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Office 2016 for Mac supports about 46 languages, with a few variants: Proofing Tools in Office 2016 for Mac. Belarusian is not one of them. Belarusian is not one of them. Author of 'OOXML Hacking - Unlocking Microsoft Office's Secrets', now available John Korchok, Production Manager production@brandwares.com. Install the language accessory pack for your desired language. Open any Office program, click File Options Language. Under Choose Editing Languages, make sure the language you want to use is added to the list. Under Choose Display and Help languages, change the default display and help languages for all Office apps. Restart all Office programs, so your changes can take effect.

Summary: Provides admins with information about which features in Office 2016 for Windows have been changed or removed since Office 2013 was released.

Each of the following tables describes features that are changed or removed in the applications in Office 2016 for Windows.

There are tables for the following applications: Access, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word. The Office suite table lists features that are changed or removed from several or all apps.

If you're looking for information about the new features in Office 2016, see Microsoft 365 Training.

Office suite

The following table lists features that are changed or removed in Office 2016.

AreaWhat's changedMore information
Clip Art
The Office.com Clip Art and image library has been removed.
Clip Art now powered by Bing Images
Add online pictures or clip art to your file
Document Information Panel
The Document Information Panel has been removed.
Where is the Document Information Panel in Office 2016?
EPS images
The ability to insert images that use the EPS file format is no longer supported.
If you have an Office file that contains an image that uses the EPS file format, the image will be replaced by a red X placeholder.
Support for EPS images has been turned off in Office for Windows
Equation Editor
Microsoft Equation Editor 3.0 isn't supported in Office 2016.
You don't need to install anything to write or edit math equations in Office 2016. Just choose Insert > Equation. For more information, see Write an equation.
Localized languages
Language packs that allow the user to display the Office user interface in a specific language are no longer available for the following languages:
- Central Kurdish
- Hausa (Latin)
- Igbo
- isiXhosa
- isiZulu
- K'iche
- Kinyarwanda
- Punjabi (Arabic)
- Sesotho sa Leboa
- Setswana (South Africa)
- Tajik
- Tigrigna
- Wolof
- Yoruba
Proofing tools are still available for the following languages:
- Hausa (Latin)
- Igbo
- isiXhosa
- isiZulu
- Kinyarwanda
- Sesotho sa Leboa
- Setswana (South Africa)
- Wolof
- Yoruba
For more information, see Language Accessory Pack for Office 2016.
Themes
The following changes have been made to Office themes:
- The light gray theme has been removed.
- The dark gray theme has been updated.
- A black theme has been added.
The black theme is only available to Office 365 subscribers.
Version information
The version information shown under File > Account > Aboutapplication name no longer shows the version information for the application's .exe file.
This only applies to Windows Installer (MSI) versions of Office 2016.
The version number that is shown is for the Mso20win32client.dll file.

Access

The following table lists features that are changed or removed in Access 2016.

Mac
AreaWhat's changedMore information
Web apps
Microsoft no longer recommends creating and using Access web apps in SharePoint.
This feature will be retired from SharePoint Server in ten years and from Office 365 in one year.
Access Services in SharePoint Roadmap

Excel

The following table lists features that are changed or removed in Excel 2016.

AreaWhat's changedMore information
Azure Marketplace connector
The following options have been removed from the ribbon and are no longer available:
- Data > Get External Data > From Other Sources > From Windows Azure Marketplace
- Data > Get Data > From Azure > From Azure Marketplace
Data services are no longer available from Azure Marketplace.
Power View
The Power View button has been removed from Insert > Reports on the ribbon.
Roadmap for Power View in Excel
If you want to continue to use Power View, you can follow these steps to turn on Power View.

OneNote

The following table lists features that are changed or removed in OneNote 2016.

AreaWhat's changedMore information
Scanned images
The Scanned Image button has been removed from Insert > Images on the ribbon.
The ability to insert a scanned image from a scanner is no longer supported.
For other options, see How can I Insert scanned images into OneNote?

Outlook

The following table lists features that are changed or removed in Outlook 2016.

AreaWhat's changedMore information
Autodiscover
Outlook 2016 requires Autodiscover to be configured, or it won't be able to connect to Exchange Server.
Outlook 2016 retrieves Exchange Server connectivity settings directly from Autodiscover instead of the registry, making profiles more reliable, but that also makes Autodiscover a required feature.
Errors when you upgrade to Office 2016
Cached Exchange Mode Sync Slider
There are three new options for how much mail is available when you're working offline and you're using Cached Exchange Mode:
- 3 days
- 1 week
- 2 weeks
Change how much mail to keep offline
Exchange Server support
Outlook 2016 doesn't support connecting to Exchange Server 2007.
Error: Stop, you should wait to install Office 2016. You won’t be able to receive mail from a current mailbox]
Outlook Social Connector
Access to LinkedIn, Facebook, and other social media sites has been removed.
In some cases, these social sites have built Office Add-in solutions that you can use instead. Visit the Office Store for additional solutions.
Can you connect to a social network in Outlook?
People Pane
The People Pane is off by default.
Also, the Account Settings option has been removed.
To show the People Pane when reading messages, go to View > People Pane, and then choose Normal or Minimized.
PRF files
PRF files for configuring Exchange Server accounts are no longer supported.
Accounts should be configured automatically in the account wizard when you use Autodiscover.

PowerPoint

The following table lists features that are changed or removed in PowerPoint 2016.

AreaWhat's changedMore information
HTML files
Opening an HTML file is no longer supported.
The 'All Web Pages' choice has been removed from the File > Open dialog box.

Publisher

The following table lists features that are changed or removed in Publisher 2016.

