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Welcome to Office 2024! You'll find several new features including several new functions in Excel, improved accessibility, better session recovery in Word, new capabilities in Access, and a new and more modern design that brings Office 2024 together.
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We are currently transitioning from Office 2021 to the updated version of Office 2024. In this new version, there are some notable features for multiple Office applications.
New in the office suite:
- New Default Office Theme: Office 2024 has a more natural and consistent experience within and between your Office apps.
- Improved accessibility tools: Office LTSC 2024 has added several new and improved features to make your documents, slideshows, workbooks, and emails more accessible for everyone.
Excel:
- Dynamic Charts with Dynamic Arrays; Dynamic Arrays in charts to help visualize datasets of variable length.
- Text and array functions: 14 new text and array functions in Excel 2024 that are designed to help you manipulate text and arrays in your worksheets.
- New IMAGE function: Add pictures to your workbooks using copy and paste or you can use the IMAGE function to pull pictures from the web.
- Improved accessibility tools: Office 2024 has added new and improved features to make your documents, slideshows, workbooks, and emails more accessible for everyone.
- Increased speed and stability of Excel 2024 workbooks, reducing delays and hang-ups arising when multiple workbooks with independent calculations are open at one time.
- Support for OpenDocument 1.4
- React to comments: Quickly identify new comments or new replies with the blue dot and show your support to a comment with a Like reaction.
Word:
- Recover your Word Session: When Word 2024 closes unexpectedly before you save your most recent changes, Word automatically opens all the documents you had open when the process closed, allowing you to continue where you left off.
- Improved Draw tab and ink features
- Improve cohesion with Line Focus
- Updated Draw tab
- Quickly access and change the color of all your inking tools in one place
PowerPoint:
- Present with Cameo: With cameo, you can insert your live camera feed directly on a PowerPoint slide. You can then apply the same effects to your camera feed as you can to a picture or other object, including formatting, transitions, and styles.
- Create a video in Recording Studio: Record your PowerPoint presentation or just a single slide and capture voice, ink gestures, and your video presence.
- Embed Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) videos: Add Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) videos to the presentation to enhance and enrich your storytelling.
- You can now add closed captions or subtitles to videos and audio files in your presentations.
Outlook:
- Improved search for email, calendars, and contacts: New improvements have been added to search in Outlook 2024 to boost messages, attachments, contacts, and calendar entries so when you type your search it surfaces the most relevant suggestions.
- More options for meeting creation
Access:
- Access Dataverse Connector with Power Platform: Unlock new capabilities organizations need and want like mobile solutions and Microsoft Teams integration. Keep the value and ease of use of Access together with the value of cloud-based storage.