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What is Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)?
Microsoft Office 2016 is the familiar suite of Office products including applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for use on a single PC or Mac. The Office 2016 package is a one-time purchase. The applications are not automatically updated;…
Office 2016 is a must have tool for business professionals
Office 2016, it might be discontinued, but it is still a viable solution at a reduced cost.
Office 2016 - Somewhat new look, some new features, required for the Office!
Office 2016, the last office suite you will ever need (until 2025 when support ends)
Checks All the Boxes for Our Needs
Office2016 is a good option for businesses large and small
MS Office 2016: OneNote + Lens for Android = clever ways to minimize paper.
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My Microsoft Office 2016 review
Quality Office Product
Best standalone Office suite available
Microsoft Office 2016: Full-featured, industry-standard, & does what you need it to!
- Outlook for all internal and a considerable amount of …
As a Mac user, some Office features are out of our reach, which is problematic
Microsoft Office: Most popular software in the world
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What is Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)?
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(1-25 of 45)Office 2016 is a must have tool for business professionals
- Connects to an Exchange 2016 server seamlessly.
- Opens exported reports in either Excel format or CSV format.
- Gives users access to PowerPoint for making presentations easily.
- Office 2016 professional edition can be priced for a single user license, it would be nice to see a drop in the pricing.
- Office 2016 home edition is a better price but does not include outlook 2016, so it is not a good fit for the workplace environments.
- Office 2016 can run slowly on older systems, so you need to make sure you have a machine that is 4 years old or less for it to run smoothly.
Office 2016 is not as well suited for home users where there are several free options available like Google Sheets and Google Docs that can do a lot of the same functionality as office 2016 and the cost is free.
Office 2016, it might be discontinued, but it is still a viable solution at a reduced cost.
- Local install without any monthly fees.
- Industry standard file format.
- Microsoft is still providing software updates, at the time of this review.
- 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.
Office 2016, the last office suite you will ever need (until 2025 when support ends)
- 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!
- 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.
Checks All the Boxes for Our Needs
- User-friendly, easy to navigate
- Consistent with prior versions for easy transition
- There are some Outlook sorting features missing [in Microsoft Office] 2016 that I had missed from prior versions.
Office2016 is a good option for businesses large and small
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
My Microsoft Office 2016 review
- 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
- 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
Quality Office Product
- Great layout
- User friendly
- Backwards compatible with older versions
- Better training
- Instructions on how to use certain tools
- Some programs are more resource intensive, like PowerPoint
Our more hands-on employees don't use these applications for their required duties for their job.
Best standalone Office suite available
- 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
- 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
Microsoft Office 2016: Full-featured, industry-standard, & does what you need it to!
- Outlook for all internal and a considerable amount of external communication
- Word to create internal & external documentation
- Excel to view, edit and manipulate data files, as well as other administrative tasks
- Access to edit and manipulate data and prepare large amounts of data for import into our software
- Provide industry-standard software to create & edit the most common file types
- Create visually appealing newsletters & documents
- Maintain consistency across different tasks & projects
- Create documents that are universally usable by nearly all computer users
- It's sometimes too "idiot-proof". It tries to do everything for you, even if you don't want it done; e.g. Excel has an issue where it likes to trim leading zeros, which is seldom convenient.
- Some new features are available only in the online version (Office 365); e.g. some productivity plugins for Outlook.
- Locks files for use; kind of like point #1. Often, it would be nice to keep a file open while using it in another application, especially when the other application is only reading and not editing.
The suite would be less appropriate where more online collaboration is needed, with real-time collaborative editing of documents. An online office suite would likely be more suitable in that case. (I suspect people in their 20s may be more comfortable with this approach in any case.)
- Word processing.
- Spreadsheets.
- Email management.
- Pricing.
One area where Microsoft Office really needs to step up its innovation is with email management. We used Outlook for a long time, but have recently moved over to Canary Mail. The main problem is that we manage over a dozen email accounts for clients, and there is no way of looking at a unified inbox with some sort of color-coding or another unique identifier to easily see incoming mail. Like many creative-oriented companies, we use Macs exclusively, which means we are definitely missing out on substantial features that are only available on the PC version.
Microsoft Office: Most popular software in the world
Many of our clients share Office documents to share project requirements. We use Office to read these documents. We also use Office to create status documents, quotes and other business specific documents. We also share documents prepared using Office within the company.
- Microsoft Word's formatting of documents is very powerful.
