If you need Office, purchase either 365, or the perpetual license 2019. I had to restore my last Office 2016 backups, which of course then worked. Within a day or so, MS pulled the 16.17 'updates' that Office 2016 thought were for itself. Turned out those were the 2019 installer files that were just about to be released. I applied those and then the 2016 apps kept asking me to sign in, refusing to accept my 2016 credentials. It allows users to choose among great-looking resumes and newsletters, complex photo catalogs, and calendar layouts, which let you fill in your information without the need for extra formatting. MS actually goofed and had released 16.17 as an Office 2016 update. Office 2011 for Mac features an enormous number of templates in the Template Galleries for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The current version of Office 2016 is 16.16.1. Office 365 will always have the most and current feature additions. There's nothing to transition to, other than a newer version that will have more features. On top of all of that, except for feature limitations in the perpetual license versions of Office 2016, 2019 and 365 are all the same app. You're essentially paying for a new license every month. By being subscription software, MS can add new features to it whenever they want, just as Adobe does with the CC Suite. It, in turn, will never get anything but bug fixes and performance updates from here on out. Those that were ready to incorporate were all added to Office 2019. Hence, Office 2016 will never see any additional features. Otherwise, it must be released as a new paid version. Only performance improvements and bug fixes. You can still buy it and MS is still supporting it with updates, but why would you want it now that Office 2019 is out? Per federal regulations, paid perpetual license software cannot gain new, significant features. Office 2016, for all intents and purposes, is dead. I'm not clear why you think this is exclusively a Microsoft thing. That's why there are updates, such as to macOS itself. So I have no idea what you mean by 'horror'.Īll complex software is 'under construction'. Other than an early bug that caused it to frequently come up asking you to sign in - again - it ran just fine. I used Office 2016 since the day it was released.

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