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The Excel team has been working on a new feature that will revolutionize the collaboration experience in Excel. Show Changes gives you an overview of all the changes made to the entire workbook, down to a single cell.

LEARN MORE ABOUT SHOW CHANGES >

Animated gif using Excel to see all changes with the Show Changes feature.

 

 

 

Preview Features for Insiders

 

Office for web: Transform Word documents into PowerPoint presentations Have you ever wished you could easily transform an existing Word document into a great PowerPoint presentation? If so, the wait is over!

SEE THE TRANSFORM FEATURE >

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Office for Android: Use voice commands in Outlook for calls Give your thumbs a break and use voice commands in Outlook for Android to speed up everyday tasks such as initiating a call.

TRY VOICE COMMANDS >

Office for Windows: Dictation available in more languages With the addition of more languages, more speakers worldwide can use speech-to-text in Word and Outlook. Seven additional languages are now available to Windows users.

EXPLORE DICTATION LANGUAGES >

Windows can now listen for seven new languages in speech-to-text for Word and Outlook

Office for Windows and Mac: Revisiting data types in Excel We released several new data types in Excel over the last year and would love your feedback on them! Please review the data types and let us know what you think by clicking Help > Feedback.

REVIEW THE DATA TYPES >

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Office for web: Explore Auto Fix in PowerPoint Formatting slides and making them perfect can be time-consuming. Enter Auto Fix! Using this new feature, you can automatically align, uniformly resize, and distribute elements and straighten the connectors between them.

DELVE INTO AUTO FIX >

use AutoFix in PowerPoint for web to position objects

 

 

 

Your Feedback in Action

 

We received some very helpful feedback last month, Office Insiders. Thank you! That's what this program is all about. If you are ever wondering about the best way to give us feedback, we've prepared a blog post that gives you the best tips.

 

 

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53,556 pieces of feedback submitted

 

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3,976 Smiles

 

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6,814 Frowns

 

 

 

Using this feedback and your telemetry, we have resolved these issues (and more!):

  • On Windows Beta Channel, we fixed an issue that caused some PivotTable formatting to corrupt the workbook when saving to the .xls or .xlt format in Excel.
  • On Mac Beta Channel, contacts with four or more email addresses show in preview for Direct Sync accounts in Outlook.
  • On Android, we have a brand new Frequently Asked Questions experience in the app to give you easier, faster access to top answers about Outlook.

Read about these fixes and more in our release notes.

 

 

 

Office Insider Tips & Tricks

 

Microsoft 365 Apps deployment and servicing at Ignite — At Microsoft Ignite this month, we announced more new services to help you keep devices up to date, give you greater control, and more easily manage Office as a service. If you missed any of these sessions, we've got you covered.

YOUR GUIDE TO MICROSOFT 365 APPS DEPLOYMENT AND SERVICING AT MICROSOFT IGNITE >

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REGISTER FOR THE WINDOWS INSIDER PROGRAM >

 

 

 

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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


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