Coming to Mac, there’s no option to leave out MS Excel (for example) if you don’t want it on your machine. That is, if you install, say Office 2016 from a USB or disk, you go to custom installation and remove all the apps you don’t want. Also missing is the ability to select apps to be installed when directly installing from Office 365 subscription page. That is to say, if you are migrating to Mac, don’t expect all apps from the Office Suite. I, for one, was disappointed as I could not open the files that I created in Microsoft Publisher on Windows 10 machine. There is the facility to automate tasks using VBA scripts in PC version of Office 365.Ĭoming to Office 365 for Mac Home Edition, you get only the following five apps:įor people who always use Publisher, it would be a turn off to find that there is no Microsoft Publisher in the Office 365 for Mac suite. There are some other apps packaged into Office 365 Pro subscription for Windows 10 – such as Visio and Project. MS Access – is a relational database application that works well with MS Excel.MS Publisher – A software that helps you create and print office stationery for example, you can create a business card based on a template or from scratch.Office 365 Home edition subscription on a PC gives you all the apps mentioned above in addition to following apps: OneNote is also available as a standalone app for Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows, and certain other operating systems. The basic apps across platforms, from Microsoft, are MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS OneNote.

Difference between Office for Mac and Windows This article talks about Microsoft Office 365 differences in Windows PC and Mac. Nowhere in its Office subscription page does Microsoft tell you that the applications and features of Office 365 are far less for MacOS compared to Office 365 for Windows 10. Microsoft Office 365 subscription is available for both Windows PC and Mac.

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