Microsoft Office 2019

Microsoft Office 2019 is the well-known version of Microsoft Office that was published as the successor of Microsoft 2016. It was specifically designed for Windows 10 and was published on September 24, 2018, on a commercial level. 

The 2019 version was embedded with multiple new features while offering a familiar interface. You find MS Word with distraction-free mode, enhanced tables in Excel, and PowerPoint with the latest graphics and digital drawing pencil. 

Familiar Interface

The Ribbon interface is quite similar to Microsoft 2007, so we can say it has an attractive style but not any compelling upgrade as compared to the predecessors. So Microsoft 2016 users should think before going to the upgraded version. Only Outlook and Word are introduced as ‘Learning Tools’ for enhancing the text functionality. 

PowerPoint Enhancement

PowerPoint the presentation powerhouse has the Morph transition feature just like of Apple’s Magic Move feature. It allows you to view objects while moving to a new location. The Zoom feature makes switching between slides and sections of any presentation quick and easy. 

Scalable Vector Graphics

The SVG format as part of Microsoft 2019 allows users of MS Word, Excel, or PowerPoint to import graphics within a few clicks. It helps to import 3D models from the Microsoft-created Remix 3D community website.  

Icon Inserting

You will find around five hundred well-designed icons that can be inserted via a pop-up menu. The icons are in a black-and-white color which is possible to change into your favorite color.

LaTex Syntax

The support of LaTex syntax in the new and powerful MS Word with a combination of variations from the standard syntax, and online help makes the Help button effective, as it was useless in the previous versions. 

MS Word Features

The hidden Speak feature in 2016 is available on the Review Ribbon interface with the name Read Aloud tool. The Learning Tools menu offers a variety of text-related options i.e. easy reading, dots between syllables, etc. The invisibility of text has been changed by changing the background color. 

Advanced Drawing Tools

Along with previous drawing tools, you will find the ink feature in the Microsoft 2019 version. It helps to draw geometric shapes i.e. circles, triangles, etc using the mouse or pencil-drawn scrawls. You can change the manual written formulas into typographic math. Moreover, here the support for digital pencil and dragging the text using the pencil is also available.

Cross-platform Sharing

The Microsoft 2019 version proves smooth and reliable while offering the productivity of Microsoft applications in a better way. no doubt, you will found find multiple downsides, but multiple innovative features make it attractive such as the universal file formats that allow you to open the share Word documents, or Excel spreadsheets on any modern computer or mobile within the installed Office free of charge apps. 

OneNote

You will miss the OneNote app in the 2019 version, as it has pre-installed on Windows 10. It will automatically open the 2016 notebooks that you have stored on the cloud. But you need to download it for running on your local PC. 

System Requirements

• 1 GHz processor
• 2GB RAM
• 3 GB of available disk space; better to have some extra space for temp files
• Screen resolution of a minimum of 1280 x 800
• Windows 7 SP1 or above operating system; Works best on the latest operating system according to Microsoft
• The browsers used should be the latest versions or the versions immediately preceding the latest versions
• At least .Net 3.5; preferred 4.5 LCR
• A Microsoft account (that naturally has a OneDrive account attached to it).

Subscription Plans

Office Home & Student 2019 costs $ 149.99 per computer or Mac. It is included with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Office Professional 2019 is $ 439.99 per PC while embedded with Outlook, Publisher, and the Access database.

Difference between Office 2019 and Office 365

Office 365 is the best choice for corporate and government offices that prefer to share data using the Microsoft servers, because Office 2019 has no capability of storing data in the cloud for sharing and collaborating, whereas, Office 2019 is available at a low cost for teachers and students.