Five months after first entering preview, Microsoft is launching Office 2019 into general availability today. Commercial volume license customers can get their hands on the followup to Office 2016 starting today, and Office 2019 will roll out to all consumer and commercial customers over the next several weeks.
Office 2019 for Mac is also available for volume licensed customers. 2019, such as security updates and bug fixes, can be configured to be automatically downloaded and installed from the Office CDN. Individual downloads for each security update or bug fix aren’t available. Updated, Microsoft is releasing Office 2019 RTM for Windows and Mac today. Click here to download iso and install. (Version 1808, Build 16.0.2).
Office 2019 represents the latest perpetual release of Microsoft's productivity suite for those who aren't yet ready to embrace the cloud with Office 365 ProPlus. The latest release essentially brings a number of features that have rolled out to Office 365 ProPlus over the past three years. Those include things like a roaming pencil case and improved inking features, new data analysis features in Excel, along with the ability to use Morph and Zoom effects in PowerPoint.
For Word and Outlook users, you'll see the addition of Learning Tools features like Read Aloud and Text Spacing. A new Focus Mode also lets you stay free of distractions while working on a document or browsing through your inbox.
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Office 2019 includes updated versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, Access, and Publisher. Commercial volume license customers can get started with the new suite today, and all other customers will get access in the coming weeks.
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So, I'm aware that this is a brand new product an there will be little experience with it but Microsoft have been a bit shoddy here.
I have had a look here, (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/download-and-install-or-reinstall-office-365-or-office-2019-on-a-pc-or-mac-4414eaaf-0478-48be-9c42-23adc4716658), but there is insufficient info on what to expect before you click the button.
So, my situation is that I'm currently running a perfectly working version of Office 2016 that I will transfer to another Mac as soon as this one is installed, (it's on a .pkg so no problems there).
I purchased Office 19 from eBuyer, (weird as it says medialess but I'm still waiting on the post - maybe it's a license key they are shipping on a bit of card).
So after signing in to my Microsoft account, and once I click 'install', what happens?
Should have uninstalled 2016 first, (as per this link https://support.office.com/en-us/article/uninstall-office-for-mac-eefa1199-5b58-43af-8a3d-b73dc1a8cae3?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US)?
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Do I have to do something to de-activate the 2016 license before using it on my other Mac?
Do the 2016 apps sit in my Applications folder along with the 2019 versions, if so how do I tell the difference?