Using these criteria, we narrowed the list down to the following 22 add-ins for Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, all of which are free unless otherwise noted:īoomerang adds a ton of useful features to Outlook. We wanted to highlight apps that anyone can use, so we excluded those that are specific to third-party tools.īroad Use Cases: There’s a lot you can do with apps and add-ons without leaving Microsoft’s interface-find restaurants on Yelp, search Wikipedia, and buy flowers-but we wanted to focus on the types of apps you could realistically use daily.Īll 365 Applications: We only included apps that work for all Office 365 subscription types (Home, Student, and Business).
Some of the add-ins have paid upgrades, but the basic features described for each add-in are free to use.īroad Audience: Many available apps and add-ins are for specific programs like Salesforce, HubSpot, or Trello-they require the use of a third-party program. To simplify things, we looked through over 100 of the highest-rated apps for each product (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), installed and tested 47 add-ins that stood out for their different features, and narrowed the results down using the following criteria:įree: There are a lot of promising paid apps available for Office products, but we wanted to focus on the best free add-ins. There are over 2,000 add-ins for Microsoft Office 365-and more that only work on specific versions of Office for Windows and Mac.
How We Selected the Featured Microsoft Office Add-ins IT thinks upgrading to Windows 10 with Office 2016 might fix it, but who knows? Meantime, I’d like to know why something that has worked just fine for years now suddenly runs like crap.New to Office Online? Check our in-depth guides to Excel Online and PowerPoint Online to get the most out of Microsoft's free Office web apps. (One bit of evidence in support of this theory – if I do a mail merge to a Word file rather than PDF, it is just as slow.)Ĭurrently running Windows 7 with Office 2013. But I persuaded them to reinstall the old version and it is still slow. Two thousand letters may take 4 hours.Īt first I suspected that Adobe Acrobat was the bottleneck, because a few months back corporate IT forced me to upgrade from Acrobat Pro XI to 2017. And the longer it runs, the slower it goes. Normally a small job will take a minute or two, larger jobs may take 20-30 minutes. Job size can be anywhere from a couple thousand to around 50,000 letters. Basically I have a letter template in Word, data source is an Excel spreadsheet, and output is a PDF file. A few times a year I have to run a job to generate some letters using Microsoft Word’s mail merge functionality.
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