Microsoft Office 2016 Professional Plus

Overview

Office 2016 Professional Plus is the generation that a very large number of machines never moved off, and the reasons are practical rather than sentimental. It runs on hardware that newer suites refuse, it starts fast on a spinning disk, it works entirely offline, and every add in and macro written for the previous decade still loads without complaint.

The package covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, OneNote and Skype for Business. Excel 2016 introduced the modern chart types including waterfall, treemap, sunburst, histogram and box and whisker, brought Power Query into the ribbon as Get and Transform rather than a bolted on add in, and shipped forecast sheets for anyone doing quick trend work without a statistics package.

Word carries real time coauthoring on shared documents, the smart lookup research pane and improved equation input. PowerPoint carries the designer pane and Morph, which between them cover most of what people want from presentation software without ever opening an animation timeline. Outlook 2016 added the group calendars, attachment history from recent files and a rebuilt search that finally returns results at typing speed on large mailboxes.

Both architectures are included in one package and the choice is made during setup. The 64-bit build is correct for large workbooks and heavy data models, while the 32-bit build remains the right answer on machines carrying legacy add ins, ActiveX controls and older database connectors that were never rebuilt. Language packs are selected at install so a single download covers a mixed language office.

Key Features

• Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, OneNote and Skype for Business
• Both 32-bit and 64-bit installers included, chosen during setup
• Modern Excel chart types including waterfall, treemap, sunburst and histogram
• Get and Transform bringing Power Query into the ribbon natively
• Power Pivot data models for workbooks beyond the worksheet row limit
• Real time coauthoring in Word with presence indicators
• Designer pane and Morph transitions in PowerPoint
• Outlook with rebuilt search, group calendars and full offline caching
• Access relational databases with forms, queries, macros and reports
• Runs fully offline with no periodic check in of any kind

What Changed in This Build

• Package refreshed with the current cumulative updates rolled in
• Installer simplified so architecture and application selection happen on one screen
• Additional language packs included in the same download
• Improved removal of preloaded manufacturer trial versions during setup

System Requirements

Processor	1 GHz dual core or faster with SSE2
Memory	2 GB for 64-bit, 1 GB for 32-bit
Storage	3 GB free
Display	1280 x 800 or higher
Operating system	Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or newer

Release Details

Full title	Microsoft Office 2016 Professional Plus
Version string	16.0.4266.1003
Publisher	Microsoft
Category	Office Suites
Licence	Perpetual, preactivated
Platform	Windows 7 through 11, 32 and 64-bit
Interface language	Multilingual, 34 language packs
Archive size	2.94 GB
Mirrors	4 active, all reporting online
Listed	refreshed 1 month ago, checked again 40 minutes ago

Installation Notes

• Remove every earlier Office generation, including any trial the manufacturer preloaded, before running setup. Mixed generations cause most install failures.
• Pick your architecture deliberately. Changing between 32-bit and 64-bit later requires a complete reinstall of the suite.
• Setup can appear to stall near the end on older disks. Let it run rather than restarting it.

Before You Start

Read the notes above before running setup. Most of the problems people write in about are covered there, and almost all of them come down to an older version of the same software still being installed, a graphics driver that predates the release, or a security suite quarantining part of the package mid install.

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