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Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

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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;…

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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; to get the latest version, you must purchase…

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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; to get the latest version, you must purchase Office again when the new version becomes available. The 2016 is no longer available for sale, and support is planned to end in 2020.

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The most common users of Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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The industry standard

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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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.
  • It is perfect for writing official documents.
  • It is great for forecasting and calculations with a set of data.
  • It has good presentation tools.
  • 2016 is not cloud-based.
  • You can not collaborate at the same time.
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.
Andrew Shannon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
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We use Office 2016 mainly for Outlook 2016, Excel, and Word 2016. We have an in-house exchange server and the best email client for connecting to an exchange server is Outlook 2016, it has the calendar features and schedule that makes life a lot easier. Also our ERP system exports to Excel quickly and easily, and its the easiest platform for my users to clean out a report for sharing with our clients, it's easy enough that I can teach any user how to use it in under an hour.
  • 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 best suited for a business environment where users have either an exchange server or connect to a cloud email service and need to work on excel reports or word documents with others.

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.
Score 8 out of 10
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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.
  • 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.
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.
Michael Kim | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Office 2016 is being used across the whole organization. Within Legal, we use Microsoft Word to draft and negotiate agreements and other legal documents. Microsoft Office addresses many business problems, such as standardization of review internally, ease of transferability, secured tracking of changes, collaboration, presentations, tracking, reporting, etc. Many departments are using Microsoft Excel to track agreements, renewal dates, obligations, etc. Other departments also use Microsoft PowerPoint for internal or external business presentations.
  • The Microsoft suite is ubiquitous within any tech company and is used by a majority of our vendors. This makes negotiation on Microsoft Word smoother, and we don't need to worry about format issues between Open Office and Microsoft Office since our vendors are all on Microsoft Office.
  • Office 2016 does not crash as often as previous versions, and the autosave feature works very well. The new features and new look are great.
  • There should be auto-formatting so that when we paste from other documents, it formats outlines automatically. Sometimes, it's very difficult to format into a nice-looking document due to various spacing issues or hidden paragraphs.
  • There are frustrations when converting a PDF to Microsoft Word from Adobe Acrobat. A ton of spacing issues, incorrect text conversions, etc., which ends up in a lot of manual work. Microsoft Word should have a good conversion tool to turn PDFs into clean Word copies.
Office 2016 is well suited for companies and teams that frequently send documents, slide decks, and spreadsheets to each other and/or to their vendors. Some companies can make do with using the Google Suite (Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides), but it can get difficult to track the sharing of documents to maintain confidentiality with those. You can control the sharing/sending of documents through the Microsoft Office 2016 suite.
Score 9 out of 10
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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!
  • 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.
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!
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
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.
  • 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.
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.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
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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.
  • 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.
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.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
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.
  • 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
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.
Jacob Wall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our entire office uses the Microsoft Office 2016 suite on a daily basis as follows:
  • 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
The four departments in our company use various applications from Microsoft Office 2016 daily for a variety of tasks.
  • 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.
Microsoft Office 2016 is very well suited for an office where most work is done on desktop computers, and collaboration is done over shared drives or Sharepoint. If offers a full suite of office products that set the industry standard not only for the applications but also for file types, meaning you can count on anyone being able to open and use the files you use.

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.)
Jesse White | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Microsoft Office for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and emails. I have always been a Microsoft user and prefer Office products to Google Suite, mainly because I like having documents right on my computer instead of only existing in the cloud. Everyone in our company uses Office, and we try to use Office with as many of our clients as possible.
  • Word processing.
  • Spreadsheets.
  • Email management.
  • Pricing.
The areas where Microsoft Office shines, at least within our organization, are word processing and spreadsheets. We use Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel on a regular basis for virtually all office tasks. Microsoft Word, in particular, is hands-down the best word processing software around, and we would never use anything else.
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.
Naveen Gabrani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We use Microsoft Office within some of the teams to make/read documents, presentations and spreadsheets.
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.
Microsoft Office is the industry leader in document editing software. All the products are very powerful, and industry standard. The feature set of the products is very vast. Microsoft PowerPoint is well suited to make client presentations. Excel's formula editor is very powerful. The most popular office tool is Microsoft Word. It is suitable for making different type of documents across industries across different business sizes. Many other tools are able to read documents generated by Microsoft Office.

