Release notes for Current Channel

These release notes provide information about new features and non-security updates that are included in Current Channel updates for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, Microsoft 365 Apps for business, and the subscription versions of the desktop apps for Project and Visio.

Note

• We often roll out features (and sometimes even fixes) to Current over a period of time. If you don’t see something described below right away, you can expect it soon. Learn more
• Microsoft Teams features may differ from the latest Current Channel released as they have a more frequent release cadence.

Version 2302: March 20

Version 2302 (Build 16130.20332)

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue where some settings did not roam between machines when switching to Focused Inbox.

Project

• We fixed an issue where the task pane add-in API for Microsoft Project was not returning the proper value for the Summary, Milestone, and Active properties.

Version 2302: March 14

Version 2302 (Build 16130.20306)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue where users would get an ERROR: 3155, ODBC--insert on a linked table [table name] message when inserting a new row into a linked SQL Server table that has an INSERT trigger.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users in Government Community Cloud tenants to be unable to launch To-Do in Outlook.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see an inaccurate count of the number of new notifications present when opening the notification pane.

Project

• We fixed an issue that caused a manually-scheduled task’s start date to be after its finish date when an XML file was opened in Project.

Word

• We fixed an issue where the error message "The last time you opened filename, it caused serious error. Do you still want to open it?" may appear when creating Word documents through automation using templates.

Version 2302: February 28

Version 2302 (Build 16130.20218)

Feature updates

Excel

• Reducing slowness and freezes when multiple workbooks are open: This feature reduces slowness and freezes experienced when working in a workbook due to calculations occurring in other unrelated workbooks also open at the same time and in the same Excel.exe instance. It achieves this by optimizing global automatic recalculation to the workbook being worked in, and its interdependent workbooks also open at the same time.
  See details in blog post

• User-defined permissions now support domain name restrictions: When you choose a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions, domain names can now be used to restrict file access to all individuals from that domain. For example, you can specify “someone@example.com” or “@example.com,” and permissions will be restricted based on either the individual or all individuals within the example domain.

PowerPoint

• User-defined permissions now support domain name restrictions: When you choose a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions, domain names can now be used to restrict file access to all individuals from that domain. For example, you can specify “someone@example.com” or “@example.com,” and permissions will be restricted based on either the individual or all individuals within the example domain.

Word

• User-defined permissions now support domain name restrictions: When you choose a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions, domain names can now be used to restrict file access to all individuals from that domain. For example, you can specify “someone@example.com” or “@example.com,” and permissions will be restricted based on either the individual or all individuals within the example domain.

Resolved issues

Excel

• Pivot Tables connected to Power BI datasets now have proper date support. Previously, dates were treated as strings, but they now are treated as datetime objects that allow for proper filtering and sorting of the data. If you do not yet have the feature, you will be able edit your existing PivotTable.

• We fixed an issue where the File > Get Add-ins button hotkey had a conflict with the Save As button due to an incorrectly set keytip when opening the Control Get Add-ins button. The modified button (Get Add-ins) will use B as the hotkey.

• We fixed an issue that when clicking on an email notification with @mention in a comment, caused Excel to close unexpectedly if the workbook was already open and was in a hidden window.

Version 2301: February 14

Version 2301 (Build 16026.20200)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Excel

• Pivot Tables connected to Power BI datasets now have proper date support. Previously, dates were treated as strings, but they now are treated as datetime objects that allow for proper filtering and sorting of the data. If you do not yet have the feature, you will be able edit your existing PivotTable.

• We fixed an issue when clicking on an email notification of at mention in a comment, the Excel app would close unexpectedly if the workbook was already open and was in a hidden window.

• We fixed an issue that compiled VBA macros more often.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience the application to close unexpectedly when clicking on some non-HTTP links.

Project

• We fixed an issue where upon opening an MPP file, you see the following error:

"An import error occurred.

Check row 1 column 5.

To continue importing with additional error messages, click Yes. To continue importing with no error messages, click No. To stop importing, click Cancel."

Office Suite

• Fixed an issue that caused sync and co-auth failures in Office apps.

Version 2301: January 26

Version 2301 (Build 16026.20146)

Feature updates

Excel

• PivotTable overlap improvements: We have improved the experience when PivotTables overlap other content in your workbook.

• Excel PivotTable version compatibility user messaging: Excel now gives alerts about PivotTable compatibility issues and provides informative documentation and workarounds. When your version of Excel is unable to read data in a workbook, we present users with documentation that provides options to proactively troubleshoot and resolve the issue. In addition, we also allow users to upload their Excel document to OneDrive so they can seamlessly open the file in Excel for the web.

