On October 5th, Microsoft will release Office 2021, and the firm is finally revealing the features and pricing. Office 2021 will be the next standalone version of Microsoft’s Office suite, aimed at organizations and consumers that don’t want to pay for Office on a subscription basis.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Microsoft Teams for PC and Mac will be included in Office Home and Student 2021 for $149.99. The price of Office Home and Business 2021 is $249.99, and it includes everything in the Home version as well as Outlook for PC and Mac, as well as the rights to use all of the Office programs for business.
With real-time co-authoring, OneDrive support, and even Microsoft Teams integration, Office 2021 will incorporate the collaborative features available in Microsoft 365 editions of Office. Office 2021 will also feature a new Office design, which features a revamped ribbon interface, rounded corners, and a neutral color palette that follows the UI improvements in Windows 11.
Office 2021 will also include some Microsoft 365 capabilities, such as current Excel features, PowerPoint upgrades, improved inking in Office programs, and Outlook translation capability. Here are all of the new features in Office 2021:
Excel:
- XLOOKUP function – In an Excel worksheet, it can assist you find things in a table or a range by row.
- Dynamic array support – Excel now has new functions that employ dynamic arrays.
- LET function – a feature in Excel that allows you to name computation results.
- XMATCH function – This function searches an array or range of cells for a specified item and returns the item’s relative location.
- OpenDocument format (ODF) 1.3 support
- Updated Draw tab
- Improvements in performance
PowerPoint:
- Record Slide Show – Presenter video recording, ink recording, and laser pointer recording are all included in this new PowerPoint function.
- Replay your ink strokes – You can now replay illustrations as they were produced in PowerPoint if you’re using ink.
- Arrange elements on your slides for screen readers – This allows you to rearrange items to make them more accessible to screen readers.
- OpenDocument format (ODF) 1.3 support
- Updated Draw tab
- Improvements in performance
Outlook:
- Translator and ink – Emails can now be annotated, messages can be drawn on a canvas, and emails can be translated into over 70 languages.
- Instant search – Instant search results are now available, with more options for refining and filtering them.
- Improvements in performance
Word:
- OpenDocument format (ODF) 1.3 support
- Updated Draw tab
- Improvements in performance
Office 2021 will be released on October 5th, coinciding with the release of Windows 11. Office 2021 is compatible with Windows 11, Windows 10, and the three most recent versions of macOS, according to Microsoft.
