However, as we observed in our full review, the collaboration behaviour is inconsistent. OneDrive also helps power collaboration – documents all have a handy share button at the top right – letting you share documents with others for them to view or edit.

Microsoft's equivalent of iCloud Drive, OneDrive, is now baked in – so you can toggle (a little inelegantly) between the standard OS Open/Save dialogue box and one focused on your cloud documents – and it's through OneDrive online that you can access previous versions of files. There's finally support for some now quite longstanding OS-level features, such as multi-touch gestures for zooming, and native full-screen mode. This might mean a bit of relearning for Mac users, but the groupings, such as the new Design tab in Word, do make sense. The Ribbon that runs across the top of windows has been slightly reorganised, making it more consistent with Office 2013 on Windows – see the image above for a comparative shot of the Ribbon on Mac, Windows and iPad. While this will look familiar to Windows users, it's a thoroughly Mac aesthetic. Even Office 2011 supported Retina displays, but the entire interface in 2016 has been dramatically modernised – it no longer feels dated on a modern Mac system, and the (optional) coloured toolbars help orientate you in the suite. NOTE: Once you save the Word document you cannot delete the built-in sidebar since it is not really a part of the Word document but it is a “standalone supplement” to it.Looking over the entire suite, the most obvious difference with this new version of Office, if you've been used to the 2011 edition, is the new interface design. Play with it until you feel like you’ve got the right look. The sky is the limit to give the SIDEBAR exactly the look you like. (7) Turn off your gridlines and here is your new and improved document: (6) Enter your text both into the SIDEBAR and also the regular body text area on the right. (5) Change the background color, perspective, and other graphic features of your SIDEBAR text box by trying out many alternatives offered by MS Word’s formatting buttons and drop0-down menus: (4) Pull the top and bottom of the text bar to make sure it fits the top and bottom of the grid: (3) Click and select ALPHABET SIDEBAR text box (my personal preference) or any other sidebar text box you like.

(2) Go to the INSERT tab and select TEXT BOX to display the pre-set text box designs: This will help you align the SIDEBAR more easily. OPTIONAL STEP: Turn on your gridlines by selecting the GRIDLINES check-box in the VIEW tab. MS Word comes with a number of impressive page layout features that perhaps you generally don’t expect from Word since it’s not known as a “page layout application” (like InDesign, QuarkXpress, or PageMaker). Did you know how easy it is to add a very stylish text sidebar box to your MS Word business or technical document?

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