At irregular intervals, it pops up a new Office suite from Microsoft. Now it’s Office 2013 that are replaced by Office 2016.
In other words some years ago Microsoft came with a proper overhaul of the Office suite, consisting of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Excel.
And when Microsoft first overhaul Office package, it affects many people’s everyday lives. According to Wikipedia spend over a billion people one or another version of Office!
Rent vs. purchase?
In June 2011, Microsoft changed the way we pay for the Office package. When they switched from a model where you purchased and owned software to a solution where you subscribe to the same software and pay a monthly sum.
This lease model is called Office 365, while the program you rent actually now called Office 2016 . Do you subscribe to Office 2016 can download the new version immediately. Have you turned on automatic updates, you will find that it is already downloaded and installed.
As a private person you can choose to pay 59.99 million a month for use on one PC (1 TB storage OneDrive is included) or 84.99 kroner for Office 365 Home that allows you to install Office on five PCs you can get up to 1TB of free online storage on OneDrive for up to five users.
In addition, you can still choose to purchase an Office suite for an inheritance, even if the websites of Microsoft not push these elections particularly hard.
Buying Office in 2016?
Among the versions of Office you can buy, is a student version (1199 million), a Home & amp; Business Version (2299 million), or Office Professional (4599 million). The prices we have quoted in brackets apply to Office 2013.
Rents means that Office 365 will cost you 1,020 kroner per year. What you should select (buy or rent) depends somewhat on your needs. Are you a family with five users will Office 365 Home be a logical choice. If you only he one easy installation, and often skip a version or two in the future, so it may be that you should buy a version. By renting, you get new versions of the Office suite when these are released.
What is really new?
When we read through Microsoft’s own list for news in Office 2016, you get impression that it has not happened so very much.
Office suite has after all been in existence for 18 years and there are obviously limits to how creative you can be. However, there are still the news section it is worth noting.
Since Office 2013 was launched online services have taken off. Now it’s “cloud” that apply. Everything should preferably be stored in the cloud somewhere.
More cloud
In Word this is reflected in that it is easier to see what others are doing and writing in a document several together to create . You’ll actually be able to see what he writes and you will see the mouse cursor. These capabilities will admittedly only be available for OneDrive for Business or whether the document is stored on a SharePoint server.
But there are also some other smånyheter that will delight avid Word users. Personal pleases us that it finally appears that Microsoft has managed to fix the way you put images into a Word document. Now you can move the image around freely and there are actually stuck where you place it. When you need it pops up help lines that make you get placed things in a way that it is aligned and in harmony with other elements. Previously images jumped helplessly and randomly around in a document and mostly been a nightmare.
In Word, it is also easier to insert pictures and video from the Web. Now simply select the Insert & gt; Video on the Internet.
Reading mode in Word
On browsers we read mode which can be useful when reading long texts. Now also Word got such a feature, where you can read without being disturbed. Feature found behind tab View – & gt; Reading Mode.
“Save as” is also becoming a little more streamlined. There are no major changes, but it is among other things become a little easier to save directly to OneDrive.
A big novelty in Word is that you actually can now edit PDFs directly in Word. How this is done is that Word converts PDF to an editable Word file. After you’ve made your changes, you can save it as a PDF again.
Smånytt Outlook
In Outlook it’s been easier to attach documents. It was not very difficult, but are now listed your recently used documents / files automatically when you press the “Attach File” button. It has also become easier to share and allow collaboration on files that you send via Outlook. Now we’re talking about files that “live” on OneDrive or on a SharePoint server.
Outlook has also received support for the display mode which lend themselves better on small screens. Outlook will put a smaller footprint on small units – if you want. Earlier Outlook by default downloaded a month with email. Now you can choose shorter intervals so that you only download messages of recent date.
Shortcut to functions
Microsoft has kept the “ribbon” (ribbon) -navigeringen as they introduced with Windows 2010. The many people have strong opinions about. These tapes replaced the drop down lists.
In Office 2016, Microsoft has added a smart improvement in English called “Tell me …” or “Tell me …” as it is translated in the Norwegian version. Here you can easily search for the function you are looking for. A few experiments reveal that it actually seems to work pretty well.
The time of endless search for the correct tape and proper functioning can thus be over.
Converts matte formulas
New in Office 2016 is also that you can now write math formulas with a pen or finger on a finger-controlled display, and Office “translates” your formula to printed letters.
This is a feature that has been available in OneNote, but now are available in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Smart spread – and insight
The search engine Bing, in Norway at least, been no great success. But this could change with Windows 10 and Office 2016.
Office 2016 has been a feature called “Smart Lookup”. The feature has been available in Word and Outlook, but will now be available also in Excel and PowerPoint. Smart Lookup searches sources like Bing and Wikipedia. The results are presented in a tab on the right side of the document you’re working on. In English called this feature “Insights” and is in Norwegian translated to “Insights”. Insight had perhaps been a better translation?
Excel for nerds
The news in Excel is news only an Excel geek could love. Here we talk about new features for predicting future value of historically based numerical values.
In addition, new and updated capabilities for connecting to external data sources, upgraded models for data modeling and an easier access to the so-called Business Intelligence functions.
Excel are also functions for easier to visualize data in a table and make the data in a table into easily understandable graphs.
A better Office suite?
Office 2016 is no revolution. Although a new Office suite from Microsoft is always big news, so absent the big news in Office 2016.
We would argue that if we had secretly upgraded Office 2013 to Office 2016 with 100 people, then had 85 of them have not noticed it. It is thus known, safe and good to go from Office 2013 to Office 2016. Some might have noticed that the design has gotten a little more color and that the interface looks a little more modern.
Office 2016 nevertheless not entirely without news. For us it is “Tell me …” feature is perhaps the biggest news. We never liked ribbon layout to Microsoft because it has not been particularly effective. With a funksjonssøk as “Tell me …”, so it will be easier to find the features you’re looking for – and more easily find and discover features you did not know existed in the Office package.
In Outlook we miss some of the features we In Outlook.com for cleanup, deleting, moving and spam tagging. In Outlook.com, these tools are readily available with understandable explanations of what happens when you use these features. In Outlook, this kind of a little more hidden and not as intuitive to use in the daily battle against a crowded inbox.
Should you upgrade?
The question many are asking is whether they should upgrade to the new Office package.
Are you Office 365 customer, you do not think about it – To get Office 2016 automatically. Have you purchased a single version of Office 2013 there should be some very special features of Office 2016 that you need if you choose to upgrade.
Even you who have Office 2010 should think about. Especially if you are an occasional user of Office package.
Are you unsure of what Office 2016 built –
carrier simply download a trial version, then they get even seen whether it’s worth an update.
Please note that it is the trial version of Office 2016 we used when we wrote this article and that there may be changes in the final version – which initially was available yesterday (Tuesday, 09.22).
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