Microsoft releases a new Office build for Windows in the Beta Channel. The latest Office Insiders Beta build 13901.20036 (Version 2103) adds auto-saving and co-authoring features on sensitive encrypted documents. So you don't have to trade off productivity for security.
Apart from this new feature for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, Microsoft also released a set of fixes for Office applications. Here is the complete changelog.
Last year, Microsoft confirmed that a new standalone version of Microsoft Office for both Windows and Mac will be released for the consumers in the second half of 2021. Now the company announced more about this upcoming commercial preview of Microsoft Office LTSC (Long Term Support Candidate) and said that it will bring Office and Windows into alignment in support of the same limited scenarios.
While Microsoft didn't yet detail all the changes to Office 2021, it did mention that Dark Mode will be supported and it will include accessibility improvements, capabilities like Dynamic Arrays & XLOOKUP in Excel, and performance improvements across all Office applications.
Microsoft releases a new Office (version 2103) build to the Office Insiders in the Windows Beta Channel. The latest office preview build 13806.20000 brings a number of new features for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook client. It also includes a list of bug fixes for issues found in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project.
Here you can read the complete official changelog tagged for Office Insiders Preview Build 13806.20000, and released in the Windows - Beta channel.
Microsoft releases a new Office (version 2102) build to the Office Insiders in the Windows Current Channel (Preview). The latest office build 13801.20084 comes with new features for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook client that improves the dictation toolbar, better collaboration in Word, and better user experience.
Also, the latest Outlook client build adds better interoperability with Microsoft Teams. Here you can find the complete changelog of this build.
Microsoft releases a new Office build (version: 2102) for the Office Insiders. The latest build 13801.20004 for Windows users adds a new feature for Microsoft Access, which will now display the selected tabs clearer in Access. Apart from this, the new build adds several bug fixes for issues found in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and Office Suite.
To get the latest Microsoft Office Insider Preview Build, open any Office program and go to
Application Guard is an enterprise security feature that isolates untrusted documents in an exceedingly virtualized sandbox to guard your users against malicious and potentially harmful threats. When users encounter documents from untrusted sources that are not malicious, they will still be productive without fear about putting devices, data, or identities in their organization in danger.
To help protect your users against zero-day exploits and other advanced attacks through Office 365 documents, Microsoft announced the general availability of Application Guard for Office.
Last year, Microsoft announced a bunch of new features for Microsoft Teams that also includes support for offline messaging on desktop. Now, according to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, the feature is in the development stage and will release later this month (January 2021).
Microsoft also detailed how this feature will work. To know more about offline messaging on Microsoft Teams, continue reading further.
Microsoft releases a new Office build 13714.2000 to the Office Insiders. The latest build comes for Windows users who are in the Office Beta Channel. Though there are no major changes in this build, the Government customers (GCC and GCC-H) can now apply sensitivity labels to the Office documents and emails sent through Outlook client.
The latest Office Insiders build 13714.2000 for Windows users also includes few fixes. Here is the list of new changes in this build.
In Microsoft Teams, a guest is a person who is not an employee of your organization. A guest doesn't have a school or work account with your organization. Your Microsoft Teams administrator should turn ON the Guest Access in order to allow you to communicate with people outside your organization.
As communicated in December 2020, Microsoft is now making some changes to the default setting for Guests in Microsoft Teams. If you have not already configured Guest access capability in Microsoft Teams, that capability will be enabled in your tenant by default.
Whether it is about pitching business ideas or launching new products, PowerPoint presentations remain at the forefront for businesses worldwide. Effective slide decks with attractive graphics and a schematic flow hold the potential to reinforce your organization’s branding strategy.
But crafting a perfect presentation can prove to be a tricky process if you do not pre-visualize its structure. That is where storyboarding your presentation comes in. Storyboarding your presentation allows you to frame a strong storyline and narrate a compelling argument.
Microsoft releases a new Office build for Windows in the Current (Preview) Channel. The latest Office version 2101 build 13628.20030 is now available to Office Insiders with two new changes for Microsoft Outlook client (Win32) and Microsoft Visio.
The latest version of the Outlook client adds an option to make all meetings online by default. Whereas Visio adds refreshed Azure stencils (shapes and icons). Here's the complete changelog for you.
Microsoft releases a new Office Preview Build 13617.20002 for Windows users. The latest build comes to the Office Insiders who have registered in the Beta channel. The focus of this build is to improve the overall experience of Microsoft Office applications by providing bug fixes.
According to the official changelog, the latest Office Insiders build 13617.20002 (version 2101) includes a list of fixes for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook client.
Microsoft Editor is an AI-based free tool to provide spelling and grammar support while writing in any editors to help you write confidently and communicate your message effectively, but you will get additional capabilities to access advanced grammar and style refinements if you have a subscription to Microsoft 365 (Office 365).
Recently, the Microsoft Editor gets a big update that adds the ability to view spelling, grammar, and other intelligent suggestions quickly. It also adds a dedicated and simplified view for a more contextual and accessible review experience.
SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphic objects, which are basically shapes, icons, or images. When the SVG objects are available in Microsoft Office documents, you didn't have the option to copy and paste those to any non-Microsoft SVG supported apps.
Now, Microsoft adds a new feature in the latest Microsoft Office apps that will allow you to copy and paste SVG content from Office applications to other third-party apps that support SVG. To know more about the availability, continue reading further.
Microsoft released a new Office build for Android devices. The new Microsoft Office for Android Build 16.0.13328.20026 is intended for the Office Insiders, who are in the Slow Ring, and comes with a couple of improvements to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook.
To know what's new and improved in the latest Microsoft Office for Android Build 16.0.13328.20026, you will need to continue reading further.
Microsoft released a new Office for Android Build 16.0.13231.20002 to the insiders. The latest build adds a couple of new features to Outlook that includes support for two-way calendar sync, customizable mail notifications, and a prompt to download Teams on your mobile when you create an online Teams meeting.
This update comes to the monthly release channel, and it is not yet clear if there will be any new build this month for the other office products. To know more about the new features, continue reading next.
Microsoft two new features for Microsoft Word, powered by the Azure Cognitive Services AI (Artificial Intelligence). The features are now rolling out to all Microsoft 365 subscribers on the web, mobile and will be rolling out to Word for desktop users by the end of the year.
The first one is the transcribe feature in Word that converts your speech to text, and the second one is the dictation with voice commands in Word. Let's learn more about these features.
Microsoft added a new capability to Word, Excel, and Outlook on Windows and Mac operating system, that will allow you to save graphical objects such as shapes, charts, SmartArt, diagrams, screenshots, 3D models, and SVG's as pictures
To learn how to save graphical objects present in Word, Excel, or Outlook emails as images and the features available at this moment, continue reading further.
The Office Insiders for Android in the Slow Ring gets a new update. The new Office build 16.0.13127.20012 adds a bunch of new features that will let you write text on PDFs, save PDFs as Word documents, and more.
If you are looking for what's new coming to Office for Android, with build 13127.20012 and higher, here's the complete changelog.
The outlook is not only an email and calendar client but also becoming a personal organizer. Just like Microsoft Teams, the Outlook is also getting an update to manage your tasks quickly from an email. You can now leverage the integrated task management capabilities to streamline your workday's commitments.
Microsoft rolled out a new feature for Outlook that will now allow you to quickly create tasks and calendar items. Let's see how it will work.
