Everything New in Office 2024

Microsoft Office 2024 is the latest perpetual version of Microsoft Office. It is available as a one-time purchase, which means you can use the included applications without paying a monthly or annual subscription fee.

Office 2024 introduces a more modern design, improved accessibility, better performance, and new features across applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote.

Please note that the applications and features included depend on the Office 2024 edition you purchase and whether you use Windows or macOS.

Office 2024 features a refreshed default theme based on Microsoft’s Fluent Design principles.

The updated interface provides:

Microsoft has improved the accessibility tools available throughout Office 2024.

The updated Accessibility ribbon helps you identify and correct potential accessibility issues in documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and emails. This makes it easier to create content that can be used by people with different accessibility requirements.

If Word closes unexpectedly before you save your latest changes, Word 2024 can automatically reopen the documents that were active when the application closed.

This helps you continue working without having to search manually for recovered files.

Word 2024 makes it easier to identify new comments and replies. You can also react to comments with a Like, making document reviews and feedback more convenient.

Word 2024 supports OpenDocument Format 1.4, improving compatibility with documents created in applications that use the ODT format.

Excel receives some of the most significant improvements in Office 2024.

Excel 2024 includes 14 new text and array functions designed to make it easier to split, combine, reshape, resize, and extract information from data.

The new functions include:

These functions can simplify formulas that previously required several separate steps.

Charts can now reference dynamic arrays. When the amount of data in an array changes, the chart can automatically expand or contract to include the updated information.

The IMAGE function allows you to display an image from a web address directly inside a cell.

Images placed inside cells can be moved, resized, sorted, and filtered together with the surrounding spreadsheet data.

Excel 2024 offers improved performance when several workbooks containing independent calculations are open simultaneously. This can reduce delays, freezing, and interruptions when working with larger files.

Excel 2024 includes improved compatibility with spreadsheets saved in the OpenDocument Spreadsheet format.

Cameo allows you to place your live camera feed directly onto a PowerPoint slide.

Your camera feed can be formatted like other objects in the presentation, including the use of styles, shapes, transitions, and visual effects.

PowerPoint 2024 provides improved presentation recording tools. You can record an entire presentation or individual slides while capturing:

The finished presentation can then be exported as a video file.

You can add closed captions or subtitles to supported video and audio files in a presentation. This helps make your content more accessible to people with hearing impairments and audiences who speak different languages.

PowerPoint can embed supported Microsoft Stream videos stored in SharePoint, making it easier for organizations to use internal video content in presentations.

New comments and replies are easier to identify, and users can react to comments with a Like.

PowerPoint 2024 improves compatibility with presentations saved in the OpenDocument Presentation format.

Outlook 2024 provides more relevant search suggestions for:

This helps you find information more quickly across your mailbox.

Outlook 2024 includes options to automatically shorten meetings by starting them later or ending them earlier. This can create breaks between consecutive online meetings.

Outlook 2024 for Mac also includes features such as:

OneNote 2024 includes improvements to the Draw tab and digital inking experience.

Depending on the edition and device, improvements may include:

Depending on your Office edition, platform, and licensing type, you may also receive:

Office 2024 and Microsoft 365 are different products.

Office 2024 is a one-time purchase for a specific version of Office. It receives security and stability updates, but it does not continuously receive new feature releases in the same way as Microsoft 365.

Microsoft 365 is a subscription service that receives ongoing features and may include additional cloud services and AI-powered functionality.

Microsoft Copilot and other subscription-based Microsoft 365 features are not automatically included with a standard Office 2024 perpetual license.

For Microsoft’s complete feature list, see What’s new in Office 2024 and Office LTSC 2024.