All of its features improve, rather than reduce, productivity, and it's still the same Excel that many businesses have been using for years. An uptick in productivityīasically, Microsoft Excel 2016 is beneficial for any business that's afraid of increasing overhead with the new Office suite. Incidentally, so does the rest of the software: it highlights trends in your data upon request, and like the rest of Office 2016, it provides real-time collaboration via Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage. This turns ordinary spreadsheets or humdrum layouts of data into something that can be easily added into a PowerPoint presentation or shown on its own. The biggest new feature of Microsoft Excel 2016 is that it automatically suggests graphs and charts that are appropriate for the data you're processing.