But you get the simple functions that you would expect, along with something cool: easy access to chart creation. In Excel, unfortunately, the Touch Bar doesn’t give you a shortcut for full-screen mode.
This is another way the Touch Bar can be useful. In other words, the Touch Bar taught me something new about one of my apps. Call me a dummy if you want, but I didn’t even know you could do that in Word. Unlike, say, inserting a hyperlink, this function simply doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut in Word.Īnd to the right of the recent files button on the Touch Bar, there’s a button for putting Word into full-screen mode, against a nice, dark background. Or take the Touch Bar button for inserting an image. I’d say that over time it could prove to be considerably more than that, not unlike 3D Touch on iOS.) (“Fun” plays into the narrative that the Touch Bar is just a novelty. Of course, you could just go the old way and hit ⌘-O or click File and hover over Open Recent and select a file, but tapping twice might be faster - or at least more fun. Tap it, and poof, you see a long scrollable list. It’s the clock icon near the right of the App Controls for Word (that is, to the left of the display, sound, and Siri buttons in the control strip on the right end of the Touch Bar. One thing I already know I’m going to use a lot is the Touch Bar button for opening a recent Word document.
That’s just one of many things you can do, though.