• Date Support for Pivot Tables Connected to PowerBI: In PivotTables that are connected to Power BI datasets, dates are now supported for analysis as the data type is no longer a string. For example, filtering data on specific timeframes is now possible.
  See details in blog post

Teams

• Future of Wiki & note taking in Teams-channels: We are excited to announce the new note taking experience powered by OneNote in Teams- Channels. With the new experience Wiki will retire in phased manner. Users can now leverage the advanced collaborative notes experience in Teams which is consistent across M365. Users now have the option to export their wiki content to OneNote Notebooks or they can continue to read/write their existing Wiki. Post export users can continue to collaborate in Notes tab in channels and have a copy of older wiki content available for reference. When wikis are exported each page in Wiki will appear as a page in OneNote Notebook section. If users have new channels experience enabled, then they can access your existing Wiki via Wiki app or users can export their content to OneNote notebook. Though users can’t create new Wikis in new channel experience; for note taking we suggest using OneNote.

• Calling Federation for Group Calls: Collaborate with people outside the organizations using group calls

• Room Remote on Desktop: The Room Remote feature enables touchless meetings by allowing users to control a nearby shared meeting room device from their Desktop/PC with Teams client. This feature was first launched on Mobile and will now be available on your Desktop device formfactor.

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue when you insert a People Graph add-in in RTL Excel, the application closes unexpectedly.

PowerPoint

• We have fixed an issue where user is not able to add or copy/paste a new slide to the presentation.

Version 2212: January 10

Version 2212 (Build 15928.20216)

Security updates listed here

Version 2212: January 04

Version 2212 (Build 15928.20198)

Feature updates

Access

• Enable the ability to code sign your Microsoft Access database and VBA code: This update enables the Tools/Digital Signature command within the VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for current Microsoft Access database formats. Signing a database will allow VBA code in the database to be run even if Trust Center settings specify that only digitally signed code should be enabled.

Word

• Tag your team members with tasks: Create and assign tasks without leaving Word. Simply add a comment, @mention your team member, press Ctrl + Enter, and check Assign. Your comment becomes a task, and your work is done!
  See details in blog post

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue when you right click on a chart and select edit, the application closes unexpectedly.

Word

• We fixed an issue in which users might see a dialog with the message "Contacting the Server" when attempting to open a file.

• Resolved an issue where tab stop marker would not work using the ruler.

Version 2211: December 13

Version 2211 (Build 15831.20208)

Security updates listed here

Version 2211: December 06

Version 2211 (Build 15831.20190)

Feature updates

Excel

• Insert in-cell images with the new IMAGE function: Your images can now be part of the worksheet, instead of floating on top. You can move and resize cells, sort and filter, and work with images within an Excel table.
  See details in blog post

• Touch Improvements to Ribbon: We’ve improved the spacing of buttons in the Ribbon when the device is being used in Tablet posture.

Outlook

• S/MIME as an Outcome for labelling - Win 32: Providing S/MIME encryption and signing functionality as an outcome of labelling - Outlook Win32.
  See details in blog post

PowerPoint

• Save Media with Closed Captions: Now when you save media to a file in PowerPoint, the closed captions associated with the media are also saved.

• Touch Improvements to Ribbon: We’ve improved the spacing of buttons in the Ribbon when the device is being used in Tablet posture.

Word

• Touch Improvements to Ribbon: We’ve improved the spacing of buttons in the Ribbon when the device is being used in Tablet posture.

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue when toggling the visibility of the ribbon with sheet tabs hidden the application would close unexpectedly.

• We fixed an issue where Clipboard locked alert is disrupting workflow for some users.

• We fixed an issue when you right click on a chart and select edit option the application closes unexpectedly.

• We fixed an issue in Word in which applying sketched outlines to pictures and saving, resulted in the file not being usable when copied and pasted into PowerPoint and Excel.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused the focus on the message list to be lost when using CTRL+Tab to navigate from a folder in one mailbox to a folder in another mailbox.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue in Word in which applying sketched outlines to pictures and saving, resulted in the file not being usable when copied and pasted into PowerPoint and Excel.

Word

• Resolved an issue where changing the reading speed for Read Aloud would cause Word to stop working.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue preventing the font dropdown's scroll bar from correctly appearing in Office 2016 and Office 2019.

• We fixed an issue where a manually applied sensitivity label could be overridden by an automatic label if the automatic label has higher priority.

• We fixed an issue where "connecting to" dialog box was shown during Save/Save-As when a UNC path was set as default save directory.

Version 2210: November 08

Version 2210 (Build 15726.20202)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

OneNote

• We fixed an issue when scrolling with touch.

Word

• We fixed an issue when using Admin Managed Plugin and utilizing Group Policy "Block all unmanaged add-ins", registry key name was case-sensitive.

