Designed to let you work faster, Office Home and Business 2016 comes with amazing new features that allow you to communicate, create, collaborate and share your work easier. It includes a new modern look, built-in collaboration tools, and the power of Outlook for email, calendars and contacts. It also allows you to save and access your documents in the cloud on OneDrive.
Microsoft Office 2016 is the the successor to Microsoft Office 2013. Office 2016, just like its predecessors, comes in a variety of packages each designed to cater to different needs. Whether you want Office for personal or professional use, Microsoft has the right package for you.
Microsoft Outlook 2016
Stay connected and productive with a clear overview of your email, calendar and contacts. Plan meetings, share information and collaborate efficiently with Outlook’s easy to use interface and features. Microsoft Outlook 2016 is available on any device, allowing you to always be connected whether you’re on your phone, tablet or apple device.
Microsoft Word 2016
Creating professional documents has never been easier. Microsoft Word’s amazing proofing tools allow you to edit, structure and review your work with ease. Word 2016 comes with PDF compatibility and innovative sharing methods allowing you to work and share as efficiently as possible.
Microsoft Excel 2016
Organize and create comprehensive spreadsheets or workbooks with Excel. Microsoft Excel’s extensive options and features let you to illustrate your data patterns in detailed charts and graphs and perform in depth analyses by using the wide variety of formulas available. Allowing you to create informed decisions and accurate forecasts.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2016
Create impactful presentations and captivate your audience with PowerPoint. Look like a professional using PowerPoint templates and themes to design the presentation that suits you best. PowerPoint also comes with a variety of animations transitions and other features that allows you to present everything you want in the exact way that you want.
Microsoft OneNote 2016
Your personal digital notebook, OneNote allows you to type, write or draw notes and insert imaged, audio or video clips from the web. OneNote is available online and syncs up with your other devices. Allowing you to access, update or create new notes from where ever you are.
Jun Liao –
Good!!! Totally new design……….
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John Simonson –
Would like Access in this format without a monthly cost.
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Kati –
Hard to use
W. Munro –
I was really looking forward to having a shiny, new, updated Office quite for Mac, with this version. Unfortunately, it is just totally unstable. I have a brand new Macbook Pro fully updated OS and high RAM, and the Office applications (particularly Excel, but also Word) crash on a regular basis, almost always resulting in data loss for me. When running, these apps seem to use up an extremely high amount of system resources and can run very slowly, or result in the rainbow spinny wheel for minutes at a time. Wish I could recommend, but I would not rely on these for mission critical tasks, given the instability.
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keyforrest Customer –
It was a German version and was not valid. Returned.
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Sim S. –
One card with key arrived within 2 days. Working great. Didn’t need to download Microsoft office as I already had it installed. But didn’t want to pay for another 365 license. This was a great alternative. Entered the new key and it’s working fine.
Hugh Watkins –
I haven’t hit the stability issues that others have hit yet, but all in all the upgrade seems OK. This upgrade does seem bring it closer to the Windows version.
S. Peterson –
I have not had one issue with this software like others report. I did a custom install and did not install Outlook or OneNote as I do not use those programs. I am running it on OS X (10.11.5) on a 15″ MacBook Pro. It has been very stable and has not bugged on me once. It took about 10 minutes to download and install. Things are a little different with this version but it has not upset me in the least. I’ve had no issues opening my previous version documents. Overall this is a great new version of an already great product.
C. Wake-walker –
arrived on time and worked well
keyforrest Customer –
An excellent product. Have used an older version and upgrading to the current version. Great new features and functions.
Benny Y.P. Siahaan –
Good seller and product!
S. Smith –
This was extremely glitchy and made my computer so slow. I can’t even tell you how it actually works because it just didn’t allow itself to work on my program even though I had all the minimum requirements. I will try and upload it on another Mac and see.
