Review by terpfan1980

Installed easily (through internet download which was required) and relatively quickly (it didn’t take so long that it frustrated it me while I was left waiting for the download and install to complete) and includes the features and functionality that I would expect. That leaves the big question of does this package offer much difference between it and previous versions of Microsoft Office?nnThat is a question that isn’t quite as easy for an end-user like me to answer. Sure, Microsoft will point to a bunch of improvements that were suggested by the user community and the likes of focus groups, but whether or not most users would really find something has been improved is debatable. Worse, in some cases, the question is really whether or not things have gone completely in the other direction (such as the seeming lunacy that led Microsoft to change Office 2013 and Office 2016 to use only the color themes that there included with Office, rather than using the color themes that were set within the Operating System. A decision that was compounded all the more by offering only a very limited and very similar group of themes in Office 2013 - something that was improved slightly in Office 2016).

Functionally, I think Office 2013 and Office 2016 are fine. They are easy enough to use and shouldn’t be that confusing for prior users (though if you are making the leap from Office 2003 or Office 2007 you’d find that there is a LOT of difference from prior versions) of the Office product suite. If you are looking to upgrade, or need a copy for a new computer, then you should be fine with Office 2016.

3 stars from this user.