The steps to install these versions can be different depending if you got Office through one of the following ways: Some versions of Office such as Office Professional Plus 2021, Office Standard 2021, or a stand-alone app such as Word 2021 or Project 2021 don't have an associated Microsoft account, or work or school account. *If you don't have a product key or an account You'll sign in with your work or school account for these versions of Office. Once you verify you have a license, anytime you need to install or reinstall Office you can go straight to the section below, Sign in to download Office and select the tab for steps to install on a PC or Mac.

Learn how to check this in What Microsoft 365 business product or license do I have? or if you're a Microsoft 365 admin responsible for assigning licenses to people in your organization, see Assign licenses to users. You can also automatically publish content on your blog or share it to your social networks after you generate it on Office, just to mention some of the many new features.If your Office for business subscription plan includes the desktop version of the Office apps you won't see an option to install it unless someone in your organization assigned a license to you. User interaction is very present, so you can work on a document together with a group of users, even if they don't have the Office package installed, since they can access it through the OneDrive browser. (Many of the available templates, for instance, first have to be downloaded from Microsoft servers.) Though it's still a preliminary version, the performance and document-opening speed from a cold start are better than in previous versions, which deserves a round of applause considering that many features require Internet connectivity.

The interface has been enhanced, and is now smooth and easy to use. In fact, to use many of the tools in the suite, you'll need to log in using your Microsoft account. It also includes an online documents manager that can sync with the cloud, as a big focus in this new version is the use of online services through your OneDrive account. This desktop edition includes Access (database manager), Excel (spreadsheets), Word (text editor), OneNote (note-taking tool), Outlook (email client), PowerPoint (presentations), and Publisher (page layout and design for publishing). It enhances and unifies visual changes from the 2013 version, adding new online features through Office 365, and also adds new features requested by the users and a general performance improvement for the whole package.

Microsoft Office 2016 is the new version of the Microsoft Office suite.

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