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Anne-marie Mansiaux –
tout juste installée, je n’ai pas eu le temps de tester cette suite Office.j’espère qu’elle sera du même niveau que 2007 et 2010
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JK –
I applaud Microsoft for trying to update their Office apps with a more groovy look and feel, but I can’t help coming the conclusion the Office 2016 version is nothing more than a lot of lipstick and rearranging of features. As a heavy Excel and Word user, I’m not very impressed (I don’t use Outlook and haven’t had a chance to really plow into PowerPoint yet), and in general, I don’t see any compelling reason to upgrade.At the risk of this sounding like a ranting review, there are a handful of things so annoying, I’m abandoning the 2016 and going back to my trusty 2011 version. Here are the highlights:The Overall Office ExperienceMicrosoft is clearly trying to drive users to their online, cloud-based solution and offers users the ability to store their files in Microsoft’s Cloud as well. The bummer is you can’t hide it, put it into the background or change the default settings. For example, when you launch any of the apps and go File, Open; the assumption is you want to get your files from the Microsoft Cloud. A nice feature, but most of my Excel, Word and PowerPoint data are proprietaryan largely financial in nature and I wouldn’t dream of storing this information in any cloud, DropBox, iCloud, etc.Along the same lines, if you want to change some things about the look and feel of the app – Microsoft makes a big deal about all of the “customization” available, especially with the Themes, but you’ll need an Office subscription take advantage of the majority of these features Without the subscription, you have some basic customizable options, but they aren’t worth the upgrade from Office 2011, in my opinion.ExcelI often wonder why software developers tinker with the things that work just fine, you know, the “don’t fix it if it isn’t broken” thing. With Excel, there were numerous examples of this. Honestly, I’m not sure what sort of enhancements Excel really needs, especially given that most users use maybe 20% of its feature anyway. Nonetheless, the good folks at Microsoft did do quite a bit of tinkering with the things that work just fine in order to qualify this an “upgrade”. Some examples are:-Row, Column & Cell SelectionThere is this highly animated, jumpiness that occurs when you select a cell or range of cells. It’s a bit like a moving target when trying to make a selection; you may not nail on the first or second try. This gets really tricky if you are on the road and working with just the touchpad on your laptop.-Page BreaksIn the old version, you could easily move the guidelines to create logical breaks. For whatever reason, it’s a multi-step process with the new version of Excel. I was never successful in getting the page breaks where I wanted them, and often times, I couldn’t even get to the guidelines, even with resetting all page breaks, to allow me to put the page breaks exactly where I wanted.-Pivot TableIn the old version, you click on the Data icon and the Pivot Table icon and boom, up popped the box allowing you to easily select the fields for the row and columns. In the new version, you have to click on the menu Insert, select pivot table, and answer the questions in the dialog box before you can begin selecting the fields. I get the idea behind this; you may want to define some parameters beforehand, but it feels more like an unnecessary extra step.-Print GuidelinesIn the old version, you could simply select Print Guidelines on the Layout ribbon and a nice, light gray border would print for each cell, which is so helpful for large spreadsheets. In this version, if you select to print guidelines, you get heavy duty, garish thick lines, which completely distract from the look of the printed document. To get the light gray guidelines, you have to go into the Preferences menu, select Authoring and select the formatting you want – but you have to do this EVERY time, there is no default setting.I was a little worried as Excel kept crashing with a frequency directly proportional to the size and complexity of the spreadsheet. After the last bomb when I reopened the app, for some reason, it tried to open every single file on my hard drive. Since it was trying to open non-Excel files too, an annoying dialog would pop-up informing me the file format was not compatible. The only way to stop the insanity was a force quit through the Activity Monitor. I eventually had to reinstall the app as this happened every time I launched the app.WordWord was much less dicey than Excel, and I did like the clean look and feel and was able to maneuver around with ease. The overall organization was a nice enhancement, but again, not sure it’s worth the upgrade (especially since Excel was such a fail). There were plenty of options to get sucked into the Microsoft store and eventual Office subscription, and when testing the label capability, the first thing Microsoft wanted to do was access my contacts. I will say the label feature was more precise than the 2011 version, especially with odd shapes such as circles, and some of the other fancy die-cut labels that Avery offers.I could go on and on with the ins-and-outs of this version of Office, but at the end of the day, I still could not find any compelling reason to upgrade. On the other hand, if you are new user, then you’ll likely find the 2016 version to be just fine.
