What's new in Microsoft Office 2021
In Office 2021 you will find new features for co-authorship, navigation tools, data types, features, translation and editing tools, graphics, easy-to-use features and much more! See what's available for you today.
Co-authorship of documents
With real-time co-authorship, you can work with other people in the same document at the same time. You do not need to send additional notes or emails, as everyone will be notified when a file is updated.
Better cooperation with modern comments
You have control over when you send comments to your co-authors, and be productive by working consistently with comments between Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Know who is in your document
See who else is working with you and where in the document. You will find this work in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Visual update
Work with upgraded Start work and recently updated tabs in the bar. Enjoy a clean style with monolithic iconography, a neutral color palette and softer window corners. These updates report action and provide features with simple visualizations.
Look left, look right ... XLOOKUP is here!
Find everything you need, one by one, in a table or range with XLOOKUP.
Dynamic arrays
Write a formula and return an array of values. Accelerated calculations and insights with six new features: FILTER, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE and RANDARRAY.
LET function
The LET function assigns names to the calculation results. This allows storing intermediate calculations, values or defining names in a formula.
XMATCH function
The XMATCH function searches for a specified element in an array or range of cells and returns the relative position of the element. You can also use XMATCH to return a value to an array.
Sheet views
Create custom views in an Excel worksheet without interrupting others.
New and improved recording slideshow
Slideshow recording now supports video presenter recording, handwriting recording and laser pointer recording.
New in: PowerPoint
Manuscript Replay - Slide Animation for Manuscript Object
You can now apply the new Replay or Rewind animation to a manuscript and get a drawing effect directly in your presentations. You can set the timing of these animations to be faster or slower to match the work you want.
New in: PowerPoint
Arrange items in your screen reader slides
View the items in the screen reading order and rearrange them if necessary to convey your message effectively.
New in: PowerPoint
Slide link
Ask a colleague to contribute to your slideshow and launch them directly on the slide you need help with.
New in: PowerPoint
Translator and manuscript in Outlook
Translate emails into more than 70 languages on the go and view transcription - all in Outlook.
Annotate email images or draw in a separate canvas with your finger, pen or mouse.
New in: Outlook
In Outlook, use Instant Search to find emails quickly
Select the search bar (above the Outlook bar) to help find e-mail messages anywhere in Outlook.
New in: Outlook
Reduce eye strain with dark mode
Previously, you could use Word with a dark bar and toolbars, but the color of your document remained bright white. Now the dark mode in Word also offers a dark canvas.
New in: Word
Improve comprehension with focus on the line
Navigate in a Word document, line by line, without distraction. Adjust the focus to place one, three or five lines in a view at a time.
New in: Word
See what's new in stock market multimedia
We are constantly adding richer multimedia content to the Office Premium collection of creative content, an organized library of images, icons, and more to help you express yourself.
New in: Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook Visio