Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Integration with Lens for Android is very helpful

Multiple years of payments sent, sales made, bank statements...all in one application

Search functions work well when I need to trace breadcrumbs to find prior activities

When I move a document to one of the "notebooks" I wish the focus could automatically follow where I moved it because nearly always I need to annotate the document after moving it.

The Lens scanning app wants to automatically name the image with a date format that is wacky, so I wish I could change the default date format. Having the automatic date insertion is actually a good feature for me but it's in a format that's backwards to how USA users write the date. I have to overwrite this every time.

Anytime that I use OneNote as a "printer", my document is named by OneNote as "Printout". That's understandable but I have to overwrite that every time. No title would be better so I don't have to delete or backspace before adding my own. Better yet would be if the focus would follow the document that I've just printed so I have a blinking cursor all ready for me to affix the proper descriptive name. As it is, I always have to "go there" to find the freshly printed document.

The Lens phone app also does an auto-naming function that's lame & increases my busy-work. It injects the time of day alongside the backwards date format & every image is named "Office Lens". Maybe that's for branding or marketing but I already know which app I'm using & I have to delete & over-write every time to get the name I really want for each file.

Scalability

Collaboration

Ease of use

Ability to do more from admin center without using powershell

Suggested alternative formulas in Excel

Ability to filter a table without impacting surrounding cells

Email works particularly well. It is possible to organize your inbox quite neatly.

Spreadsheets, already a classic of this tool

The text editor although there are still things that can be improved, it is good enough

Sometimes the text editor does not behave as one would wish and the document is cluttered

should include a PDF viewer and editor

nothing else

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

One thing is does well is it offers live/real-time collaboration. This is especially helpful when there are multiple users working on documents, etc. and changes can be made in real-time, without having to close files.

Another benefit with Office 2016 is it's integrated with the cloud. This makes it beneficial to users, in that they can store and share files from the cloud (with applications such as OneDrive, Sharepoint, etc.), and can work with these files even in offline mode

One area for improvement is in the upfront expense of licensing. Since the licensing is a one-time purchase (and is not subscription-based), the cost of a license is pretty expensive. The cost of licensing should be cheaper, especially given the fact that this Office 2016 may be used by those that don't need the full functionality of a subscription-based product such as Office 365.

The support options are lacking, as compared to a subscription-based product such as Office 365. Support is only available when installing Office 2016. Given the expensive upfront cost of licensing, support should be extended somewhat past the install stage

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.

Word processing.

Spreadsheets.

Email management.

Pricing.

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.

Presentations - PowerPoint

Reporting - Excel

Visio - better BPMN 2 capabilities

Allow more IF functions within Excel

Creating training material (guides, decks, etc)

Data analysis

Compatibility across devices and platforms (PC to Mac to Mobile)

Creating and supporting macros

The range of products that are provided!

The products are easy to use!

The products provided work well together.

Installation can be annoying sometimes.

Some applications take an extremely long time to update.

Skype for business shouldn't be used anymore.

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.

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.

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.

Document creation.

Formatting (Word).

Formatting (when exported from Google Docs).

Formatting (when fonts are not available in Word).

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.

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.

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.