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Mick McArt –
I read some of the negative reviews about this product and I don’t really understand too much of the complaints. As an avid Mac fanboy I love and use Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, but, because of my job, I like to have a copy of Office as well. As far as the interface goes, this is a leap forward in the right direction, especially in Outlook. So much better than 2011. Excel is more intuitive and I think Word is a step forward too. Keycard installation was a snap, just follow the simple directions. I guess my main complaint will be what any designer would complain about, the dumb ruler system in Word. I thought by now they’d ditch that and use a ruler system like in any Adobe or Quark product. Look at the rest of the market man! Pages has still got this beat. But, as a product from Microsoft goes, I think they are going in the right direction. I like OneNote, still playing with it, but it seems to be a pretty straight forward product that I’ll be using quite a bit.7/6/16 Just wanted to add a note saying how awesome OneNote is. I’ve totally switched out of Evernote and into OneNote now. Microsoft really nailed this one so I’m switching it to a 5 for this alone, what organization! I have to admit Evernote started charging for basic service and this motivated me to dig into OneNote a little deeper and I must say, I’m blown away! Evernote always seemed to be lacking something. Maybe it’s because I’m a writer and Office is more geared for writers because of Word. It’s hard to say for sure, but I know that the interface, which is number one for me, is easier to use for sure. Boom. Out of the park.
keyforrest Customer –
It was fine.
HenryZ –
Easy to install and is perfect for home office support.
R. M. Ettinger –
While the product has it’s pros and cons, I’m weighing a little more on the neutral side.Unlike others, I had no issue installing I see little to no difference with Word. I think Excel is just fine, but I love spreadsheets, so Excel has rarely steered me wrong with any upgrade. I know people are having issues with Outlook and while it looks ok – not great – to me, I don’t normally use that program outside of the actual office, where we use Windows, not Apple.To be honest, I haven’t used PowerPoint here, so I can’t rate that.There was nothing outstanding here, but nothing horrendous – – at least for me.
J. White –
The software installed without problems on an iMac with OS 10.11. Prior to testing I made sure all the latest updates were installed. Each application worked well on my machine with an SSD. On a hard disk the software will take much longer to start up then Office 2011 did because of the increased executable size of the software. One thing I noticed is that it is still not possible to import your contacts from Mac address book directly into Outlook. This is a feature that is sorely needed. Another thing I really do not like is that this software will only activate on one computer.All in all though this software worked OK.
keyforrest Customer –
Could not install. took microsoft technical help an hour to make it work.
Ian Rushton –
I had Microsoft Office 2011 and it was about time to upgrade. The install was relatively painless, you must follow the instructions in the box to activate and download the software, it is very hard to find on the Microsoft’s website, all they want you to find is Office 365.Once the software is installed you have to start one of the programs to finish the activation. The new version of office puts all the applications in the main folder not a subfolder like the previous version. I chose to start with Outlook, it recognized the 2011 version and started migrating the data without any big issue.The biggest overall first impression is that each of the products takes so long to initialize, you really aren’t quite prepared for the length of time. Initially I thought is was the first time execution setup kind of thing, but it takes long on every initialization. My recommendation is to not shut down the application, leave it running or buy some SSDs for your Mac.The over all appearance of this version of office is very close to the windows counterpart, so if you are switching back and forth it will all look familiar. The version has cleaned up the interface, feels a lot more intuitive. Still wish Microsoft would keep the functionality the same, the Mac version is still a bit neutered, but over all very usable. There have been lots of reports on how unstable it is, I have not experienced that, but again I am not a heavy office user. I have only run into now issue about the interoperability, I received a spreadsheet from a windows user that had links in it that this version could not understand and I had to open it read only.My last comments is that it would be nice if Microsoft created platform unique functions that took advantage of the MacOS. I can understand why because it doesn’t fit within the Microsoft ecosystem, but it would be nice.
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Jomo Simmonds –
Works fine. But still prefer media for downloading (flash drive, CD, etc.)
Maine Writer –
This is the best version of Microsoft Office yet — either for Mac or PC, in my opinion. The programs themselves are less cluttered and more user friendly, though they remain bloated with innumerable, rarely used features. Despite this, you still can’t get “continueds” for footnotes, outline is still a disaster, and you can’t send privately in Outlook for the Mac. Why four stars, then? Because for many people, Office is is a requirement. We can bemoan that, or be thankful it has gotten this good.
