Note taking app One Note will remain free. In Word, users can now apply a dark theme, get Word to read content aloud and switch to a more immersive full-screen view. Writing or drawing with a stylus on PowerPoint is going to become more user-friendly with the addition of enhanced pressure sensitivity, tilt effects and ink replay.Įxcel gets new tools and formulae allowing users to analyse data and generate charts from complex data sets quicker. Its key talking points include two new PowerPoint tools, Morph and Zoom, which allow users to apply transitions to give the appearance of movement in text, shapes, pictures and charts. Office 2019 includes popular productivity tools such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and starts at $149 for a single PC. It will also be backward compatible and work with files created using previous versions such as Office 2016, Office 2013 and Office 2010. It will continue to get big fixes and security updates, but won’t receive any feature updates after the purchase. Unlike Office 365, which works online, Office 2019 will run offline. However, many of its features are already available on Office 365 Pro Plus.
