Best Office Productivity Suite
Updated April 26, 2023

Best Office Productivity Suite

Lisandro Fernigrini | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Microsoft Office (Installed)

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)

We use Microsoft 365 at the whole organization, by all kind of users, from Human Resources and Administration, Sales Representatives, to Developers, Testers and Project Leaders. All members use Outlook to communicate (mails) and coordinate and arrange meetings and OneDrive to share documents. Some users focus on PowerPoint (sales rep), others in Excel (admin) and others in Word, but the entire suite is simple and efficient to use while powerful to handle complex scenarios when required.

Pros

  • Online edition of documents by many users at the same time.
  • All applications automatically save changes to One Drive.
  • Outlook is great to schedule and arrange meetings and keep calendar tasks.
  • Excel, Word and PowerPoint are excellent tools that allow to produce great documents.

Cons

  • Enhance Junk Mail rules for Outlook.
  • Occasionally, there are some delays between saving a document on One Drive and being able to see the changes locally.
  • In Excel, being able to connect to external data sources
  • PowerPoint and Word enables me to create documents (user guides, etc) and presentations in a simple but professional way.
  • One Drive is key to manage and share documents and keep them safe on the cloud.
  • Allows users to improve efficiency on daily tasks
  • Allows users to organize meetings, share information and define tasks
  • Enhanced security and reliability of documents stored on One Drive
LibreOffice is great for single-users or freelancers, but for organizations Microsoft 365 provide all the components that may be required in a single and unified product.

Do you think Microsoft 365 delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft 365's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft 365 live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft 365 go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft 365 again?

Yes

If you have internet access, then Microsoft 365 is a suite that helps any professional in any work area to easily create different kinds of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Outlook and OneDrive are really simple to use and enable collaboration and organization of meetings. It is not a cheap product but it enables you to perform almost all tasks required in a modern office workplace.

Using Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)

1 - We do not have people exclusively working on Microsoft 365 support, but we have a great experienced professional on the IT department that helps us when we need something that we cannot solve by ourselves.
  • Enhance Productivity
  • Secure information and documents while still being able to access them in an easy way
I am completely satisfied with the product, and helps me on a daily basis. I do not the exact cost (it is not a cheap suite) but on the medium and long term the return on investment is guaranteed.

Using Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)

The interface of the different tools (this suite has MANY different tools) is usually simple to use and intuitive, and you can always re-arrange and add or remove the task you use most frequently from the menus and task bars.
Each tool / product includes a lot of features that may require a more intensive learning, but usually Office 365 tools are simple to learn from scratch, adding more knowledge as you required more advanced features
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • Pivot Tables and Quick Graphs in Excel
  • Automating document sections (table of content, index, etc)

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