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Office 2016
Just about to upgrade from Office 2007 to 2016 (thanks to my roommate!). Has anyone already installed 2016 yet? Anything weird or funky to take note of?
Personally, I can't wait to ditch the 2007 Outlook component! I've had issues for months with it... The rest of the applications have been fine so I'm hoping nothing gets messed up.
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/09 03:00:09
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/09 03:28:37
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I have it, all seems OK so far. Had problems downloading it again after I had to do a fresh W10 install (took about 6 attempts but got there in the end), no issues since. All my Excel spreadsheets and Word files open up fine.
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/09 03:43:07
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Been using it for over a year now from Beta. Been fantastic to use.
My only complaint is they dropped my unlimited storage on 365. It's now 1TB. :\
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/09 03:49:21
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Cool, good to know! I guess I should have noted that I have the non-365 version, but there shouldn't be any difference in the product should there? Only in the means of licensing I believe (online versus not).
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/09 15:09:09
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I'm on 2013 and absolutely hate it. I think the interface sucks and have to hit the help files to anything more complicated than typing. Sounds like I'm the odd man out, but I hate using it.
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/09 15:29:46
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The Lovely Lady still uses Office 2000 on Windows 8.1 (gotta get her on Win 10 soon).
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/09 17:07:38
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My lovely lady updated and I get also get to use it, as it allows to share the license. Nothing to complain about with the Mac version. I was still using 2008.
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/09 17:46:09
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I have all but uninstalled Office 2010. Been using Libre for the last few months. Much better, IMO. And the price is great. I done several PowerPoint and Word doc exchanges with TLMBF and there have been zero compatibility problems. So far. My next machine build will be sans MS Office
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/09 20:12:14
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2016/02/09 20:13:52
My install of Office is stuck in 2010. And I don't use Outlook any more - I used to use Outlook calendars for my business, syncing them to Google Calendars for processing, but I got so pissed off with the Outlook/Google sync tool screwing up things like recurring events that I ditched Outlook altogether and switched to Google. The only reason I stuck with Outlook for so long was because Google doesn't really have very good calendar editing functionality (not even cut and paste!) but in the end I found that the cheap calendar app I use on my iPhone (WeekCal) actually has better editing functionality than Outlook. Amazing isn't it? I have to do a lot of heavy calendar editing every day and I'm more productive with a $2 app on my phone than I ever was with a desktop app I paid over $100 for.
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/10 08:41:06
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I ditched Outlook years ago in favor of Thunderbird.
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/10 10:48:10
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craigb
Anything weird or funky to take note of?
Personally, I can't wait to ditch the 2007 Outlook component! I've had issues for months with it... The rest of the applications have been fine so I'm hoping nothing gets messed up.
I think it's a pretty safe bet that something will be weird and/or funky. If not, it'll be the very first version ever that didn't. Not only have I used every stinkin' version from the dawn of time going back to before they called it "Office", I have to support them all in my own software (which talks to Word, Outlook and Excel). What a frickin' PIA it's been! They don't just randomly reconfigure the UI, they mess with stuff under the hood, too. My code is full of "if version X do this, else do that" statements, the result of 20 years chasing a moving target. For my own use, I stopped using Outlook long ago. Thunderbird is my email client. It's had its growing pains - the first version I tried was unusable - but it's pretty full-featured and stable now.
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/10 10:58:38
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gave up on MS long ago.
been using "Open Office" for long time now.....
you want to go to there.
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BobF
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/10 11:34:42
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/10 12:11:26
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I've been on Office 365 v2016 for I-don't-know-how-long (updated/upgraded in the background). No problems.
In spite of the old (and accurate) admonition to "Look out for Outlook!", I've stayed on it after leaving the corporate world (or, more precisely, after the corporate world told me to take a hike). MS have dumbed down the calendar and to-do sections of Outlook so much as to make them unusable.
The problem is, I have SO many saved emails from so many years tied up in an Outlook .PST file that switching to any other email client is a non-starter. I tried all of the existing clients and all of the existing .PST conversion/import utilities. All failures.
So, I use Outlook for email and Google for calendar and to-do (Google, because I use the Chrome browser, and have an Android phone and tablet, for which excellent calendar and to-do apps are available (aCalendar+ and SplenDO, respectively)).
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At least MS have given us a couple of UI skin choices (Dark Gray and Colorful (white, with the old (original) color window headers)). That all-white look was AWFUL.
I switched to the subscription mode ($70/yr) and have been happy with it.
I've been as big of an MS basher as anyone, but I have to admit that once I got used to the Ribbon interface, I have really gotten to like it.
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/10 12:56:29
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I've never found a use for using an email client. I've never found the need to have emails saved to a hard drive. I use Gmail for everything. I have my business email linked to Google Apps so that I can use the Gmail interface for it. I use email pretty heavily and have yet to find something that Outlook or Thunderbird does that Gmail can't do either by itself or with an extension.
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/10 14:24:13
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stuck on 2013...It's OK. I also have Libre Office at home and so far I have not found any incompatible documents.
I am used to the ribbon of Office, so the Libre Office "ribbon" takes a little getting used to, but the price is right!
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Re: Office 2016
2016/02/10 15:39:46
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For mail, I use a mix of Outlook and Thunderbird. Outlook mainly for imap accounts like Hotmail/Live and Gmail and Thunderbird for my pop accounts from my ISP.
Of the other options out there, I've used OpenOffice and Google Drive.
Drive is nice for sharing and collaborating but I found that for complex work, it's not so good and their spreadsheet "app?" is sluggish when you have larger documents.
OpenOffice is great if you want a free option but it lacks a lot of features and feels clunky overall. We use to do a lot of Powerpoint/Presentation work with it and the transitions in it were terrible.
MS has really been stepping up their game with Office 365/2016. I just hope they don't bugger it up like they have been some other stuff lately (Windows Phone for example). They do need to make document sharing a bit easier. Hotmail/Live/Outlook.com needs a complete overhaul that is appealing to modern users. I rarely use the web interface though. I should spend some more time with it and see if it's gotten any better.
That's just my take on them.
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