When is a ‘security’ update for Office not a security update? When Microsoft bundles a lot of other bug fixes and new features at the same time.
Under the heading “Description of the security update for Office 2016 for Mac: October 13, 2015” is a surprisingly large number of non-security fixes and updates.
Across all the Office 2016 for Mac apps is support for new Chinese and Japanese default Fonts. “Existing Japanese and Simplified Chinese fonts in Office 2016 for Mac have been updated to have a unified modern appearance and behavior.”
The Visual Basic Editor now lets you add modules and references. There are now debug shortcuts.
Here’s Microsoft’s summary of the other changes in the 13 Oct 2015 update.
Word 2016 for Mac
- Custom paper sizes in Page Setup are now supported.
- Find/Replace is corrected to move to the next matched word when Track Changes is turned on.
- Fixed crashes that occur when you use Mail Merge together with Outlook.
- Headers/Footers: Page numbering: Number of Pages option is corrected to display numbers greater than two digits.
Outlook 2016 for Mac
- Improved VoiceOver support for weather in the Calendar feature.
- Email address is now included in the default message attribution when you reply and forward.
- Message list is now displayed correctly when you switch folders by having the Reading Pane turned off.
- Improved Reminders functionality to reduce CPU consumption.
- Improved use of advanced search operators for non-English languages.
Excel 2016 for Mac
- Improved support for pasting from external applications.
- Scroll bars now correctly respect OS X scroll bar settings.
PowerPoint 2016 for Mac
- All Microsoft will say is “Software updates.