It is less suited for very simple documents. Cheaper/free alternatives are available, if your requirements are for very basic document development.
January 18, 2020

MS Office 2016 Review

Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Office 2016 is being used for reporting, analysis, and tracking purposes. As well as this, we are using Office for presentations and documenting processes.
  • Presentations - PowerPoint
  • Reporting - Excel
  • Visio - better BPMN 2 capabilities
  • Allow more IF functions within Excel
Microsoft Office 2016 has some excellent points. The reporting and analysis capabilities, along with the ability to present the finding using PowerPoint are the areas best suited to my role.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
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Microsoft Office 2016 is being used across our organization. We use Microsoft Word 2016 to draft documents and Microsoft Excel 2016 for simple spreadsheets containing tabular data, as well as for more complex VBA code, pivot tables, and data analysis. We also use Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 to prepare presentations and Microsoft Outlook 2016 as our primary email client. Since Microsoft Office 2016 is a suite of applications, it helps to support a variety of business-critical functions.
  • 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.
Microsoft Office 2016 is well suited for a general office environment. It runs on Microsoft Windows and macOS operating systems, but it not available on Linux. It is lightweight and has a very friendly user interface. Sometimes the help sections can get unnecessarily intrusive. Lots of online templates can make work easier to get done. Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 allows free form slides.
Stéfano Bellote | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
The whole suite of Microsoft Office 2016 is available for use all across the company I work for, we have access to the main apps (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and OneNote) and all is integrated through the OneDrive cloud and Sharepoint connectivity, making it possible to instantly share files and cooperate with other users simultaneously on folders and also on the same file. This addresses many of the needs we have regarding documentation, data sheets, presentation, and taking notes and sharing information all through the organization.
  • 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.
The whole suite of Microsoft Office 2016 is definitely a great all-around solution for your business, offering a wide range of tools for nearly every need you could encounter, from creating text documents, publications, data analysis, plotting graphs, making presentations, sharing files all through the organization, communicating with your colleagues and people outside the company, and even managing tasks and projects. Whatever you have to do, name it, MS Office can help you with that, and even though the cost is high it has continually improved itself in newer versions, incorporating functions that users expressed a need for. All of this puts Microsoft Office top-of-mind when thinking of office apps to recommend.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Like any other big organisation Microsoft Office 2016 is a suite of core applications that are used from managing email in Outlook to writing documents in MS Word, creating complex worksheets in MS Excel to presenting your work in visual style using Power Point. Using MS Access to data management and automation is also extremely valuable among data analysts. For a company like us there's no alternative to MS Office in the market.
  • 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.
Currently, there are no alternatives that offer the same or even half of the level of productivity that MS Office 2016 does. It is by far the most used software for work-related tasks. There are some open source products that try to match MS Office but they have yet to gain any space in the corporate workplace.

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.
Score 9 out of 10
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Microsoft Office 2016 is being used across the whole organization to support document development with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. A live, collaborative platform is usually preferred but when it cannot be used like in the instance of external teams these tools are sufficient. It addresses the issue of sharing documents in a consistent way for external teams. It allows for document creation, robust formatting, and sharing.
  • Document creation.
  • Formatting (Word).
  • Formatting (when exported from Google Docs).
  • Formatting (when fonts are not available in Word).
Microsoft Office 2016 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote) is well suited for creating documents. With Word, it is well suited to create professional-looking documents and proposals. Excel is great to create robust equations. Microsoft Office 2016 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote) is less appropriate when creating documents that you want to collaborate on. In this instance, a user would have to save, share and then resave any additional changes made. Version control is challenging, time-consuming and inefficient.

Robbie Speers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
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It's used by almost all users across our organization. It addresses the business problems such as various bugs with Office 2013 (or Office 2011 for Mac). Specifically with Outlook, I've noticed an improvement in performance. We utilize an Exchange Server with 2FA turned on, and Office 2016 works best with this. So we needed to get every updated to this version. For Macs, it solves a problem with Outlook 2011 not being user-friendly and users had to use Mac Mail or our web client. Now they can use Outlook 2016 and see shared mailboxes (something not available in Mac Mail).
  • 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.
While not perfect, it's ideal for a big business. If you have a lot of users you can get a business/educational license and possibly get discounts. It works best for an Exchange server with 2FA turned on. If you plan to utilize OneDrive on Mac for Office 2016 there are still some bugs to be worked out but there are ways around them.
Score 9 out of 10
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Incentivized
Microsoft Office is being heavily used by accounting and payroll/hr. It is also used across the whole organization for basic Excel and Word capabilities. And our entire organization uses Outlook as our email program. We have facilities all over the world, and these programs make it easy to communicate with each other.
  • 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.
We use excel to download and upload information into our HCM system. It is well suited for this, as it saves lots of data entry and excess work. We have numerous occasions where teammates in a location will have an earning or deduction that needs to be entered into our payroll system for taxability, and uploading an excel spreadsheet is an efficient way to do this.
Score 10 out of 10
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Microsoft Office is used individually and across the whole organization. It is the software we use to create PowerPoint presentations to do in-house teachings as well as teaching to the public in both a free and fee-based seminars. It is easy to use, share and modify between employees and takes little training to teach the basics. The spreadsheet and document modules allow our employees to create and share integral tools and pieces of communication used within our company.
  • Microsoft Office easily allows us to create new presentations using a variety of modalities, including spreadsheets, video links, and drawings.
  • Microsoft Office has products everyone is already familiar with through their prior schooling which makes training time minimal to non-existent.
  • Microsoft Office has tutorials that are easy to use, to learn beyond the basics and increase usability.
  • Microsoft Office could improve their import functions, when bringing in a file that was created on a different platform.
  • It would be nice to see an 'add to dictionary' function when a word not in it's dictionary comes up repeated times when creating a new work.
Microsoft Office is well suited when there are Word documents that need to be created and modified regularly as well as PowerPoint presentations and spreadsheets, especially when there is a desire to integrate these among each other. It also has good functionality in doing mail merges for documents and labels, a nice option when you need a 'form letter' or looking to mail to a large group.
November 15, 2019

