Microsoft Office 2019

For the Mac version of Microsoft Office 2019, seeMicrosoft Office 2019 for Mac.

Microsoft Office 2019

Microsoft Office 2019 (second release codenamedOffice 16) is a version of theMicrosoft Office productivity suite for bothWindows and macOS that succeededOffice 2016. It was unveiled for Windows on April 27, 2018, and released to general availability for Windows and macOS on September 24, 2018.

Some features that were previously restricted to Office 365 subscribers are now available in this release. It was superseded byMicrosoft Office 2021, which was released on October 5, 2021, along withWindows 11.^[1]

History[]

On April 27, 2018, Microsoft released Office 2019 Commercial Preview for Windows 10. On June 12, 2018, Microsoft released a preview for macOS. It was officially released for Windows and macOS on September 24, 2018.

New features[]

Office 2019 includes many of the features previously published viaOffice 365, along with improved inking features,LaTeX support in Word, new animation features in PowerPoint, including the morph and zoom features, and new formulas and charts in Excel for data analysis.

OneNote is absent from the suite as theUniversal Windows Platform (UWP) version of OneNote bundled with Windows 10 replaces it. OneNote 2016 can be installed as an optional feature on the Office Installer.

For Mac users, Focus Mode will be introduced to Word, 2D maps will be added to Excel, and new Morph transitions, SVG support, and 4K video exports will be available in PowerPoint, among other features.

Despite being released in the same month, the new Office user interface (including their new icons) in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook is only available to Office 365 subscribers, not perpetual Office 2019 licensees. The Office 2019 user interface retains the Metro design language from Office 2016, except that the Microsoft account picture is circular.

Deployment[]

Office 2019 requiresWindows 10,Windows Server 2019, or macOS Sierra and later. macOS installations can be acquired from the Microsoft website or the Mac App Store. For Office 2013 and 2016, various editions containing the client apps were available in both Click-To-Run (inspired by Microsoft App-V) and traditional Windows Installer setup formats. For Office 2019, the client apps only have a Click-to-Run installer, and only the server apps have the traditional MSI installer. The Click-To-Run version has a smaller footprint; in the case of Microsoft Office 2019 Pro Plus, the product requires 10 GB less than the MSI version of Office 2016 Pro Plus.

Office 2019 will receive five years of mainstream support, but unlike Office 2016, which receives five years of extended support, Office 2019 only gets two. Mainstream support ended on October 10, 2023, while extended support ends on October 14, 2025.

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