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Our office is going to be rolling out Office 2016 this coming spring, and here are just a couple of things I am doing with Office 2016 for our Rollout:

Adding to WORD, EXCEL and PowerPoint ribbon –

the EXIT word, and the STYLE set link

Removing from the INSERT ribbon the STORE and My Add-ins!

From Word, Excel and Power Point

Always Starting with a Blank Document - When you open Word, you typically see a number of choices for either creating a blank document or using various templates as a basis for a new document. You have to always choose to create a blank document. We want to skip these choices and simply go to a blank document from the get-go?
 

1.       Display the File tab of the ribbon.
2.       Click the Options button. Word displays the Word Options dialog box.
3.       At the left side of the dialog box, make sure General is selected. (It should be selected by default.)
4.       Scroll down, if necessary, until you see the Start Up Options section. (See Figure 1.)
     

5. Clear the Show Start Screen when this Application Starts check box.
6. Click on OK.
    

Now, the next time you start Word, you won't be shown the Start screen. Instead, you'll see a blank document, the same as in earlier versions of Word.

Do this in Excel and PowerPoint

Also - Usually opening the FILE has “big” icons - change to the “normal” small ones by going to File, SAVE, and checking the “Don’t show…”