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For example the ‘new’ functions mentioned in Excel 2021 (see below) are already in Excel 2019. Most of the apps have an opening ‘What’s New’ promo page but it looks like an unrevised left-over from Office 2019 (understandable in a preview). Like Office 2019, Office 2021/LTSC won’t have any cloud-based features like PowerPoint Designer or Linked Data Types in Excel. Microsoft may add some more features to Office 2021 (and the related Office LTSC) as the preview continues. It’s hard to tell the differences between Office 2019 and Office 2021, at least in its current public preview form. They’d much prefer customers get on the subscription treadmill. Office 2021 for volume customers is a non-subscription, perpetual licence release that Microsoft is grudgingly selling.

The software is underwhelming, to put it mildly, but that’s what Microsoft is aiming for. Perhaps because there’s a few more innovations in a comparison of Office 2019 to Office 2021 for Mac than in the Windows version? There’s only a Mac Office 2021 preview, no Office 2021 for Windows preview. Your first look at Office 2021 for Mac with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, which is now out in public preview, showing off some of the new features.

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