Version 2210: October 27

Version 2210 (Build 15726.20174)

Feature updates

Excel

• Get data for your workbooks by importing an image: Turn images with text into content you can edit in Excel. With the Data from Picture feature, you can convert the information in an image to data on a worksheet. Learn more
  See details in blog post

• Automate tab in Excel for desktop: You can now access the Automate tab not just in your web browser, but also in your spreadsheets in Excel for Windows and Mac.

Teams

• Teams Platform Apps in One-on-One VOIP Calls: All the familiar functionalities of meeting apps - tabs, bots, in-meeting dialogue, and meeting stage - will be supported in Teams VOIP Calls. Users of your apps will enjoy the same familiar app experience as seen in Teams Meetings, in their Teams VOIP Calls.

• Users can create e-signature approvals containing signature fields within Teams: Users can now create e-signature approvals and include multiple signature fields without being brought outside Teams to the e-sign providers website.

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused emails to get stuck in the outbox for some profiles with multiple Exchange accounts configured.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue with updating links when the linked file is already open.

Project

• We fixed a second issue where Project was unable to connect to Project Server when forms-based authentication was used. In some cases, users who were able to connect, for example, the day before were unable to connect the next day. Deleting the server connection profile temporarily fixed the issue.

Word

• We fixed an issue in the Word dark mode theme where you are unable to see editable text in documents with restricted editing because the highlight color is too similar to the text color.

• We fixed an issue where pasting keep source formatting results into content controls would display characters such as a question mark (?) or a blank square.

• We fixed an issue where the file could not be opened when using the command "update linked information in a Word source document" on documents saved in the cloud.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue with URL handling by Visual Basic macros.

Version 2209: October 11

Version 2209 (Build 15629.20208)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Access

• This update fixes an issue that may cause the error "The operating system is not presently configured to run this application." when trying to use DAO (Data Access Objects) from an application that is not a Microsoft 365 App.

Excel

• We fixed an issue where some content could stop working and not appear correctly after zooming with touchpad.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused emails to get stuck in the outbox for some profiles with multiple Exchange accounts configured.

Project

• We fixed an issue where Project was unable to connect to Project Server when forms-based authentication was used. In some cases, users who were able to connect, for example, the day before were unable to connect the next day. Deleting the server connection profile temporarily fixed the issue.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue where Office will stop responding while using narrator when inside of a comment.

Version 2209: September 26

Version 2209 (Build 15629.20156)

Feature updates

Teams

• Assign seats in Together Mode: Allow meeting organizers to assign seats to participants in Together Mode.

• Suggested Replies in Group Chat: Suggested Replies are now available in group chats, allowing you to select a quick response when you are mentioned in a group chat or when you are having a 1:1 conversation within a group chat.

• Automatically view up to 49 videos (7x7) in Teams meeting: Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 9 videos (3x3) on the screen by default (i.e., Gallery view). For seeing more than 9 videos, user needs to manually select the Large Gallery view. With this update, users will be able to automatically see up to 49 videos (7x7) on their screen by default without an explicit action. The actual number of videos seen by a user will depend on hardware/device capabilities.

• HID Support for VMware: This feature supports the use of Human Interface Devices (HID) in Microsoft Teams on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for VMware.

• Microsoft Teams: Admin setting to turn off split video layout for Teams Rooms on Windows.

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience a close unexpectedly when switching views in the calendar module.

• We fixed an issue that caused Modern Groups related dialogs to be heavily broken.

• We fixed and issue that caused users to experience a close unexpectedly shortly after boot.

• We fixed an issue that caused users who disabled service notifications to see a deprecated UI showing notifications service disabled.

• We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to close unexpectedly when submitting feedback.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue to default blocking macros from the Internet from executing.

Version 2208: September 13

Version 2208 (Build 15601.20148)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Excel

• In Office 2016 and Office 365 with Visual Refresh, the visibility of hovered and pressed sliders in Colorful and White themes has been improved in task panes and dialogs.

• In Office 365 with Fluent visuals enabled, the visibility of hovered and pressed sliders in Dark Gray and Black themes has been improved in task panes and dialogs.

• In Office 365 with Visual Refresh Dark Gray theme, an issue preventing the border of the scroll buttons from appearing in the Ribbon Font Picker dropdown has been resolved.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused the Customization Quick Access Toolbar file (.exportedUI) to not import when the simplified ribbon is in use.

PowerPoint

• In Office 2016 and Office 365 with Visual Refresh, the visibility of hovered and pressed sliders in Colorful and White themes has been improved in task panes and dialogs.

• In Office 365 with Fluent visuals enabled, the visibility of hovered and pressed sliders in Dark Gray and Black themes has been improved in task panes and dialogs.

• In Office 365 with Visual Refresh Dark Gray theme, an issue preventing the border of the scroll buttons from appearing in the Ribbon Font Picker dropdown has been resolved.

