Microsoft launches Office Insider for Mac users, promising early updates for enthusiasts

Mac Users! project 2010 professional is inviting you to definitely the early-update Office party.

Redmond has aounced that Office 365 subscribers can now opt into Microsoft Office Insider on their Macs, providing them with early access to additional features for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Onenote, and Outlook for Mac.

To obtain the Auto Update tool, just open any Office 2016 app on your Mac, then click "Help" within the Menubar followed by "Check For Updates". There should be a checkbox for enabling Office Insider. Though the aouncement only mentions office 2010 professional subscribers, my one-off purchase of Office 2016 for Mac also offers the setting.

The blog post didn't aounce any upcoming features for Mac users specifically, and enabling the service at this time does not prompt any updates. So there's nothing new for Mac users to experience with yet, and Microsoft hasn't aounced when that might change.

But additional features are coming to other buy windows 7 platforms, particularly the iPad and iPad Pro. If you own an Apple Pencil, there's a completely new "Draw" tab within the Office Ribbon, which provides you additional control while drawing over documents. Additionally, there are support for shape recognition quickly sketching a circle can now create a perfectly symmetrical circle, for example.