Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Plus

About this release

Office 2019 Professional Plus is the version a lot of machines settled on and never left. It installs once, runs from the local disk and does not ask anything of the network afterwards. For an office that wants Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and Publisher on a fixed build with no moving parts, this is still the sensible target.

The application set is the complete Professional Plus line rather than the home selection. That means Access and Publisher are present alongside the four everyone expects, Outlook includes the full account and rules handling, and Excel ships with the analysis add ins that the consumer editions leave out.

The image covers both 32 bit and 64 bit installs from the same source. The 64 bit build is the right choice for anyone working with large spreadsheets, since the memory ceiling on the 32 bit build becomes a real constraint past a few hundred thousand rows. The installer lets you pick, and it lets you deselect applications you do not want on disk.

File compatibility is complete in both directions. Documents from older releases open without conversion prompts, and files saved here open in newer builds. For an office running a mix of versions, that matters more than any individual feature.

What it does

Complete Professional Plus set

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher and OneNote in one install.

Perpetual desktop build

Runs locally with no subscription check and no background updater loop.

Choice of architecture

The same image installs the 32 bit or 64 bit build depending on what the machine needs.

Selective install

Deselect any application you do not want before the install starts.

Full Outlook

Multiple accounts, rules, shared calendars and offline storage in the complete client.

Analysis tools in Excel

Solver, analysis toolpak and Power Query included rather than stripped out.

Changed in this version

• Image rebuilt with the current cumulative fixes folded in.
• Installer choice screen simplified for architecture and language.
• Faster first run on solid state drives.
• Corrected a language pack mismatch that could appear on multilingual installs.

System requirements

Install order

1. Unpack the archive or mount the image.
2. Remove any earlier Office installation first to avoid a mixed state.
3. Run the setup, choose architecture and language, and deselect anything you do not need.
4. Open one application once so the first run configuration completes.

Worth knowing before you start

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