AreaWhat's changedMore information
Live Preview
The ability to preview the effects of formatting changes has been removed.
The Enable Live Preview option has been removed from File > Options > General > User Interface options.
Live Preview is removed starting with Version 1606 (Build 7070.2022).

Word

The following table lists features that are changed or removed in Word 2016.

AreaWhat's changedMore information
Blogging
The ability to publish a document as a blog post to Blogger is no longer supported.
The Blogger option has been removed from File > Share > Post to Blog.
You can still publish a document as a blog post to other blogging platforms.
Help with blogging in Word
Grammar & Style
The Grammar & Style option has been removed from the Writing Style drop-down menu in the 'When correcting spelling and grammar in Word' section under File > Options > Proofing.
The Grammar & Style option has been removed for the following languages:
- Arabic
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Italian
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Russian
- Spanish
Korean data recognizers
Korean data recognizers are no longer available under File > Options > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options > Actions.
The following Korean data recognizers have been removed:
- Address
- Date
- Person name
- Telephone number
- Time
Research
The Research button has been removed from Review > Proofing on the ribbon.
You can add the Research button to the ribbon by customizing the ribbon.

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Summary: Learn about the language packs and language interface packs that are available for Office.

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An installation of Office 2016 can include applications or user interface elements in more than one language because some Office 2016 products are not available in every language.

This article describes the language versions that are available for a subset of Office 2016 applications, the Office 2016 applications that will work with Language Interface Packs, and the recommended base languages to install for Office 2016 Language Interface Packs.

Important

This article describes methods of deploying and managing language packs for versions of Office 2016 that use the Windows Installer (MSI) installation technology, which are available for enterprises through volume licensing. If you have an Office subscription and you're deploying Microsoft 365 Apps, which uses the Click-to-Run installation technology, see Overview of deploying languages for Microsoft 365 Apps.

Applications and language availability

In some non-English language versions of Office 2016, a specific Office 2016 application may not be available. For example, Access 2016 is not available in Hindi. Therefore, the Hindi language version of Office 2016 is installed in English.

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Some Office applications are not available in some languages. Project 2016 and Visio 2016 are available in a subset of languages, as shown in the following table.

Language availability for the 2016 versions of Project and Visio

LanguageProject 2016Visio 2016
Arabic
yes
yes
Brazilian
yes
yes
Bulgarian
no
no
Chinese - Simple
yes
yes
Chinese - Traditional
yes
yes
Croatian
no
no
Czech
yes
yes
Danish
yes
yes
Dutch
yes
yes
English
yes
yes
Finnish
yes
yes
French
yes
yes
German
yes
yes
Greek
yes
yes
Hebrew
yes
yes
Hindi
no
no
Hungarian
yes
yes
Italian
yes
yes
Japanese
yes
yes
Korean
yes
yes
Norwegian (Bokmål)
yes
yes
Polish
yes
yes
Portuguese (European)
yes
yes
Romanian
no
no
Russian
yes
yes
Serbian (Latin)
no
no
Slovak
yes
yes
Slovenian
yes
yes
Spanish
yes
yes
Swedish
yes
yes
Thai
no
no
Turkish
yes
yes
Ukrainian
yes
yes

Language Interface Packs

For some languages, Microsoft localizes only some Office 2016 applications and releases them as Language Interface Packs (LIPs). These LIPs localize the user interface only, and not the Help content. Administrators must first install a fully localized base language version (see the table later in this section) of Office 2016, and then install the LIP. Users can then work in their preferred language in the following applications and features:

  • Excel 2016

  • OneNote 2016

  • Outlook 2016

  • PowerPoint 2016

  • Shared Office features

  • Word 2016

  • Skype for Business 2016, but only for the following languages:

    • Albanian: sq-SQ

    • Azerbaijani (Latin): az-Latn-AZ

    • Basque: eu-ES

    • Belarusian: be-BE

    • Catalan: ca-ES

    • Farsi (Persian): fa-IR

    • Filipino: fil-PH

    • Galician: gl-ES

    • Macedonian: mk-MK

    • Serbian (Cyrillic): sr-Cyrl-RS

    • Uzbek (Latin): uz-Latn-UZ

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The remaining Office applications appear in the base Office 2016 installation language. The following table lists the base language for each LIP language.

Base languages available for Language Interface Packs

LIP languageBase language
Afrikaans
English
Albanian
English
Amharic
English
Armenian
English
Assamese
English
Azerbaijani - Latin script
English
Bangla (Bangladesh)
English
Basque (Basque)
Spanish
Belarusian
Russian
Bengali - India
English or Hindi
Bosnian - Latin script
English
Catalan
Spanish
Dari
English
Filipino
English
Galician
Spanish
Georgian
English
Gujarati
English
Icelandic
English
Irish - Gaelic
English
Kannada
English
Khmer
English
Kiswahili
English
Konkani
English
Krygyz
Russian
Luxembourgish
French
Macedonian (FYROM)
English
Malayalam
English
Maltese
English
Maori
English
Marathi
English
Mongolian - Cyrillic script
English
Nepali
English
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Norwegian (Bokmål)
Odia
English
Persian (Farsi)
English
Punjabi (India)
English
Quechua (Peru)
Spanish
Scottish Gaelic
English
Serbian - Cyrillic script
Serbian (Latin)
Serbian - Cyrillic script (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
English
Sindhi (Pakistan)
English
Sinhala
English
Tamil (India)
English
Tatar
Russian
Telugu
English
Turkmen
Russian
Urdu
English
Uyghur
Chinese (Simplified)
Uzbek - Latin script
English or Russian
Valencian
Spanish
Welsh
English

Office 2016 For Mac Language Pack

For information about how to obtain the LIP you need for your deployment, see Download language packs, language interface packs, and proofing tools for volume license versions of Office.

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