Office for Mac supports Touch Bar so you can get extra buttons on Word, Excel or PowerPoint. The extended screen also gets a Touch Bar, even if the Mac doesn’t have a hardware Touch Bar. This works wirelessly and gives a Mac computer touch features via the iPad screen. Bring up the menu for the Dock icon and choose Options | Remove from Dock.Ĭatalina boasts Sidecar which lets you use an iPad as a secondary screen for your Mac. It’s easy to get rid of these, or any, unwanted intrusions.

The latter two appeared, unwanted, on the Dock (just like Microsoft, Apple isn’t above putting unsubtle ads on the screen). The single program for entertainment is split into separate programs Music, TV and Podcasts. The other is great for Microsoft Office users, thought it’s not available to everyone. One is a major change in the way audio/video entertainment is managed. What’s in it?Īpple has their list of Catalina changes here. The current Office for Mac Office 365 or Office 2019 are OK with Catalina. Check the version in one of the Office apps or go to Help | Check for updates. Office 2016 for Mac needs to be v15.35 or later, which it probably is, if you’ve updated anytime in the last few months. If you have Office 2011 for Mac or before, do NOT update to Catalina because Office will stop working. Microsoft Office compatibilityĪs we warned back in June, older Office for Mac will not work with MacOS Catalina. Mac users can now update their computers to MacOS Catalina release but there’s important things to do before updating and some good reasons to wait a little while.

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