Office 2021 Home & Student

Apps and services
Office Home & Student 2021 provides updated classic versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more to help you connect and create with friends and family.

Create with confidence
Keep working anywhere because your apps are fully installed on your PC or Mac, so you’re not tied to the internet to get things done.

Work together seamlessly
Work with others in the same document at the same time with innovative collaboration tools.

Track & organize effortlessly
Enjoy easier tracking and organization with new tools and updated features in Office 2021.

Microsoft account and/or Microsoft organizational account is required for licensing and to access services.

PC Windows System Requirements:

• Computer and processor: 1.1 GHz or faster, 2-core
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Hard disk: 4 GB of available disk space
• Display: 1280 x 768 screen resolution (64-bit Office required for 4K and higher)
• Graphics: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9 or later, with WDDM 2.0 or higher for Windows 10 (or WDDM 1.3 or higher for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update).
• Operating system: Windows 10 or Windows 11
• Browser: The current version of Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, or Firefox.
• .NET version: Some features may require .NET 3.5 or 4.6 and higher to also be installed.
• Other: For Microsoft Teams requirements, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2128695

Mac System Requirements:

• Computer and processor: Intel or Apple Silicon (As supported by the three most recent versions of macOS.)
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Hard disk: 10 GB of available disk space
• Display: 1280 x 800 screen resolution.
• Graphics: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9 or later, with WDDM 2.0 or higher for Windows 10 (or WDDM 1.3 or higher for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update).
• Operating system: Office for Mac is supported on the three most recent versions of macOS. As new major versions of macOS are made generally available, Microsoft will drop support for the oldest version and support the newest and previous two versions of macOS. Product functionality and feature availability may vary on older systems. For the best experience, use the latest version of any operating system specified above.
• Browser: The current version of Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, or Firefox.

Compared to Microsoft Office 2019, Microsoft Office 2021 boasts several new improvements and enhancements. Here's a breakdown of the additions you can expect from the full Microsoft Office 2021 app suite:

General

• Visual refresh designed with clean monoline iconography in mind
• New stock media content
• Microsoft Search bar in all apps for general search queries
• Performance improvements
• Updated Draw Tab with new Point Eraser, Ruler, and Lasso additions
• Support for OpenDocument format 1.3
• Sketched style outline option for shapes
• Addition of a Hex color value box when picking colors

Microsoft Excel

• XLOOKUP search for finding information in tables and ranges
• Dynamic array functions, including FILTER, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE, and RANDARRAY
• LET function that assigns names to calculation results
• XMATCH function that searches for a specified item and then provides the item's relative position

Microsoft PowerPoint

• Record Slide Show now features options for presenter video recording, ink recording and laser pointer recording
• You can replay ink strokes to illustrate things step by step or visualize a thought process
• You can see slide elements in screen-reading order and rearrange them as necessary

Microsoft Outlook

• Email translation for over 70 different languages will be supported
• Annotate email images with your finger, pen, or mouse
• Instant Search feature allows you to quickly find specific emails

Microsoft Access

• Updated Linked Table Manager with refresh, relink, or remove options
• Addition of SQL DateTime2 data type
• Tab manager that allows you to see active tabs, rearrange tabs, or close database objects

Microsoft Visio

• New Azure stencils and shapes
• New AWS stencils and shapes
• Workplace Social Distancing template and stencil