*** Office 2016 for Mac doesn’t support third-party COM-Add-ins. * Most familiar Office Fluent Control Identifiers are compatible with Office for Mac.
However, there are certain important differences to know about, as described in the table below.Ĭomparison of ribbon customization functionality in Office 2016 for Mac and Windows If you’ve been customizing the ribbon on Office for Windows, you’ll find the Mac experience to be very similar. Here’s how the Mac Word ribbon looks with a custom tab.
We are excited to announce that with the latest Office for Mac update, you’ll be able to fully customize the ribbon across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for the Mac using familiar Ribbon XML. Specifically, we’ll be adding Office ribbon customization via Ribbon XML, and making other improvements to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Mac to match their Windows desktop versions. In response to this feedback, we’ll further improve Office 2016 for Mac’s support for VBA add-ins. At the same time, some of our users also have sent us feedback requesting further improvements to our VBA support, particularly around VBA add-ins.
Since the launch of Office 2016 for Mac in July, Mac OS X users around the world have been able to take advantage of the highly anticipated new features and improvements since the 2011 release.
For more information about Power Query, see this blog post and download this sample. To support this feature, Excel exposes the new Queries and WorkbookQuery objects, and their associated properties and methods.
In addition to the improvements discussed there, including connecting the applications you build to the data and services available in Office 365 and creating add-ins that connect to third-party services, we continue to support developers working in VBA by adding new objects and members to the VBA object model across nearly all the Office applications. Recently, we shared an overview of the new extensibility capabilities available for developers as part of the new Office 2016.