MS Office 2016: OneNote + Lens for Android = clever ways to minimize paper.
November 10, 2021

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

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Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

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.
  • 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.
  • Cloud version and desktop version both available & entries made in one populate to the other version.
  • I sometimes get a helper to log into my cloud based app while I'm sitting right next to the helper using the desktop app.
  • Office Lens integration is very helpful although I wish the automatic document naming features didn't require so much clean-up on my part.
  • Switching from paper to digital documents is an overall benefit since I have everything on my lap instead of in the file cabinets next door.
  • The OneNote 2016 app is no extra charge compared to the basic Office 2016 package.
  • Cloud based One Note is also no extra charge so that helps my ROI.

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?

No

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

No

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

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) again?

No