Microsoft Office 2024 includes updated or locked in time versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote as well as Outlook for PC. In Office 2024, you will find several new features including many new functions, improved accessibility, better session recovery, new capabilities and a new and latest design which you'll love. Read for more details about what’s new in Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus.

What's New in Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus

Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus desktop version include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote and access tools.

New default Office theme

Microsoft Office 2024 has a more natural and consistent experience within and between the Office apps. This new look applies Fluent Design principles to deliver an intuitive, familiar experience across all the applications. It shines on Windows 11 while still enhancing the user experience on Windows 10 too.

Improved accessibility tools

Office 2024 has also added several new and improved features to make your documents, slideshows, workbooks, and emails more accessible for everyone.

Insert a picture from a mobile device

It used to take several steps to transfer images from your phone to computer but now you can use your Android device to insert pictures directly into your content in Office 2024.

Support for OpenDocument Format

We also include support for the OpenDocument format. The ODF 1.4 specification adds support for many new features.

Give a Like reaction to a comment

You may Quickly identify new comments or new replies with the blue dot and show your support to a comment with a Like reaction.

Dynamic charts with dynamic arrays

You can now reference Dynamic Arrays in charts to help visualize datasets of variable length In Excel 2024. Charts automatically update to capture all data when the array recalculates, rather than being fixed to a specific number of data points.

Text and array functions

There are now 14 new text and array functions in the Excel 2024 that are designed to help you manipulate text and arrays in your worksheets. These functions make it easier to extract as well as split text strings and enable you to combine, reshape, resize, and select arrays with ease.

New IMAGE function

You can also add pictures to your workbooks using copy and paste or even you can use the IMAGE function to pull pictures from the web in Excel 2024. You can also easily move, resize, sort and filter within an Excel table without the image moving around.

Faster workbooks

The speed & stability of Excel 2024 workbooks has been improved, reducing the delays and hang-ups which arise when multiple workbooks with independent calculations are open at the same time.

Create a video in Recording Studio

You may record PowerPoint presentation or just a single slide and capture voice, ink gestures and your video presence Even Export your recorded presentation as a video file and play it for your audience.

Embed Microsoft Stream videos

Add Microsoft Stream on the SharePoint videos to the presentation to enhance and enrich your storytelling.

Add closed captions for video and audio

You can add closed captions or subtitles into the videos and audio files in your presentations. Adding closed captions makes your presentation accessible to a larger audience including people with hearing disabilities and those who speak languages other than the one in your video.

Improved search for email, calendars and contacts

New improvements have been added to search in Outlook 2024 to boost messages, attachments, contacts, as well as calendar entries so when you type your search it surfaces the most relevant suggestions.

More options for meeting creation

MS Outlook 2024 gives users more options while creating or managing meetings helping you carve out breaks between calls by automatically shortening meetings depending on their length.

More shapes, stencils and templates

Now Visio 2024 has more shapes, stencils and templates to help you create diagrams. Visio Standard 2024 now brings many new icons, sticky notes to brainstorm and a plethora of infographics like pictograms and To-Do-Lists to name a few. Visio Professional 2024 includes all the added content from Standard and it includes 10+ new Azure stencils and more network and software content like Kubernetes Shapes and Yourdon-Coad Notations.

Enjoy better performance and speed

Whether it’s emails, files, people or events, You may get better matches for what you’re looking for with new search improvements in Outlook 2024. Experience faster performance when working in Excel even if you have multiple workbooks open at the same time, Plus, PC users can now customize swipe left and swipe right gestures in Outlook 2024 with a multi-touch trackpad or magic mouse.

Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus Key Features