Microsoft yesterday updated the preview of Office 2016 for the Mac, fixing bugs and improving performance and stability.

The Redmond, Wash. company debuted Office 2016 for OS X in six weeks ago.

According to a change log posted by Microsoft, Tuesday’s update touched all four applications included in the preview: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word.

Word, for example, received a performance boost in document scrolling — the preview of the word processor was previously sluggish, even on a fast MacBook Pro — and support for the Windows’ version’s most popular keyboard shortcuts, while Excel’s update added the “Solver” feature, a tool found in the Windows edition that finds optimal solutions for common number-crunching problems.

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