Sharing presentations between Mac and Windows should be smoother too, since Office 2016 for Mac now supports the transitions from Office 2013 on Windows. The Presenter View – showing you, say, next and current slides as well as a timer and notes on your laptop screen, while an external display shows just the presentation – is better if nothing else, the one button to let you quickly switch the displays is a boon.

PowerPoint gets threaded comments for document reviewing as well, like Word, and an improved conflict resolution view makes it easier to compare differences between versions.

What's more, combined with clever variants and colour themes, there are actually many more options – and they hang together well in terms of the visuals. The most apparent new change in PowerPoint, other than the refreshed interface, is the inclusion of 23 smart, less comically corporate templates. Note, though, that the option in Office 2011 to broadcast a PowerPoint presentation online is gone. However, as we observed in our full review, the collaboration behaviour is inconsistent. OneDrive also helps power collaboration – documents all have a handy share button at the top right – letting you share documents with others for them to view or edit. Microsoft's equivalent of iCloud Drive, OneDrive, is now baked in – so you can toggle (a little inelegantly) between the standard OS Open/Save dialogue box and one focused on your cloud documents – and it's through OneDrive online that you can access previous versions of files. There's finally support for some now quite longstanding OS-level features, such as multi-touch gestures for zooming, and native full-screen mode. This might mean a bit of relearning for Mac users, but the groupings, such as the new Design tab in Word, do make sense. The Ribbon that runs across the top of windows has been slightly reorganised, making it more consistent with Office 2013 on Windows – see the image above for a comparative shot of the Ribbon on Mac, Windows and iPad. While this will look familiar to Windows users, it's a thoroughly Mac aesthetic. Even Office 2011 supported Retina displays, but the entire interface in 2016 has been dramatically modernised – it no longer feels dated on a modern Mac system, and the (optional) coloured toolbars help orientate you in the suite. Looking over the entire suite, the most obvious difference with this new version of Office, if you've been used to the 2011 edition, is the new interface design.

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