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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
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.
Tyler Grudowski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Laura Gillenwater | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
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.
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.
Scott Herring | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Office 2016 is being used throughout our entire organization as the main software for executing daily office tasks. The most used applications within the product would be Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. There is a small group within the school that have very specific data manipulation needs that utilize Access, but they generally use it on an as-needed basis and not day-to-day.
Jeanette Gass | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Office is used across my whole organization. It is excellent for all basic business functions but especially helps with database management (Access) and Project Management (Project). It also helps us easily and quickly create brochures and flyers (Publisher) and write and format reports (Word). There are so many uses for Excel when it comes to budgeting and finance. All around, it's a great suite of products.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Office 2016 is deployed on all end-user laptops at the company. It is in use by the entire organization. It addresses many business needs such as email communication in Outlook, data organization in Excel, and written communication in Word. Several users also employ things like SharePoint and Skype for Business.
October 25, 2019

The best choice

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Office 2016 is being used by all staff at our organization. We are using it through Office 365 licensing model. It is the primary software used at our organization for productivity applications. Excel, Word, Outlook are used daily by virtual staff. Because Office is the standard for productivity software, we spend less time training end-users on how to use the software and more time on how to get the best out of it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Office 2016 is being used as the new Office Suite in our organization. The software helps us to have access to reliable spreadsheet software (Excel) and presentation tools (PowerPoint), as well as a very well fledged out word processor in Microsoft Word. The product allows us to have software that we know is going to work. Reliability and ease of use are very essential.
Ricardo G Lopes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have a network of Freelance translators where we interact with each other frequently by sharing documents for mutual updates.
Our Professionals network is worldwide and has no specific timezone. So, we have updates anytime.
Clients mostly sent Word documents for translations, while PDF and PowerPoint come second but not close.
Excel is mostly used for intra-network invoices and in some cases to bill a final client.
Office products like OneNote and Publisher are hardly used by translators for information sharing.
If Skype for business would ever be marketed as a tool for communication within freelance networks, having many tools to interchange files, it could really be a hit, but nowadays, the team relies on WhatsApp groups for simple and fast communications.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Office 2016 is being used across our entire company for multiple purposes. We are utilizing Excel for spreadsheet creation and analysis, as well as Word for simple documents like memos and sign-up sheets. The simplicity of its use allows our entire staff, no matter how seasoned or technically savvy, to fully engage in leadership and management of systems and procedures.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Microsoft Office on a daily basis for individual and collaborative work. The software within the bundle that I use the most are: Word, Excel, Powerpoint; I rarely use OneNote; and, I do not use Outlook.

The software is used by the entire team that I work with. As a team, the software allows us to work on shared documents with all the tools that the software allows. I've organized events working on a single document and or spreadsheet.

In addition, OneDrive allows each team member individual storage and cloud sharing abilities.

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Office is used by my company almost every day. I have lots of budgeting and finances done in Excel, I also use it for data management of my clients and part time workers. Also I used it to do keyword research for marketing purposes. Anything that is 'data' I put in Excel and manage it or track it. Couldn't live without spreadsheets. Word is used less frequently, but sometimes I have to edit some of the documents or create PDFs and it's useful for that. PowerPoint once in a while.
Lochan Kalicharan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Office 2016 is used across the entire organization to allow the sharing of spreadsheets, documents and projects. It allows real time edits to be made and allows us to effectively communicate via email through outlook. Outlook is used in conjunction with exchange to also utilize calendars and sharing of events and meetings.
Özgür Erkek, MSc, PRINCE2® | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Office is the No.1 tool for our office needs. It is being used for the entire organization including all the departments we are working with. Previously, we were using MS Office 2013 and 2 years ago it was upgraded to Office 2016. As we are working in the office, 60-70% of our daily work is being managed by the MS Office products. I'm using MS PowerPoint, Word, Excel and OneNote on daily basis, and Access from time to time. We manage mail with MS Outlook, documents by MS Excel, presentations by MS PowerPoint, data sheets and graphics in MS Excel and databases in MS Access.
Stephen Wittmaak | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Originally we were using Microsoft Office 2016 on an individual basis with the core being our Outlook usage mapped over a Gmail email client. As of late, we've switched to an enterprise-level with all Microsoft functionality to better handle our e-mail client needs, rather than run across two separate platforms.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The entire suite is our go to for all things business. Excel for spreadsheets & invoices, Word for memos and daily tasks, Publisher for all things marketing, and PowerPoint for all our boring presentation needs. Outlook is a personal preference across the company for email solutions, some people like it some don't.
Niladri Chatterjee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office is one of the most essential software in our organization. I mostly use MS Word for copywriting purposes, be that writing a simple article for our company's official blog or crafting social media posts. Other than Word, there are many more products from this software bundle we use daily in our organization. For example,
  • Our accountant uses Excel to maintain accounts and create various reports.
  • PowerPoint is being used for presentations in almost all departments.
  • Outlook is a pretty handy tool to have a track on emails without leaving the main workflow, so it's installed on almost every PC in our company.

The main problem that a copywriter like me faces is proofreading and formatting. Grammatical errors and bad formatting can ruin any marketing campaign. And I resolve this issue with Word. OneNote is a pretty useful tool too. It helps me pen down ideas and information that otherwise would have been forgotten.
October 01, 2019

Best office tool

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Office 2016 is being used by our whole company. We prepare Word reports using extensive information about our work, and process cases based on a large number of documents. We also use Excel to create large forms and present our ideas in PowerPoint. Sharing documents and reports is really easy. You can even share folders within the entire company. In fact, my organization works across the entire Microsoft Office suite.
September 13, 2019

Couldn't do without it!

Wesley Renton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and to some extent, Publisher are used on a daily basis at our school by the vast majority of the staff members (teachers and secretaries).

Study guides, summaries, worksheets etc are made using Word, slideshow presentations on various topics are made on powerpoint, exam marks are captured and collated using excel and the "Mailings" function in Publisher is used to import these marks into professionally made reports.
September 13, 2019

Office 2016 Is Just Fine

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Office 2016 across the entire organization. We are able to have all people trained on the same tool, making our training and implementation of business software streamlined and this eliminates the issue of how to convert/integrate different files/systems. It also provides ease of use due to the consistency of the functions/features across the products.
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