Microsoft Office 2016, 2019 and 2021 Professional Plus

About this release

This is a combined offline package that carries the three recent perpetual releases of the professional suite in one download, so a technician setting up a mixed fleet does not need three separate installers. You pick which year and which architecture a given machine needs at install time, and the setup runs through offline and finishes in an activated state with no key prompt.

The reason to keep all three around is that they are not interchangeable. An older document template, a macro tuned to a particular version, or a third party add-in that only certified against one release means the right answer for a given desk is sometimes the older year rather than the newest. Having the full set on one stick means matching the software to the machine instead of forcing a single version everywhere.

Each release is the complete professional set for its year, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher and OneNote where included, with the newer years bringing the newer Excel functions and interface. Both architecture payloads are present for every release, thirty eight languages are included, and configuration files for a silent rollout ship with the package for anyone deploying at scale.

What it does

• Three perpetual releases, 2016, 2019 and 2021, in one package
• Year and architecture chosen at install time per machine
• Complete professional application set for each release
• Newer Excel function set on the later years including XLOOKUP and dynamic arrays
• Both 32-bit and 64-bit payloads for every release
• Full offline installation with no download step during setup
• Thirty eight interface and proofing languages included
• Configuration files for silent and unattended deployment per release
• Consistent activated state across whichever year you install
• Group policy templates for locking down first run behaviour

Changes in this version

• Servicing baselines refreshed for all three releases
• Fixed an install failure caused by a leftover click to run cache
• Unified launcher that picks the release and architecture in one place
• Updated proofing tools across the language set
• Silent scripts now log per release to readable files

What the package contains

• Combined offline installer for the 2016, 2019 and 2021 releases
• Both architecture payloads for each release
• Configuration files for silent and unattended deployment
• All interface and proofing languages
• Readme with the install order written out step by step

Installation notes

Follow these in order. Most reports of a failed install come from skipping a step rather than from the package itself.

1. Remove any previous Office installation with the official removal tool.
2. Disconnect from the network before you start.
3. Extract the archive to a short path such as C:\Setup.
4. Run the launcher, pick the release year and architecture for this machine, and start it.
5. Wait for the installer to finish and close on its own.
6. Open Word once, close it, then reconnect to the network.

System requirements

Things worth knowing

• Install only one release on a machine, the three are alternatives rather than something to layer together.
• Do not mix architectures across Office products on the same machine.
• The official removal tool is required if a subscription version was ever present.

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Listing information

This entry is catalogued under Office & Productivity and carries the tags below. Language coverage is Multilingual, 38 interface languages, and the supported platform list is Windows 10, Windows 11. Version 16.0.14332.20721 is the current catalogued build, last checked 4 days ago, and the entry has been in the index since it was added 3 years ago.