And new themes and styles help you pull it all together to produce stunning, professional documents.

A refreshed task pane interface makes positioning, resizing, or rotating graphics easy so you can create exactly the layout you want. The redesigned ribbon intuitively organizes features so you can quickly find what you need quickly. We've modernized the user experience and made it easier to get things done. The new Office 2016 for Mac includes updated versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook-and the moment you open any one of the apps, you'll immediately feel the difference. The new apps offer full retina display support with thousands of retina-optimized graphics, full screen view for native immersive experiences, and even little Mac affordances like scroll bounce. It's unmistakably Office - but thoughtfully designed to take advantage of the unique features of the Mac. Office 2016 for Mac is powered by the cloud so you can access your documents anytime, anywhere, and on any device. You will receive regular updates automatically until the official release in the second half of 2015. VBA will be supported on Windows desktop for the foreseeable future, but making it work on all the platforms Office 365 runs on is simply unrealistic, and isn't going to happen.

Preview the new and modern Office for Mac. That Microsoft managed to get it to run on Mac is rather impressive already, and I'm not even mentioning the fiendishly complex work of making a workable Mac-VBA editor.