In fact, Word’s as disconnected from OS X’s useful built-in tools as ever – there’s no file versioning, for example, other than that available via Finder.

It’s not entirely unlike the dictionary pop-up in built-in Mac apps that appears if you force-click on a trackpad, but notably there’s support for This provides an online dictionary lookup alongside Wikipedia, Bing search, and so on. There’s a new Smart Lookup pane too, which appears when you highlight a word and select the option from the right-click menu. This can be “torn off” like a browser tab to make it into an always on-top window. Click the Styles Pane button, for example, and a styles listing will appear at the side of the app window.

Notably, the main menu is still present, unlike with the Windows version of Office, so finding most familiar features isn’t hard for upgraders from Word 2011.įans of the floating toolbox window from Office 2011 and earlier and catered for – just about.

Alas, the Ribbon’s promotion means the formatting and standard toolbars of the past 25 years are no longer around although the Home Ribbon essentially replaces much of the text formatting tools that were found there, and is augmented by the Quick Access toolbar that runs across the top of the program window and provides quick access to undo/redo, one-click printing, and file operations.

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