Word

• In Office 2016 and Office 365 with Visual Refresh, the visibility of hovered and pressed sliders in Colorful and White themes has been improved in task panes and dialogs.

• In Office 365 with Fluent visuals enabled, the visibility of hovered and pressed sliders in Dark Gray and Black themes has been improved in task panes and dialogs.

• In Office 365 with Visual Refresh Dark Gray theme, an issue preventing the border of the scroll buttons from appearing in the Ribbon Font Picker dropdown has been resolved.

• We fixed an issue where header styles were removed upon co-authoring.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue in Color Picker text selection scenarios with Shapes and SmartArt.

• We fixed an instability issue related to animations for the user interface.

• We fixed an issue related to rendering SVG graphics in Outlook.

Version 2208: August 31

Version 2208 (Build 15601.20088)

Feature updates

Excel

• Supercharge your worksheets with fourteen new text and array functions: Use fourteen powerful new functions to easily split your text and rearrange your data. Try using TEXTSPLIT to split your text or VSTACK to combine multiple arrays.
  See details in blog post

• Protect your PDFs: Sensitivity labels are now available to protect your PDFs from unauthorized access. Applies to files created in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
  See details in blog post

OneNote

• Take notes with your voice: Take notes faster using speech-to-text instead of typing using Dictation. On the ribbon, select the microphone, then give OneNote permission to use your mic. Learn more
  See details in blog post

PowerPoint

• Protect your PDFs: Sensitivity labels are now available to protect your PDFs from unauthorized access. Applies to files created in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
  See details in blog post

Teams

• Microsoft Teams: Join Teams meeting by meeting ID and passcode from Teams rooms on Windows: Users can use Teams room on Windows to join Teams meetings using meeting ID and passcode. This significantly improves meeting join experience for meetings across tenants or where room is not invited to the meeting.

• Transcription will be turned on together with Recording if the "Record automatically" meeting option is on: If meeting organizer set the "Record automatically" meeting option to on for a meeting, Transcription will be turned on together with Recording when the meeting starts, if transcription is allowed by admins. This will make recording playback experience accessible.

• Home page for Teams for Education class teams: Home page provides a central destination for the latest announcements, resources, upcoming assignments, class files, and meetings for a class team.

• Microsoft Teams: Pin and hide the room video for Teams Rooms on Windows: Teams Rooms on Windows allows room users to pin or hide room video on the front of room screen. In-room participants can control these options by selecting the room from the roster on the console. This added capability provides greater personalization for room users who feel the room video to be potentially distracting or not needed.

• Microsoft eCDN: Microsoft eCDN is an enterprise Content Delivery Network that optimizes streaming experience for Microsoft Teams and other video products. This WebRTC-based solution reduces bandwidth usage helping mitigate impacts to network and line of business (LOB) applications. Its mesh networks are self-balancing and automatically scale as the number of viewers increase. The technology does not require additional installation on user endpoints or changes to the physical network infrastructure.

Word

• Protect your PDFs: Sensitivity labels are now available to protect your PDFs from unauthorized access. Applies to files created in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
  See details in blog post

Resolved issues

Access

• When a table with an Attachment or multi-valued field is selected, launching the Report, Label, or Query Wizard could cause Access to become unresponsive. This update fixes the issue so that these wizards work correctly again with all tables.

• We fixed a recent regression where some users were unable to use DoCmd.TransferText with existing import/export specifications.

• This update fixes an issue that could cause memory leaks when iterating over DAO recordsets in VBA code in Excel.

Excel

• We fixed an issue when editing a newly created file a business bar label did not upload correctly.

• We fixed an issue in Excel for images contained in filtered or hidden cells.

Outlook

• This change enables the Every Meeting Online option for third party meeting applications.

• We fixed an issue where Outlook can sometimes close unexpectedly when right-clicking on an app in the new app bar.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to be unable to load linked images when replying to or forwarding a message.

Project

• We fixed an issue where projects that worked properly before can no longer be opened. In this circumstance, Project closed unexpectedly.

• We fixed an issue where the message "This project contains links to one or more data sources that may be unsafe and have been disabled. Would you like to enable these data sources? Only do this if you trust the source of the file." may appear when opening a project. The message appears even when the project doesn't have any active paste-links. Additionally, no active embedded objects are found in Gantt type views.

• We fixed an issue for when assignment timephased actual cost values were viewed and reported on. The sum of these values may not have been equal to the scalar value (the value you see in a sheet view). As the timescale granularity went from very detailed such as daily to less detailed such as yearly, the differences between the summed and scalar values could be significant.

Word

• We fixed an issue causing an intermittent stop responding in Word.

• We fixed an issue where user was unable to copy rows of a table from older versions in Version History to the current version.

• We fixed an issue where Outlook couldn't open a message that was sent using Outlook on the web and contained a comment that was copied from Word.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue where operations would reinstall Office.

