If you can't afford even the $6.99 per month, you might try the free LibreOffice, but you'll be sacrificing some polish and capabilities by doing so. The main difference in Home and Student is that it does not include Outlook or Access. A stripped-down Office Home and Student is also available for a $149.99 one-time fee. If you prefer the traditional buy-once-use-forever model, Office Home and Business will run you $229.99 for one license. Office 365 ($99.00 at Amazon) subscribers can download Office 2016 for as little as $6.99 per month for one license, or $69.99 per year. Payment Options Microsoft managed to make using Office for the Mac easy for anyone familiar with Office for Windows, while also integrating it more closely than ever into the OS X ecosystem. The 64-bit version starts up faster, but otherwise it looks and acts like the earlier code, which was already an Editors' Choice for office suites.
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK 2016 FOR MAC REVIEW UPDATE
In August 2016, Microsoft released an automatic update that replaced the old 32-bit code of Office for the Mac with 64-bit code. There's nothing so startlingly new that it will get in the way of being productive. That's because all of the suite's essential features work as they always did, though with added options and conveniences. Almost everything is improved, with a bright, spacious interface, yet the learning curve is almost flat.
It took five years from Office 2011's release to get this latest Mac office suite, but it was well worth the wait. Microsoft Office 2016 for the Mac is the kind of upgrade I hope for but rarely get.