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; 13 days ago (2024-11-12)[1]
Volume licensedVersion 2108 (Build 14332.20812) / November 12, 2024; 13 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; 23 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 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]

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