December 2020 Office Insider update #Microsoft365

Having trouble viewing this email? View as a webpage.     Features Feedback Tips & Tricks Stay Connected   Greetings, Office Insider!   We are thrilled to announce a new function in Excel: LAMBDA. It allows you to take a formula and turn it into your own named custom function. Do you make use of repeated calculations you wish you could define once and reuse? Now you can with LAMBDA! LEARN MORE ABOUT LAMBDA >       Preview Features for Insiders   Office for iOS + Android: Try Document Headings in Word Introducing Document Headings for easier navigation in your Word for iOS and Android documents. This feature was modeled after the navigation pane you know and love and improves the experience of reading large documents on your phone and tablet. SEE DOCUMENT HEADINGS > Office for Windows: Videos available in Premium Content Library 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 expanding this library with videos! EXPLORE VIDEOS > Office for Mac: Reading View available in PowerPoint For many of us, sharing our presentations digitally is a daily occurrence. But most screen sharing settings make it hard to see comments or launch other applications. With this feature, you can now multitask and access other apps while you're presenting. TRY READING VIEW > Office for Android: Start your presentation on the go Create Outline is a new simplified way to create presentations on your Android device. Try this feature out to quickly jot down thoughts and information, and watch PowerPoint turn them into a professional looking presentation with design ideas applied! READ MORE > Office for Windows: Power Platform dataflows from queries in Excel We wanted to share some exciting updates about how you can easily create Power Platform dataflows from your queries in Excel to keep your data refreshed on the cloud. SEE MORE > Office for the Web: Several new releases to announce We are excited to share that several new features have released to Office apps for the web. Assign tasks with @mentions in Excel for the web Synonyms feature now in Word and PowerPoint for the web Personal features in Microsoft Teams - now on desktop & web Announcing Project and Roadmap apps for Microsoft Teams       Your Feedback in Action   Thank you, Office Insiders, for the feedback you provided in November! Are you interested in learning more about the best way to provide feedback? We've got a handy blog post with tons of tips for you.     58,668 pieces of feedback submitted   5,811 Smiles   8,776 Frowns       Using this feedback and your telemetry, we have resolved these issues (and more!): In iOS, you can now use Presenter Coach in PowerPoint. In Android, you can now create PDFs from images in Outlook. In Windows we fixed an issue where Excel would close unexpectedly when copying and pasting data in formula view. Read about these features and additional fixes in our release notes.       Office Insider Tips & Tricks   Top Office features of 2020 We are so thankful that you have taken time to be part of the Office Insider program. We thought it would be fun to look back at some of the top Office features we learned about in 2020. Let us know which ones you liked most during our #TopOfficeInsiderFeaturesOf2020 Twitter tournament running this month. SEE THE TOP OFFICE FEATURES > Introduction to Power Platform Course Announcing Microsoft's FREE Introduction to Power Platform course through a partnership with Udacity. Power Platform is Microsoft's no code/low code solution that provides you with the ability to build mobile and desktop applications while leveraging your Office Applications skill set. This eight-to-ten hour course provides video and text instruction, exercises, and quizzes that enhance your learning. When completed, you will walk away with an actual functioning mobile application. START LEARNING HERE >       Stay Connected   OFFICE INSIDER BLOG > @OFFICEINSIDER ON TWITTER > OFFICE INSIDER TECH COMMUNITY > OFFICE INSIDER ANSWERS COMMUNITY > As always, we value your feedback and really appreciate you taking the time to talk to and connect with us! Please don't forget to use the feedback options within the Office apps to tell us what you think about our newest preview features. The Office Insider Team Was this newsletter forwarded to you? If so, sign up for your own newsletter delivered to your inbox.   Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052