Version 2207: August 09

Version 2207 (Build 15427.20210)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused some people to experience a close unexpectedly shortly after boot.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue when recording a presentation where an error would occur and recording would stop.

Version 2207: August 03

Version 2207 (Build 15427.20194)

Feature updates

Excel

• Optimized Excel recalculation on devices with constrained resources: On resource-constrained devices (two cores or less and eight gigabytes of RAM or less), Excel has now by default made recalculation more optimal by running calculation on a single thread. In most cases, users should see noticeably faster calculation on these devices. Note that in some cases that require compute-intensive calculation, users may want to consider overriding this default by setting Number of calculation threads to “2.” For more details, see the Formulas section of the Advanced Options page on the Microsoft Support site.

Outlook

• Use suggested replies in Outlook: When you receive an email message that can be answered by a short response, Outlook can suggest three responses you can use to reply with just a couple of clicks. Learn more
  See details in blog post

• Turn off Suggested Replies: Outlook makes it easy to reply faster to emails by offering short suggested replies for messages that can be answered with just a few words. Some users may not want to see this option, so it’s now possible to turn the feature off. To do so, select File > Options > Mail, go to the Replies and Forwards section, and clear the Show suggested replies check box.

• Dictation toolbar redesigned for efficiency, cleaner look: The Office dictation toolbar has been redesigned, featuring new visuals, a more responsive user interface, and a smaller size to stay out of the way of what matters—your content!
  See details in blog post

Word

• Typing with your voice just got easier: It's now easier to see what you're typing with the new low-profile Dictation toolbar located at the side of your screen. Plus, new animations help you make sure that every word is getting captured.
  See details in blog post

Office Suite

• Add SketchUp files to Office creations: SketchUp is a popular 3D graphics program that makes it easy to create shareable conceptual designs, such as fully textured architectural models and other graphics used in industrial design, product design, and civil and mechanical engineering. Now, for the first time, SketchUp graphics (.skp files) can be integrated into your creations in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook!
  See details in blog post

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue where cell references in charts were displaying incorrectly.

• We fixed an issue which caused Excel to close completely when choosing File > Close or pressing Ctrl+W to close the last workbook.

• We fixed an issue where Excel could use an unexpectedly high amount of CPU when freeze panes were enabled, but not every freeze pane was on the screen.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see the Journal module in their left rail navigation bar.

• We fixed an issue that caused Exchange 2019 users to see Outlook to fail to display the reply indicator icon on messages in search results.

Project

• We fixed an issue When assignment timephased actual cost values were viewed and reported on, the sum of these values may not have been equal the scalar value (the value you see in a sheet view). As the timescale granularity goes from detailed such as daily to less detailed such as yearly, the differences may have increased.

Word

• We fixed an issue where an Outlook (WordMail) message would flash with a white background while zooming in or out.

• We fixed an issue where printing pages with index may fail to print.

• We fixed an issue where "paste as link" might not update automatically.

• We fixed an issue where links to are not automatically updated to the embedded Word documents.

Office Suite

• We fixed issues that address a number of cases where opening Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents from OneDrive or SharePoint would yield a close unexpectedly.

• We fixed an issue where the video to introduce the new visuals was not displaying.

Version 2206: July 18

Version 2206 (Build 15330.20264)

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue when opening an ACCDE/MDE file. Users may receive an error message with the text “Requested type library or wizard is not a VBA project.” Learn More

Version 2206: July 12

Version 2206 (Build 15330.20246)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue where the app closed unexpectedly when interacting with fonts.

Version 2206: July 06

Version 2206 (Build 15330.20230)

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue where shared workbooks in .xls format may improperly merge changes.

• We fixed an issue where an AMSI scan would cause the app to close unexpectedly.

• We fixed a visual glitch in the Formula bar.

• We fixed an issue that caused Excel to close unexpectedly when showing live preview of a chart.

OneNote

• We fixed an issue that was causing the app to close unexpectedly.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that prevented the Room Finder from loading in the GCC-High environment.

• We fixed an issue where users were not able to add room mailboxes to the calendar.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue where changing the sensitivity label on a document while coauthoring with others might lose the picked sensitivity label.

• We fixed an issue where mandatory sensitivity labeling was not required for save-as when using browse to a location.

Visio

• We fixed an issue in Visio that caused the application to stop responding when repeatedly zooming in and out.

Word

• We fixed an issue where nested fields in headers display incorrectly while scrolling.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue where we attempt font downloads in cases they are known and expected to stop working during downloading, which results in unnecessary resources being used.