Michael D. Osterman –
I used the Office Suite on Windows from 1989 to 2006, and have been using Office for the Mac since 2006. I was very pleased with Office 2011, but switched to Office 2016 because Microsoft end-of-lifed Office 2011, and because I read that Office 2011 would no longer work with High Sierra. In a nutshell, Office 2016 is a terrible product on several levels: it’s slower than Office 2011, I am unable to edit cells in spreadsheets because clicking on a cell has no effect, opening up a spreadsheet created in Office 2011 almost always results in a large blank space in the middle of the spreadsheet until clicking on another sheet and then back, documents created in Office 2011 sometimes do not open properly in Office 2016, etc. My copy of Office 2016 is running on a clean install of High Sierra (which, I found out, actually runs Office 2011 very well).Although Office 2016 has been on the market since July 2015, this still feels very much like a beta product and is the buggiest piece of software I have ever used. If at all possible, please avoid it!
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E. Talerico –
Download and setup of this suite was uneventful – download and installation took about 20 minutes. I wasn’t even asked to restart my computer when it was done. After installation, all the apps booted correctly and I was able to easily locate all my Office files in OneDrive.Most of the work I do with MS Office is done on my laptop PC – my primary reason for having Office on my Mac too is for the simple convenience of being able to access and work on my files if I’m at my home office where my desktop computer is a Mac. For that, Office 2016 for Mac works flawlessly. I keep all of my MS documents in the cloud via One Drive. Although i do the lion’s share of my work on the PC, its nice to have that flexibility. I’ve found the Office software runs smoothly and reliably on the Mac platform. Whether I’m using Powerpoint, Word, or Excel, it all works pretty much the same on both platforms. I will mention that my Mac has an up to date processor, a solid state drive and plenty (16GB) of RAM – and El Capitan.
Brian Connors –
It’s fair to say that if you install MS Office, you probably know what you’re getting. That said, unless you’re doing something that absolutely requires MS Office support, it’s hardly worth it (except *maybe* for the fonts, and those only if you know how to dig them out of the .app bundles). At least OOXML is a more-or-less open file format, so importing and exporting is easy, and at least you can still buy a non-subscription version of Office.For the rare occasion I need office programs, I use a mix of iWork and LibreOffice, both of which are no-charge. To switch to MS Office, there’d have to be a very compelling reason to do so, and I just don’t see it. The ribbon *might* be a better approach to the toolbar hell of LibreOffice, but I still don’t really like it on the desktop (it works fine on the iOS version of Word though). And I really, really don’t like that it expects me to use my Microsoft account to use it; it’s nice to have cloud access and such there, but seriously, if I want to work offline, there’s no reason that should be a problem. And, like I said, the fonts that it comes with are generally pretty nice (Franklin Gothic, for example, or the ClearType series), but if you don’t know the internal structure of an .app bundle, you’ll never find them or be able to use them outside Office.Basically, it’s really hard to recommend going out and buying this when the alternatives cost you nothing but download time and everything reads and writes Office file formats anyway. It’s not terrible, but unless you have some VB scripts in your Excel docs or absolutely need PowerPoint instead of Keynote or LO Impress, why bother?
Goneaway –
Word and Outlook work well enough, but Excel, the one program I really need to work smoothly now as I clean up our website data in preparation for a new site just is not. It crashes when inserting one column in a 6,100 row spreadsheet. Then, when the file reopens, extra rows have been inserted, which must be removed again. Excel for Mac is one big PITA!
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Dan White –
I was reluctant at first to buy Office 2016 from the reviews by others, but after loading it and running it for a few days I wished I had bought it earlier. Outlook in 2011 was to the point of being unusable, but Outlook 2016 zips along and switches between accounts almost instantly. The other applications seem also to be faster and the interface is cleaner but very little has changed in the overall layout.
Frank Chipchase –
Don’t buy this just yet. It’s a total work in progress not to mention there are lots of program errors.
