Home office setups are popular, namely because they offer a quiet space in your house to be productive with a wide variety of things, be it to study, to work on finances, to work a remote job, or something else. But if you’re anything like me, then you might have a few essential items that make your home office exciting to use.
Office
Microsoft Office 2021 set to launch on October 5 [Updated]
Way back in February of this year, Microsoft announced that its newest version of its ridiculously popular suite of productivity apps, Office, would launch sometime later in the year. And now, all these months later, and just a few weeks out from the newest version of Windows arriving, we now know when we'll get to install the new Office. And it just so happens to coincide with the launch of the new version of the company's desktop OS.
Microsoft announces Office 2021 launching for macOS and Windows later in 2021
While Microsoft has been making tweaks and improvements to its suite of office apps for quite some time, a proper change to the numbered year hasn't happened since 2019. That changes today, though, as Microsoft officially unveils Office 2021.
Excel updated with Split View multitasking, Word now supports trackpad and mouse
Microsoft has updated its Office for iPhone and iPad productivity suite with a few new nice-to-haves. For instance, you can now take advantage of side-by-side multitasking in Excel. Also, Word now supports richer mouse and trackpad interactions on your Magic Keyboard.
The new version of Microsoft Office coming in 2021 won’t require a subscription to use
If you need Microsoft Office, you must currently subscribe to it - not everyone's cup of tea. That could change as soon as next year, however, as the Windows maker has now confirmed that it will offer a new perpetual release of Microsoft Office for Mac and Windows that doesn't require a subscription to use beginning in 2021.
Google Docs, Sheets and Slides are getting Dark Mode support and other new features
Google yesterday announced a set of changes and new features that are coming to or are already available in its mobile word processor Docs, spreadsheet app Sheets and presentation software Slides, including support for the system-wide Dark Mode on the iPhone and iPad.
Word and PowerPoint gain Split View, trackpad support coming to Office for iOS by the fall
Keeping true to its promise, Microsoft yesterday updated its Word and PowerPoint productivity apps on the App Store with the ability to open two documents in a side-by-side view on iPad via Split View multitasking support. The Excel app did not pick up Split View support at post time, however. Microsoft has also acknowledged that it's working on implementing iPadOS trackpad support for the Office suite, but don't expect to be taking advantage of it before the fall.
Multi-window support is coming to Word and PowerPoint on iPad
Microsoft is now testing iOS 13's ability to have apps run several windows of the same app on iPad with its own Word and PowerPoint software.
Microsoft launches the new Office iPhone app that consolidates Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Back in November of last year, Microsoft began beta testing a new version of its Office app for iPhone, one that consolidates Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into one app experience.
Microsoft revamps the Office apps on iPhone, adds new features
Microsoft today issued updates to the mobile Word, Excel and PowerPoint software bringing new features and a fresh coat of paint to these iOS productivity apps.
Microsoft now lets you make Outlook.com a Mac app via Chrome
The Outlook desktop app that ships as part of Microsoft's Office suite can be quite cluttered but now Mac users will be able to install the Outlook.com web app into macOS, Chrome OS, Windows and other platforms that natively support Progressive Web Apps (PWA).
Excel for iOS now lets you import printed data by scanning a physical piece of paper
Microsoft yesterday announced a cool table-creation feature in Excel for iPhone and iPad which takes advantage of your iOS device's built-in camera, computer vision and machine learning to turn a photo of data in a table format into an editable spreadsheet in the app.