Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

Score

8.5 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Versatility: Users have appreciated the versatility of Microsoft Office for various tasks such as official document writing, forecasting, calculations, and presentations. The ability to use a single suite for multiple purposes streamlines their work processes and increases efficiency.

Seamless Connection to Exchange Server: Many users find the seamless connection to an Exchange 2016 server beneficial for their workflow. This integration allows for smooth communication and data sharing between different applications within Microsoft Office.

Stability and Performance: Users have noted that Office 2016 is stable with fewer crashes compared to previous versions. Additionally, the performance of the x64 version of Excel with large spreadsheets has been commended, providing a reliable platform for complex data analysis and manipulation.

Reviews

64 Reviews

Office 2016, it might be discontinued, but it is still a viable solution at a reduced cost.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 26, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Word and Excel on a daily basis and currently manage an access database that houses some of our client data. Office 2016, despite being discontinued is still a viable option for those who don't want to switch to office 365 and their monthly or yearly billing.

Pros

Local install without any monthly fees.
Industry standard file format.
Microsoft is still providing software updates, at the time of this review.

Cons

You have to purchase a license per computer, not per user.
It is lacking some of the functions found in the newer version Office 2019.
Reduced cloud functionality compared to Office 360.

Likelihood to Recommend

Despite being discontinued, Office 2016 is still a viable option for those who want Microsoft Office, but don't want to pay monthly or yearly for a subscription to Office 365. We have both Office 2016 and 2019 and have found very minimal differences between the two.

Verified User

Professional in Legal (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Office 2016, the last office suite you will ever need (until 2025 when support ends)

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 13, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Office 2016 Standard has been the main office solution in our company for 5 years now. We used to use Microsoft Office 2010 and we made the migration to Microsoft Office 2016 Standard along with the Exchange Server 2016. We have also an on-premise installation of Skype for Business 2015. We used to have the x86 version installed, but a few months ago we migrated to the x64 version. We had to wait for SAP to support x64 version of Office 2016, before we could switch over to x64. We have also tried Office 2019, but the fact that Office 2019 does not support updates over WSUS made us stick with Office 2016 and no longer consider switching over to Office 2019. We have really checked all scenarios that we have and Office 2016 more than covers all our needs. If the Office 2016 support was extended past 2025, we would really see no reason to ever make an upgrade!

Pros

Email communication with Outlook 2017 is exceptional!
Spreadsheets really work great, especially in the x64 version, which supports really big spreadsheets.
Word 2016 also offers basic PDF editing support, which really a great feature!

Cons

Word 2016 better and more extensive PDF editing support would be great.
Excel better graphs would be welcome!
It would be great if PowerPoint 2016 would have more effects embedded.
Excel could have better watermark functionality.

Likelihood to Recommend

Office 2016 is really the best available office suite solution available when it comes to the Windows ecosystem. So all Windows users should be more than covered by it in almost any conceivable scenario. There is really no scenario where Office 2016 would not be the appropriate solution, unless of course one is looking for a free solution! But again, you get what you pay for!

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Checks All the Boxes for Our Needs

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 30, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Before recently upgrading to Office 365, I used Office 2016 mostly for email, word processing, and spreadsheet management. Across the organization, it was used for the same, and any additional services needed (PowerPoint, etc.). I create several Excel spreadsheets each week to track and manage data I receive from our customers via their software portals.

Pros

User-friendly, easy to navigate
Consistent with prior versions for easy transition

Cons

There are some Outlook sorting features missing [in Microsoft Office] 2016 that I had missed from prior versions.

Likelihood to Recommend

I have always found Microsoft Office 2016 to be well suited for all of my professional and personal needs. It is very user-friendly and has maintained a consistent menu and display format from prior versions, making it easy to transition into newer, more updated versions when they become available.

