Individuals and organisations can choose to buy the new version or remain on the old version.

These versions were either released in those years or late the previous year. Traditionally Microsoft have released a new version of Office every 3 years, the most recent versions being 2007, 2010, 2013, 20. In other words, when Microsoft released Office 2019 in September 2018, it was already 6 months out of date. It will only be available to those with an Office 365 subscription. That point-in-time snapshot was taken in March 2018.Īny functionality that Microsoft has added to Excel (and the other applications in Office) since March 2018 will not be available to Office 2019 users. If you don’t know the difference between Office 365 and Office 2019, you’ll probably find this entire blog post useful… SummaryĮxcel 2019 is a point-in-time snapshot of the features and functionality of Excel. So why am I recommending that you don’t buy it?īefore I explain, if you already understand Microsoft’s Office 365 subscription model, then just read the next 3 paragraphs. Hopefully nobody has yet bought Microsoft Office 2019. Hopefully I’m not too late with my advice.

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