With real-time co-authoring, OneDrive support, and even Microsoft Teams integration, Office 2021 brings in many of the collaborative features available in Microsoft 365 editions to Office.
Office 2021 also includes the new Office design that has a refreshed ribbon interface, rounded corners, that all matches the UI changes in Windows 11, inking tools, data types, functions, translation and editing tools, motion graphics, ease-of-use features, and so much more!
Here is a page full of explanatory stuff to know all the new features in Office 2021.
New in Excel:
- XLOOKUP function – helps find things in a table or range by row in an Excel worksheet.
- Dynamic array support – new functions in Excel that use dynamic arrays.
- LET function – an Excel feature that lets you assign names to calculation results.
- XMATCH function – this searches for a specified item in an array or range of cells and returns the item’s relative position.
- OpenDocument format (ODF) 1.3 support
- Updated Draw tab
- Performance improvements
New in PowerPoint:
- Record Slide Show – this new PowerPoint feature includes presenter video recording, ink recording and laser pointer recording.
- Replay your ink strokes – if you’re using ink in PowerPoint, you can now replay illustrations as they were drawn.
- Arrange elements on your slides for screen readers – this lets you re-arrange elements to optimize them for screen readers.
- OpenDocument format (ODF) 1.3 support
- Updated Draw tab
- Performance improvements
New in Outlook:
- Translator and ink – You can now annotate emails, draw in a canvas for messages, or translate emails into more than 70 languages.
- Instant search – search results are now instant, with more ways to refine and filter results.
- Performance improvements
New in Word:
- OpenDocument format (ODF) 1.3 support
- Updated Draw tab
- Performance improvements
Do you want to upgrade? Microsoft confirms Office 2021 is supported on Windows 11, Windows 10, and the three most recent versions of macOS. So go ahead and check for your eligibility to upgrade.
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