Version 2206: June 29

Version 2206 (Build 15330.20196)

Feature updates

Excel

• Copy data from the status bar: Quickly copy information from aggregations like "Sum," "Average," and "Count" from the status bar.
  See details in blog post

• Find your data faster: The AutoFilter function is now noticeably faster! These improvements were achieved by reducing memory usage and optimizing the calls made by the filter’s comparison algorithm. The optimizations are especially noticeable on low-end devices that have less memory or slower CPU-memory throughput. Learn more

• Speeding up Formula Entry: Excel has sped up entering a formula in a cell noticeably by reducing memory usage, making more efficient use of allocated memory, and optimizing redrawing. These optimizations are more noticeable on devices with slower Memory or slower CPU-Memory throughput as well as for larger cell ranges.

PowerPoint

• Text Anchored Comments: As part of PowerPoint's modern comments, customers will now have the ability to anchor comments to specific ranges of text.

Teams

• Parent Connection with chat, email or phone call: Educators will be able to connect with the guardians of their students by chat, email or phone call with a single click.

• Dynamic caller ID for call queue agents: Call queue agents can now place calls from the Calls app using a call queue phone number as their caller ID. This ensures the call is properly identified by the recipient and that the callback number is the call queue number rather than the agent's personal line.

• Moodle LMS integration with Microsoft Teams: In addition to integration with Canvas and Blackboard, Microsoft has now partnered with Moodle LMS to deliver seamless integrated learning experiences. Microsoft Teams Meeting LTI and Teams Classes LTI apps are now available within Moodle.

• Give or take control for Azure Window Desktop on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Users on Azure Window Desktop will be able to give and take control during calls and meetings. If you want another meeting participant to change a file, help you present, or demonstrate something, you can give control to that person. You will both be in control of the sharing, and you can take back control anytime. To take control while another person is sharing, select Request control. The person sharing can then approve or deny your request. While you have control, you can make selections, edits, and other modifications to the shared screen. When you’re done, select Release control to stop sharing control.

• Chat with self: Users can send themselves notes, messages, files and images/videos; helping them stay organized.

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue where shared workbooks in .xls format may improperly merge changes.

• We fixed an issue where an AMSI scan would cause the app to close unexpectedly.

• We fixed an issue that caused Excel to close unexpectedly when showing live preview of a chart.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that prevented the Room Finder from loading in the GCC-High environment.

• We fixed an issue where users were not able to add room mailboxes to the calendar.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue where changing the sensitivity label on a document while coauthoring with others might lose the picked sensitivity label.

• We fixed an issue where mandatory sensitivity labeling was not required for save-as when using browse to a location.

Word

• We fixed an issue where nested fields in headers display incorrectly while scrolling.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue where we attempt font downloads in cases they are known and expected to stop working during downloading, which results in unnecessary resources being used.

Version 2205: June 14

Version 2205 (Build 15225.20288)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue where dataverse was showing in 2019 ribbon.

• We fixed an issue that could cause the application to close unexpectedly when using the Access Database Engine OLEDB API with a database containing links to SharePoint lists.

• We fixed an issue caused while attempting to support Unicode character in unique identifier column.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused some Outlook users to experience a close unexpectedly shortly after boot intermittently.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience a close unexpectedly when opening an Online Archive or Shared Mailbox.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see multiple copies of a shared calendar rendered in certain circumstances.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see the error message, "The attempted operation failed. An object could not be found" when searching an LDAP address book.

• We fixed an issue that caused unnecessary network traffic for users on premise Exchange.

Word

• We fixed an issue for rare coauthoring instances where some replies to comments aren’t shown until the next time a document is opened.

• We fixed an issue that reduces merge conflicts with documents with the same hyperlink.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue when opening up the font dropdown in Excel, the highlighted font was not the one currently selected in the document.

• We fixed an issue with SVG objects to handle text-anchor, end attributes and correctly maintain the current text position.

Version 2205: May 24

Version 2205 (Build 15225.20204)

Feature updates

Outlook

• Read Aloud just got better: The new Read Aloud Toolbar features new, natural sounding voice options.

Teams

• Give or take control for Citrix on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: User on Citrix will be able to give and take control during calls and meetings. If you want another meeting participant to change a file, help you present, or demonstrate something, you can give control to that person. You will both be in control of the sharing, and you can take back control anytime. To take control while another person is sharing, select Request control. The person sharing can then approve or deny your request. While you have control, you can make selections, edits, and other modifications to the shared screen. When you’re done, select Release control to stop sharing control.

• Automatic Groupings in Teams for Channel Posts: New automatic groupings will be available in Teams as suggestions to use in channel posts. For example, you can @TeamOwners in a channel posting and all Team Owners will be notified.

• Microsoft Teams App in Microsoft Store: Microsoft Teams App for Work, school and life will soon be available to download from our very own Microsoft Store. This App will support work, school and consumer accounts on Windows 10 and Work or school accounts on Windows 11.

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue where the letter "j" was not being properly inserted.

