Office for Mac 2016 - Very Disappointed

[Significant1]

Great, another version of Office. Now I'm going to have to re-learn everything again...

It is dumped down compared to 2011 and not difficult to get into. That at least, is an advantage of removing features..

 

[joethemobile]

Been using Office 2016 via office 365 since it was released and it still needs large improvements especially on outlook crashing evernow and then for no apparent reason.

 

[MLinneer]

On my non-retina 2013 iMac i5, Word 2016 takes up to 50 seconds to cold start. That is just unacceptable. Word 2011 launches in about 3 seconds... and has all the features the 'New' version has. Same with Excel and since I really use both pretty infrequently (Pages and Numbers preferred), I've deleted 2016 and regained 6.5Gb of precious storage.

 

[maflynn]

The only thing I don't like about Office for the Mac (at least at the moment), is the fact that in excel and word, I need to bring up the zoom magnification to 125% or 150% to be readable. On my work computer and my SP3, the spreadsheets and documents are rendered at a size that its readable. On my Mac everything is too small.

This is not new to this version, its seemingly always been like that - still with the feature parity and visual similarities I was hoping this issue would disappear with the newer version

 

[Toltepeceno]

On my non-retina 2013 iMac i5, Word 2016 takes up to 50 seconds to cold start. That is just unacceptable. Word 2011 launches in about 3 seconds... and has all the features the 'New' version has. Same with Excel and since I really use both pretty infrequently (Pages and Numbers preferred), I've deleted 2016 and regained 6.5Gb of precious storage.

It takes 2 seconds on my 2012 base mini, the 2016 version, the same as pages. Then again I am running an ssd and when I had the spinner nothing ran or opened acceptable in yosemite, even apple apps. Imovie used to take up towards a minute to open, now it's 4 seconds. I'm guessing you have a spinner and yosemite is horrible with spinners, you realize just how much when you put in an ssd.