Update07/21/2025

Value tokens to visually indicate a date type or other rich format

Office 365
Microsoft

Update from:
patrick-devicebase (expert)

Release notes for Office for Mac
July 15, 2025
Version 16.99 (Build 25071321)

Feature updates
Excel

Smarter Context Awareness for Copilot in Excel: Copilot in Excel now intelligently infers the relevant table or data range based on your query, enhancing usability. Additionally, it visually highlights the inferred data for clarity.
Value tokens to visually indicate a date type or other rich format: Value tokens provide a clear visual indication that a cell contains a data type or other richer format. The addition of an icon next to the value further helps differentiate between data types in a spreadsheet.

Outlook

Prepare with Copilot: Copilot helps you prepare for upcoming meetings with help information like AI notes & references, and recaps of previous meetings.
Paragraph Settings: Added support for paragraph spacing in the new email editor. Keyboard Shortcut Customization in Settings: You can now customize keyboard shortcuts directly from the main app settings—making it easier to find and use.

PowerPoint

Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL when creating presentations: Once you integrate your organization's assets into a SharePoint OAL (Organization Asset Library) you will be able to create presentations with your organization's images.
Copilot uses Enterprise assets hosted on Templafy when creating presentations: Once you connect your asset library hosted with Templafy to Microsoft365 and Copilot, you will be able to create presentations with your organization's images.
Create a PowerPoint slide from a file or prompt: Creating impactful slides can be challenging and time-consuming. Copilot helps you quickly turn your ideas and files into a fully designed slide with content ready to edit and refine, making the presentation creation and refinement process more personalized and efficient.

Word

Easily write a prompt or choose quick actions from the Copilot icon in your Word doc: The Copilot icon in your document margin makes it easy to quickly add a prompt or choose from a range of quick options Copilot can offer.

Security updates
Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Office Suite