Download free Office 2016 Quick Start Guides

To coincide with last week’s release of Office 2016, we put together a set of handy Quick Start Guides that introduce you to the newest versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote.



Whether you’re coming from previous versions of your favorite apps and want a quick orientation about where to find familiar basics or you’re entirely new to Office and want an overview of how to get to some of the most important things, each of our Quick Start Guides provides helpful information that you can read, print out and share.

Guides are now available for all three of our recent Office releases. Download just the ones you want or get the entire set for your preferred operating systems.

Office 2016 for Windows

Visit Office 2016 Quick Start Guidesto download guides for the desktop versions of Word 2016, Excel 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Outlook 2016 or OneNote 2016 on any recent version of Windows.

Office Mobile for Windows 10

Visit Office Mobile Quick Start Guides to download guides for the modern versions of Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, or OneNote on Windows 10.

Office 2016 for Mac

Visit Office 2016 Quick Start Guides for Macto download guides for the Mac versions of Word 2016, Excel 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Outlook 2016 or OneNote 2016 on Mac OS X Yosemite or El Capitan.

While viewing any guide, you can save a copy of it to your computer, zoom in to get a closer look at a screenshot, or search for feature names or keywords to quickly find something in the text.

Please let us know if you find these types of guides useful and what sort of introductory content you’d like to see in the future. You can leave comments here on this blog post or at the bottom of each of the Quick Start Guide download pages.

—The Office Team

Download our free Office 2016 Quick Start Guides - Office Blogs

Love this new Office 2016 works well with my HP Envy Printer/Scanner and at last have been able to get rid of Open Office that I used to have to use to print any documents.
Used to have to Copy & Paste now none of that at all so well done

Thanks Shawn, downloaded the Outlook one, if I can work out how to have my RSS Feeds on their own and not under my Hotmail account I might start using it again, still using Windows Live Mail.

ACCESS missing. Greatest office yet. Installed and propagated with all my previous office thingies and docs with no action required on my part. Amazing.

Love this new Office 2016 works well with my HP Envy Printer/Scanner and at last have been able to get rid of Open Office that I used to have to use to print any documents.
Used to have to Copy & Paste now none of that at all so well done

Solved printer scanner issues by purchasing Xerox equipment. The generic manufactures and MS are not always in sync and win updates messes up the driver stores then I spend to much time chasing down the required drivers. A real pain. Solution to me was worth every penny of the investment. If your equipment works great. The worst was Dell peripherals. Three year driver support and then you are on your own, usually have to buy a replacement printer fax scanner after 3- 4 years for lack of support. Just sayin and using extra electrons lying around here.