- No other product comes close to the feature set of Office. Very comprehensive.
- Office is a heavy software. At times it can be slow to load, especially if the machine is not very high-end, or if many applications are running.
It is less suited for very simple documents. Cheaper/free alternatives are available, if your requirements are for very basic document development.
The joys of Microsoft Office 2016
- The range of products that are provided!
- The products are easy to use!
- The products provided work well together.
- Installation can be annoying sometimes.
- Some applications take an extremely long time to update.
- Skype for business shouldn't be used anymore.
Microsoft Office 2016 - gets work done!
- Clean and simple interface shared across applications.
- Application is locally installed but able to integrate well with cloud storage.
- Microsoft Excel 2016 can struggle when parsing lots of data and with lookups and custom sorts applied.
- Subscription/License levels means not all applications in suite are available to all.
MS Office is the Suite to answer nearly all your office needs!
- Friendly and intuitive interface, easy to use, the help function is also useful to find out what to do or how to do something when encountering a problem.
- Lots of tools available for nearly every need you have creating documents, whether formatting text, images or graphics, creating tables, plotting graphs, etc.
- Having so many tools can sometimes be overwhelming, maybe if MS could still offer them -- of course they are useful -- but make them hidden in an expandable drawer of tools for example. Maybe having the most-used tools visible and the rest hidden like that.
- Formatting with Word can sometimes be confusing, while formatting the text and space between lines, paragraphs and other things, the instructions to find and getting the format you want could be clearer.
- Microsoft Word is the best available software to write from simple to complex documents.
- Microsoft Excel is best available software to create complex calculations worksheets, data visualisation and dashboards.
- There are still some compatibility issue between MS Windows and MS Office 2016 especially, 64bit version. Quite a few errors occur when power users push the productivity a little by using MS Office scripting language (VBA) and Macros . Also, the data connectivity between MS Access and Excel is quite unreliable. Work needs to be done to make the connectivity between different components of MS Office 2016 seamless.
- MS Excel is severely lacking behind in the current age of data science. Its static charts with very limited interactivity is seriously lagging behind in data visualisation features when competing with products like Tableau, Spotfire, etc.
MS Office is being used in the corporate world since 1995. It has almost 25 years of user base that have grown with time. It's an ideal product to manage modern-day work tasks such as email and appointment management, creating documents, managing data both in worksheet (MS Excel) and database (MS Access) environments. Its integration with cloud (One Drive) is also proving to be a big selling point for its users.
Although MS Office 2016 is an excellent product, it does lack significantly when it comes to syncing your work between a PC and a mobile device. Same issue comes when a worksheet or a document needs to be worked by multiple users at the same time. For such tasks some cloud services offer better alternatives.
Data visualisation using MS Excel is also very outdated when comparing with software which specialise in data science and visualisation.
Excellent for document creation
- Document creation.
- Formatting (Word).
- Formatting (when exported from Google Docs).
- Formatting (when fonts are not available in Word).
Office 2016 still works great
- Improved Outlook for PC and Mac.
- Faster.
- Have experienced bugs with saving to OneDrive that were a pain to work around.
- Sometimes Outlook just freezes up for no reason when clicking between emails.
Microsoft Office 2016 and Payroll
- Outlook is a great email program -- easy to use and find emails that are in history.
- Excel is needed by payroll and accounting for numerous downloads, uploads and interfaces to our HCM software.
- Word is a great basic word processing tool -- easy to use and share.
- Some formulas in Excel are difficult to use.
- Help in Excel is not always clear and concise.
Makes us look good!
- Enjoy how we can integrate different elements between applications (embed a spreadsheet into a Word document).
- Formatting - many different options to create the look that we need.
- Ease in creating a presentation - I appreciate all the different options for creating professional presentations such as embedding videos, customizing backgrounds, etc.
- There is a cost for Microsoft Office 2016. As a non-profit, we use Google Suite for free, so not all of our staff use Microsoft Office 2016.
- There is no real-time collaboration. Even if I create a document on word that will need collaboration, I upload it into Google Docs so that I can have real-time collaboration with others.
- Formatting gets messed up when I upload it into Google Docs for collaboration. It would be nice if it is was more consistent formatting.
- 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.
Microsoft's strongest product!
- The aesthetic quality is light years beyond previous versions of Office and comparable products from other companies.
- Integration between each of the applications that make up the Office Suite.
