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   Microsoft Office 2016 15.31

   Agen G. N. Schmitz

   Microsoft has issued version 15.31 of its [1]Office 2016 application
   suite, adding support for the Touch Bar on the 2016 MacBook Pro to
   Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Depending on the context, the Touch Bar
   can display an object rotation slider (for more intuitive and precise
   rotation), a set of text styles normally found in the on-screen ribbon,
   a selection of colors (for adding to text or spreadsheet cells), slide
   thumbnails and timer in PowerPoint, and a set of the most recently used
   functions in Excel (brought up by typing an equals sign into a cell).

   [2][tn_microsoftoffice-15.31-touchbar.jpg]

   While the original [3]blog post announcing Touch Bar compatibility
   (published 27 October 2016) included Outlook, version 15.31 appears to
   only include support for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. For those who
   don't own a 2016 MacBook Pro, the only other change in this version is
   updating Microsoft AutoUpdate to version 3.8.4. ($149.99 for one-time
   purchase, free update through Microsoft AutoUpdate, [4]release notes,
   10.10+)

References

   1. https://products.office.com/en-us/mac/microsoft-office-for-mac
   2. http://tidbits.com/resources/2017-02/microsoftoffice-15.31-touchbar.png
   3. https://blogs.office.com/2016/10/27/office-for-mac-adds-touch-bar-support/
   4. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Release-notes-for-Office-2016-for-Mac-ed2da564-6d53-4542-9954-7e3209681a41

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