Office Training and Guides

Introduction

This page is updated to contain links to external user guides for Microsoft Office. These might be useful if you are upgrading to a new version. As the University now has a Microsoft Agreement that makes Office free for all staff and students, we recommend upgrading if you are running an old version.

What is the latest version of Office?

Office 2016 Pro Plus for Windows and Office 2016 for Mac were both released at the end of 2015.

Which version of Office is recommended?

We test all new versions of Office for bugs and compatibility with our systems before recommending them. You can see a summary of which versions we support, and which version we recommend and install by default on the page Supported Office Suites.

We will always provide that latest recommended version of Office that we support in our Software Library - see Installing Software for more details.

I'm upgrading from an older version of Office - how different will the interface be?

Windows

I'm used to Office 2003

The interface has change hugely since Office 2003, as in 2007 a new style of menu called the Ribbon was introduced (and continues to be used to this day)

If you have only used the Office 2003 style menus, then we recommend you try these courses to get used to the new style:

Learning to use the Ribbon

Although the course is aimed at moving to Office 2010, it is still useful.

I'm used to Office 2007 or 2010

If you already used to the Ribbon interface, then not much has changed. We recommend looking at the Office 2016 quick start guides

I'm used to Office 2013

The Office 2016 interface is practically identical to 2013. We recommend looking at the Office 2016 quick start guides

Office 2016 Training Courses and Guides

There are both in-depth training courses and quick-start guides for Office 2016 are available here: Office 2016 Training

The Microsoft's Office Training Centre

Guides for all recent versions of Office, for all platforms, are available here:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Office-Training-Center-b8f02f81-ec85-4493-a39b-4c48e6bc4bfb