While most recent Redmond news has been focussed on Windows 11 lately, Microsoft has also unveiled Office 2021.

The Office products are accessible with the Microsoft 365 subscription however Microsoft has also made standalone versions of the products available. Office Home and Student 2021 are available for $149. The Office Home and Business edition that includes Outlook costs $249. More details about pricing and editions here.

Like every version of Office Microsoft has released, office 2021, comes with many new features. I'm not going to repeat every feature because truthfully, many of the new features are things that I would never use (such as Dark Mode or support for OpenDocument format 1.3). There's a lot to love about Microsoft Office 2021. I want to share some of my favorite features. If you aim for additional resources on office pakket, check this site out.

Line Focus
It may seem like an odd thing to lead with, but one of my most loved new features is something called Line Focus. Line Focus isn't one of those things that I can think of using on a daily basis, but I believe that it could assist me when I'm in the middle of long writing sessions. Word will display only one line of text (or multiple lines, if you'd like), in order to help you focus your focus. The way this appears like in Figure 1.

At times, at the end of a long day when the lines on a page seem to blur as I try to read what I have written. Line Focus is a feature that Line Focus feature will inevitably help me proofread more easily.

Translator
A very exciting new feature is a translator for Outlook. The extension can translate automatically messages written in foreign languages. This is a huge advantage for me since I receive emails from around the world.

Inking
Microsoft Office 2021 comes with the ability to ink. It's another reason I am thrilled about. This means that you will be able to utilize a Surface Pen or any other inking device (including your mouse or your finger) to mark up email messages.

I'm not sure how many times I've wanted to highlight something in an email or add a note (such as a due day, a phone number, or something similar).

In the spirit of inking, Microsoft has added a new pen toolbox for the MS office applications. The pen toolbox helps make it easier to choose a pen and change its color or select a different drawing tool like the eraser or the lasso (which was available in PowerPoint for a while but is now a component of Word).

Also, Microsoft has made it to ensure that customizing the pen can no longer roam from one device to the next. Although this may sound like a negative aspect at first glance, it's actually a positive change. My Surface Book uses inking in different ways that my desktop. So, the pen I'm using on one device may not be ideal for different devices.

Another ink-related feature is that Microsoft has added ink replay capabilities to its Office applications. This means that PowerPoint can be tagged with prerecordedink.