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Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

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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;…

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9 out of 10
November 30, 2021
Before recently upgrading to Office 365, I used Office 2016 mostly for email, word processing, and spreadsheet management. Across the …
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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.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.

The most common users of Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Michael Kim | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
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.
  • The ability to redline and comment on contracts and other documents
  • Comparing two versions of documents to confirm no extraneous changes were made by the other party
  • Microsoft Office 2016 - specifically Microsoft Word - keeps the time required for back-and-forth negotiations low because we do not have to deal with markups within PDFs, and redlining is very easy using Microsoft Word. There isn't a specific numeral impact to report since we've always been using Office here since I joined the team.
We did not evaluate other products. The company already had an enterprise license with Microsoft for the Office Suite, and we were able to get a license and installation of our product by using our company email address. The other option was using free tools, which I know from experience are quite horrible.
1000
Legal, HR, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Accounting, Tax, Compliance
10
Our IT Team knew quite a bit about Microsoft Office 2016 and would help fix various issues that we reported to them.
  • Contract Drafting and Negotiations
  • Creation of HR, Compliance, and other Policy documents for the company
  • Managing Contract Templates and Versions
It's discontinued. We use Microsoft Office365 now.
I haven't had to contact the support team directly, but there are a lot of support articles that you can find by doing a Google search. I've found them helpful enough to not have to contact their support team. The Office Suite is fairly intuitive unless you want to get into complicated Excel spreadsheet manipulation.
No, we believed our team would have the ability to use all of the features we needed in Microsoft Word. If not, we'd have quick trainings from Word "experts" who taught us cool tips and tricks, or we'd email around cool things we found through Googling.
No
It's fairly easy to use, but the automatic formatting or capturing of formatting when pasting is wonky - especially when there are outlines or other bullets/numbered lists. Fixing and sizing up tables can be annoying, and there are sometimes formatting issues that we just absolutely cannot fix for some reason!
  • Creating outlines from scratch, table and charts, and making professional-looking documents
  • Saving into PDF
  • Redlining and adding comments to contracts and other legal documents
  • Creating multiple columns, switching to landscape orientation, and adjusting margins to create customized documents for yourself or your team
  • Adjusting formatting of contracts or documents which someone created incorrectly
  • Adjusting a document that was converted into Word from PDF so that the formatting is consistent throughout
Yes, but I don't use it
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Office 2016 is a standard application that we utilize at our institute. We use it for both PC and Mac platforms and is a staple that fits our document editing and creation needs.
  • Works well with other Office versions of documents
  • Integrates well with Mac & PC Operating Systems
  • Many Tools for Word, Excel and Powerpoint
  • Some features from the previous versions of PowerPoint were removed causing a little pain with some of our power users
  • The sign in feature can become annoying each time you launch a product
  • The licensing feature sometimes loses its registration, therefore, you receive a message from time to time that your product is unregistered
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.
  • The product is a staple, so it definitely increases employee productivity.
  • Licensing and cost remain the top issue. We are constantly battling Microsoft to maintain our "Non-Profit" Status.
  • The cost has made us very strict with deployments. Users that request the software can get an installation and others can use Google Sheets, Docs & Slides.
Google Drive allows us to utilize Sheets, Docs and Slides which are the equivalents to the Office Suite. While Office 2016 has more features, Google Sheets, Docs and Slides is a good low-cost substitute.
We are constantly battling with Microsoft to maintain a "Non-Profit" status which allows us to purchase multiple licenses at a lower cost.
200
Mostly Administrative and Research.
200
Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office is usually a good enough skillset.
  • Scheduling Meetings with Calendar
  • Email
  • Documentation and Collaboration
  • n/a
  • n/a
  • n/a
  • Online Collaboration of documents
  • Use in virtual desktops
Microsoft Office continues to be the Industry standard.
No
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Prior Experience with the Product
Reliability is the most important factor. As a Helpdesk Manager, my job is to implement tools that require little user complaints and it has to be easy to use.
I wouldn't change my process, the tool is pretty straight-forward and easy to use.
No
The price isn't worth the value
No
N/A
  • Using Word and the tools are very easy to use
  • Using PowerPoint and the tools are very easy to use
  • Using Excel and the tools are very easy to use
  • Finding some tools within Word as features have been removed or moved to different menus.
  • Finding some tools within PowerPoint as features have been removed or moved to different menus.
  • Finding some tools within Excel as features have been removed or moved to different menus.
Its a solid program that has withstood the test of time and it continues to be the industry standard.
No
  • Make use of the latest tools
  • Stay inline with Industry standard software
  • Take advantage of Integration tools
  • More online collaboration tools
  • Easy installations
No
No
Alyssa Kapinus | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Office 2016 is used company-wide. It is the main software program used for data, finance, comp, as well as a variety of other areas including meetings. We would not function as smoothly without it.
  • Universally used so it makes sharing and working with other teams and organizations seamless.
  • Easy to learn. There is plenty of information and resources out there to increase your knowledge and use of the product,
  • At the price, there aren't other programs out there that work as well.
  • Increase data with Excel.
  • More easily compatible with Mac
  • Updated features in Powerpoint.
Microsoft Office 2016 amazing for basic data analytics. It is not very helpful however, in our clinical settings.
  • It can be used companywide at a lower cost.
  • Bridges gaps in tech so we don't have to invest in different software.
  • It doesn't provide all the data analytics tools we need.
Office has more capabilities and universality.
It is pretty much the market standard. It really gets the job done without a ton of issues.
  • Email
  • Microsoft word documents
  • Formatting of documents
  • Editing and formatting powerpoints
Its not overly complex. With a bit of training, its very easy to use.
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