Microsoft Office 2021

Microsoft Office 2021
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseOctober 5, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-10-05)
Stable release(s) [±]
RetailVersion 2410 (Build 18129.20158) / November 12, 2024; 21 days ago (2024-11-12)[1]
Volume licensedVersion 2108 (Build 14332.20812) / November 12, 2024; 21 days ago (2024-11-12)[1]
Operating system
PlatformIA-32, x64
Included withMicrosoft 365
PredecessorMicrosoft Office 2019 (2018)
SuccessorMicrosoft Office 2024 (2024)
Available in102 languages[2]
List of languages
  • Full (40): English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay (Latin), Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin, Serbia), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
  • Partial (51): Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani (Latin), Bangla (Bangladesh), Bangla (Bengali India), Basque (Basque), Belarusian, Bosnian (Latin), Catalan, Dari, Filipino, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Icelandic, Irish, Kannada, Khmer, KiSwahili, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Macedonian (Republic of Macedonia), Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nepali, Norwegian Nynorsk, Odia, Persian (Farsi), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Quechua, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia & Herzegovina), Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia), Sindhi (Arabic), Sinhala, Tamil, Tatar (Cyrillic), Telugu, Turkmen (Latin), Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek (Latin), Valencian, Welsh
  • Proofing only (11): Hausa, Igbo, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Kinyarwanda, Pashto, Romansh, Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana, Wolof, Yoruba
TypeOffice suite
LicenseTrialware
Websiteoffice.com
Microsoft Office 2021 for Mac
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseOctober 5, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-10-05)
Stable release16.90.3 (24110120) (November 2, 2024; 31 days ago (2024-11-02)[3]) [±]
Operating systemmacOS Catalina or later[4]
Platformx64, ARM64
PredecessorMicrosoft Office 2019 for Mac (2018)
SuccessorMicrosoft Office 2024 for Mac (2024)[5]
Available in27 languages[2]
List of languages
English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Microsoft Office 2021 (third release codenamed Office 16) is a version of the Microsoft Office suite of applications for the Microsoft Windows and macOS operating systems. It was released on October 5, 2021.[6] Its successor, Microsoft Office 2024 was released on October 1, 2024.[7]

Office 2021 retains the same major version number of 16 that previous versions of Office had. It introduces new dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP[8] features for Excel, full dark-mode support in Windows and performance improvements.[9][10][11] Support for retail versions of Office 2021 will end on October 13, 2026; unlike older versions of Office, there is no extended support period.[12]

Development

The office suite updates include better support for the OASIS OpenDocument file format. The version update adds features to the LET function, has better search for XMATCH function, dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP.[13] It enhances Ink for Translate in Microsoft Outlook and PowerPoint.

Editions

Office 2021

  • Office Home & Student 2021: Office Home & Student 2021 includes the core applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Office Home & Student 2021 can be installed either on PC or on Mac.
  • Office Home & Business 2021: Office Home & Business 2021 includes the core applications and Outlook. Office Home & Business 2021 can be installed either on PC or on Mac.
  • Office Professional 2021: Office Professional 2021 includes the core applications, as well as Outlook, Publisher, and Access. Office Professional 2021 is exclusive for PC only.
  • Office Professional Plus 2021: Office Professional Plus 2021 includes the core applications, as well as Outlook, Publisher, Access, and Teams (replacement of previous Skype for Business). Office Professional Plus 2021 is exclusive for PC only.
Application(s) Office Home & Student 2021 Office Home & Business 2021 Office Professional 2021 Office Professional Plus 2021
Core applications Yes Yes Yes Yes
Outlook No Yes Yes Yes
Publisher No No Yes Yes
Access No No Yes Yes
Teams No No No Yes

Office 2021 supports installation by using a product key to associate with a Microsoft Account (MSA), then by activation.

Office LTSC 2021

Volume licensing perpetual branch of Microsoft Office, 3 editions were released:

  • Office LTSC Standard for Mac 2021: Office LTSC Standard for Mac 2021 includes the core applications as well as Outlook. It is only available for Apple Macintosh computers.
  • Office LTSC Standard 2021: Office LTSC Standard 2021 includes the core applications, as well as Outlook and Publisher. Office LTSC Standard 2021 is only available for Microsoft Windows PCs.
  • Office LTSC Professional Plus 2021: Office LTSC Professional Plus 2021 includes the core applications, as well as Outlook, Publisher, Access, and Teams. Office LTSC Professional Plus 2021 is only available for Microsoft Windows PCs.
Application(s) Office LTSC Standard for Mac 2021 Office LTSC Standard 2021 Office LTSC Professional Plus 2021
Core applications Yes Yes Yes
Outlook Yes Yes Yes
Publisher No Yes Yes
Access No No Yes
Teams No No Yes

Default font change

Midway through the life cycle of Office 2021, in July 2023 – after two years of evaluating five newly commissioned fonts – [14] the default font across all Office applications was changed to Aptos.[15][16] This marked the first time since Office 2007 that Microsoft had changed default fonts.

