Microsoft Office 2016

Introduction to Microsoft Office 2016

Microsoft Office 2016 was released in 2015 and the main support for it ended in 2020, but the extended support will continue until October 14, 2025.

Microsoft Office 2016 has 5 editions: Home & Student, Home & Business, Standard, Professional, and Professional Plus. The Professional Plus edition offers the most tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, Access, Skype for Business, and Office Online.

Microsoft Office 2016 also brought some improvements or added some new features, for example:

• The ability to create, open, edit, save, and share files in the cloud straight from the desktop.
• A new search tool named “Tell Me”, included in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Access, Visio, and Project.
• The insights feature powered by Bing to provide contextual information from the web.
• A data loss prevention feature in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• The support for the vector graphic format SVG.
• Other smaller features like more new chart types and templates in Excel, new animations in PowerPoint, and the ability to insert online videos in OneNote.