Microsoft Office 2021 Information

General Information

Microsoft Office helps you complete common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, data management and analysis, and more.  Office 2021 is sold as a one-time purchase, which means you pay a single, up-front cost to get Office apps for one computer.  

What's the difference between Microsoft 365 and Office 2021?

System Requirements for Windows

  • Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, or later
  • 1.1 GHz or faster, 2-core
  • 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9 or later, with WDDM 2.0 or higher for Windows 10 (or WDDM 1.3 or higher for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update).
  • 4 GB of free hard disk space
  • 1280 x 768 screen resolution?(64-bit Office required for 4K and higher)

System Requirements for MacOS

  • Intel or Apple Silicon (As supported by the three most recent versions of macOS.)
  • Office for Mac is supported on the three most recent versions of macOS. As new major versions of macOS are made generally available, Microsoft will stop support for the oldest version and support the newest and previous two versions of macOS. Product functionality and feature availability may vary on older systems. For the best experience, use the latest version of any operating system specified above.
  • 4 GB RAM
  • No graphics requirements
  • 10 GB of free hard disk space
  • 1280 x 768 screen resolution

ITS Supported Version

  • Microsoft Office 2021 LTSC Standard (Windows)
    • Word 2021
    • Excel 2021
    • PowerPoint 2021
    • Outlook 2021
    • Publisher 2021*
    • OneNote*
  • Microsoft Office 2021 LTSC Professional Plus(Windows)
    • Word 2021
    • Excel 2021
    • PowerPoint 2021
    • Outlook 2021
    • Access 2021*
    • Publisher 2021*
    • OneNote*
  • Microsoft Office 2021 LTSC Standard (Mac)
    • Word 2021
    • Excel 2021
    • PowerPoint 2021
    • Outlook 2021

*limited support

UH departments may purchase this software through the ITS Site License Office. UH faculty, staff, and students may purchase Microsoft Office software for personal use through the University of Hawaii Bookstore. Additionally, this version of MS Office may be available from other computer software retailers.

Microsoft Office comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. The 64-bit version only runs on 64-bit versions of Windows. For general business productivity usage, the 32-bit version of Microsoft Office is sufficient.

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Article ID: 1872
Created: Fri, 13 May 2022 11:37am
Modified: Fri, 13 May 2022 12:46pm