Version history (Windows)

Retail

Release date Version number
October 5, 2021 2108 (Build 16.0.14326.20454)
October 6, 2021 2109 (Build 14430.20270)
October 12, 2021 2109 (Build 14430.20298)
October 14, 2021 2109 (Build 14430.20306)
October 25, 2021 2110 (Build 14527.20226)
October 28, 2021 2110 (Build 14527.20234)
November 9, 2021 2110 (Build 14527.20276)
November 30, 2021 2110 (Build 14527.20312)
December 3, 2021 2111 (Build 14701.20226)
December 14, 2021 2111 (Build 14701.20248)
December 16, 2021 2111 (Build 14701.20262)
January 4, 2022 2112 (Build 14729.20194)
January 11, 2022 2112 (Build 14729.20248)
January 12, 2022 2112 (Build 14729.20260)
January 26, 2022 2201 (Build 14827.20158)
February 8, 2022 2201 (Build 14827.20192)
February 16, 2022 2201 (Build 14827.20198)
February 28, 2022 2202 (Build 14931.20120)
March 8, 2022 2202 (Build 14931.20132)
March 30, 2022 2203 (Build 15028.20160)
April 12, 2022 2203 (Build 15028.20204)
April 20, 2022 2203 (Build 15028.20228)
April 26, 2022 2204 (Build 15128.20178)
May 10, 2022 2204 (Build 15128.20224)
May 17, 2022 2204 (Build 15128.20248)
May 24, 2022 2205 (Build 15225.20204)
June 14, 2022 2205 (Build 15225.20288)
June 29, 2022 2206 (Build 15330.20196)
July 6, 2022 2206 (Build 15330.20230)
July 12, 2022 2206 (Build 15330.20246)
July 18, 2022 2206 (Build 15330.20264)
August 3, 2022 2207 (Build 15427.20194)
August 9, 2022 2207 (Build 15427.20210)
August 31, 2022 2208 (Build 15601.20088)
September 13, 2022 2208 (Build 15601.20148)
September 26, 2022 2209 (Build 15629.20156)
October 11, 2022 2209 (Build 15629.20208)
October 27, 2022 2210 (Build 15726.20174)
November 8, 2022 2210 (Build 15726.20202)
December 6, 2022 2211 (Build 15831.20190)
December 13, 2022 2211 (Build 15831.20208)
January 10, 2023 2212 (Build 15928.20216)
January 26, 2023 2301 (Build 16026.20146)
February 28, 2023 2302 (Build 16130.20218)
March 14, 2023 2302 (Build 16130.20306)
March 20, 2023 2302 (Build 16130.20332)
March 28, 2023 2303 (Build 16227.20212)
April 4, 2023 2303 (Build 16227.20258)
April 11, 2023 2303 (Build 16227.20280)
April 25, 2023 2304 (Build 16327.20214)
May 9, 2023 2304 (Build 16327.20248)
June 1, 2023 2305 (Build 16501.20196)
June 13, 2023 2305 (Build 16501.20210)
June 26, 2023 2306 (Build 16529.20154)
July 11, 2023 2306 (Build 16529.20182)
July 26, 2023 2307 (Build 16626.20132)
July 27, 2023 2307 (Build 16626.20134)
August 8, 2023 2303 (Build 16227.20280)
August 28, 2023 2308 (Build 16731.20170)
September 12, 2023 2308 (Build 16731.20234)
September 28, 2023 2309 (Build 16827.20130)
October 10, 2023 2309 (Build 16827.20166)
October 25, 2023 2310 (Build 16924.20106)
October 31, 2023 2310 (Build 16924.20124)
November 14, 2023 2310 (Build 16924.20150)
November 29, 2023 2311 (Build 17029.20068)
December 12, 2023 2311 (Build 17029.20108)
January 4, 2024 2312 (Build 17126.20126)
January 9, 2024 2312 (Build 17126.20132)

Volume licensed

Release date Version number
October 12, 2021 2108 (Build 14332.20145)
November 9, 2021 2108 (Build 14332.20176)
December 14, 2021 2108 (Build 14332.20204)
January 11, 2022 2108 (Build 14332.20216)
February 8, 2022 2108 (Build 14332.20238)
March 8, 2022 2108 (Build 14332.20255)
April 12, 2022 2108 (Build 14332.20281)
May 10, 2022 2108 (Build 14332.20303)
June 14, 2022 2108 (Build 14332.20324)
July 12, 2022 2108 (Build 14332.20345)
August 9, 2022 2108 (Build 14332.20358)
September 13, 2022 2108 (Build 14332.20375)
October 11, 2022 2108 (Build 14332.20400)
November 8, 2022 2108 (Build 14332.20416)
December 13, 2022 2108 (Build 14332.20435)
January 10, 2023 2108 (Build 14332.20447)
February 14, 2023 2108 (Build 14332.20461)
March 14, 2023 2108 (Build 14332.20481)
April 11, 2023 2108 (Build 14332.20493)
May 9, 2023 2108 (Build 14332.20503)
June 13, 2023 2108 (Build 14332.20517)
July 11, 2023 2108 (Build 14332.20529)
July 27, 2023 2108 (Build 14332.20542)
August 8, 2023 2108 (Build 14332.20546)
September 12, 2023 2108 (Build 14332.20565)
October 10, 2023 2108 (Build 14332.20582)
November 14, 2023 2108 (Build 14332.20604)
December 12, 2023 2108 (Build 14332.20615)
January 9, 2024 2108 (Build 14332.20624)

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