Microsoft has released an important Office for Mac update for Office insiders, even though the company previews the second stable version coming later this month.

With this new update, Office for Mac has reached version 16.18.181008, it sports improvements for up to every app inside of the productivity suite.

Ultimately starts with PowerPoint, which now features animation triggers. Previously located on Windows exclusively, this feature is available for Office 365 subscribers only.

"You can trigger an animation effect to start when you press the shape or object to be animated. To find an audio or video media, you can trigger an animation effect at the beginning of the clip or having fruit is better playing," Microsoft explains, adding the fact that the new feature is supplied in the Animations tab.

"New Word and Excel features"

This version also introduces Tips for Excel, the industry new feature that is dependent upon AI chance provide you with numerous your data.

"Ideas in Excel empowers that you just understand crucial computer data through high-level visual summaries, trends, and patterns. Push a cell in the data range, then click the Ideas button over a Home tab. Ideas in Excel will analyze computer data, and return interesting visuals with regards to it in a task pane," its description reads.

Excel also gets improvements on the autocomplete tool, including better VoiceOver navigation, which technically allows you to move across by pressing VO + U, while offering Trackpad Commander support.

Word and Excel are being updated with caption recommendations for pictures baked into documents so as to them for sale to people with impaired vision, while Outlook now features improved search concepts for recent search history.

These particular improvements are presently in early testing stage, so their public release date relies on the feedback that Microsoft receives after insiders try them out.