- Legacy integration. We have yet to run into any issues opening or saving as formats for previous versions of Office.
- Industry-standard implementation.
- Customizability - It is easy to customize the interface both for appearance and application integration between Office applications.
- As of yet, I have no complaints about Office 2016. It is potentially the most solid product Microsoft has produced.
The Gold Standard of Office Suites!
- In the past couple of years, I've learned a slew of really cool, helpful things I can do in PowerPoint, to such an extent that it has now become my primary image editor, even for graphics that I'm not planning to use within a PowerPoint deck! The ability to remove the background in photos is just one of many examples of this. I also have Adobe Presenter, a plug-in that allows me to turn a PowerPoint deck into the polished narrated presentation (even adding a few quiz questions, when I need to). I also love the animation painter feature and the selection pane is a game-changer for PowerPoint!
- Word also has a plethora of useful features -- in fact, I often prefer to use a table in Word to organize data than to use Excel, because I find it easier to manipulate. For example, I can use Alt+Shift+up arrow or Alt+Shift+down arrow to quickly and easily move rows up or down in the table - not sure why I can't do that in Excel! There's really very little in the way of word processing that one can't do in Word!
- For Excel, I like the "intelligence" behind it. For example, I like that I can start a column with series of dates (say, every other Tuesday) and, by using the drag-down handle, it will fill in additional rows following that pattern. I also like that it adjusts formulas as you add or remove rows.
- While I've been quite impressed with all of the image manipulations that I can do in PowerPoint, I would love it if I could do even more, like set more than one transparent color, and I'm sometimes frustrated by the limited recoloring options. Also, I'm still very unhappy that they did away with the whole library of built-in royalty-free clip art and other types of images -- there's no free library available at all anymore - it sends you out to Bing, but then you have to try and find images you can legally use there (and that are in a format that allows you to ungroup and manipulate). I really, really miss the old image library, even if some of the images were old and tired.
- I also wish that I could change the default layout for new decks and not be forced to start with a title slide. Very often, I'm using PowerPoint to store and manipulate images and, for that, I prefer a blank slide. I also find that I sometimes have problems with color themes when bringing a slide from one deck into another one -- sometimes I can fix those problems but, other times, I find that I can't. I also wish it would allow me to use SVG images and convert other vector images into SVGs.
- The thing that annoys me most in Word is that I can't change the default indentation for bullet and number lists - in older versions, I had it set so that the bullets were not indented (as part of the Normal template settings), but, in 2016, it forces an indent and I have to manually undo the indent using the thingies on the ruler. I think this may be because Word is trying to be more HTML-friendly, and I don't object to it having that default indented style out of the box, but users should be able to override that by updating their Normal template.
- I also find it harder to find features that I've been using for years in the ribbons than I did with the old cascading menus.
- My biggest issue with Excel is just trying to figure out how to use some of the non-basic features, but I think that's largely because I don't use it as often and could probably use some training on Excel.
The Complete Package
- All in one office solution.
- PowerPoint is great for making slide shows for meetings.
- Outlook helps me organize emails.
- Excel spreadsheets and charts.
- None.
MS Office - Still the standard, but for how long?
- Data manipulation. Excel takes the raw data we receive and allows us to digest it in ways that are useful to our business processes.
- Communication. Outlook serves as our primary means of communication and setting up appointments.
- Documentation. Word is the default standard when it comes to using a word processor and we are no different in this regard. Nearly every user has to use the application on a regular basis in order to accomplish their work.
- Too many features. This sounds like an odd statement, but there are classifications of workers. You have your casual users, regular users, and power users. The majority of our staff do not fit into the power users group that utilizes many of the features. The hardest issue to support is the user finding what it is that they are looking for.
- Cost. As products from Google and other services gain traction it is harder in our facility to not make the transition to services such as G Suite for education. Our teachers are familiar with the product as it is being used during the class delivery with their students. They don't want to use more products than necessary. We are certainly seeing a divide between the instructional staff and the administrative and support staff in the use of their products.
- End-user help. There will always be a need to train users on software, however as support resources get stretched thinner, it becomes more important that the end-user be able to find the solutions on their own. This is an endless process, and one that will not fit every type of user, but should be considered when building future versions of the product.
Microsoft 2016 is the way to go
- Excellent communication tool.
- A leader in written communication.
- Easy to standardize on.
- It can be hard to find some features.
- Some higher-end apps are not user intuitive.