabic
  we have to use virtual machine and windows os for bussines
  Microsoft Please
• Anonymous
  April 12, 2015
  This new version of Office is good. Even if no RtL support is currently included, I think it is a good product. If there is no RtL support, then I use another version like Open Office. Don't complain, just use another office. I like this version.
• Anonymous
  April 13, 2015
  WHY NO ARABIC SUPPORT
• Anonymous
  April 13, 2015
  PLEASE, support us with Arabic enabling features on Office for Mac. I need it for my work, and I have gotten so attached to MAC OS. please kindly help me find a solution.
• Anonymous
  April 18, 2015
  Please Support R-T-L Langauges (R-T-L Scripts, R-T-L orientation, R-T-L interface)
  Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Urdu, ... etc
• Anonymous
  April 19, 2015
  Still no Arabic Support !!!
• Anonymous
  April 21, 2015
  Please add support to RTL.
• Anonymous
  April 21, 2015
  Please add feature of right to left to office 2016 mac
• Anonymous
  April 28, 2015
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• Anonymous
  April 30, 2015
  Please add RTL languages. We've been waiting a lot!
• Anonymous
  May 07, 2015
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• Anonymous
  May 10, 2015
  No Hebrew or Arabic?? Microsoft RACISM
• Anonymous
  May 15, 2015
  the office nor support arabic
• Anonymous
  May 20, 2015
  So much waiting for nothing...
  I have been a loyal Microsoft fan despite getting no RTL and Hebrew support in the previous versions, thinking "in the next version there's gotta be RTL support, that's just too basic to ignore!"
  Guess I was wrong... And while Microsoft lags behind, Apple adapt their products to support Hebrew and Arabic better with every release. Today, Apple's Pages is offering native Hebrew support which works flawlessly, and I've switched to using it instead of Word (still not perfect, but on the right track). Microsoft is losing Israel and the Middle East to Apple, especially students like me, which migrate in growing numbers to Mac and have no other choice but Pages. You've been doing it OK on windows for a few decades now, why is Mac any different? Hopefully you'll come to your senses before this release, it's all Unicode after all...
• Anonymous
  May 29, 2015
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• Anonymous
  May 31, 2015
  There is no good reason to not support Right-To-Left languages in this version. Shame on you!
• Anonymous
  June 02, 2015
  Arabic Support?
• Anonymous
  June 07, 2015
  No left-to-right support so far? Microsoft is fading as a giant company. Soon there will be better software.
• Anonymous
  June 08, 2015
  Adding my voice to those clamoring for right-to-left language support. It makes no sense for MS products to handle RTL so poorly (= not at all) when RTL support is built into the Mac OS. Apple continues to improve its native RTL support while Microsoft’s Mac unit has always plugged its ears and chanted “I can’t hear you.”
• Anonymous
  June 09, 2015
  Why do make hebrew and arabic users life harder on mac? What do you gain from this?
• Anonymous
  June 13, 2015
  using the preview, at the top right click the face and leave your feedback so Microsoft see it
• Anonymous
  June 19, 2015
  It's shameful that Microsoft continues to ignore Arabic and Hebrew.
• Anonymous
  June 23, 2015
  I try to install the preview. and it automatically instal Indonesian Language as Default. How can I change it to English ?
• Anonymous
  July 09, 2015
  we have turkish support in pc version. What made you think there is no turkish user have mac and wanna use office 2016 in turkish
• Anonymous
  July 09, 2015
  Where is the one with Hebrew!?
• Anonymous
  July 11, 2015
  In the Format menu, there is a Text Direction field, greyed out whether the text is highlighted or not. One hopes this feature will become active very soon. At the moment, all right-to-left languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, etc. are not supported. Meanwhile, for Mac users, Mellel is still the best option available for right-to-left word processing.
• Anonymous
  July 14, 2015
  The only thing that Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel citizens agree on, is RTL language support!!! Contribute this little piece to Middle-east peace!
  It's shame after 20 years, MS Office still doesn't support RTL on mac...
• Anonymous
  July 17, 2015
  Not having RTL support is so disappointing (Arabic / Hebrew / Persian / Urdu / etc) ... can't believe Microsoft is not interested in those markets.
• Anonymous
  July 19, 2015
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• Anonymous
  July 22, 2015
  Probably not enough legal copies are sold to justify the amount of work necessary to adapt Office to the MacOS rtl rendering.
• Anonymous
  July 22, 2015
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• Anonymous
  July 23, 2015
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• Anonymous
  July 23, 2015
  We are looking to support Arabic Language in new update Microsoft Office.
• Anonymous
  September 06, 2015
  Turkish language ? :(