The wait for Office 2024 is over! That's right, Microsoft Office 2024 has been released and it doesn't require a subscription. Furthermore, it is compatible with PC and Mac, and it is suitable for Windows 11, Windows 10, and macOS.
Three Editions Available
There are three editions available to purchase: Office Home 2024, Office Home & Business 2024, and Office LTSC 2024.
Office Home & Business costs €299 and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook.
Office LTSC 2024 is available in a few editions, you can find them here. It is aimed at medium to large businesses.
Works Seamlessly with Microsoft Teams
Office 2024 works seamlessly with Microsoft Teams, so you can easily keep in touch with team members whether they're in the office or remotely. You'll also get access to Microsoft support resources, which is extremely useful if any issues arise.
Affordable Solution
Since it doesn't require a subscription, users can use Home Office indefinitely without monthly payments or annual renewals. This makes it affordable and also means you don't have to remember to renew your subscription on time.
New Features to Enjoy
The Office 2024 release also brings with it a lot of new, exciting features to enjoy!
There's a new default Office theme, which applies Fluent Design principles for a more seamless experience. Office LTSC 2024, users can insert an image into their content directly from their Android device.
In Excel, there are now 14 text and array functions, allowing you to select, resize, resize, and combine arrays, and extract and split text strings. There's also a new IMAGE function that lets you get pictures from the Internet and insert them into your Excel table.
In PowerPoint, you can now insert your live camera feed onto a slide using Cameo. To make your presentation even better, you can add a Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) video.
In Outlook, the search feature has been improved, providing you with the most relevant suggestions. For meetings, you can now automatically shorten them based on their length.
New Default Office Theme
Office 2024 Home has a more natural and consistent feel within and across Office applications. This new look applies Fluent Design principles to deliver a seamless, familiar feel across all your apps.
Improved Accessibility Tools
Office LTSC 2024 has added many new and improved features to make your documents, slideshows, workbooks, and emails more accessible for everyone.
Insert Pictures From a Mobile Device
It previously took several steps to transfer images from your phone to your computer, but now you can use your Android device to insert pictures directly into your content in Office LTSC 2024.
Support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.4
We now include support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.4.
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Dynamic Charts with Dynamic Arrays
In Excel 2024, you can now reference dynamic arrays in charts to help you visualize datasets of variable length. When the array recalculates, charts automatically update to capture all the data, rather than being fixed at a specific number of data points.
Text and Array Functions
Excel 2024 has various text and array functions that make it easy to extract and split text strings and enable you to easily combine, resize, resize, and select arrays.
New IMAGE Function
Excel 2024, users can add images to their workbooks using copy and paste or they can use the IMAGE function can easily move, resize, sort, and filter within an Excel table without moving the image.
Faster Workbooks
The speed and stability of Excel 2024 workbooks have been improved, reducing delays and hang-ups that occur when multiple workbooks with independent calculations are open at the same time.
Access With Cameo
With Cameo, you can insert your live camera feed directly onto a PowerPoint slide. You can then apply the same effects to your camera feed that you would to a picture or other object, including formatting, transitions, and styles.
Create Videos in the Recording Studio
Record your PowerPoint presentation—or just a slide—and capture voice, ink gestures, and your video presence. Export your recorded presentation as a video file and play it for your Clients or viewers.
Embed Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) Videos
Add Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) videos to a presentation to enhance and enrich your story.
Add Closed Captions for Video and Audio
You can now add closed captions or subtitles to video and audio files in your presentations. Adding closed captions makes your presentation accessible to a larger audience, including people with hearing impairments and people who speak a language other than the one shown in your video.
Improved Search for Email, Calendar, and Contacts
New improvements have been added to search in Outlook 2024 to boost messages, attachments, contacts, and calendar entries so that it shows the most relevant suggestions when you type your search.
More Options for Creating Meetings
Outlook 2024 gives users more options when creating or managing meetings, allowing them to take breaks between calls by automatically minimizing meetings based on meeting length.
Recover Your Word Session
When Word 2024 suddenly shuts down before saving your most recent changes, Word automatically opens all the documents you had open when the process shut down, allowing you to pick up where you left off.
Improved Draw Tab and Ink Features
Office LTSC 2024 has some new features and updates to make the Inking and Draw tab experience more robust and customizable. Now when you draw with your Surface Pen, your ink will render instantly and look as good as traditional ink on paper.
Microsoft Access the Dataverse Connector
Unlock new abilities such as mobile solutions and Office Teams integration that organizations need and want. Maintain the value and ease of use of Microsoft Access along with the value of cloud-based storage.
Even More Shapes, Stencils, and Templates
There are even more shapes, stencils, and templates to create diagrams in Visio 2024. Visio Standard 2024 now brings several new icons, infographics for discussions, sticky notes, and lots of infographics like to-do lists. Visio Professional 2024 includes all the content added from Standard and includes 10+ new Azure stencils and more network and software content like Kubernetes Shapes and Yourdon-Coad Notations.