Office 2016 - Somewhat new look, some new features, required for the Office!
Updated March 09, 2022

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

Michael Kim | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

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.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • 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.
  • 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.

Do you think Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) again?

Yes

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.

Using Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

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.

Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) Support

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.
ProsCons
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Support cares about my success
Difficult to get immediate help
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.

Using Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

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!
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Convenient
Inconsistent
  • 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

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