Ondrej Holzman Czech users are increasingly happy to use the office suite from Microsoft. Office 2016 has improved in every way since its arrival on the Mac in 2015, including customization for our market. After checking the Czech spelling and Czech localization Word will now also correct your grammar.
Those familiar with Word from Windows have been enjoying very useful grammar checks for many years, but on Mac it has been a taboo subject for Czech users until now. But Microsoft has finally begun to focus more significantly on the set of applications for Mac, and (not only) Word is getting closer to its brother from Windows.
If you download the latest Office 2016 update and open a document in Word, you may notice words underlined in red in addition to words underlined in blue. While red Word indicates a spelling error, blue indicates a grammatical error.
V Word Preferences > Spelling & Grammar Also, in the Grammar section, check if you have Automatic Grammar Check checked. Then, it should always draw your attention to any major or minor grammatical errors, such as double spaces, commas in sentences, agreement of subject with predicate, incorrectly inflected adjective or pronoun, or wrongly divided word.
It can be expected that Microsoft will continue to work on checking Czech grammar on Mac and improve it, because Word can do a little more on Windows. But progress can now be seen even on the Mac, where during our tests Word gradually learned to detect more and more grammatical errors. Microsoft releases updates regularly. For example, in writing percentages, the control evaluates the situation incorrectly.
In any case, Word on Mac can already alert you to most basic offenses against the Czech language, which is useful whenever you are writing a text.
So all that's left is to tighten the outlook so that it starts approaching the window's little brother and it will be perfect :-)
Outlook and its biggest pain point, namely shared calendars!
Unfortunately, Outlook has many of those pain points in the mac os version. The non-existent view of the entire workflow - i.e. the missing option to display tasks in the right column of the outlook. There is no smart filtering under the right button (find all related messages, messages from the same sender). Unable to send under another account on exchange, etc., etc. :-(
I have to admit that the first sentence of this article ("...it's always a pleasure to use Microsoft's office suite") made me smile and react. When I switched from Win to Mac 2,5 years ago, I considered Office to be one of the best Windows applications, unfortunately for the Mac version I consider it one of the worst. What Microsoft is showing is developer amateurism, especially the early versions of Office 2016 were full of bugs and nonsense. Yes, it's better now, but there are still a lot of things that don't work or are very annoying. For example:
1) copy & paste in Excel, you cannot paste anything anywhere, e.g. if you copy a cell and want to paste its contents into another cell that you are editing, it is not possible, copying and pasting entire rows or columns is also not possible
2) it often happens to me in Excel that after running a simple macro (does some filtering) Excel stops responding to the mouse, you just click and nothing happens, you have to save the file, exit Excel and start it again
3) I made a larger report in Word (30 pages) with a lot of images, for which I had to use preparatory formats (Picture Format) so that the image had a nice border and shadow, when exporting or printing this document to PDF, a number of images were missing, simply in document was not, when I turned off Picture Format it worked
After these hiccups, I lost patience with Office and gave Apple's Pages and Numbers a chance. And I have to say that the user friendliness is simply great. There are situations where Excel cannot be replaced yet (pivot tables, external data), but there is nothing you can do about it.
Give Apple's Pages and Numbers a chance, too. You're not stupid :-)
For a description of other problems with Office, see one with previous discussion: https://disqus.com/home/discussion/jablickari/microsoft_office_jsou_konecne_cesky_take_na_macu_zanedlouho_pro_vsechny/#comment-2718521733
I would like to give Pages a chance, but in Word I quite often use the function of tracking changes and especially comparing two versions of a document, when I put them against each other and Word beautifully marks the differences. Does Pages have something like that?
Change tracking YES, version comparison NO.
Too bad Apple couldn't add spelling and grammar check to pages in x years...
You can finish the dictionary from LO there, there are instructions on the net.
Well, after more than ten years, I would expect this from Apple, we are no longer the Wild East market. If MS can get it for the minority of OFFICE users on Mac, then it is perhaps a foregone conclusion that it will bring Apple to its native application. Same Siri
I do not understand that suddenly the application from Microsoft is in? And the priest is spewing at Microsoft and where is the adequate product from Apple?
Apple products are, and maybe better. The problem is that office is used by almost all win users, i.e. the majority of PC users, and compatibility with office documents cannot be solved by any product! So the only thing left is for those 20% of mac users to adapt to the win majority and the only option is the original office on mac.
Some time ago, Apple decided that it was sick of professional users and adjusted the development of its applications accordingly - that's why in version 5 it removed a lot of more advanced functions that never made it back. The same goes for Numbers and other Apple applications.
I think that the pace of development of Office4Mac is decent (even considering the ratio of MAC:WIN users). Updates come out every few weeks, there is a channel for comments, MS proactively offers participation in the early-release program. It seems to me that the boys are trying. I guess they just couldn't take win code and compile it for mac.
I'll leave the conspiracy theory that it's kept behind on purpose so that users don't leave win for them to annoy others :-)
Well, they try, but in that MS way :-)
Most MS applications that run fine on Win are much worse on other platforms. Office on Mac, Skype on Linux. On Android, Word and Excel seem much worse to me than, for example, Google Docs. I can understand Apple trying to compete with Office. This is so widespread that it cannot be competed with. Apple is not bought by people who work in Office for a living. Rather, they take it as a sufficient thing. So either they buy Office for Mac, or the Apple variant is enough for them, or they reach for LO, for example.
It's really sad that one application from the same manufacturer and so many differences...