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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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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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Versatility: Users have appreciated the versatility of Microsoft Office for various tasks such as official document writing, forecasting, calculations, and presentations. The ability to use a single suite for multiple purposes streamlines their work processes and increases efficiency.

Seamless Connection to Exchange Server: Many users find the seamless connection to an Exchange 2016 server beneficial for their workflow. This integration allows for smooth communication and data sharing between different applications within Microsoft Office.

Stability and Performance: Users have noted that Office 2016 is stable with fewer crashes compared to previous versions. Additionally, the performance of the x64 version of Excel with large spreadsheets has been commended, providing a reliable platform for complex data analysis and manipulation.

High Pricing: Users have expressed frustration with the expensive licensing per computer for Office 2016, especially impacting larger organizations. They believe that the cost should be more affordable, particularly for those not needing all features of a subscription-based product.

Lack of Collaboration Tools: Some users have criticized the absence of collaboration tools in Office 2016, leading them to rely on Google Docs for real-time collaboration. They noted formatting issues when transferring documents between Word and Google Docs.

Complexity in Excel: Reviewers have outlined difficulties with Excel's complexity and suggested a simplified user interface option for beginners. They also mentioned the need for better training resources to navigate its advanced features effectively.

Reviews

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The industry standard

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 06, 2024
MZ
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
5 years of experience
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.

Office 2016 is a must have tool for business professionals

Rating: 6 out of 10
December 06, 2023
AS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
3 years of experience
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.

Office 2016, it might be discontinued, but it is still a viable solution at a reduced cost.

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 26, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
4 years of experience
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.

Office 2016 - Somewhat new look, some new features, required for the Office!

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 09, 2022
MK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
3 years of experience
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.

Office 2016, the last office suite you will ever need (until 2025 when support ends)

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 13, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
5 years of experience
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!

Checks All the Boxes for Our Needs

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 30, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
6 years of experience
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.

Office2016 is a good option for businesses large and small

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 25, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
2 years of experience
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.

MS Office 2016: OneNote + Lens for Android = clever ways to minimize paper.

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 10, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
4 years of experience
OneNote 2016 is part of the 2016 "suite" & the part that I use the most. Invoices & bank statements that I formerly retained as papers in a file cabinet are now all in the MS cloud. The Lens App for my Android phone is a scanner that automatically sends images to OneNote.

Quick overview of Office 2016

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 09, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
15 years of experience
We utilize Office for 90+% of our productivity needs when it comes to software. We use it company wide for documentation, number analytics and presentations. I specifically use it every single day, and most employees do as well.

My Microsoft Office 2016 review

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 06, 2021
HO
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
4 years of experience
The whole company uses it every day, it is one of our main work tools. We use almost the entire complete office suite, some users only use the basics, but we have other more advanced ones that exploit it to the fullest. It is likely that without this tool our daily work would not be as efficient as it is today.

Quality Office Product

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 08, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
3 years of experience
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.

Best standalone Office suite available

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 29, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
5 years of experience
Office 2016 is being used both at the organization level and also the departmental level. It is mainly used by those that cannot/choose not to run a subscription Office product (such as Office 365). This is also used in cases where there are shared computers (such as a kiosk), where the subscription-based Office will not work. It addresses the business problem of having an Office application suite that would be best for the situations mentioned above.

Microsoft Office 2016: Full-featured, industry-standard, & does what you need it to!

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 28, 2020
JW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
3 years of experience
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.

As a Mac user, some Office features are out of our reach, which is problematic

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 24, 2020
JW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
4 years of experience
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.

Microsoft Office: Most popular software in the world

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 21, 2020
NG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
2 years of experience
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.

MS Office 2016 Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 18, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
2 years of experience
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.

The joys of Microsoft Office 2016

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 17, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
4 years of experience
Microsoft Office 2016 is used by all the users with the company. The majority of users have been using this for a long period of time and have found Office 2016 a great tool and a great way of working with office tools. Office allows users to use Powerpoint, Excel and a wide range of Microsoft applications.

Microsoft Office 2016 - gets work done!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 16, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
3 years of experience
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.

MS Office is the Suite to answer nearly all your office needs!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 15, 2020
SB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
2 years of experience
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.

MS Office 2016 - new features below expectations but still a wonderful product

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 30, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
3 years of experience
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.

Excellent for document creation

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 29, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
3 years of experience
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.

Office 2016 still works great

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 11, 2019
RS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
3 years of experience
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).

Microsoft Office 2016 and Payroll

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 04, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
3 years of experience
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.

Microsoft Office, easy to use from day 1!

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 17, 2019
LD
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
3 years of experience
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.
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