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girugamesh –
Microsoft outlook 2016 for MacBook Pro is bad, many features are missing and many flaws such as no insert tables, no merging functions, no design icon, layout, etc. Why Microsoft released this outlook 2016 bad and malfunction software to the market. Return this product or Microsoft should get this fixed soon.
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B Dubs –
Office 2016 is not able to sync with either Outlook.com or an iPhone. That creates two killer problems:1) it is impossible to sync your existing contacts or your calendar into Outlook 2016 for mac UNLESS you already have 2011.2) the second issue is much more problematic. Outlook 2016 for mac is unable to sync either calendar or contacts with an iPhone. It is only able to sync mail. Practically speaking, you can create a calendar entry on your mac and it won’t show up on your phone… and vice versa. That renders this program useless for most of us in today’s world who work both on a computer AND a mobile phone.Now I can imagine readers of this are thinking “there must be a way.” I have spent 2 hours this week at the Apple Store and 9 hours this week on the phone with Microsoft technical service (they service Outlook 2016 for mac from the Philippines) and despite great effort and multiple conversations with higher level tech people. There is no workaround and it is currently impossible to do.So… iIF YOU HAVE AN IPHONE, DO NOT BUY THIS PROGRAM. Now I imagine that if you have a mac, chances are that you likely work on an iPhone, which is logical. The fact that this program, designed specifically for a mac does not sync between the mac and other apple products is virtually incomprehensible.
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voldemortified –
I’m an editor by day, and I used to not be able to use Macs at all because the old Microsoft Word performed so poorly on the Mac. The 2016 edition of Office is the reason I was able to switch to using a Mac regularly. With what I use it for, Word works just as well now on Mac (hello, Track Changes!) as it does on Windows. I also like that this is a license for the program, rather than a monthly or annual fee, like Windows Office products.
Busy Executive –
Microsoft Office is one of those ubiquitous apps that most computer users will run into at some point, and many people (too many people?) spend the majority of their professional lives in front of one of the apps in this package. I know – I’ve been living with Office since before it was called Office, and one form or another is installed on my Macs, my Windows PCs – even my iPad.Microsoft’s business – like many software companies – requires the recurring revenue of an ongoing series of upgrades and enhancements. Problem is, at least a decade ago, the Microsoft Office apps became good enough that Microsoft started running out of new feature ideas most people would see as valuable. I use Word a lot, and I doubt I make use of more than 20% of what it’s capable of. And at the same time, if Microsoft were to create a truly revolutionary new Office product, the tens of millions that are comfortable with today’s products would need retraining. So Microsoft is stuck between these extremes…on one hand, the current products are probably more capable than most people can use, and on the other hand, you need to evolve but not change too much lest you alienate today’s customers. This makes any upgrade tricky.Okay, with that background in place, here are my impressions of Office 2016 for Mac…First of all, I want to be clear that I am *NOT* reviewing a free copy. Where you see “Vine Customer Review of Free Product”, I’m actually reviewing Office 2016 Home and Business that I purchased separately (indeed, due to some sort of error, I never received my keycard from Vine). I don’t believe there’s any difference in the software – no matter how you get it, the apps are the same.That out of the way, one of the first things the typical user will want to consider is exactly what Office apps you need and whether to buy an individual license, or whether to pay for an Office 365 subscription. To me, it’s usually a no-brainer: choose the Office 365 subscription. It gets you up to five copies of Office on your choice of Windows or Mac PCs, or tablets and portable devices, as well as future upgrades at no extra charge. To me, this sounds like a more cost efficient way to get Office, especially if you have more than one computer (say, a Mac and a Windows PC, or an iPad).And speaking of the iPad, one of the things I like best about the newest release is that the big Office apps run really, really well on an iPad these days. Unlike older releases where Microsoft pretty much just provided a viewer for the various Office document formats, the current release is nearly as powerful as either the Windows or Mac versions. If you’re one of those who spend your life in front of the various Office products, you can now realistically think about replacing your PC/Mac with a tablet and not surrendering any major functionality. Of course, you can take advantage of the mobile versions of Office without necessarily needing to upgrade your PC or your Mac, but if you find yourself using the latest versions on your iPad, you might want the most similar things on your Mac.Back to Office, I would agree with many of