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Summary

Existing Office 2016 for Mac customers will be seamlessly upgraded to 64-bit versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote as part of the August product release (version 15.25). This affects customers of all license types: Retail, Office 365 Consumer, Office 365 Commercial, and Volume License installations.

Deployment options for the 64-bit update

AutoUpdate (MAU)

Customers who use Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) to keep their Office applications up-to-date will see a 'regular' monthly update notification when their selected channel is upgraded to 64-bit builds. Depending on which version is installed on the local computer, MAU will offer either a delta or full update. The update package size does not change between 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Also, MAU can deliver a delta update when applicable to update a user from 32-bit to 64-bit applications. Therefore, customers won't experience a sharp increase in download activity. For the release to the Production channel, customers will see '(64-bit)' in the update title to make them aware that this is a 64-bit update.

For information about how to use the MAU, see Check for Office for Mac updates automatically.

Manual updates

The August release of Office for Mac is available for manual download. The following file provides a 64-bit package to replace existing 32-bit applications with 64-bit variants during installation:

Download the Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac August update package now.

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Volume License Service Center

Volume License customers typically get their Office 2016 software from the Volume License Service Center (VLSC). These builds are refreshed infrequently and are typically aligned with new language editions. The VLSC will continue to offer 32-bit installers (15.23) until November 2016. However, all updater packages that are released after August will be based on 64-bit builds. Therefore, a VLSC customer who updates either manually or through AutoUpdate will be transitioned to 64-bit builds.

More Information

64-bit only

The Mac operating system has been 64-bit for several years. Unlike for Windows, there's no choice between running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of the Mac operating system. Similarly, we won't offer a choice between 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Office 2016 for Mac. After each 'channel' is transitioned per the rollout schedule, only 64-bit builds will be available.

Effect on third-party applications and add-ins

The transition to 64-bit Office for Mac was announced in April 2016. IT Pros will want to understand which compiled add-ins are deployed to the users whom they manage so that they can assess the effect of the upgrade. The following Microsoft Office website summarizes the issues that affect the more common add-ins that are used together with Office 2016 for Mac:

Tools for inspecting product architecture

To verify the architecture of an Office application (that is, to understand whether you have a 32-bit or 64-bit build), start the application, open the Activity Monitor, and then enable the Kind column.

You can also use the file command in a terminal session to inspect the binary. For this use, type file -N <path of binary>.This method can be used with for any binary file, including third-party add-ins.

The file command returns one of three values.

Options for reverting to 32-bit installations

There may be situations in which the customer has to change code that's not 64-bit ready. If customers can't immediately move forward to 64-bit builds, we will make available a one-time 32-bit update for the 15.25 release in addition to the default 64-bit updates. The 32-bit updates will be available only for manual download from the Office CDN.

The latest 32-bit release of Office 2016 for Mac (15.25.160818) can be downloaded from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=823192.

Customers who manually install the 32-bit release won't be offered the 64-bit version of 15.25 through MAU. However, MAU will offer the 64-bit version of 15.26 in September 2016. Therefore, customers have a limited time to remain on 32-bit builds.

If a customer has already upgraded to the 64-bit update of Office for Mac 15.25 and wants to revert to the 32-bit version, follow these steps:

1. Exit all open Office 2016 applications.
2. Start Safari, and then browse to https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=823192 to start the download of the 32-bit installer.
3. Double-click the downloaded package, and then follow the instructions.

The 64-bit installation has a build date of 160817. The 32-bit version has a build date of 160818.

The Notes Pane
Adding Notes
Working with Notes

The Notes Pane

PowerPoint 2016 for Mac's tri-paned interface has three regions:the Slides Pane,the Slide Area, and the Notes Pane. TheNotes Pane is placed right below the Slide Area, as shown highlighted in redwithin Figure 1. The Notes Pane provides space to add speaker's notes that can be so helpful to the presenter whilepresenting. You can also write any sort of information about the presentation or individual slide.

By default, the Notes Pane may be completely empty, with some boilerplate text such as 'Click to add notes,' as shownin Figure 1.

Figure 1: Notes Pane in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

To add your notes in this area, you click your cursor on the boilerplate text and start typing. We explain this concept in moredetail within the next section, Adding Notes.

What's important to realize is that each slide in your presentation has its own notes. When you navigate to another slide, you willhave to add more notes relevant to the active slide.

Adding Notes

The Notes Pane can be seen in Normal view. Followthese steps to add the text within the Notes Pane:

1. Create a new presentation, or open an existing presentation, and select the slide for which you want to add some notes, as shownin Figure 2. If you cannot see the Notes Pane, click the Notes button onthe Status Bar (highlighted in red within Figure 2).
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   Figure 2: Slide selected
2. Then, click within the Notes Pane to make it active. Notice that the 'Click to add notes' boilerplate textdisappears as shown in Figure 3.
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   Figure 3: Add text within Notes Pane
3. Now, type in some text. Figure 4 shows text added to the Notes Pane.
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   Figure 4: Notes added for the selected slide
Tip: If you already created notes in another application, you can also paste them within the Notes Pane. You can dobasic text formatting in the Notes Pane, and also apply bullet or number styles to the text.

Working with Notes

Here are a few guidelines, tips, and thoughts on working with both the Notes Pane and the actual notes:

1. You can do basic text formatting in the Notes Pane by using bullets and non-bulleted lists, or just use plain sentences. To seemore formatting in the Notes pane, you need to enable the Show Formatting option within the Outline Panein Outline view, as shown in Figure 5.You'll have to right-click (or Ctrl-click) in the Outline view to see this option. Don’t worry thatyou are choosing this option within the Outline pane because it influences the Notes pane as well.
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   Figure 5: Show Formatting option enabled
2. To insert pictures in the Notes area, go to Notes Page view by selecting the View tab ofthe Ribbon, and thenchoosing Notes Page. You'll find that you can also do all sorts of text and picture formatting in the Notes Page, butthese won't show up within the Notes Pane in Normal view.
3. The Notes Master does not change the appearance of your content within the Notes pane, and is intended to influencethe Notes pages instead. You can make several changes withinthe Notes Master, such as changing the BackgroundStyle of printed Notes pages.
4. You can choose to print just the notes for the entire presentation by choosing the Notes option fromthe Layout menu within the Print dialog box.