Microsoft yesterday provided several examples of how it will support Apple’s new MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar in its Office suite, but gave no timetable for the changes.

Kirk Koenigsbauer, who leads the Office 365 client applications team, used a company blog to offer several examples of how Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word in Office for Mac will support the Touch Bar.

“Through the Touch Bar, Office intelligently puts the most common commands at your fingertips — all based on what you’re doing in the document,” said Koenigsbauer. He then gave one or more samples for each application, many of which will be duplicates of commands available via keyboard shortcuts or menu selections.

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