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Office Insider for Windows version 2101 release notes. Build 13624.20002 (January 1, 2020) Excel, Word, PowerPoint  Mandatory Labeling  Admins can now require users to label their documents and emails with the new Mandatory Labeling policy. To enable this feature, admins can use the M365 Compliance Center and set up a labeling policy that “Require users to label their documents and mails.” To disable this feature, admins can remove the label policy.   Word  Notable fixes: - We fixed an issue when editing a commenting post with @mention.  - We fixed an issue to make Modern comments more robust.  - We fixed an issue with nested scrollbars in the comments pane. - We fixed an issue with comment drafts disappearing when creating a new Word instance.  PowerPoint  Notable fixes: - We fixed an issue with Merge Shapes working with text.  Outlook  Notable fixes: - We fixed an issue and now Outlook can take advantage of an Exchange server setting that suppresses the display of the Exchange Online Archive Mailbox to end users.  OneNote  Notable fixes: - We fixed an issue that addresses a rendering issue affecting OneNote.  Build 13604.20000 (December 10, 2020) Word  Better collaboration with modern comments  Add comments to objects, @mention colleagues, and resolve comment threads for a better collaboration experience. The Comments pane is part of our effort to bring consistency to the reviewing experience and facilitate collaboration across Office apps and platforms. Read the full article

Office Insider for Windows Version 2012 release notes. Build 13519.20000 (November 30, 2020) Excel Notable fix: We fixed an issue where Power Pivot wasn’t able to correctly import a tab-delimited text file. Outlook Notable fix: We fixed an issue that was causing users to experience some issues when sending Outlook mail from applications other than Outlook. PowerPoint Notable fix: We fixed an issue that caused timeouts during ink analysis.We fixed an issue that caused a grammatical error in the Create an Animated GIF user interface.We fixed an issue where some corrupt PowerPoint files were not opening correctly, even after a document repair operation. Project Notable fix: We fixed an issue where users may see multiple unassigned assignments associated with a task.We fixed an issue where in large projects it can be very slow to enter a task name. Build 13512.20000 (November 20, 2020) PowerPoint Premium Content Library now has videos Earlier this year, we released Premium Creative Content, a growing in-app library of royalty-free images, stickers, icons, and more to help M365 subscribers express themselves. We’re excited to share we’re expanding this library with videos!  Learn more > Outlook Every meeting online  Make it easier to schedule online meetings with a new setting to make all your meetings online by default. Word Notable fix: We fixed an issue where Word hangs when saving document to PDF with hidden text. PowerPoint  Notable fix We fixed an Read the full article

Office Insider for Windows Version 2012 release notes. Build 13512.20000 (November 20, 2020) PowerPoint Premium Content Library now has videos Earlier this year, we released Premium Creative Content, a growing in-app library of royalty-free images, stickers, icons, and more to help M365 subscribers express themselves. We’re excited to share we’re expanding this library with videos!  Learn more > Outlook Every meeting online  Make it easier to schedule online meetings with a new setting to make all your meetings online by default. Word Notable fix: We fixed an issue where Word hangs when saving document to PDF with hidden text. PowerPoint  Notable fix We fixed an issue where an unknown coauthor’s presence indicator does not get completely refreshed when more information about the coauthor is available. Build 13510.20004 (November 13, 2020) Excel Notable fixes: We fixed an issue where the Insert Object command does not show the correct icon when inserting a file from OneDrive local sync folder. Word  Notable fixes: We fixed an issue related to pictures becoming blurry while zooming.We fixed an issue where long hyperlinks were getting truncated. PowerPoint  Notable fixes: We fixed a VBA issue where Slide.Shapes.AddMediaObject2 crashing with legacy video formats (MPG-1,Mpeg-2). Outlook Notable fixes: We fixe:d an issue that caused the To: field to be blank in task status reports. Read the full article

Office Insider for Windows Version 2012 release notes. Build 13510.20004 (November 13, 2020) Excel Notable fixes: We fixed an issue where the Insert Object command does not show the correct icon when inserting a file from OneDrive local sync folder. Word  Notable fixes: We fixed an issue related to pictures becoming blurry while zooming.We fixed an issue where long hyperlinks were getting truncated. PowerPoint  Notable fixes: We fixed a VBA issue where Slide.Shapes.AddMediaObject2 crashing with legacy video formats (MPG-1,Mpeg-2). Outlook Notable fixes: We fixe:d an issue that caused the To: field to be blank in task status reports. Project  Notable fixes: We fixed an issue where you couldn’t delete dependencies on the deliverables if the SharePoint site the deliverable was associated with no longer existed.We fixed an issue where users open projects which have supposedly been saved with updated information, but find the updates are is missing. Build 13430.20000 (November 6, 2020) Excel Unhide multiple sheets at once By popular request, this feature helps you unhide multiple sheets at once. Notable fixes: We fixed an issue where Excel terminated unexpectedly when updating. Outlook Same signature on all devices  Your signature is stored in the cloud. Create it once and use it everywhere you use Outlook for Windows. Notable fixes: We fixed and issue where adding an attachment to a message opened from a zip file would fail. Read the full article