• We fixed an issue where running a VBA script / addin on a workbook with chart sheet may cause Excel to close unexpectedly.

• We fixed an issue with rendering in Excel and Project when using certain older builds of Windows 11.

• We fixed an unexpected stop responding in Office rendering code.

OneNote

• We fixed an unexpected stop responding in Office rendering code.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see the error "Cannot perform the requested operation..." when attempting to expand a local contact group.

• We fixed an issue that caused delegates to be unable to open a shared contacts folder despite having the correct permissions.

• We fixed an issue that caused "No response required" to show on all forwarded meeting invites for delegates of room mailboxes when the Shared Calendar Improvements feature is enabled.

• We fixed an issue where calendars not selected in the navigation pane when using "Open Shared Calendar."

• We fixed an unexpected stop responding in Office rendering code.

• We fixed an issue that caused some customers to see a grey box when trying to open the Viva Insights add-in.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an unexpected stop responding in Office rendering code.

Project

• We fixed an unexpected stop responding in Office rendering code.

Visio

• We fixed an unexpected stop responding in Office rendering code.

Word

• We fixed an unexpected stop responding in Office rendering code.

Office Suite

• We fixed an unexpected close unexpectedly in Office rendering code.

Version 2204: May 17

Version 2204 (Build 15128.20248)

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see the error "Cannot perform the requested operation...." when attempting to expand a local contact group.

• We fixed an issue where calendars not selected in the navigation pane when using "Open Shared Calendar."

• We fixed an issue that caused some customers to see a grey box when trying to open the Viva Insights add-in.

Word

• We fixed an issue where the Office "Insert Screenshot" shows blank/incomplete screenshots for Office Apps; we fixed an issue where some Windows Taskbar thumbnails screenshots for Office Apps may appear blank.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue where font download requests for endpoints that don't support font service were being issued. These requests are known to stop working for those endpoints, so we should not even try to issue them for unsupported endpoints.

Version 2204: May 10

Version 2204 (Build 15128.20224)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue that caused Excel to consume excessive memory.

• We fixed an issue with rendering in Excel and Project when using certain older versions of Windows 11.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see "No response required" specified on all meeting invites forwarded from delegated room mailboxes.

Word

• We fixed an issue in which the document would scroll to the end after deleting a paragraph mark.

• We fixed an issue where Read Aloud would close unexpectedly for unsigned user.

Version 2204: April 26

Version 2204 (Build 15128.20178)

Feature updates

Access

• Connector for Dataverse and Power Platform: While Access has been integrated with the cloud through Sharepoint and SQL, the new connector to Dataverse and the Power Platform enables totally new scenarios that unlocks benefits for developers who can now create custom apps for Mobile and MS Teams, plus automations, and chatbots built with Power Platform and Dataverse for Teams that work directly with their Access data and Dataverse. Learn more

Excel

• Reducing unwanted fragmenting of conditional formatting rules: We are reducing fragmenting of conditional formatting rules across a contiguous cell range when pasting copied cells into that cell range.

• Power BI Dataset Request Access Improvements: This update will present users with a way to request access to Power BI datasets when attempting to refresh PivotTables in Excel that are connected to a dataset they do not currently have access to.

Office Suite

• Added support for third-party storage hosts in Office: Users can now coauthor in real-time on files stored in a select set of third-party cloud storage providers using the Office desktop, web, and mobile apps. On Windows and macOS, users can provision a supported cloud storage provider using the “Add a Place” feature under File / Open. Provisioning tools for Windows and macOS are also available for IT Administrators.

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue that prevented Outlook Event-Based Add-Ins from functioning properly.

• This change helps users find the correct settings for managing the default online meeting options for third party meeting providers.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to close unexpectedly during launch when connected to a OneDrive for Business endpoint with no service URL.

• We fixed an issue that caused EU users to see information missing from person cards.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience a close unexpectedly when trying to respond to certain contacts.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience a close unexpectedly when deleting a folder.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue where the font dropdown would not accurately reflect what font was selected in a shape.

• We fixed an issue to allow a gradient stop to be added when clicking along the slider.

• We fixed an issue related to multi-threading for Direct2D and Direct3D interoperability.

Version 2203: April 20

Version 2203 (Build 15028.20228)

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue that prevented Outlook Event-Based Add-Ins from functioning properly.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused EU users to see information missing from person cards.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience a stop responding when responding to certain contacts.

Version 2203: April 12

Version 2203 (Build 15028.20204)

Security updates listed here

Feature updates

Teams

• Music on Hold for Voice over IP Calls: This feature ensures that music can be played when a Voice over IP call is placed on hold.

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused the "Move to Other" functionality to stop working properly.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue where the font dropdown would not accurately reflect what font was selected in a shape.

