Microsoft Office 2016 – What Does It Offer?

Microsoft Office 2016 aims to help you to do your best work – anywhere, anytime and with anyone. It offers new, modern versions of the classic desktop applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote – which have been built for maximum productivity. Access to documents is available in the cloud whenever you need them. Also, it’s easy to get teams on the same page – supporting sharing, presenting and working together on projects with built in collaboration tools across the suite.

Modern desktop productivity – key new facilities

You don’t need to be a power user to use the power of Office. Tell me will guide you to the feature you need to get the results you are looking for. 

New features, powered by Bing, helps you find contextual information from the web within the reading experience.

New Office User Experience Themes let you can choose the Office experience that’s right for you. New themes, provide a high contrast look and feel that’s easier on the eyes. Or the new Colourful theme, for a modern and fresh look that is consistent across your devices. 

Excel recommends charts best suited for your data, and gives you a preview how your data will look. And a set of new modern charts and graphs in Excel give you more ways to explore and tell compelling stories with your business data.

One-click Forecasting enables you to create basic forecasts on your data series with one click to visualize future trends.

Anywhere access, editing and sharing of your files is easy, even from your desktop, with new more intuitive navigation of cloud-storage locations.

Pick up from where you left off because the apps know what you were working on last, whether stored locally or online, no matter what device you were using.

Easily share your files, wherever they are, right from Outlook with Outlook modern attachments.

Simplified sharing lets you quickly invite others to review or edit your documents.

Get your team on the same page using co-authoring in Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Everyone on your team can simultaneously edit the same document from different devices in different locations. See where teammates are working in the document and their edits as they happen.

Have no fear as you and your team make edits and changes to your documents, improved version history* allows you to view or go back to earlier drafts.  Threaded comments in Word and PowerPoint enable people to have useful conversations right next to relevant text. You can see who replied to whom and when.

*Note: Available with Office 365 subscription only