Office Insider for Windows Version 2012 release notes. Build 13430.20000 (November 6, 2020) Excel Unhide multiple sheets at once By popular request, this feature helps you unhide multiple sheets at once. Notable fixes: We fixed an issue where Excel terminated unexpectedly when updating. Outlook Same signature on all devices  Your signature is stored in the cloud. Create it once and use it everywhere you use Outlook for Windows. Notable fixes: We fixed and issue where adding an attachment to a message opened from a zip file would fail. Read the full article

Office Insider for Windows Version 2011 release notes. Build 13426.20004 (October 30, 2020) Excel Improved Conditional Formatting dialogs Conditional Formatting dialogs are resizable, and you can duplicate a rule with a single click.  Notable fixes : We fixed an issue with Power Pivot when using a connection to an Oracle database.We fixed an issue where Excel terminated unexpectedly when the process of MTR calc and Group Policy Object update (e.g. via Remote Group Policy Refresh) was triggered.We fixed an issue which caused a failure in Excel on attempt to load an atomsvc file. Word  Notable fixes: We fixed an issue where clicking comment hint didn’t zoom out to show comment card in view.We fixed a layout issue which the line between columns might have shifted.We fixed an issue where Word appears to hang when inserting an Excel workbook into a Word document. PowerPoint  Notable fixes: We fixed an issue where grid lines were getting shifted from slides when closing design pane.We fixed an issue where the scroll bar in the slide starts adjusting itself after stopping screen recording with selection pane opened. Outlook Notable fixes: We fixed an issue which caused Outlook to stop working sporadically when adding or saving attachments.We fixed an issue where saving email templates as .OFT changed Chinese characters to question marks.We Read the full article

Office Insider for Windows Version 2010 release notes. Build 13328.20000 (October 2, 2020) Excel Use the Advanced Dialog to create Data Types Excel has a number of linked data types that you can use right away. But, you can also create your own data type from any supported data source by using Power Query. Now, the Advanced Dialog allows you to manually select the columns which combine the Data Type you are creating. PowerPoint  Notable fixes: We fixed an issue where PowerPoint was not exporting rectangle bullet points while exporting to PDF.We fixed an issue that when you were on the last slide and swiped to the next slide after pressing ‘End Session’ and before the summary shows up, the End-Session dialog was still visible on the summary page as well. Outlook Notable fixes: We fixed an issue that caused automatically generated emails to be sent with a blank body when the subject is blank.We fixed an issue where the wrong folder guid was cached for folders.We fixed an issue where track changes turned on after reopening draft from read-only preview pane.We fixed an issue to provide a user a way to customize justification text when overriding a policy.We fixed an issue where the Save As option was not available for classic attachments.We fixed an issue where when a user copy-and-pastes an email address into the recipient field with the display name, the email address wasn’t always parsed correctly and caused a warning about an invalid email address to appear. Read the full article

Office Insider for Windows Version 2010 release notes. Build 13318.20000 (September 25, 2020) Excel Create Power Query data types in Excel Use the Power Query Editor to create your own custom data types, load the result of the query to the Excel grid, and easily consume and explore the output of their query with interactive data cards and formulas. This feature is available for E3+E5 customers only. To enable this feature, in the Power Query Editor, select several columns, move to the Transform tab, select the Create Data Type button. In the Create Data Type dialog, define:1. Data type name2. Display column Notable fixes: We fixed an issue where multi-level category manual interval was not working in charts.We fixed an issue where adding to a table used for Data Validation did not update options for all sheets in the workbook.We fixed an issue which could cause a hang when refreshing OLAP PivotTables. Outlook  User experience updates for Tasks The tasks items received a visual refresh.  Text predictions  As you type an email, we’ll show ghost text prediction to help you complete your sentences faster. You can accept it by pressing tab. Learn more > Word Microsoft Editor gets an upgrade in Word and Outlook We have upgraded the current experience with the Editor pane in Word for desktop clients. Learn more > Notable fixes: We fixed an issue where links to workflow enabled files were not opening as expected. Read the full article