the reviewers who suggest that there’s generally not a hugely compelling reason to upgrade from Office 2011, with these exceptions:1. On more modern Macs, the new Office seems to run faster and take better advantage of multi-core processors. On my recent MacBook Pro (with the quad-core i7 and 16GB of memory), Word, PowerPoint and Excel are notably faster and more stable than the prior release. The opposite is true on an older iMac I have – there, Office 2011 seems to run notably better.2. If you use both Windows and Mac a lot, I find Office 2016 to be an easier transition across the two platforms, especially if your flavor of Windows is Windows 10. I share documents across the iPad version of Office, Windows 10 and my Mac, and for whatever reason, with Office 2016, I spend a lot less time thinking about the odd little platform-specific ways to get things done.3. If you must use Outlook for email, the version on Office 2016 is about as good as it gets. It’s not always easy to integrate outside mail accounts (gmail, for instance requires you to setup a totally different “app password” for Outlook), but once you do this, it’s quite good. If you’re at a corporation that requires Outlook as an email client for getting to the company Exchange server, finally you don’t feel handicapped by Outlook. Of course, things like preferences in email clients are highly subjective, but I’m finally to the point where I’d rather use Outlook than browser based email or Apple’s built-in email client.4. The Office 2016 version of PowerPoint seems less buggy and more stable overall. For example, I have presentations I save in PDF format in Office 2011 that just come out corrupt – wrong fonts, wrong layout, etc. With Office 2016, these are perfect so far.There are some limitations in Office 2016. For me, one of the big ones was using Word to generate form letters via an ODBC database connection to a MySQL database. This didn’t work great in Office 2011 (indeed – it’s one of the reasons I keep a Windows PC around!), but it doesn’t work AT ALL on Word 2016. I suspect the issue is compatibility problems with the underlying database drivers, but this “just worked” in prior releases.Also, one example of an annoying “feature” is that there seems to be an odd interaction between Word and Apple’s Time Machine in this release. Every 10-15 minutes, Word comes to a standstill while Time Machine runs. In fairness Microsoft has a few articles on how to prevent exactly this problem, and I’m sure it’s just something like a temporary file being locked by Time Machine while Word is trying to use it, but I very rarely see this sort of thing in other Mac applications – not even in Office 2011.There are tons of other enhancements, but these were the big ones for me. The rest seem to fall into categories of “oh, isn’t that cute” to truly useful to completely annoying. The good news is that if you must, you can have both Office 2011 and 2016 installed at the same time, which is how I’d recommend you make the transition – at least initially.Bottom line is that I believe Microsoft has made good progress on bringing all the Office platforms together, and so if you find yourself using Office on all sorts of different computers, then upgrading to Office 2016 on your Mac will be a good idea. If this isn’t you, and you’re totally happy with Office 2011 (or whatever prior release), then I’m not sure you’ll see any drastic differences by upgrading. There’s risk to upgrading – and risk to not upgrading – so this gets to be a personal decision that will depend on your preferences and requirements.
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Dany –
Cette suite est parfaite (car il y a outlook d’inclus). Pas de problèmes d’installation (sous windows 10 PRO).Le seul bémol est le prix qui reste trop important à mon sens.Je recommande cette suite.
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keyforrest Customer –
Meets expectations
Linda Swearingen –
AWESOME
D. Goulian –
Just finished returning the two Home & Business licenses I purchased. Thank goodness for keyforrest’s easy return policy. I figured I’d upgrade to this new Office Mac 2016 because,well they have not released a version for the Mac in 5 years. What could go wrong, I reasoned. They’ve had 5 years to work on this new version, It must be significantly better, right? WRONG. Its not better, in fact, its way worse. Why? THEY GOT RID OF THE RIBBON CUSTOMIZATION! What in the world were they thinking? And if thats not bad enough, there are very few options provided on the ribbon now. So they took away a bunch of functionality and provided you with NO WAY to put it back. Here’s an example of why this is so bad: In outlook, I hate the preview pane so I turn it off. No problem, you can do that in the new version too. But once the preview pane is gone there is now no way to go to next/previous message. That’s right, those little up/down arrows in the upper right corner of the 2011 version – gone now with now way to put them back. So now I have to close the current message and click on the next. Not efficient at all, not to mention very annoying.Thankfully, the uninstall of Office 2016 is easy, and it did not wipe out my Office 2011, so I’m back in business with the older version. But shame on you Microsoft, you managed to screw up the only MS product I care about ( or used to care about).
