[Closed] Microsoft Office 2016

Not sure whether the upgrade changes much as haven't used it but also got it for £9.95 at work for my son for his new laptop, he seems happy with it. Gotta be worth a punt for a tenner 😀

I have the same deal so upgraded. I don't use office much at home and since upgrading have only used word and excel. Whatever the differences are I haven't noticed them 😀

Presuming going from 2011 to 2016 you're on a mac?

If yes then do it, Office 2016 is significantly better compared to 2011!

Yes its on a macbook

I upgraded at work.

Pluses:
1) Looks better
2) Commenting / tracked changes in word is less of a psychedelic mess

Minuses:
1) It's a buggy as hell
2) Word eats CPU for no apparent reason unless you turn off automatic grammar checking
3) What vb editing prowess Excel 2011 had has been almost completely neutered
4) Outlook seems to primarily exist to screw up your inbox, while only allowing you to export archived main in a format only it will read
5) Everything is sluggish some times for no apparent reason

I upgraded to 2016 a few months back (MS Home use Program) we're still on Office 2003 (And Windows XP) at work, but planning to move to 2010 this year. 😯

we're still on Office 2003 (And Windows XP) at work, but planning to move to 2010 this year.

Be prepared for Office to run a LOT slower. Excel 2003 is about 5x faster than 2010, which is about 5x faster than 2013! Not tried 2016 yet...

Mac 2016 vs 2011 - 2016 is much better, I have 2011 still on an older machine and it looks a mess in comparison as well as 2011 having a ton of random junk dotted all over the place to support it, for that reason alone 2016 is much better.

Outlook is much better, but you do need to be on exchange I think to really make it work. I still use a 2016 on W10 in a VM to do archiving to PST's as I trust this version more, admittedly I have never tried it on the mac version but MS didn't do it well in the past.

Unified mailbox works far better, certainly better than previous versions and it appears it doesn't exist with at all on the windows version, which once you are used to it is hard to get taken away. Saying that it still doesn't use a OST for local file - whether you care is a different matter. Also it still won't work in contacts for iCloud, it just messes everything up, you really need exchange for it to work.

Word - as said track changes works much better than before, although it is confusing if you are drafting in front of windows folk as it looks different. Otherwise it's much better and I don't use the windows version at all anymore, couldn't say that when I was on 2011.

Excel - I'm not a power user, but it works for me. I don't do large amounts of analysis etc, I would expect the windows version is still better for a power user.

Powerpoint - still prefer it to the windows version, and this is just bit slicker.

OneNote - free anyway, but getting better all the time

Lync - still stuck on Lync, and don't know when Skype for business will get released, ,but does what it needs to.

So 2016 is much better than 2011 IMO, and it's all I really use day to day, in the past I used the windows versions more, those days are gone. I only really use Win Outlook for archiving.

If you need Project and Visio, you still need to be on Windows.

For £10 it's a no brainer to move to 2016 on a Mac

Outlook is much better, but you do need to be on exchange I think to really make it work.

I've always held that Outlook is a brilliant Exchange client but a dreadful 'regular' email client. For home use I'd almost certainly want to use something like Live Mail (or whatever it's called this week) or Thunderbird or something. Or in fact, what I actually do these days which is use a web browser for webmail and calendar duties.

OneNote - free anyway, but getting better all the time

OneNote is truly brilliant, I've used it since its 2007 incarnation. I couldn't be without it now, it's got all my work notes in it as well as a personal workbook with everything from recipes to holiday plans. Before that I had shedloads of Notepad text files scattered to the four winds every time I needed to jot something down.

Am I alone in this bugginess then? Most of the specific points I raised do seem to be echoed on numerous support fora. Given that they hadn't even worked out how to make it work at all on El Crap when it was released doesn't give me much faith.

Lync - still stuck on Lync, and don't know when Skype for business will get released, ,but does what it needs to.

Skype for Business is released now. You need to go into the web portal for 365 > settings >downloads and you'll find it there. On Android it's on the play store.

 

The OSX client is still "Lync".

SfB client will be along by Summer. Preview/info here:

I'd almost certainly want to use something like Live Mail (or whatever it's called this week) or Thunderbird or something.

Can anyone recommend a decent W10 mail client - inbuilt 'Mail' is hopeless (no imports, no folders), Thunderbird now colossally buggy - just hangs for seconds on some actions. Using that for now as it was the only way to migrate my old mail from my mac, but I'm not sure I can stick it long term.

Am I alone in this bugginess then? Most of the specific points I raised do seem to be echoed on numerous support fora. Given that they hadn't even worked out how to make it work at all on El Crap when it was released doesn't give me much faith

Outlook does sometime panic when you move says GB folder around sometimes, otherwise it's been pretty reliable for me

Can anyone recommend a decent W10 mail client - inbuilt 'Mail' is hopeless (no imports, no folders), Thunderbird now colossally buggy - just hangs for seconds on some actions. Using that for now as it was the only way to migrate my old mail from my mac, but I'm not sure I can stick it long term.

On windows I find outlook works OK for the imap accounts I have, it's only on Mac it's an orphaned child within Exchange