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Windows 11 ARM preview is available to download and install the first Office ARM64

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Microsoft announced two major news for Office internal testers earlier this week. First of all, there is a new Windows version of Office beta, which brings a brand new user experience consistent with the Windows 11 design.

In addition, Microsoft also announced the release of a 64-bit version of Office for Windows 11 ARM testers. Compared with the analog version used on Windows 10 ARM, the performance has been significantly improved.

Although this Office ARM64 version was announced on Monday, according to actual tests, it only started to download and install today. If you have a Qualcomm Snapdragon-supported PC like Microsoft Surface Pro X, you need to install and upgrade to Windows 11 Insider build 22000.51 before you can try the 64-bit version of Office ARM.

This new version of Office is specifically designed for the next version of Windows on ARM. It has been recompiled for the ARM architecture to run quickly, bring greater memory availability, provide better support for large documents, and use Windows The latest x64 emulation technology provided maintains compatibility with existing 64-bit plug-ins, explains the Office Insider team.

This Office ARM64 build version is an ARM64EC (emulation compatible) application, -ARM64EC is a new application binary interface (ABI) for Windows 11 ARM, EC stands for Emulation Compatible-this means it supports traditional plug-ins that have not been recompiled for the ARM64 architecture. Currently, only Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote are optimized for ARM, and the rest of the Office applications are still running in x64 emulation mode.

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To install the Office on ARM64 version on Windows 11 on ARM PC, you need to follow the steps below:

  • Uninstall any 32-bit version of Office (if it is currently installed).
  • Use the latest copy of the installer on Office.com to install Office.
  • Join the Office Insider program and update to the current Beta channel version.

The first Office ARM64 version brought some very popular performance improvements on the Snapdragon PC, but it should be noted that the integration of Microsoft Teams and Outlook is currently incomplete, and some search functions have also been broken.

Known Issues

  • The integration of Teams and Outlook has not yet been completed.
  1. Users will not be able to organize Teams meetings from Outlook because the Teams meeting button is missing in the ribbon.
  2. The solution is to use the Teams application to set up your Teams meeting.
  • Some search functions are still not working properly.
  1. In Outlook, certain types of searches, such as information from the same conversation, will not return results.
  2. In OneNote, the search speed is very slow because it cannot use the index.
  3. When using Windows to search for Office files, no results will be returned.
  4. In Visio, shape searches will not return any results.

“When the next version of Windows Insider is released, we will continue to make improvements, so be sure to stay on the Office Beta channel to get continuous updates,” the Office Insider team said.

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