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Word, PowerPoint and Excel, what can you do with them? This depends on where and how you get them. There are different application packages, services, and even different features in Office 2016, Office 365, and Office Online.
In this article, we'll take a closer look at the “nuances” of these different versions of Office as well as lay out the key differences in these offerings. So, if you're confused about how Microsoft defines these products, read this article.
Office 2016
Office 2016 is a new version of the Office desktop suite (Windows and MacOS); for the first time these two platforms have been synchronized. You can buy Office 2016 for a one-time price to get a license that lasts as long as you want for Windows or Mac, but when the next version of Office becomes available, you'll have to pay again to get it and You won't get new features of other Office apps before the next version is available with a security update.
Office 2016 for Mac includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. If you want to use Outlook you will have to subscribe to Office 365 (which also gives you the Windows version of Publisher and Access 2016).
On Windows, you can choose between versions Office Home and Students 2016including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote or Office Home and Business 2016Outlook will be added. Here's what you need if you want to legally use Office for work.
If you want to use additional business features in Outlook and Excel, like importing data from a broader range of databases, you'll need to purchase Office Professional 2016including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access.
Visio and Project are part of the Office “family,” and there are Office 2016 versions of both applications, but you must buy them separately. If you have Office 2013 versions, you cannot continue to use them because these two applications do not work when you install Office 2016, but you can contact Microsoft for a free upgrade. Additionally, users can also get a free upgraded version of Outlook, Publisher, or Access 2013 if they use their standalone versions and you purchased a version of Office 2016 that didn't upgrade these apps for you. .
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Office 365
Office 365 started as Microsoft's online service for businesses, for email, chat and file sharing in the cloud, including licenses for Office software, but now it includes all Microsoft's Office package service for individual users as well as businesses.
You can pay monthly or annually to get new features as they release and the next version of Office becomes available. If you use the mobile version of Office on a device with a screen larger than 10.1 inches (like a Windows 10 desktop computer or iPad Pro), you can edit documents and view them. You can also get cloud storage and other services, but if you stop paying for your plan, you won't be able to use Office anymore.
Office 365 is ideal if you have multiple machines at work and home, or want to switch between Mac and Windows because even personal plans can be used on multiple machines.
Version Office 365 Personal and Office 365 Home offers users the same software package: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook for both Windows and Mac versions, plus Publisher and Access for Windows, along with 1TB of OneDrive storage and 60 minutes of monthly Skype calls. month. The difference between these two versions is that with Office 365 Personal you can install the software on one PC or Mac and on one tablet and phone but Office 365 Home allows users to install one software on 5 Macs or PCs and on 5 tablets and phones, you can use it alone or share with family and friends (each gets 1TB of cloud storage and Skype minutes) .
See more: How to register for Office 365 and 21TB OneDrive for free from Microsoft
There are two types of Office 365 service plans for businesses that can use up to 300 people and can be subscribed on a monthly basis. Office 365 Business and Office 365 Business Premium Includes Office 2016, Windows or Mac versions include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook and Publisher, and each person can install Office apps on up to 5 PCs or Macs and on 5 phones. phone, tablet, and get 1TB of OneDrive for Business storage. The difference between Office 365 Business and Office 365 Business Premium is that the Business Premium version includes Exchange, SharePoint and Skype for Business Online applications.
Large businesses often use Office 365 for business because it is more secure and has annual billing and information management tools. Again, the difference between Office 365 ProPlus and Enterprise E3 is in the cloud but both include Office 2016. The Windows or Mac version includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access, installs on up to 5 PCs or Mac as well as Office apps for 5 phones and tablets per user. Office 365 ProPlus has 1TB of OneDrive for Business storage per user; Enterprise E3 has it all, plus Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business Online.
There are also Office 365 business plans that include only Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business Online services, without Office 2016. This plan is for companies that already have an Office license or who use these services. alternative Office Online web app, called Office 365 Business Essentialsfor up to 300 users and Enterprise E1 for larger companies.
Office Online
The free web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote don't have all the features of the Office 2016 apps, and you can't open some complex documents, but they have enough tools for using them. Daily documents like creating and editing. PowerPoint Online recently added formatting drawing tools.
Typically, new tools show up in Office Online first, like search functionality Tell Me helps you find the features you can use for a specific task and is now available in Office 2016. The web version of Sway is very similar to the Windows and iOS versions. Office Online apps also automatically save documents so you won't lose what you've typed when you lose your Internet connection.
Anyone with a Microsoft account can use Office Online, and documents will be saved in OneDrive (you can sync them to your computer or download them individually). Office 365 business users also have access to Office Online apps, but their documents are saved in OneDrive for Business.
Businesses running their own Office servers, like Exchange and SharePoint, can use Office Online Server to run their own version of Office Online (prior to Office 2016 it was called Office Web Apps Server).
Outlook Web Access (which is often mistakenly referred to as Outlook, because it has the same features and interface as Outlook) is not part of Office Online because it is actually part of Exchange, so you can You can use it by running your own Exchange server or by using Exchange Online in Office 365 plans that include email.
When you click the Mail, Calendar, and People link in Office Online, you'll go to Outlook Web Access if you sign in with your business Office 365 account, or go to Outlook.com if you sign in with your Microsoft account.
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