Microsoft issues a new release of Office-Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook for Mac and PC. Office 2024 includes updates that Microsoft has been delivering to subscribers over the past few years. Microsoft issued its last stand-alone version of Office in 2021. The latest Office 2024 version elevates core applications in addition to changes in accessibility and UI. By default, Office 2024 has a new theme.

 The most recent Fluent design principles by Microsoft now always fit with Windows 11. In addition, improvements were made to make further accessible features to aid office users in finding accessible documentation issues, slides, workbooks, and emails. Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook have the largest changes within Office 2024. Microsoft's added new functionality to Excel to use text and arrays in spreadsheets, but perhaps most exciting of all is the new IMAGE feature that pulls images from the web. Excel 2024 can also now reference Dynamic Arrays in charts-meaning those can change dynamically rather than being set to certain data points.

 The overall speed and stability of Excel 2024 should also see improvements, according to Microsoft. Microsoft has also added a camera feature in PowerPoint, which lets you insert a live feed camera into your slides. Another new feature is the Recording Studio, which ties everything together with recording options for narration, animation, transitions, and inking. To enhance accessibility, you can also add closed captions or subtitles to any videos or audio files on your slides.

Improved search in Outlook 2024 includes returning more appropriate results to messages, attachments, contacts, and calendar entries. This latest version of Outlook also contains more meeting options, including the capability to automatically shorten meetings. Users on Mac can customize left and right swipe gestures in Outlook. Now, it is easier to insert any picture from your Android mobile into Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. In addition, Microsoft also supports OpenDocument Format or ODF version 1.4, which comprises a set of new enhancements. 

To Like and Reply comment in the document, these two Office applications have also been tipped off by Word and PowerPoint. Recovering the CO -Brecation of the computer will also be provided to the Word 2024 users. These words automatically open all the documents you opened before the computer crash. Users of OneNote 2024 will also get new ink and drawing capabilities.

Microsoft's documentation says Office 2024 requires both a Microsoft account and an Internet connection, but if things work as they did with Office 2021, you will need an Internet connection only to install the suite and to activate it and to receive security updates. Office 2024 will run on Windows 10 and 11 and on the last three releases of macOS.

There will be two distinct editions of Office 2024. First, there's Office Home 2024 which is priced at $149.99 and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for PC or Mac. If you want Outlook, then you'll have to go for the Office Home and Business 2024 version, which would cost $249.99 and also grants users the right to use the programs for business purposes.