Verified User

Representative in Customer Service (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

The industry standard

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 25, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft Office for writing all official documents (Word), for forecasting (Excel), and for presentations (PowerPoint). MS Office does not require much training. As it is an industry-standard, employees are able to use it without the company spending additional resources on training.

Pros

It is perfect for writing official documents.
It is great for forecasting and calculations with a set of data.
It has good presentation tools.

Cons

2016 is not cloud-based.
You can not collaborate at the same time.

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Office 2016 is perfect for writing official documents, creating presentations, and calculations on data sets. MS Office 2016 is less appropriate to work at the same time as it is not cloud-based.

Mickey Zarev

Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at TradingApps (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Office2016 is a good option for businesses large and small

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 25, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We upgraded from [Microsoft] Office2013 to Office2016 as part of our natural software upgrade process. [Microsoft] Office2016 is a better product, has some new features, and a better, more polished look overall. We use it for our corporate email, spreadsheets, text documents, creating presentations, etc. Office2016 suite contains all the different software programs we require for our business.

Pros

Outlook is the de-facto accepted corporate email program, for a reason.
Excel is a mature, robust application that has seen years of improvement.
Office2016 has implemented newer cloud collaboration features.

Cons

Sometimes updates cause issues with the program that have to be rolled back.
Certain high-res monitors can cause image rendering issues in Outlook.
Some functions are not user-friendly or easily understood, such as archiving, so that can be improved.

Likelihood to Recommend

I'd recommend [Microsoft] Office2016 for any business that has more than a couple of users, as the software is very scalable from just a small business to a large enterprise corporation. I don't know of any case where it might not be appropriate, as even home users and students use the software suite as well.

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Corporate (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

MS Office 2016: OneNote + Lens for Android = clever ways to minimize paper.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 10, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

OneNote 2016 is part of the 2016 "suite" & the part that I use the most. Invoices & bank statements that I formerly retained as papers in a file cabinet are now all in the MS cloud. The Lens App for my Android phone is a scanner that automatically sends images to OneNote.

Pros

Integration with Lens for Android is very helpful
Multiple years of payments sent, sales made, bank statements...all in one application
Search functions work well when I need to trace breadcrumbs to find prior activities

Cons

When I move a document to one of the "notebooks" I wish the focus could automatically follow where I moved it because nearly always I need to annotate the document after moving it.
The Lens scanning app wants to automatically name the image with a date format that is wacky, so I wish I could change the default date format. Having the automatic date insertion is actually a good feature for me but it's in a format that's backwards to how USA users write the date. I have to overwrite this every time.
Anytime that I use OneNote as a "printer", my document is named by OneNote as "Printout". That's understandable but I have to overwrite that every time. No title would be better so I don't have to delete or backspace before adding my own. Better yet would be if the focus would follow the document that I've just printed so I have a blinking cursor all ready for me to affix the proper descriptive name. As it is, I always have to "go there" to find the freshly printed document.
The Lens phone app also does an auto-naming function that's lame & increases my busy-work. It injects the time of day alongside the backwards date format & every image is named "Office Lens". Maybe that's for branding or marketing but I already know which app I'm using & I have to delete & over-write every time to get the name I really want for each file.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Manager (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Quick overview of Office 2016

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 9, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Office for 90+% of our productivity needs when it comes to software. We use it company wide for documentation, number analytics and presentations. I specifically use it every single day, and most employees do as well.

Pros

Scalability
Collaboration
Ease of use

Cons

Ability to do more from admin center without using powershell
Suggested alternative formulas in Excel
Ability to filter a table without impacting surrounding cells

Likelihood to Recommend

This software is helpful for organizations of all sizes and technical capabilities. It is scalable on the cloud, and encourages collaboration with teams.

Verified User

Professional in Human Resources (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

My Microsoft Office 2016 review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 6, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The whole company uses it every day, it is one of our main work tools. We use almost the entire complete office suite, some users only use the basics, but we have other more advanced ones that exploit it to the fullest. It is likely that without this tool our daily work would not be as efficient as it is today.

