Office 2013 or 2016?

[rejodasi]

Hi i've been using office 2010 for up to now and have been thinking on upgrading to 2013 or 2016. Which one should i choose, how do they differ?

 

[satanboy]

Stop shouting!

 

[OMB]

Stop shouting!

Beat me to it

 

[satanboy]

Beat me to it

Really pisses me off when people are so dense.

 

[gregmcc]

http://bfy.tw/3zWJ

 

[backstreetboy]

Google docs. Simple interface, great collaboration and free.

 

[Johnatan56]

Hi i've been using office 2010 for up to now and have been thinking on upgrading to 2013 or 2016. Which one should i choose, how do they differ?

Do you do anything besides the basics? There isn't really much of a change with the newer version if you only use the basics. (I don't do anything advanced in Office, use word to write documents, add covers/tables to it and that's pretty much it. Also use projects and PP where again, there is no point in upgrading for any new gimmicks.)

 

[AirWolf]

I'm still using 2010 - still works great.

 

[Arthur]

Don't buy an upgrade. Get an Office 365 Home subscription. Five devices. Always on the latest version.

 

[requiem]

Avoid 2016... Bloody C2R technology.

 

[backstreetboy]

Avoid 2016... Bloody C2R technology.

Introduced in 2010...

 

[requiem]

Introduced in 2010...

In 2010, 2013 you could at least still select which products to install and where to install it.

 

[whatwhat]

Don't buy an upgrade. Get an Office 365 Home subscription. Five devices. Always on the latest version.

Yup.

Always latest version of Office.
1TB storage
60 minute of Skype calls to landlines every month.

It's hard to beat for the price.

 

[backstreetboy]

In 2010, 2013 you could at least still select which products to install and where to install it.

1. Whenever a new version of Office 2016 C2R is announced, replace the version (16.0.6366.2025) in the following files, and download the new ones:

officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/c2rfireflydata.xml
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/v64.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/v64_16.0.6366.2025.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/fre.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/i640.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/i641033.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/s640.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/s641033.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/stream.x64.en-us.dat
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/stream.x64.x-none.dat
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/stream.x64.x-none.dat.cobra

2. Then, arrange them like so:
Office 2016 C2R v16.0.6366.2025 en-US (x64)\[Put here Setup.exe, Setup64.exe, Setup.cmd, Configuration64.xml]
Office 2016 C2R v16.0.6366.2025 en-US (x64)\Office\Data\[Put here v64.cab & v64_16.0.6366.2025.cab]
Office 2016 C2R v16.0.6366.2025 en-US (x64)\Office\Data\16.0.6366.2025\[Put here all other 9 files]

3. Open Configuration64.xml and set which components to exclude from installing.
The Configuration64.xml file structure can be found here.
Example contents of the XML:

<Configuration>
<Add OfficeClientEdition="64" >
<Product ID="ProPlusRetail">
<Language ID="en-US" />
<ExcludeApp ID="InfoPath" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />
<ExcludeApp ID="SharePointDesigner" />
</Product>
</Add>
<Updates UpdatePath="http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE" />
<Display Level="Full" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
<Logging Level="Off" />
</Configuration>

4. Install Office 2016 C2R by running Setup.cmd. Do not click on Setup.exe directly!
Contents of Setup.cmd:

@echo off
title Install Office 2016
:ADMIN
openfiles >nul 2>nul ||(
echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
"%temp%\getadmin.vbs" >nul 2>&1
goto:eof
)
del /f /q "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" >nul 2>nul
pushd "%~dp0"
echo Click-to-Run Office
Setup.exe /configure Configuration64.xml
exit

In your case just add the other programs like PowePoint etc to the exclude list.

 

[requiem]

1. Whenever a new version of Office 2016 C2R is announced, replace the version (16.0.6366.2025) in the following files, and download the new ones:

officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/c2rfireflydata.xml
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/v64.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/v64_16.0.6366.2025.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/fre.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/i640.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/i641033.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/s640.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/s641033.cab
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/stream.x64.en-us.dat
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/stream.x64.x-none.dat
officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE/Office/Data/16.0.6366.2025/stream.x64.x-none.dat.cobra

2. Then, arrange them like so:
Office 2016 C2R v16.0.6366.2025 en-US (x64)\[Put here Setup.exe, Setup64.exe, Setup.cmd, Configuration64.xml]
Office 2016 C2R v16.0.6366.2025 en-US (x64)\Office\Data\[Put here v64.cab & v64_16.0.6366.2025.cab]
Office 2016 C2R v16.0.6366.2025 en-US (x64)\Office\Data\16.0.6366.2025\[Put here all other 9 files]

3. Open Configuration64.xml and set which components to exclude from installing.
The Configuration64.xml file structure can be found here.
Example contents of the XML:

<Configuration>
<Add OfficeClientEdition="64" >
<Product ID="ProPlusRetail">
<Language ID="en-US" />
<ExcludeApp ID="InfoPath" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />
<ExcludeApp ID="SharePointDesigner" />
</Product>
</Add>
<Updates UpdatePath="http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/64256AFE-F5D9-4F86-8936-8840A6A4F5BE" />
<Display Level="Full" AcceptEULA="TRUE" />
<Logging Level="Off" />
</Configuration>

4. Install Office 2016 C2R by running Setup.cmd. Do not click on Setup.exe directly!
Contents of Setup.cmd:

@echo off
title Install Office 2016
:ADMIN
openfiles >nul 2>nul ||(
echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
"%temp%\getadmin.vbs" >nul 2>&1
goto:eof
)
del /f /q "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" >nul 2>nul
pushd "%~dp0"
echo Click-to-Run Office
Setup.exe /configure Configuration64.xml
exit

In your case just add the other programs like PowePoint etc to the exclude list.

Thanks.

Very useful to know.

 

[Arthur]

What's the issue with C2R?

 

[backstreetboy]

What's the issue with C2R?

I've got tears in my eyes