

Luckily, you can follow our guide, complete with screenshots, to help you with that process. Sadly, that Office for Mac version doesn’t have an uninstaller such as you would find on Windows so you will need to uninstall it manually. This means you have a few options for purchasing Office 2016: a stand-alone product or as part of an Office 365 subscription. Office 365 is a cloud-based subscription to a suite of programs including Office 2016. Note, however, if you’re intending to upgrade from Office 2011, which is pretty terrible and thus you should, it’s best advised to uninstall that first before proceeding with the new Mac version. Office 2016 is a version of the Office productivity suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc), typically accessed via the desktop. Nevertheless, simply click through the prompts to upgrade your installation. pkg file to start the installer, which will be much different from the Windows installer. The upgrade process on the Mac is similar in that you will follow the same procedure – go to the Office website, click on the area where is says Office 2016 is available, and then click “Install” to download the. Click “Yes” to continue and the installer should take care of the rest. User Account Control should pop up to ask you if you want the installer app to make changes to your computer. Unlike previous Microsoft Office updates which users received as part of 'Patch Tuesdays,' these Office 365 client updates require the apps to be closed prior to starting the update. For details, see Overview of update channels for Office 365 ProPlus. Click the setup executable, either from your browser or in your downloads folder. This means new feature updates will be released monthly for the product.
