A stand-alone version of Office 2016 will be available sometime this month (September). From Your top 10 questions about Office 2016 for Mac answered:

"Office 2016 for Mac is currently only available for Office 365 subscription customers. It will be available via one-time purchase in late September."


Jon

macOS 11.7.10, iMac Retina 5K 27-inch, late 2014, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 1 TB fusion drive, 16 GB RAM, Epson SureColor P600, Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC, MS Office 365