Use the links on this page to get more information about and download the most recent updates for the perpetual versions of Office 2016, Office 2013, and Office 2010.
Microsoft Office 2016 Public Preview Released By Adnan Farooqui, on 10:36 PDT We have known for a while now that Microsoft is hard at work finishing Office 2016 before it has to be released to consumers later this year and now the company feels confident enough to let people have a look at the preview. Microsoft Office 2016 (codenamed Office 16) is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, succeeding both Office 2013 and Office for Mac 2011 and preceding Office 2019 for both platforms. It was released on macOS on July 9, 2015, and on Microsoft Windows on September 22, 2015, for Office 365 subscribers. Mainstream support ended on October 13, 2020, and most editions have extended. Use the links on this page to get more information about and download the most recent updates for the perpetual versions of Office 2016, Office 2013, and Office 2010. Note The information in this article only applies to perpetual versions of Office that use the Windows Installer (MSI) installation technology.
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- The information in this article only applies to perpetual versions of Office that use the Windows Installer (MSI) installation technology. For example, if you installed a volume licensed version of Office, such as Office Professional Plus 2016.
- The information in this article doesn't apply to Microsoft 365 Apps.
- For more information about installing Office updates, see Install Office updates.
Office 2016 updates
| Versions and Products | Latest Service Pack (SP) | Latest Public Update (PU) |
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| 2016 Office 2016 Project 2016 Visio 2016 | N/A | January 2021 PU KB4583559 |
Office 2013 updates
| Versions and Products | Latest Service Pack (SP) | Latest Public Update (PU) |
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| 2013 Office 2013 Project 2013 Visio 2013 Office Web Apps SharePoint 2013 Project Server 2013 | SP1 KB2850036 KB2850035 | January 2021 PU KB4583559 |
Office 2010 updates
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Important
Support for Office 2010 ended on October 13, 2020. If you haven't already begun to upgrade your Office 2010 environment, we recommend you start now. For more information, see Office 2010 end of support roadmap.
| Versions and Products | Latest Service Pack (SP) | Latest Public Update (PU) |
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| 2010 Office 2010 suites Project 2010 Visio 2010 Office 2010 Servers Office Web Apps Search Server 2010 SharePoint 2010 Products Project Server 2010 FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint | SP2 KB2687521 KB2687522 | January 2021 PU KB4583559 |
Updates released in past 12 months
Nearly 5 years after Microsoft released Office 2011 for the Mac, a new version of the productivity suite is available — albeit only in preview form.
The updated suite, called Office 2016 for Mac, includes revamped versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint along with minor updates of the previously released OneNote and Outlook. Each app in the suite offers full Retina support with thousands of Retina-optimized graphics.
Office 2016 is free during the public preview, which is slated to end roughly in the middle of 2015, and Microsoft is promising to release frequent updates based on user feedback. The current download weighs in at about 2.5 GB.
Each preview build will expire about 60 days after it’s posted, and the last preview build will continue to function for about a month after Office 2016 officially launches.
Microsoft warns that certain features might be incomplete or disabled, which is to be expected with pre-release software.
Office 2016 has a single system requirement: users must be running OS X 10.10 Yosemite. But those on older Yosemite-compatible Macs may find the Office apps to be sluggish, something that Microsoft could address in future updates.
Office 2011 users who want to try Office 2016 but are hesitant to rely on it needn’t worry because the two versions of the software can run side by side on the same computer.
Office 2016 works with Microsoft’s cloud storage options, letting you access your files on OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint. During the preview period, testers aren’t required to register or sign in to Microsoft accounts, but an account is needed to share files across multiple devices.
Once the software is final, users will be required either to purchase a copy of the software outright or sign up for an Office 365 subscription with recurring payments. Those who do not pay will only be able to open and read Office files, not edit and save them. OneNote remains an exception since it has been free to all and will remain so.
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With this update, Office for Mac has an appearance that is more consistent with other versions, including its iOS brethren. The control-laden Ribbon, for instance, looks similar from device to device. Other features shared by the Office apps include a full-screen view and what Microsoft calls “little Mac affordances like scroll bounce.”
Word boasts improved collaboration features, including the option to have multiple users editing the same document at once from different machines. Microsoft also highlights a navigation pane for tracking where you are within a document, threaded comments for better document monitoring, an improved dictionary, and a style pane for more readily applying styles across an entire document.
In Excel, keyboard shortcuts are now consistent across the Mac and Windows versions of Office. The app also offers data-entry enhancements like autocomplete and a formula builder, an Analysis ToolPak with a range of statistical functions, and PivotTable Slicers that “help you cut through large volumes of data to find patterns that answer questions.” The file format for Excel 2013 for Windows is fully supported.
PowerPoint features an improved presenter view with the current slide, the next slide, notes alongside slides, and the timer. Other improvements include a bunch of new transitions and a new animation pane for assembling presentations more quickly.
Outlook, the integrated email and scheduling app, has an improved conversation view to automatically organize the inbox around threaded conversations and a new message preview that shows the first sentence of the message just below the subject line. Mac users who don’t have Office 365 subscriptions are getting their first good look at this app.
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Overall, Office 2016 looks like it will be welcome for long-suffering Office users who have had to make do with increasingly out-of-date and functionally deficient software. Yes, it’s only a pre-release for now, but it’s free and sufficiently capable for serious work. And of course, you can always drop back to Office 2011 if something doesn’t perform properly.