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.
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 you can focus on insights.
Publisher
Easily create, personalize, and share a wide range of professional-quality publications. Swap pictures with a simple drag and drop, or add pictures directly from your online albums. Use special effects to make your publications stand out.
Powerpoint
The changes for PowerPoint are all about enhanced media and visual element support in presentations. The notable additions here are support for 3D model display/manipulation and SVG files on slides; new morph transitions; the ability to export your presentation in 4K UHD video format, and you can now write by hand and move elements with your pencil while editing.
Access
The biggest new feature is the introduction of Modern Charts. Anyone who’s used previous versions will know that the inbuilt charts look so old fashioned you almost get a sense of nostalgia. The new charts are more akin to those found in recent versions of Excel.
The suite of charts include Column (Clustered, Stacked and 100% Stacked), Line (Line, stacked line, 100% stacked line), Bar (Clustered Bar, Stacked Bar and 100% Stacked Bar), Pie and Combo.
Formatting of charts is done using Access property sheets, and the fairly intuitive Chart Settings pane, so is a bit different than say formatting charts in Excel. The ability to change the chart colours or themes does seem to vary depending upon the chart.
If you’re upgrading from an older database version don’t worry, all the old charting features will remain so you can use the new charts alongside the “classic” charts enabling you to move to the new charts as and when you want to.