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Angiegirl –
Like most people, I only use two to four of the applications included in Microsoft Office. But I honestly can’t imagine not having them. At this point, it would take a lot of effort to cobble together applications from other sources to get the functionality I get from Word, Excel, OneNote, and Outlook. After five years, Office 2011 for Mac was getting very tired. And although I understand it can be difficult to deal with rather sweeping interface changes, after spending a lot of time with Office 2016 for Mac, I am very pleased with the clean, friendly interface and the consistency with the same applications I use regularly in Windows 10. Although I’ve read complaints about crashes, I have experienced not a single crash in any application in Office on my 2012 MacBook Pro. And across the suite, every application runs much faster than their 2011 counterparts on the same hardware, especially OneNote and Outlook. I very much like this Key Card approach. Again, I realize some people are uncomfortable not having a physical copy. But I’ve been using these software packages for a lot of years, and I’m tired of the stacks and stacks of software discs and thrilled to be able to just go online and grab it as needed. I think Microsoft Office is an essential piece of software. There are alternatives, even free ones, for a few of these applications, but if you’re a working professional, what you gain with software of this caliber is more than worth the cost of entry.
bbeckham –
Great product
Sean Logue –
Microsoft has grown from a tiny little single-office business into a mega-sized company, largely on the success of two software packages. Windows and Office. They’ve been working on both of them for decades, and each release is better than the last. However, while early releases were significantly better each time, they’ve now had so much time to tune, tweak, and collect user feedback on both of them that the improvements are starting to become smaller and more insignificant rather than bigger and more important. This is especially true for Office, which is arguably one of the best of its kind, if not the best.What this means to the end user is the incentive to upgrade is now fairly weak. Microsoft knows this, and that’s why they are heavily pushing the “360” versions of Office, which is basically just a lease with a yearly subscription fee that lasts the rest of your life – or until you no longer need or want to use Office. If you think about it, this is really what they were doing before with the yearly upgrades, it was just voluntary.This release is the latest one, and if you’ve used Office at any point, all the way back to Office XP, you will find it familiar and easy to get around in. As usual, there are lots of little usability tweaks here and there, but the age of “gotta have it” new features is long past. I did find that the new version crashed on me more often than the otd one, but it wasn’t excessive, and I suspect that will be corrected with the first fixpack that comes out. It is huge and takes up lots of disk and memory space, and uses a surprising amount of processor power for an office application, but that’s nothing new. Heck Word 1.0 back in the day took up 10% of the average hard drive at the time. So, we long ago got used to making room for it.It was a little disconcerting to get a little business card with a code key printed on it instead of a disc and a manual, but that makes sense given how infrequently those things are used today. Downloading and installing it was very easy, and I have a blazingly fast internet connection, so for me it was at least as fast as installing from a disc, if not faster.There is one concern I have about this version, however, and it isn’t a small one. This software can only be installed on one computer. After you use the code, it is gone for good and will never work again. That has a few implications. One is that I have to decide whether to install Office on my MacBook or my iMac, because it can’t go on both. The second is that if I decide to upgrade my computer to the latest model, I’ll have to repurchase Office, because it can’t be uninstalled or moved. Same thing will happen if my hard drive fails, or if I get a virus and decide to just wipe the entire thing and reinstall. I won’t be reinstalling Office in that event, because I can’t – the keycode only works once. I don’t think Microsoft has this limitation on the 360 version, which is likely deliberate to gently encourage us to give up owning our software and start paying a lifetime of subscription fees. I have no doubt that the future of software is down that path, and eventually we won’t have a choice, but at the moment you can still choose.Here’s my recommendation. If you have an older version, like 2011, you really don’t need to upgrade. There just isn’t enough difference to justify the cost. If you don’t have Office at all, I do recommend it, but you’ll then be faced with a decision between owning this one copy that can’t be moved or installed elsewhere, or moving to the 360 subscription model. I’m going with this version today, but next year or the year after, I’m sure the incentives and disadvantages will be further stacked in favor of 360, and we will all move to it, reluctantly or not.Such is progress.Sean Logue, 2016
5
Grant Cummings –
legit key.
