Outlook: We fixed an issue that caused messages to be sent unencrypted

Version 2503: April 02
Version 2503 (Build 18623.20156)

Feature updates
Excel

• Reduce eye strain with Dark Mode: Go to View and select Switch Modes to try Dark Mode, which darkens your entire sheet, including cells.

Resolved issues
Access

• We fixed an issue where a user attempting to import a txt/csv file into Access was facing type conversion errors when importing the data into an existing Access table if the field in the table was using the double data type.

Excel

• We fixed an issue where GETPIVOTDATA showed #REF! when refreshing a PivotTable containing Stocks data types.
• We fixed a performance issue for Excel, when loading worksheets that contain hundreds of thousands of geometric shapes. Load of a worksheet with this many shapes used to take about 30 minutes and now takes about 45 seconds.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused messages to be sent unencrypted when the user didn't expect them to be and caused received encrypted and labeled items to have the encryption removed when replying.
• We fixed an issue that caused users to see two independent sets of labels when using the Azure Information Protection add in.
• We fixed an issue that caused Copilot drafted emails to render with empty lines omitted in new Outlook.

PowerPoint

• We resolved an issue where PowerPoint was not displaying the icon for an inserted PDF object.
• We have resolved an issue where the focus would shift from the "Find and Replace" pane to the comment pane while performing a text search.

Project

• We fixed an issue where saving projects from the Project Online desktop application to Project Online didn't work and the queue error had detail such as "Numeric arithmetic causes truncation" or "Value was either too large or too small for a Decimal."
• We fixed an issue where saving projects from the Project Online desktop application to Project Online didn't work and the queue error had detail such as "Numeric arithmetic causes truncation" or "Value was either too large or too small for a Decimal."
• We resolved an issue where Project showed an incorrect error about resources not being added to the Gantt sheet of existing project tasks when using the Append or Merge to the active project option to import the resource sheet from Excel.
• We resolved an issue where Project showed an incorrect error about resources not being added to the Gantt sheet of existing project tasks when using the Append or Merge to the active project option to import the resource sheet from Excel.

Word

• Resolved an issue where opening specific files that contain many tracked changes and comments may result in poor performance.
• Resolved an issue when using Track Changes where comments may not be visible in contextual view until changes are accepted or rejected.

Office Suite

• Fixed an issue where 3D model files with missing external texture resources couldn't be inserted.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing successful export as PDF for some PowerPoint decks.
• We fixed an issue where certain PowerPoint files with embedded fonts were not functioning properly when the same font was also installed locally and configured as an organizational font. Opening these files would trigger an error message indicating that the installation of the embedded font had stopped working.
• We fixed an issue where certain PowerPoint files with embedded fonts were not functioning properly when the same font was also installed locally and configured as an organizational font. Opening these files would trigger an error message indicating that the installation of the embedded font had stopped working.