Non Cloud Based Version of Office

Office 2019 is cloud-based, and requires you to log all your Office products into an outlook.com e-mail account, even if you do not otherwise need one, and even if you purchased the software up front and not on a subscription. 

If you do not have an outlook.com e-mail account you will need to create one in order for your Office apps to work and in order to use Outlook, even if you don't use the required outlook.com e-mail address in your Outlook profile. 

Office assumes that, if you have any outlook.com e-mail inbox in your Outlook profile (I have three, all for clients), then the organization that owns any outlook.com e-mail domain in your Outlook profile owns your machine and has unrestricted access to your content.

Thus, if you have any outlook.com e-mail inboxes in your Outlook profile, say for school or for clients, Office will log your Office apps into one of these randomly in order to use non-Outlook Office apps, even if your default e-mail inbox in Outlook is POP/SMTP, and none of the outlook.com addresses are in domains that you own.  When Outlook automatically logs your Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc, into one of your clients' outlook.com accounts it cross-shadows your work for one client through the cloud for another client. 

If you change the outlook.com account into which your Office apps are logged in to, your apps will lose all your settings, and lose track of your recent files.  If you disconnect all your Office apps from any outlook.com e-mail address, then Outlook will not even open.

Independently of the mandatory cloud, Office 2019 apps no longer remember from which local folder you opened a file to work on it when you go to save it using save as. Instead of listing the folder the file came from in save as, it lists the last folder from  which you opened any file using any Office app. You have to be careful not to save iteratively named files across a random array of unrelated folders and losing track of them, as the source folder is no longer selected for you.

Yes. This is crazy, but MS Level 3 support duplicated this, insisted it is normal, and told me the only way for my paid-up non-subscription Office Pro 2019 software will work is if I create an outlook.com e-mail address that I will never use except for my Office apps to log into it for their required cloud connection. 

I am not making this up.

I do not want anything cloud based, will not be using OneDrive and do not want a subscription.

I need something standalone that does not require access to the Internet for any Office application.

I want to know what is the last/latest version of Office that is not cloud based.

I don't see any Office 2019 H&S or H&B that is not cloud based is includes Outlook and I must have Outlook so I think 2019 is does not meet my requirements.

The "Answer" should be a 4 digit number that starts with 20.

Is the latest non cloud based version 2016, 2013 or something else.

You want Office 2019 Home and Business, as it includes Outlook

If you need Access, then you want Office 2019 Professional:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/office-professional-2019/cfq7ttc0k7c5?activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab

The programs are locally installed. After the initial activation you do not have to connect them to the internet.  Obviously you do have to connect Outlook to the internet to get email.

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Office 2010 is the last "non-cloud" based version.  Office 2013 and more so 2016 have cloud connections.  Unfortunately, 2010 is reaching End of Life October 13 2020 (this year).  So there is not much point buying it.

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***Not true***

My fully paid-for, non-subscription, locally installed Office Pro 2019, Project, and Visio all must be logged into an outlook.com account in order to work and in order for the associated copy of Outlook to open.  If I log the apps out of outlook.com they don't work properly and Outlook does not work at all.

Building a new Windows 10 x64 system that will need some version of Office (Need Outlook, Excel, Access, Word, etc.) and it seems the latest versions are mostly cloud/subscription based and we don't want that.  No "online" versions - just something that is standalone.

If you were building a new system and needed Office with Outlook, Excel Access, Word, etc. that is does not involve the cloud and does not involve any kind of subscription what version would you choose and why?

Office Home and Business 2019 is a stand-alone version of Microsoft Office and includes Outlook.   See: Get things done with Office 2019 For customers who aren’t ready for the cloud, Office 2019 is the next on-premises version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access, and Publisher1.

Compatible with Windows 10 or later. For complete requirements for PC and Mac see system requirements. 

Internet access is required to install and activate all the latest releases of Office suites.

Office 2019 is a one-time purchase with the classic versions of the Office applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for use on a single PC or Mac. The applications are not automatically updated; to get the latest version, you must purchase Office again when the new version becomes available. Current Office application versions available for one-time purchase are Office 2019 for Windows and Office 2019 for Mac. Previous versions include Office 2016, Office 2013, Office 2011 for Mac, Office 2010, Office 2007, Office 2008 for Mac, and Office 2004 for Mac. Office as a one-time purchase does not include any of the services included in Office 365. Learn more about the difference between Office 365 and Office 2019.