Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

- Good for more professional documents.
- Suitable to use for spreadsheets that require a lot of manipulation and complicated functions.
- If you want to do real-time collaboration and sharing, it is not helpful.
- Not everyone has Microsoft Office 2016, so when you are working with other people and want to send them what you have when they open it, and it will appear differently unless if you put it into a pdf.

If you have literally anything to write at all for your company, Microsoft Office is the way too! Every single piece of software is fantastic. There is not a company out there that should not own the Microsoft Office Suite because it is great for pretty much any scenario: writing documents, doing presentations, making marketing materials, and even sending emails.

Tables work in Word. Everything else does too, although with much more effort than with earlier versions. It required an internet connection which makes it useless for 2 of my systems. Excel is Excel. I've used spreadsheets since VisiCalc and SuperCalc. Excel has more features, sophisticated math and plotting, which are useful. 2016 made it harder to use.

Appropriate in any business environment, specifically where various types of data management are necessary and where efficiency and integration between applications that create and manage various data types are necessary. But it's also appropriate for any user in need of a local email solution, and any kind of document creation.

If you need a full-featured office suite, then I think that Microsoft Office 2016 is the best offering out there. However, it's not inexpensive, so, for folks who generally only use the basic features, getting a less expensive, or even free, option might make more sense. The cost is the main reason why I gave it an NPS of 8, instead of 9 or 10.

Microsoft Office 2016 is well suited for any business environment. Outlook is a powerful tool for emails, tasks, notes, scheduling appointments. Word is great for creating documents, letters, memos. Excel is excellent for creating spreadsheets. PowerPoint is used for creating slideshows and presentations.

I think that Microsoft Office 2016 really is best in class when it comes to needing an office suite but if I was being asked to make a recommendation for a user, I would lean heavily towards Office, but would also take into account the person's needs and budget as well. There are some use cases where it is just not necessary to have a full-scale product.

MS Office is well-suited for virtually any business environment. The variety of programs and tools available is outstanding and there are no other platforms like this one. Google docs are the closest comparison, but there aren't nearly as many programs available and the formatting doesn't always match. The reverse compatibility for previous versions is also invaluable.

Microsoft Office 2016 is the preeminent solution in its class. It is well suited to just about every scenario.

It's hard to think of a reason not to use Office. It's the standard, everyone knows how to use it. Other software may require extensive training as they do things just a little bit different. If you require very basic spreadsheets and very basic word processing - I would recommend a different cloud-based solution.

I use Excel as a way to track data and information. Did someone cancel a subscription? I can see when they subscribed, when they cancelled, and, by using formulas, determine how long they were a subscriber. The software is a fantastic way to track the happenings in your company. Also, Word and PowerPoint have great tools to help you put together great presentations and documents to display the data that you're tracking and sorting through Excel.

There are hundreds of scenarios that Office 2016 would be well suited, but I want to emphasize one least seen from senior management. It is the VBA automation done by IT professionals, not by Power Users.
Office 2016 allows a fast track to automate many business processes that are small enough to grant resources from the IT Portfolio management guys, but big enough to significantly impact staff members. For example, generate repetitive Excel summary reports, where there is plenty of copy and paste plus reformatting, and new dates and new products. Then, copy the results to PowerPoint or Word and more. If you sit down with the IT folks and let them know that the cost of this project only includes labor, no new licenses, no new servers, no new network components, no new security checklists, they may give you resources to do it.

The most important documents for your business are generated through Office 2016. From memos to press releases, you have the tools that you need to address the day-to-day activity of your business. However, I do not feel that Office has truly been improved upon in the last 7-9 years. Perhaps adding a graphic design or photo-editing software with more advanced capabilities would make it fit in with its users in a more significant way.

Well suited for:
a) Collaborative work
b) Additional services that are included with the software such as OneDrive
c) Individual work

Not well suited for:
a) Certain rigidness on the cloud services (for instance, encrypting files and working on them online).

Works well with previous Office document versions but it could be overkill if your users only utilize one of the three apps. Due to the cost and licensing, we only deploy Office 2016 upon request of the user. Otherwise, they use Google Sheets, Docs & Slides.

You can do it all in Microsoft Excel, like for example project management, however it will always lack features that software made specifically for project management have. However, in Office you can do a lot of the tasks and most of the people know how to use it (or can be teached) so it's always great for a starting point.

Typically sharing word and excel documents that need to be edited on the fly has been a very useful feature for us. It allows these changes to be made in real time so other users can see and make changes of their own. EndNote integration with word is also a largely used feature which is very handy.

Microsoft Office 2016 amazing for basic data analytics. It is not very helpful however, in our clinical settings.

The main reasons we are using MS Office products are: it has very common usage in the market; therefore it increases work efficiency with internal and external customers. Secondly, the efficiency and robustness of the products cause users to face fewer issues. Thirdly, good support from Microsoft when you need it. Additionally, regularly released updates make the security high. Lastly, a variety of products in one Office family meets your needs.

For any medium-sized business, Office is a necessity, regardless of your vertical. If not for the work you do, the businesses you work with. Overall it's simply an industry standard.

Microsoft Office is great for most any business need. Every business should have this software. Word is perfect for letters, memos, or any other general need. PowerPoint is the leader when it comes to slide shows & presentations. Excel is the only software we will use for spreadsheets & graphing, it is also used for invoicing. (Having the entire workbook for calculations is easier and more reliable than a standard calculator). Publisher is great for designing marketing materials such as flyers, coupons, banners, etc. And Outlook is the leader when it comes to email. We have found Outlook to be a personal preference thing with employees though - younger employees typically don't like the software and find the gmail.com website easier to use.

Office 2016 resolves most of the basic needs.

• If you're a content curator Word is great for you. But for serious writers it creates distractions. Also, proofreading is not up to the mark.
• If you work in the corporate sector, PowerPoint is kind of a must need for your presentations.
• Excel can help you create numeric reports, graphs or solve basic accounting issues. It can also help you manage basic ERP if you work in a small business or play around small numbers. But for big numbers, you have to switch to a better option as it all gets pretty messy and unmanageable.
• The outlook is a good email client. But if your PC is low end, it might lag a bit.

A great office program for large and small businesses.

Well Suited:

• Getting students to either create a Word document (poster/letter/piece of writing/etc) is very easy using Word - knowing the basics can be taught very quickly.
• Students are also able to quickly and easily grasp how to create their own slideshows to assist with presentations or orals.
• Publisher is a tool that takes a little longer to grasp, but you are able to create amazing documents using it.

Office 2016 is necassary for collaboration and being consistent with files used by other companies, which would typically be from Office. The only scenerio i see where it would be less appropriate would be for a very small, 1 or 2 person business, or an individual that does not need to share files or collaborate.