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We’re excited to announce Application Guard for Office is now available to preview to Office Insiders. Files from the internet and other potentially unsafe locations can contain viruses, worms, or other kinds of malware that can harm computers and data. To help protect them, Office opens files from potentially unsafe locations in Application Guard.

LEARN MORE ABOUT APPLICATION GUARD >

 

 

 

Preview Features for Insiders

 

Office for Windows and Mac: New investment tracking template Automatically fetch and track investment data such as stock prices and history with the new investment tracking template. Our new STOCKHISTORY function is combined with our stock data type, sparklines, tables, charts, and more to create the new template!

TRY THE TEMPLATE >



Office for iOS: Add and switch between accounts You can now add and switch between accounts in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for iPhone and iPad, and in the Office mobile app for iPhone.

READ MORE >



Office for Windows and Mac: Save as Picture in Word, Excel, Outlook The Save as Picture feature you love in PowerPoint that is now available in Word, Excel, and Outlook on Windows and Mac! You can also save SmartArt, diagrams, pictures, screenshots, 3d models, and SVG’s as pictures.

EXPLORE THIS FEATURE >

Office for Windows and Mac: Introducing Money in Excel With Money in Excel, you’ll have all of your finances in one place. You’ll receive personalized insights and alerts about changes to your monthly spending, subscription prices, bank fees, and more. We aim to simplify your day-to-day money decisions to help you stay on track with your longer-term financial goals.

CHECK OUT MONEY IN EXCEL >



Office for Windows: Try the Join Online button This new feature provides a way to join all your online meetings without having to first switch to your calendar. Simply click the Join Online button in the Calendar section of the To-Do bar for any ongoing or upcoming online meetings. Get to your meetings with just one click!

SEE THE FEATURE >

Office for Windows: Auto detecting data types in Excel Data types like stocks and geography have been available for a while, but most people aren’t aware of their existence. We’re here to fix that! Letting people know when they have data in their workbook that could be enhanced by data types will help users pull in external data to enhance the data they’re analyzing.

LEARN MORE >

 

 

 

Your Feedback in Action

 

Office Insiders, you gave us some stellar feedback in August! In case you are looking for the best way to give feedback, we’ve got a handy blog post with tons of tips for you.

 

 

60,991 pieces of feedback submitted

 

6,303 Smiles

 

12,381 Frowns

 

 

 

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

  • In Excel, we fixed an issue where the formula bar wouldn’t render completely after connection to a device was lost, like a remote session disconnect or monitor change.
  • In Outlook for Mac, the nested compose window no longer remains open for certain messages after sending.
  • In iOS, files protected with Information Rights Management can now be opened by authorized users signed into Office apps on iOS with personal accounts.

Read about these fixes and more in our release notes.

 

 

 

Office Insider Tips & Tricks

 

Microsoft Ignite 2020 Since this year's Microsoft Ignite is a complimentary digital event experience, you can watch our digital skilling session about deploying the Office Insider program in your organization at any time! We also have many more videos about deployment and servicing, so check them out and let us know what you think. Then, join us on October 14th for our Ask the Experts live event.

Get your Office Insider connection to Microsoft Ignite 2020 >

Start.Dev.Change Join us for a new two-day virtual event for beginners looking to learn new development skills. We'll have introductory-level code development sessions and introductions to no-code development tools with the Power Platform.

When: October 14th and 15th, 2020.
Who: Anyone with basic computer skills who wants to learn how to develop software solutions.

RSVP for Start.Dev.Change here >

 

 

 

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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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