Microsoft has released version 16.92 of Office for Mac with a focus on Outlook. The email and calendar app now enables Copilot users to catch up with meeting recordings, transcripts, and notes from meeting popovers and details. Outlook also allows dragging and dropping emails from M365 Groups to your desktop to generate an .eml file, blocks screen sharing and screenshots of protected content, resolves an issue where moving an appointment event to another folder within the same account resulted in duplicate events, fixes a bug that caused calendar reminders to be set to zero for delegates, and resolves an issue where emails failed to auto-save when using nested compose and clicking away to another message. ($149.99 for a one-time purchase, $99.99/$69.99 annual subscription options, free update through Microsoft AutoUpdate, release notes, macOS 12+)
Iâm always on the lookout for a possibly better email alternative to Apple Mail. I sometimes try Outlook, but unlike the Windows version, the Mac version doesnât have the ability do some basic image annotation, like adding arrows and text.
Did they ever update that?
I think I also found the replies irritating because you canât reply inline. So Outlook users tend to comment inline by changing the color of their replies.
Iâm mostly ok, I guess, with Apple Mail + Adam Towâs MsgFiler. My main concerns are easy filing (and not just for Gmail), image annotation, good search, and things like that.
Hmm⌠Just to try it I opened a PowerPoint presentation I created this past week in Keynote. It looked fine but a message popped up complaining about missing fonts. When I clicked it I got this warning:
These appear to be fonts included with Microsoft Office.
Did you perhaps make the presentation on a Mac with Office installed and then try to open it on a different Mac that doesnât have Office installed? That would explain the message.
Ahhh. I didnât read that clearly. You were opening a PowerPoint presentation in Keynote. That would explain it. Should I assume that you didnât create this presentation on your Mac either?
Microsoft Office documents can embed fonts (or subsets of fonts to make the file smaller) in documents, in order to permit others without those fonts to view a document. But if you convert the file to some other app, that embedded font is probably going to get lost, causing the text to possibly look different in that app.
As for those specific fonts, âMS Pă´ăˇăăŻâ appears to be the Japanese name for the MS PGothic font family, part of the Microsoft type library. You can probably download and install that one from Microsoft.
SĂśhne is a Helvetica-like font. It is free for personal use, so you can install it if you like.
Or substitute them for something already installed on your Mac.
As for whether or not you should use Keynote, thatâs a personal preference thing. I personally think you should use whatever tool makes you the most productive. Unless you need to present it using someone elseâs computer, in which case you need to conform to whatever they have installed.
Unfortunately, Mac font management is much more complex than it used to be. As @Shamino said, Microsoft Office fonts typically are stored inside each Office application bundle. In addition, downloadable Office 365 âcloud fontsâ are stored in the Office âGroup Containerâ in each Office userâs ~/Library directory. Such fonts usually arenât available to non-Microsoft apps unless you copy them into a more accessible location or use a management tool like Font Book. Depending on the specific usage, you may be breaking licensing terms if you do that. Note that different versions of the same font may be installed by different vendors, including Apple, so it sometimes can be tricky to understand exactly which font is being used. Itâs a mess.
I occasionally look at the iWork apps (Keynote, Pages, and Numbers) to stay current about what I have in my toolbox. On average, I think iWork aesthetics tend to be nicer than Microsoftâs, and I sometimes find certain tasks easier in iWork, especially formatting. Itâs possible that I would prefer to work in iWork, but I have to share/collaborate with MS Office users often enough that itâs far too much trouble to worry about occasional formatting/conversion issues, including font management. Until that changes, I havenât found anything compelling enough to make me switch to iWork. I do know there are some Keynote fans in these forums, and theyâve mentioned some useful Keynote functions in the past. If I had to give solo presentations without sharing the files, Iâd probably be more willing to give Keynote a serious try.
Yep. Confirmed with the latest install of Office 365. Within each application package, there is a Contents/Resources/DFonts directory which has the bundled fonts.
If you copy them all to /Library/Fonts or ~/Library/Fonts, then theyâll be available for every app. But you may not want to do that - there are a lot of fonts - over 500MB worth.
And much to my annoyance, these files are not shared. So Word, Excel and PowerPoint each have separate copies of the same fonts. They really should use a common location (maybe in a /Library/Application Support/Microsoft location if they donât want to install them as system fonts)
But as @josehill wrote, this is probably not legal. If you do a âget infoâ on a font file, youâll see its copyright notice. For instance, the âMS Reference Sans Serif.ttfâ file shows:
Some have more elaborate messages, and some reference parts of the data (especially kerning daa) to come from open source projects, but after skimming through all the ones in my Office installation, I didnât see any that said they were distributed with an open source license.
I guess I wonât mess with Keynote right now. I was really only interested in what new AI features might provide (e.g. âreformat my presentation to look more friendlyâ).
One thing Keynote handles well which PP (as far as I can tell) doesnât, is importing a large number of photographs to be shown one per slide. There seems to be no way of doing this in PP, save one at a time; but in Keynote, I can just drag and drop all of them (and there may be a couple of hundred) and It does the rest.
