v2021.0 [Sep 2, 2022]
- Co-author documents: With real-time co-authoring, you can work with others in the same document at the same time. There’s no need to send extra notes or emails because everyone will be notified when a file is updated.
- Better collaboration with modern comments: Have control of when you send comments to your co-authors and be productive with a consistent commenting experience between Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Know who's in your document: See who else is working along with you and where they are in the document. You'll find this experience in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Visual refresh: Work with a modernized Start experience and newly refreshed tabs in the ribbon. Experience a clean, clear style with monoline iconography, neutral color palette, and softer window corners. These updates communicate action and provide features with simple visuals.
- Look left, look right… XLOOKUP is here: Row by row, find anything you need in a table or range with XLOOKUP.
- Dynamic arrays: Write one formula and return an array of values. Expedite calculations and insights with six new functions: FILTER, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE, and RANDARRAY.
- LET function: The LET function assigns names to calculation results. This allows storing intermediate calculations, values, or defining names inside a formula.
- XMATCH function: The XMATCH function searches for a specified item in an array or range of cells, and then returns the item's relative position. You can also use XMATCH to return a value in an array.
- Sheet views: Create customized views in an Excel worksheet without disrupting others.
- Accessibility ribbon: The Accessibility ribbon puts all the tools you need to create accessible content in one place.
- New and improved Record Slide Show: Record Slide Show now supports presenter video recording, ink recording and laser pointer recording.
- Ink Replay - Slide Animation for Ink object: Now you can apply the new Replay or Rewind animation to ink and get the drawing effect directly in your presentations. You can adjust the timing of these animations to be faster or slower to match the experience you want.
- Arrange elements on your slides for screen readers: See the elements in screen-reading order and re-arrange them as necessary to communicate your message effectively.
- Link to a slide: Ask a colleague to contribute to your slide deck, and start them directly on the slide you need help with.
- Translator and ink in Outlook
- Translate email messages into more than 70 languages on the fly and view the transcript—all within Outlook.
- Annotate email images or draw in a separate canvas using your finger, pen, or mouse.
- In Outlook, use Instant Search to quickly find emails: Select the search bar (located above the Outlook ribbon) to help find email messages anywhere in Outlook.
- Reduce eye strain with Dark Mode: Previously, you could use Word with a dark ribbon and toolbars, but your document color stayed bright white. Now, Dark Mode in Word offers a dark canvas as well.
- Improve comprehension with Line Focus: Move through a document in Word, line by line, without distractions. Adjust the focus to put one, three, or five lines in view at a time.
- See what’s new in stock media: We’re constantly adding more rich media content to the Microsoft 365 Premium Creative Content collection, a curated library of stock images, icons, and more that helps you express yourself.
v15.0.5111.1000 [Aug 6, 2012]
The first thing you’ll see when you open Microsoft Office is a clean, new look. But the features you know and use are still there — along with some new ones that are huge time savers. The new Office also works with smartphones, tablets, and in the cloud, even on PCs that don’t have Office installed. So now you can always get to your important files, no matter where you are or what you’re using.
Sign-in for Office where you need it
- Use your Microsoft account to install Office.
- Stream your Office programs to another computer.
- Save files to OneDrive for easy access and sharing.
- Keep your personal settings wherever you are.
Office for the whole family
Tired of sharing your computer with your whole family? An Office 365 Home subscription lets you install Office on up to five PCs or Macs. That way, everybody in your house can have their own copy of Office, their own files, and their own settings.
Updates are automatic, so you’ll always have the latest version. You get an additional 20 GB of OneDrive storage, so you’ll have your files—from to-do lists to presentations—wherever you go. And you get 60 free Skype world minutes each month so you can call friends or family in over 40 countries, even if they don’t have a Skype account.
You don’t even need to be in front of your own computer to use Office. As long as you’re connected to the Internet, you can use Office on Demand to temporarily stream full versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Publisher to PCs running Win 7 (or later). That way, you can create documents or keep working on documents you’ve saved to OneDrive.
Save and share files in the cloud
The cloud is like file storage in the sky. You can get to it anytime you’re online. Now it’s easy to save your Office files to your own OneDrive or your organization’s site. From there you can access and share your Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and other Office files. You can even work together with your colleagues on the same file at the same time.
Shared meetings
Join online meetings and share PowerPoint slides, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and OneNote notes. Meeting attendees can see the files, even if they don’t have Office installed.
More choices for getting started
Instead of seeing a blank file, you can now choose between a recent file or a favorite template. In OneNote, you can sign in and open notebooks from the web or from your computer.
Improved Save As and Open
No more browsing and scrolling in dialog boxes. Your most-used folders are right there from the start. You can also pin a location so it’s always available.
Easier file sharing
Now there’s one place in your Office programs, File > Share, that puts together all your options for sharing your files with others.
