What’s update in Office 2021 ?

As you all of us know that Microsoft has released yet another version of Microsoft office known as MS OFFICE 2021. This version is made available with a Microsoft 365 subscription and also as a " standalone" version.

As in every version, Microsoft has unleashed allot of attractive, efficient and so useful features as well. There are several new features in Office 2021 that were introduced previously in Office 365/Microsoft 365. In this article, I will be discussing and showings you how these benefits can make you efficient and why you should be applying these features into your work.

• Excel gets a variety of new features and functions, including XLOOKUP, which lets you find things in a table or range. Also new to Excel are a number of dynamic arrays, which let you write one formula and have it return an array of values. Excel 2021’s new XMATCH function lets you search for an item in an array or range of cells, and then return the item's relative position. You can also use it to return a value in an array.
• LET function – an Excel feature that lets you assign names to calculation results.
• OpenDocument format (ODF) 1.3 support
• In PowerPoint, there are improved Record Slide Show capabilities, which include presenter video recording, ink recording, and laser pointer recording.
• Replay your ink strokes – if you’re using ink in PowerPoint, you can now replay illustrations as they were drawn.
• Arrange elements on your slides for screen readers – this lets you rearrange elements to optimize them for screen readers.
• Outlook gets an improved search called Instant Search, as well as the ability to translate messages into more than 70 languages and to use ink to annotate email messages.
• Instant search – search results are now instant, with more ways to refine and filter results.
• Access (available only with certain enterprise Office editions) gets an updated Linked Table Manager and a new Date/Time Extended data type.

Overall, there are more stock images and icons; a Microsoft Search box for searching content from multiple Office applications; AutoSave, which automatically saves changes to OneDrive; support for the OpenDocument format (ODF) 1.3; and some under-the-hood performance improvements, among other changes.

See this Microsoft blog post for an overview of Office 2021’s new features, and this page for a granular feature-by-feature list of what’s new.

Office 2021 will also include the collaboration features found in Microsoft 365 versions of Office, with real-time co-authoring, OneDrive support, and Microsoft Teams integration. 

Thank you!

Mohammed Alfan