Microsoft Office 2021

Microsoft Office 2021
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseOctober 5, 2021 / 2108 (16.0.14326.20454)
Stable release(s)
Retail: 2402 (Build 17328.20162)
Volume: 2108 (Build 14332.20637) / March 4, 2024; 21 days ago (2024-03-04)[1]
Operating system
Platformx86, x64, ARM64
Included withMicrosoft 365
PredecessorMicrosoft Office 2019 (2018)
SuccessorMicrosoft Office 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 (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, along with Windows 11, and replaced Office 2019.[3] A successor, Microsoft Office 2024 is expected to be rolled out in the second half of 2024.[4]

Office 2021 retains the same major version number of 16 that previous versions of Office had. It introduces new dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP[5] features for Excel, full dark-mode support and performance improvements.[6][7][8] Support for retail versions of Office 2021 will end on October 13, 2026; unlike older versions of Office, there is no extended support period.[9]

Development[edit]

The office suites updates includes 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.[10] It enhances Ink for Translate in Microsoft Outlook and PowerPoint.

Office editions[edit]

Available editions include:[11][12]

  • Office Home & Student 2021: Includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint for Windows and Mac OS. Includes 1 license for PC or Mac.[13]
  • Office Home & Business 2021: Includes Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint for Windows and Mac OS. Includes 1 license for PC or Mac.
  • Office Professional 2021: Includes Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access for Windows. Includes 1 license for PC.[14]
  • Microsoft 365 Apps for business: Includes Office Home & Business 2021 apps, plus Access and Publisher for Windows, Microsoft Forms; web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Licence expanded to 5 PCs or Macs, 5 tablets, and 5 mobile devices. Other features include 1 TB of OneDrive storage, direct save to OneDrive or SharePoint.
  • Microsoft 365 Business Standard: Microsoft 365 Apps for business with Microsoft Bookings, Microsoft Exchange, web version of Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SharePoint. Other features include a 50 GB mailbox.

Default font change[edit]

Midway through the life cycle of Office 2021, in July 2023 – after two years of evaluating five newly commissioned fonts – [15] the default font across all Office applications was changed to Aptos.[16][17] This marked the first time since Office 2007 that Microsoft had changed default fonts.

Version history[edit]

Retail[edit]

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[edit]

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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