Microsoft Word – switch away from Aptos fonts.Easily compare a series of values with ChiTest() Excel.Five ways (and more) to type Accent characters in Word and Outlook.Using Alt to get accent and other characters.No Data? Excel’s Autofill is not the answer. How Office improves without customers even noticing.See Office 2019 & 2016 lose an important part of their support From 10 October 2023 they stopped supporting connections from Office 2019 to Microsoft’s own cloud services even though support still has another two years to run. With Office 2019, Microsoft changed its own support promise. Office 2021 has five years support of support from the date of release (not purchase) meaning 13 October 2026. But that policy has been consistently broken for the Office perpetual licence products. Officially all Microsoft Office products have a ‘fixed’ support lifecycle of ten years. Office 2024 might have five years, perhaps less or other conditions. Office 2024 support policy isn’t known and even when announced might be changed after purchase. In other words, Microsoft would prefer not to sell Office perpetual licence products at all. They overprice and under-resource Office 2019/2021/2024 to encourage a move to their more profitable plans. Keep in mind that Microsoft much prefers to sell their Microsoft 365 annual payment plans (‘subscriptions’). Not known but Office 2024 is sure to be at least the same price as Office 2021, if not more expensive. It’s likely to be as little as possible because Microsoft has to balance offering enough new/changed features to encourage sales but not too much that might discourage a move to a subscription based plan. We’ll just have to wait and see what Microsoft offers. Office 2021 has the slightly similar Let() function.īeyond that is anyone’s guess. It’s unlikely to include any cloud-based features like PowerPoint Designer.Įxcel, might, if you’re lucky include LAMBDA() an incredibly useful addition. There were other minor changes but Microsoft only mentioned seven in their promotion. As a guide, Office 2021 had only an official short list of seven changes from Office 2019. Office 2024 will have all the features of Office 2021 plus a limited range of extras. FeaturesĪgain, not known since the leaked preview is just a starting ‘placeholder’ before new/changed features are enabled. Office 2021 works on both Intel and Apple M1/2 based computers and that will probably continue for Office 2024. At the moment that means Sonoma (v14 2023), Ventura (v13 2022) and Monterey (v12, 2021). The current leaked version works on Windows 10.įor Mac computers, Microsoft’s policy is to support the current and previous two releases of macOS. Office 2024 for Windows will probably only work on Windows 11 and Windows 10. There are leaked early previews of Visio 2024 and Project 2024. OneNote is also included but it’s the same as in Office 2019 and Office 2021. Office 2024 should include in all bundles for Windows and Mac:ĭepending on the bundle / package of Office 2024 it might also have: Microsoft much prefers to sell their Microsoft 365 annual payment plans (‘subscriptions’). In the meantime we can make some educated guesses based on over twenty years delving into Microsoft Office and knowing Microsoft’s conflicted attitude to perpetual licence versions of Office. In other words, you pay for Office as an annual fee. If you have Microsoft 365 – Do NOT buy Office 2019 or Office 2021 like Microsoft 365 Family (formerly Home), Microsoft 365 Personal or an enterprise plan. Even the name ‘Office 2024’ isn’t confirmed and there’ll likely also be a similar Office 2024 LTSC (Long Term Servicing Channell) for enterprises. Officially, Microsoft has said nothing at all about a new version of Office.
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