NEW FEATURES/FIXES
You can find and follow all monthly Office insider new features and fixes (updates) on our blog. 👍🏻 Officer insider gets updates and new features regularly. It is important to follow these Office insider updates and use them in terms of increasing your knowledge. Now let’s take a look at what kind of changes happened in Office insider in the month of November.
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.
November 13, 2020
Excel
Notable fix
- 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.
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We fixed an issue where long hyperlinks were getting truncated.
PowerPoint
Notable fix
- We fixed a VBA issue where Slide.Shapes.AddMediaObject2 crashing with legacy video formats (MPG-1,Mpeg-2).
Outlook
Notable fixes
- We fixed 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.
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!
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.
November 27, 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.