Pros

Email works particularly well. It is possible to organize your inbox quite neatly.
Spreadsheets, already a classic of this tool
The text editor although there are still things that can be improved, it is good enough

Cons

Sometimes the text editor does not behave as one would wish and the document is cluttered
should include a PDF viewer and editor
nothing else

Likelihood to Recommend

It is quite suitable for daily work in almost any job. Although now there are more advanced tools, found online in the cloud, it is still a good option for daily work. I highly recommend it as it has always been a reliable tool. The problem would be the support since it is a tool that is discontinued.

Hector Ochoa

Network Engineer in Engineering at Sistemas de Información Monarch (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Quality Office Product

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 8, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Office 2016 is used by clerical and administrative positions throughout this company. It helps facilitate business communications within our company and with our customers. It's a crucial piece of software that offers many benefits and options to do many tasks. The main products used in the suite are Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Pros

Great layout
User friendly
Backwards compatible with older versions

Cons

Better training
Instructions on how to use certain tools
Some programs are more resource intensive, like PowerPoint

Likelihood to Recommend

The most well suited applications for our users regarding Microsoft Office 2016 is for more clerical and administrative work. Examples being documentations, reporting, and general office usage. There are several forms that companies and vendors use that require Microsoft Office applications.

Our more hands-on employees don't use these applications for their required duties for their job.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Best standalone Office suite available

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 29, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Office 2016 is being used both at the organization level and also the departmental level. It is mainly used by those that cannot/choose not to run a subscription Office product (such as Office 365). This is also used in cases where there are shared computers (such as a kiosk), where the subscription-based Office will not work. It addresses the business problem of having an Office application suite that would be best for the situations mentioned above.

Pros

One thing is does well is it offers live/real-time collaboration. This is especially helpful when there are multiple users working on documents, etc. and changes can be made in real-time, without having to close files.
Another benefit with Office 2016 is it's integrated with the cloud. This makes it beneficial to users, in that they can store and share files from the cloud (with applications such as OneDrive, Sharepoint, etc.), and can work with these files even in offline mode

Cons

One area for improvement is in the upfront expense of licensing. Since the licensing is a one-time purchase (and is not subscription-based), the cost of a license is pretty expensive. The cost of licensing should be cheaper, especially given the fact that this Office 2016 may be used by those that don't need the full functionality of a subscription-based product such as Office 365.
The support options are lacking, as compared to a subscription-based product such as Office 365. Support is only available when installing Office 2016. Given the expensive upfront cost of licensing, support should be extended somewhat past the install stage

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Office 2016 is well suited for companies/organizations that want the Office products, and either don't have a need to have a subscription-based product or don't want to pay the ongoing costs for a license subscription. It is less suited for organizations that want an Office product that will get the latest software updates/patches/feature upgrades, as Office 2016 is not geared for that. It is a one-time purchase, and for users to upgrade to the next version, they would have to buy a license for that.

Verified User

Supervisor in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Best standalone Office suite available

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 29, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

One thing is does well is it offers live/real-time collaboration. This is especially helpful when there are multiple users working on documents, etc. and changes can be made in real-time, without having to close files.
Another benefit with Office 2016 is it's integrated with the cloud. This makes it beneficial to users, in that they can store and share files from the cloud (with applications such as OneDrive, Sharepoint, etc.), and can work with these files even in offline mode

Cons

One area for improvement is in the upfront expense of licensing. Since the licensing is a one-time purchase (and is not subscription-based), the cost of a license is pretty expensive. The cost of licensing should be cheaper, especially given the fact that this Office 2016 may be used by those that don't need the full functionality of a subscription-based product such as Office 365.
The support options are lacking, as compared to a subscription-based product such as Office 365. Support is only available when installing Office 2016. Given the expensive upfront cost of licensing, support should be extended somewhat past the install stage

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Supervisor in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience