That’s in contrast to Office 365, which requires an ongoing subscription fee and is constantly updated with new features. When you purchase a perpetual version of Office, such as Office 2016 or Office 2019, you pay a one-time fee for it and own it forever - and it never gets new features. There’s good reason for that: Microsoft is pushing Office 365, the subscription of version of Office, over the perpetual version of the suite. In years gone by, Microsoft typically trumpeted new Office releases with great fanfare and hoopla, but this time it released a blog post or two with few details and left it at that. Create compelling presentations with the new alignment, color-matching, and other design tools in PowerPoint and easily share them on the web.When Microsoft released Office 2019 for Windows this fall, it did so not with a bang, but a whisper. For greater insight, convert your info into a chart or table-in just two steps. Excel templates do most of the setup and design for you, so you can focus on your information. Do more with Word docs: open a PDF and edit it, pop in an online video and watch it without leaving the doc, and use Read Mode for distraction-free viewing on any screen. Enhance your reading experience with Insights, powered by Bing, which shows you relevant information from the web when you’re reading an Office file.

Dark and Dark Gray themes provide high contrast that’s easier on the eyes, and the Colorful theme gives you a modern look that’s consistent across your devices. New themes let you choose the Office experience that’s right for you. Type what you want help with in the new Tell Me box on the ribbon and it will tell you how to do it.

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