Feature updates for Excel, Outlook and Word

Feature updates

Excel

• Efficient reading in Excel using Narrator: Announcements through the Windows inbox screen reader, Narrator, will be much more succinct and efficient.

Outlook

• Teams Meeting Apps now work in Outlook too: Now, you can configure a meeting app while scheduling an invite in Outlook. This meeting app will be ready to use when you chat or join the meeting on Teams.

Word

• Improved Coauthoring Error Recovery Experience: Collaborating with others while working in Word is a vital productivity tool for many users, and disruptions can be extremely frustrating. We’ve now developed an improved recovery experience to quickly restore users back to a connected state after experiencing coauthoring errors. This automatic refresh synchronizes all changes among different authors, so you’re seeing the most up-to-date document possible. Conflicts between different authors and changes not saved to the server will show as tracked changes.

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue where certain Pivot Tables would load slowly.
• We fixed an issue where cell content would sometimes re-render incorrectly when navigating with the keyboard.

OneNote

• We fixed an issue where OneNote would close unexpectedly when rapidly navigating from one .PDF file to another .PDF file between different sections, or when performing an undo operation on a .PDF printout insertion.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue where Microsoft account users were missing their Outlook Add-ins.
• We fixed an issue where the setting to control how Outlook opens previous items at start-up was missing from the Options window.
• We fixed an issue where Outlook would close unexpectedly when a user clicked “Cancel” in the Wait on Send dialog if the message had attachments.
• We fixed an issue where the Louder Labels sensitivity menu was not visible in the ribbon for users in the Semi-Annual Channel.
• We fixed an issue that caused a meeting update to be sent to all attendees when clicking on "cancel" in the "Send Update to Attendees" dialog.
• We fixed an issue where tracking responses from rooms was inconsistent when adding a second room from suggestions.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue where ActiveX controls do not display correctly after changing the display scale.
• We fixed an issue where running the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro View.Slide with multiple slides selected, returned the wrong Slide object.
• We fixed an issue where clicking on Updates Available in the status bar does not merge in changes.
• We fixed an issue where the 'End with Black Slide' option was not working when slides advanced on a timer.

Project

• We fixed an issue where a message that says, "You cannot delete or modify a project summary task" appears when opening a project.

Word

• We fixed an issue where deleting text within a Content Control would unexpectedly delete the Content Control when Track Changes was enabled.
• We fixed an issue where previously inserted custom bullets would reset after editing a document.
• We fixed an issue where if you saved a PDF in a language other than English and it had a hyperlink with a dash (-), the URL would get an extra dash that made the link not work.
• We fixed an issue where subheading numbering with a custom Style would disappear if the file was saved and re-opened.
• We fixed an issue where the layout of a table would unexpectedly change after saving and re-opening the file when the table was modified with Track Changes enabled.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue where pictures with redirected URLs would not display properly.
• We fixed an issue that caused unexpected black borders to appear around screen captures added with the Insert Screenshot functionality.