What's new in Microsoft Office 2021?

Microsoft Office has been the leader of office productivity apps since its release. Get the programs that you need to complete your tasks with increased efficiency. There are a number of notable changes in the latest iteration of the perpetual licensed edition of Microsoft Office.

General

• Changes in the visual interface with Microsoft's monoline iconography taking center stage.
• Updated and improved stock media.
• Microsoft Search for all apps.
• Improved program efficiency.
• Updates to the Draw Tab to make use with tablets more accessible.
• Support for OpenDocument format 1.3.
• Hex color picker support.

Microsoft Excel

• XLOOKUP search for finding info in tables & ranges.
• Dynamic array functions, including FILTER, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE, and RANDARRAY.
• LET function that assigns names to calculation results.
  
• XMATCH function that searches for a specified item and then provides the item's relative position.

Microsoft PowerPoint

• Record Slide Show now features options for presenter video recording, ink recording and laser pointer recording.
  
• You can replay ink strokes to illustrate things step by step or visualize a thought process.
• You can see slide elements in screen-reading order and rearrange them as necessary.

Microsoft Outlook

• Email translation for over 70 different languages will be supported.
• Annotate email images with your finger, pen, or mouse.
• Instant Search feature allows you to quickly find specific emails.

Microsoft Access

• Updated Linked Table Manager with refresh, relink, or remove options.
• Addition of SQL DateTime2 data type.
• Tab manager that allows you to see active tabs, rearrange tabs, or close database objects.

System Requirements

• Processor: 1.1 GHz or faster, 2-core
• Operating system: Windows 10 or Windows 11
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Hard disk space: 4 GB of available disk space
• Display: 1280 x 768 screen resolution (64-bit Office required for 4k and higher)
• Graphics: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9 or later, with WDDM 2.0 or higher for Windows 10