In PowerPoint, there are theme variants, which provide different color schemes for a theme. In Excel, there is a Recommended Charts feature, and PivotTable Slicers. In Word, there is a new Design tab, an Insights feature, which is powered by Bing, and real-time co-authoring. New features in the Mac release include an updated user interface that uses ribbons, full support for Retina Display, and new sharing features for Office documents. an older version of Outlook 2013/2010 with Publisher 2016. Part of the installer will search and remove any previous version and not permit the operation of older components.
In addition, Microsoft has removed the ability to run parallel versions of Office with the 2016 release. Other smaller features include Insights, a feature powered by Bing to provide contextual information from the web, new chart types in Excel (such as treemap, sunburst chart (also known as a ring chart), waterfall chart, box plot and histogram), and a data loss prevention feature in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. New features in the Windows release include the ability to create, open, edit, and save files in the cloud straight from the desktop, a new search tool for commands available in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook named 'Tell Me', and co-authoring in real time with users connected to Office Online.
