If you have a subscription to Evernote, or only use the note-storing app on two devices (one of them being your 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar), you can take advantage of some great tools that are right at your fingertips. You can tap the Touch Bar to create a new note, search for content in your notes, add tags, change font colors using a color slider (and a color picker), and mark up images and notes (Premium account users can also mark up PDFs). You can also use the Touch Bar to change the display style (grid, list, side bar, etc.) and sort your notes by date created, title, date updated, source URL, and size. If you're looking forward to having easy access to your most important tools in Evernote, use it with your Touch Bar and you'll be set.

• Macbook Pro's Touch Bar Now Supports Office For Mac

Up to $69.99 per year - Adobe Photoshop. The iWork suite is great, but many folks prefer Microsoft Office, so it's awesome that Microsoft has added Touch Bar support to the Office suite. You'll be able to use brand new features in apps like Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. For example, the Touch Bar will take you into Word Focus Mode, which removes all the commands and ribbons, allowing you to better focus on your Word document. In Powerpoint, you'll be able to manipulate graphic elements, reorder things on the fly, and more.

You'll also be able to perform all the most popular functions of Outlook right from the Touch Bar, like sending email, replying, attaching documents, and more!. $149.99 and up - 1Password.

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You get an optional RPN mode, multi-line display, and your choice of button layouts. If you feel like getting your hyper-nerd on, PCalc even supports hexadecimal, octal, and binary calculations. AND, you can customize what appears on the Touch Bar, so the buttons and items that you use the most are literally always at your fingertips. $9.99 - Your favorites? It's quite apparent that the Touch Bar will benefit artists the most. What's your favorite third-party app with Touch Bar support? Let us know in the comments below!

Starting today, Microsoft Office users who own one of Apple's new 2016 MacBook Pro models can update their Word, Excel, and PowerPoint software to gain. Touch Bar support for Microsoft Office was first announced at Apple's October keynote event where the updated MacBook Pro with Touch Bar debuted. At that time, Microsoft, highlighting unique capabilities for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. In Microsoft Word, the Touch Bar can be used with Word Focus Mode, which hides all on-screen ribbons and commands to put the focus on your work.

Macbook Pro's Touch Bar Now Supports Office For Mac

The Touch Bar puts 'the most relevant Word features' at a user's fingertips, allowing for quick style changes. In PowerPoint, the Touch Bar makes it easier to manipulate graphic elements.

A Reorder Objects button creates a graphical map of all the layers, so users can quickly find an object and move its position. There are also special controls that are available in Slideshow View. With Excel, the Touch Bar displays the most recently used functions when the equals sign is typed into a cell, so it's quicker to do things like sum a range of numbers.

The Touch Bar also provides access to borders, cell colors, and recommended charts. Microsoft has also added new capabilities to the Touch Bar during its testing period. The Touch Bar can also be used to insert comments, photos, and hyperlinks into Word, it includes view-specific controls in PowerPoint, and there's an object rotation slider for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Last week, Microsoft previewed Touch Bar support, providing it to its 'Office Insider' beta testers, but now the service is ready to roll out to all Office users. Touch Bar support is currently only available for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, but Microsoft also plans expand it to Outlook and Skype for Business in the near future. I'm probably one of the few people thrilled to have contextual controls brought to the Mac's hardware.

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I love the touchbar. Some applications are so so in their use, but others Make the user experience incredible. I usually get chastised on here when I say that. Will wait a year till everyone catches up to realising how good it really is.

doublepost=/doublepost Glad to hear people are finding the Touch Bar implementations are useful. I have Office 365, now I'm just waiting on the 2017 MBP to be released! (really hoping they can cram in a larger battery this year, otherwise I'll keep my 2014 which is still going strong) Tall guy the 2016 MacBook Pro is awesome! I can see the benefits.

Especially for stuff that isn't common enough to remember the shortcuts easily. And are 2 or more clicks away. I'm hoping for a good implementation in Fusion360. As for word, I have office 355 so will be nice to get this feature. I played around with pages and really like the Apple implementation.

Hopefully Microsofts is comparable, as I can't use pages for my work. Really, office 355?:) doublepost=/doublepost So, anybody got a touch Bar? Is it useful? No, seems a total (and too expensive) gimmick to me.

Really, nothing. Please send a screen grab if you are getting something! I may just reinstall the entire suite, then. On my Touch Bar Mac with yesterdays update installed, when I click on either the To or CC field (and only these two fields) the Touch Bar shows the emoji icon directly to the right of the Esc. Then on the far right of the Touch Bar next to the Screen Brightness is the.