Description What is Office LTSC 2024? Office Long Term Service Channel (LTSC) 2024 is the most recent on-premises edition of Microsoft’s core productivity apps for commercial and government customers, designed for use in disconnected or restricted environments. It’s available to organizations through volume licensing agreements. Office LTSC Professional Plus 2024 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and OneNote. Skype for Business is available as an optional install during setup. Access isn’t available for devices running macOS. The Microsoft Teams app isn’t preinstalled with Office LTSC 2024, but is available as a separate download. Organizations that require Teams for communication and collaboration can download Teams separately. Microsoft Publisher is not included with Office LTSC 2024. This change is due to the planned retirement of Publisher, which will no longer be supported after October 2026. Office LTSC 2024 doesn’t receive any new features. ​​ What’s new in Office LTSC 2024  New default Office theme Based on feedback from users like you, Office 2024 has a more natural and consistent experience within and between your Office apps. This new look applies Fluent Design principles to deliver an intuitive, familiar experience across all your applications. It shines on Windows 11, while still enhancing the user experience on Windows 10. Improved accessibility tools ​​​​​​​Office LTSC 2024 has added several new and improved features to make your documents, slideshows, workbooks, and emails more accessible for everyone. (Available in Word 2024, Excel 2024, PowerPoint 2024 and Outlook 2024) Insert a picture from a mobile device It used to take several steps to transfer images from your phone to computer, but now you can use your Android device to insert pictures directly into your content in Office LTSC 2024​​​​​​​. (Available in Word 2024, Excel 2024 and PowerPoint 2024) Support for OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.4 We now include support for the OpenDocument format (ODF) 1.4. The ODF 1.4 specification adds support for many new features. (Available in Word 2024, Excel 2024 and PowerPoint 2024) Give a Like reaction to a comment Quickly identify new comments or new replies with the blue dot and show your support to a comment with a Like reaction. (Available in Word 2024 and PowerPoint 2024) Dynamic charts with dynamic arrays In Excel 2024​​​, you can now reference Dynamic Arrays in charts to help visualize datasets of variable length. Charts automatically update to capture all data when the array recalculates, rather than being fixed to a specific number of data points. Text and array functions There are now 14 new text and array functions in Excel 2024 that are designed to help you manipulate text and arrays in your worksheets. These functions make it easier to extract and split text strings and enable you to combine, reshape, resize, and select arrays with ease. New IMAGE function Now in Excel 2024​​, you can add pictures to your workbooks using copy and paste or you can use the IMAGE function to pull pictures from the web. You can also easily move, resize, sort, and filter within an Excel​​​​​​​ table without the image moving around. Faster workbooks The speed and stability of Excel 2024 workbooks has been improved, reducing the delays and hang-ups that arise when multiple workbooks with independent calculations are open at the same time. Present with cameo With cameo, you can insert your live camera feed directly on a PowerPoint​​​​​​​ slide. You can then apply the same effects to your camera feed as you can to a picture or other object, including formatting, transitions, and styles. Create a video in Recording Studio Record your PowerPoint​​​​​​​ presentation—or just a single slide—and capture voice, ink gestures, and your video presence. Export your recorded presentation as a video file and play it for your audience. Embed Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) videos Add Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) videos to the presentation to enhance and enrich your storytelling. Add closed captions for video and audio You can now add closed captions or subtitles to videos and audio files in your presentations. Adding closed captions makes your presentation accessible to a larger audience, including people with hearing disabilities and those who speak languages other than the one in your video. Improved search for email, calendars, and contacts New improvements have been added to search in Outlook 2024 to boost messages, attachments, contacts, and calendar entries so when you type your search it surfaces the most relevant suggestions. More options for meeting creation Outlook 2024 gives users more options while creating or managing meetings helping you carve out breaks between calls by automatically shortening meetings depending on their length. ​​​​​​Recover your Word session When Word 2024 ​​​​closes unexpectedly before you save your most recent changes, Word automatically opens all the documents you had open when the process closed, allowing you to continue where you left off. Improved Draw tab and ink features OneNote LTSC 2024 has many new features and updates to existing tools to make your inking and Draw tab experience more robust and customizable. Now your ink will render instantly when drawn with your Surface pen and look just as good as traditional ink on paper. OneNote LTSC 2024 also now has more color and size options for your drawing tools, as well as better organization of the tools for easier access. Access Dataverse Connector with Power Platform Unlock new capabilities organizations need and want like mobile solutions and Microsoft Teams integration. Keep the value and ease of use of Access​​​​​​​ together with the value of cloud-based storage.