C. Bennett –
This Office 2016 key card package allows for the installation of one computer with Office 2016.Office 2016 includes:WordExcelPowerPointOneNoteOutlookThis version will not operate on a mobile device, does not include Skype, OneDrive storage, or Ongoing upgrades. This is not Office 365.You will receive a small box with a product key card, set up instructions, and creating a Microsoft account instructions.This package is suitable for a home computer or laptop, a small business computer, or a student’s computer system.
Sheryl L. Katz –
Is there anyone who hasn’t used a version of Office? I’m not sure what to review. Once again with this “upgrade” Microsoft has moved around menu items and controls so once again I find myself fumbling to do simple things and having to stop and think and start clicking through menus. In all, I don’t see any improvements and I think that Office was more intuitive and easier to use but still powerful enough a long time ago. I think the 2003 version is one of the best. I hate the added security in the 20016 version. I particularly hate that I now have to reenter my password every time I start up Outlook. So a version of Office is necessary for life in the modern world, and it does what it does well enough. But an “upgrade” was not really necessary.I’ll add about the Mac version that I don’t get why with Excel when I go to do things they aren’t always there as they are in the PC version. The Mac version doesn’t work as seamlessly with the rest of the software as on a PC. Still, kind of necessary to have it.
S. Morgan –
I am deleting this from my computer and chalking up the cost to experience. I have lost my email contacts entirely. I cannot get the email hyperlink to work in either Excel or Outlook. I have had nothing by trouble with my email. There is no–none–zilch support from Microsoft. I will reload my Office for Mac2008 and be done with it! I am beyond disappointed with this whole mess.
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keyforrest Customer –
Extremely difficult to download. I had to call in the troops at Microsoft for support When completed, it took over 73GB of hard disk space
2
JayBo –
This key worked after a few hiccups on the new MacBook Pro I bought. Need 10.0 minimum to install but higher recommendedThe box you get is just a key, I had to download the 1.8gb software from Microsoft (after creating an account and entering my key). When the large download finished and it was installed I couldn’t get it to register, the program would freeze on activation after asking for the email I used to download with, could not progress past that step.Contacted the seller, the customer support from MVP software was fast. They responded to my questions quickly and attempted to help me out through the whole process. Turned out I had to delete the office software from the Mac, reboot then re-download and install office again. It worked after that.MVP even checked in a few days later to make sure all was good. Thanks for your support.
Jeremy P –
BUYER BEWARE!!! All Office products newer then 2013 cannot be sold if you decide to upgrade. Unless of course you want to give out your email and password to your account and lose your Microsoft account forever. This is about as insane as their policy to not allow you to sell your retail copy of windows. According to them you have to login to the personal account of the person you bought the license from and download it from there. Once you download it, it will work but you will be locked to the last persons Microsoft account. On top of that the product isn’t that great either. Outlook is far more difficult then ever to use and the interface is really displeasing. Word and Excel seem about the same as previous versions. But such a significant failure of being truly able to sell your copy of the software you purchased is not acceptable. If I didn’t need Office I would simply get rid of it. But as we all know that’s not happening any time soon.I do not believe in piracy. However, I can understand why someone would try in this circumstance and in the interest of enacting justice for wrong doing and mistreatment I am not sure I can argue.
5
keyforrest Customer –
Item code was invalid and Microsoft support was no help. I wasted my money.
V. Cummings –
Microsoft did a great job on this, not to many differences between the Mac version and the PC version. The software is clean, and runs fast. This is a key card so you will have to have a speedy internet service to download the software or you will be waiting awhile for it to download; you are given the option of having media mailed to you. The one fact I did not like is that you are required to have a Microsoft Account in order to use the software. Luckily I was able to raise an old hotmail account from the dead, and didn’t have to go through the registration hassle.
Angie Perez Soriano –
No lo he recibido, ya le escribí al comprador y no he logrado obtener mi producto. Me contesto el comprador pero no he recibido nada