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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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Checks All the Boxes for Our Needs

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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November 15, 2019

Makes us look good!

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
- 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
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 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.
Scott Herring | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Jeanette Gass | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
October 25, 2019

The best choice

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Ricardo G Lopes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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).
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Lochan Kalicharan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Özgür Erkek, MSc, PRINCE2® | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Niladri Chatterjee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
September 13, 2019

Couldn't do without it!

Wesley Renton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
September 13, 2019

Office 2016 Is Just Fine

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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