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Office Insider – What Happened in November 2020?

Office Insider – What Happened in November 2020?

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 new iconOutlook

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 new iconWord

Notable fixes

  • We fixed an issue related to pictures becoming blurry while zooming.
  • 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 new iconOutlook

Notable fixes

  • We fixed an issue that caused the To: field to be blank in task status reports.

msproject new iconProject

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!

Learn more >

outlook new iconOutlook

Every meeting online

Make it easier to schedule online meetings with a new setting to make all your meetings online by default.

word new iconWord

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 new iconOutlook

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.

msproject new iconProject

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.

 

We compiled all the new features and fixes in November in Office insider. Hope to see you in our other articles, bye bye. 🙋🏻‍♂️
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