Microsoft Office 2024 for Mac Overview
Office 2024 for Mac is designed from the ground up to take advantage of the latest Mac features, including Retina display, full-screen view support, and even scroll bounce. It’s the perfect combination of the Office you know and trust, and the Mac you love.
Key Features of Microsoft Office 2024 for Mac
- Word
- Create and share professional-looking documents with state-of-the-art editing, reviewing, and sharing tools. The new Design tab provides quick access to features, and Smart Lookup shows relevant contextual information from the web directly inside Word.
- Excel
- Analyze and visualize your data in new and intuitive ways with a fresh user interface plus your favorite keyboard shortcuts. Leverage features like Analysis Toolpak, Slicers, and Formula Builder to save time so that you can focus on insights.
- PowerPoint
- Create, collaborate, and effectively present your ideas with new slide transitions and an improved Animations task pane. Threaded comments alongside your slides help you incorporate feedback into your presentations. Presenter View displays the current slide, next slide, speaker notes, and a timer on your Mac, while projecting only the presentation to your audience on the big screen.
- OneNote
- It’s your very own digital notebook so that you can keep notes, ideas, web pages, photos, even audio and video, all in one place. Whether you’re at home, in the office, or on the move, you can take it all with you wherever you go while sharing and collaborating with others. It’s great for school assignments, work projects, travel plans, party planning, and more.
- Outlook
- Easily manage your email, calendar, contacts, and tasks. Push email support keeps your inbox up to date, conversation view groups related messages, and calendars can be viewed side-by-side for planning.
System Compatibility Overview
- macOS 14 (Sonoma): Not explicitly mentioned in the releases. Office LTSC 2021/2024 and newer tools (designed for macOS 13 Ventura) are expected to work on macOS 14, but please check the official documentation.
- macOS 13 (Ventura): Required for the latest Office LTSC 2021/2024 Suite Installer and its corresponding serializers—with native support for Apple Silicon (M1/M1 Pro/M1 Max/M1 Ultra/M2/M2 Pro/M2 Max/M2 Ultra/M3/M3 Pro/M3 Max/M3 Ultra/macOS Sequoia).
- macOS 12 (Monterey): Some Office 2019/LTSC installers are built to support Monterey. Look for versions that specify “Monterey” (e.g., minimum 12.0.x or maximum 12.7.6).
- macOS 11 (Big Sur): Certain Office 2019 builds and updates are limited to Big Sur.
- Older macOS Versions: Office releases for Catalina (10.15), Mojave (10.14), High Sierra (10.13), Yosemite (10.10), and Snow Leopard (10.6) are available for legacy systems.
Microsoft Office 2024 for Mac System Requirements
Below are the minimum system requirements for running Microsoft Office 2024 for Mac
RAM: 6 GB available memory.
OS: macOS 10.15 or higher.
Space: 9 GB available space.
Microsoft Office 2024 for Mac Changelog
Below is the list of changes made to the current version of Microsoft Office 2024 for Mac.
Microsoft Office 2024 for Mac Screenshots
How to use Microsoft Office 2024 for Mac?
Follow the instructions below to activate your version of Microsoft Office 2024 for Mac.
- Install the office using the given installer
- Install the VL Serializer afterwards
- That’s it, enjoy!
Note: In some cases, users reported that installing the VL serializer before the office works for them. So if the above instructions don’t work for you, perform a clean uninstall, install the serializer, and install Office afterwards.
