Office 2016 by Jeff in Texas

I have been using Office products for a long, long time. My previous (home) install was Office 2007 and I will be honest, I was pretty happy with it. I use 2010 at work and there was no real difference between the two, but recently our work upgraded to Office 365. I have to say that the newer Office suite of products is much better. While it takes a bit of time to get used to the format & style changes, once you get acquainted it is more intuitive and faster. All the familiar functionality is there with some nice new additions. But the over all advantage is the interface enhancements.

Office 2016 is the same basic suite as 365.

Regarding the install - here is what you get.

Open the package and you get a box about the size of a pack of playing cards. Inside is a link to an download site and a user key (good for 5 PC’s). That is it, nothing else. In fact the user key is printed on a business card sized piece of paper and the rest is in a small booklet. They could have saved a lot of space by just placing all of the info on the card and be done with it. After all - it is really pretty simple. In fact - all of the pertinent info is on the web site that you are directed to and the account code is all you are really buying.

Welcome to 2015.

Select the platform you have, click the button, agree to a few terms and wait a few minutes for the install program to finish downloading. Double click on it, agree to a few more T’s & C’s and let it run. After that you are good to go. Simple as that.

I can not comment on why others had issues, but it ran as clean as I described on three separate PC’s so far and I have had no problems.