Touch Bar support is available to Office 365 subscribers, as well as all Office 2016 for Mac customers. In addition, the Touch Bar can be used to switch between calendar views, as well as to join online meetings with a single tap when viewing the reminders window. For example, when users compose emails or meeting requests, the Touch Bar will show off common formatting options. Touch Bar support in Outlook means that Apple’s OLED touchscreen will now respond to a variety of email- and calendar-based tasks. Specifically, it’s adding Outlook to the list of MacOS applications with Touch Bar support, and it’s making add-in support available to production builds after the feature spent some time in Office Insider builds. Now, Microsoft is making a couple of significant improvements to Outlook 2016 for Mac. As part of the effort, the company added MacBook Pro Touch Bar support for a number of Office apps in a recent update. Microsoft has been working hard to bring its Office 2016 productivity suite up to date on Apple’s MacOS machines.
