

How that will shake out and what will happen with companies with 10,000+ person site licenses say they do want the apps to stick around we’ll have to see, but in the meantime, it’s smart to figure out how to work with the online version. But things keep changing, and while you can also optionally download local apps for the now dozen or more members of the Office suite, the entire thing is evolving yet again into Microsoft 365. The new online entity was branded Office 365 and all was (mostly) well in the corporate world. Amazing, really, and a huge game changer since then Microsoft would have one code set to manage, not a half-dozen different operating systems and platforms. With that in mind, Microsoft Office 2016 is stronger for its inclusion, and is overall a great choice for any medium or large business that wants to invest in long-term productivity.After decades of owning the office suite segment with its venerable Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint, the Office suite was ported to HTML 5 so it could all run within a Web browser.

All of its features improve, rather than reduce, productivity, and it's still the same Excel that many businesses have been using for years. An uptick in productivityīasically, Microsoft Excel 2016 is beneficial for any business that's afraid of increasing overhead with the new Office suite. Incidentally, so does the rest of the software: it highlights trends in your data upon request, and like the rest of Office 2016, it provides real-time collaboration via Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage. This turns ordinary spreadsheets or humdrum layouts of data into something that can be easily added into a PowerPoint presentation or shown on its own. The biggest new feature of Microsoft Excel 2016 is that it automatically suggests graphs and charts that are appropriate for the data you're processing.