Makes us look good!

Score 6 out of 10
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Verified User
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Lately, our organization uses Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides) more than Microsoft Office 2016. However, I have found that Microsoft Office has more capabilities than Google Suite, so I do use it still. It helps me create more professional documents. I also would rather use Microsoft Excel over Sheets for spreadsheets that are more advanced.
  • 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.
- 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.
Tyler Grudowski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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We use Microsoft Office on a daily basis for all kinds of things. There are many different reports and papers that we need to write for proposals and applications to get our start-up off the ground. Word helps us write everything faster and then be able to copy and paste what we need to into the applications online. We can also edit all of them in real-time even if we are not in the same place at the same time.
  • I really like how Word has templates for all different kinds of documents, like resumes and job descriptions. They are very convenient, especially if you are having a hard time writing one of these documents.
  • Having the ability to quickly write and edit text documents without needing to be connected to the internet is very convenient.
  • PowerPoint allows us to make professional, yet effective, presentations when we need to pitch our company to potential investors.
  • Sometimes, when we are trying to accurately format a document, the Word software spazzes out and has a hard time making it look correct.
  • The collaborative tools could stand to be a bit better. The commenting features are very complicated and are hard to get rid of after someone leaves feedback on your document.
  • I wish that some of the transitions on PowerPoint were a little more professional. Some of them are more gimmicky than professional.
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.
Score 3 out of 10
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I only use Word and Excel. Word is used for document creation. Some of that, in particular, requires a working tables function which does not work in open office which I now otherwise prefer. Excel is used for many functions, timesheet creation, records or jobs, expense records, random math needs. It is reliable. I used Office 2000 for many years, and I prefer it. It was much easier to use than Office 2016. A Windows 10 update broke it so I had to find this. I despise Microsoft requiring a Microsoft account to install it; I bought 2 copies, intending to use both, but one machine on which I wanted to use it has no internet connection and never will. Microsoft's software as a service does not fit my needs as a mostly retired, 70-year-old technical support specialist.
  • The Word tables function allows proper pasting of data pasted from Windaq. Otherwise, it is much harder to use than earlier versions.
  • Otherwise, I think it does nothing particularly well and except for that need, wouldn't use it.
  • Be available for sale.
  • Be installable without a Microsoft account.
  • Be installable from a local storage device without an internet connection.
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.
Score 10 out of 10
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Office 2016 is being used in many ways by our organization, primarily for Outlook as an email interface with our corporate Office365 email account, Excel as a tool in all departments, though primarily financial, PowerPoint for internal training and as a tool for presentations to clients, and of course Word in virtually all the ways Word can be used in a corporate environment in the Healthcare industry. Using Office provides secure, consistent, easy-to-use document creation and exchange internally and with other organizations given the ubiquitous nature of Microsoft products.
  • 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.
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.
Laura Gillenwater | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Office 2016 is the standard version of Office used throughout our company. Different areas use different "pieces" of it with different amounts of frequency and depths of feature use. For example, I'm in Learning and Development, so I use PowerPoint and Word frequently and deeply, Excel and OneNote frequently, but not that deeply, and I only rarely touch Access, Visio, and Publisher (and Project, but I'm not sure if that's technically part of Office) --in fact, I don't know that I've used any of those since we migrated to the 2016 version.
  • 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.
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.
October 29, 2019

The Complete Package

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Office 2006 is the most essential software in the organization. It is used by every team member. I use Microsoft Office 2016 mainly for Outlook 2016 , Excel 2016, and Word 2016. Outlook keeps me organized by flagging email messages for follow up, creating tasks from emails, and using rules to automatically sort emails.
  • All in one office solution.
  • PowerPoint is great for making slide shows for meetings.
  • Outlook helps me organize emails.
  • Excel spreadsheets and charts.
  • None.
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.
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