Having started life around the Mac, Word already has in much the same features as on Windows (and many much like Word 2011) - to put it accurately Word for Mac 2016 has a feature lost in Word 2013. Should you control-click around a misspelled word to alter it, you can easlily choose AutoCorrect to accomplish the same mistake fixed automatically in future, which saves an enormous amount time. (Identical option is inside of the Excel spell check dialog, given that it was actually removed in Excel 2013.)

In the event it was initially released, that meant modifications in Word 2016 were mostly about the interface. The ribbon has grown to be practically exactly like 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 there're in Word on Windows).

Seeing that some time, since release, the monthly updates have already been adding in a lot of the features previously only from your Windows version - including, Word presently has the Selection Pane object browser from Windows. Major mode that hides everything except your document was originally missing in Word 2016 for the Mac; but it's back, currently hides lots of toolbars. You will soon insert a screenshot to a document.

And Word now allow you to operate the same Add-ins as Word on Windows - everything from an emoji keyboard to plagiarism checkers. Say you decided to collaborate on documents and start using comments, you'll be happy to make sure Word now supports threaded replies, making conversations much clearer.

In summary, having started as the minor refresh back when this suite was initially released last summer, Word for Mac keeps increasing in a closer cousin of Word for Windows.