Office for Mac testers get Touch Bar controls

When Apple unveiled the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar laptops, Microsoft was on stage to announce that Office for Mac is adding support for that multi-talented OLED strip.

While it isn’t really here yet, we’re inching a bit closer, as participants in the Office Insider program are now able to test the new Touch Bar controls.

In a nutshell, depending on the document you’re working on, Office will intelligently put the most common commands on the Touch Bar. So you’ve formatting and table editing controls in Word; style controls and recommended charts in Excel; and shape tools in PowerPoint – just to name a few.