• We fixed an issue related to multi-threading for Direct2D and Direct3D interoperability.

• We fixed a stability issue when recording a Slide Show.

• We fixed a stability issue when stopping a recording of a Slide Show.

Version 2203: March 30

Version 2203 (Build 15028.20160)

Feature updates

Excel

• Want your workbook to take you places?: Understand the layout of your workbook, see what elements exist, and navigate around quickly using the Navigation pane. Learn more
  See details in blog post

Teams

• Roaming bandwidth control: A new roaming policy to provide specific settings from other policies which need to be rendered dynamically based upon the location of the Teams client. Initially two settings from the TeamsMeetingPolicy will be included: AllowIPVideo and MediaBitRateKb.

• Workflow templates in Teams Store: Workflows enable Teams users to automate repetitive tasks in order to collaborate more effectively and get more done. Users will be able to view all workflow templates by category, create a workflow from scratch, and learn more about the feature right from within the Teams store. Clicking on any template will guide the user through the configuration experience in-context.

• Forms Integration with Bookings: Associate Forms templates to Booking services to send forms for data intake from attendees prior to joining a Booking appointment.

• Teams device store in Teams admin center: Teams device store provides direct procurement through Teams admin center, where admins can discover, purchase and provision Teams certified devices. The functionality will be available to small and medium sized organizations in US and Canada. This will be extended to more customers in the future.

• Microsoft Teams: Casting from Teams desktop client to Microsoft Teams Rooms: For quick ad-hoc sessions that don’t require setting up a formal meeting, people can use Teams casting to wirelessly connect to a Teams Room and display content from the Teams desktop client (Windows and Mac). Users can broadcast their screen and cast content stored locally on their computer or accessible via Office 365.

• Message action entry point for Workflows in Teams: Message based workflows are powerful for collaboration and efficiency. With message action based entry point, users can view/search for applicable workflows as well as trigger pre-configured workflows from the message action overflow menu.

Outlook

• Show multiple mini-months in Calendar To-Do Bar: This feature allows you to show multiple mini-months both horizontally and vertically in the Calendar To-Do bar.

Office Suite

• Internet macros blocked by default: To help improve security in Office, we’re changing the default behavior of Office applications to block macros in files from the internet. The following Office applications running on Windows are affected: Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word. Learn more

Resolved issues

Access

• This updated fixed an issue that caused a custom application that uses OLEDB interfaces to open an Access database that contained links to SharePoint lists to close unexpectedly.

• We fixed an issue that could have caused memory usage of an application that uses DAO or OLEDB interfaces to read Access databases to grow rapidly. In some cases, this could cause abnormal program termination.

Excel

• We fixed an issue where using custom command bars could cause Excel to close unexpectedly.

• We fixed an issue where a recovered file would be opened as read-only.

• We fixed an issue displaying some SVG files.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused messages using the Encrypt Only and Do Not Forward templates to return unexpected permissions through the object model.

• We fixed an issue that caused some toggle-type options to sync incorrectly when using Cloud Settings.

• We fixed an issue that caused the "Index out of date" message to display too often.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to expect a stop responding in Outlook in some diagnostic scenarios.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see only a subset of the messages to get moved when moving multiple mail items from Focused to Other or Other to Focused.

• A data change was made to include a new United Kingdom holiday in UK-based calendars.

• We fixed an issue where removed shared calendars reappeared when the REST shared calendar feature was enabled.

• We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to close unexpectedly during shutdown under some circumstances.

Project

• We fixed an issue which was caused the app to close unexpectedly when the user was unable to open projects.

• We fixed an issue where the app stop responding when leveling does not complete.

• We fixed an issue where mask separator used an asterick (*) if it matched with list separator. In filters * is used for regular expressions which caused errors and unexpected behavior if value contained it. A pipe (|) is now used.

• We fixed an issue where the application opened onto a screen that is no longer available making the project hidden.

• We fixed an issue where the user would see a security dialog stating that the project had links to one or more data sources, even though the project had no active links. Now, the dialog appears only when there are active links.

Publisher

• We fixed an issue displaying some SVG files.

Word

• We fixed an issue with displaying embedded Excel spreadsheets in other applications.

• We fixed an issue displaying some SVG files.

• We fixed an issue in Word where SVG files may be displayed as a broken link (Red-X).

• We fixed an issue that caused shared calendars to be in an unselected state after adding them.

• We fixed a performance issue when opening Word documents with thousands of track changes.

• We fixed an issue in sending email notifications to users whose comments have gotten replies from other users.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue that caused contact cards to not show properly.

• We fixed an issue displaying customized views in Project.

• We fixed a stability issue related to Power BI controls and Forms as slide content when starting or recording Slide Show.

Version 2202: March 08

Version 2202 (Build 14931.20132)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue that can cause a custom application that uses OLEDB interfaces to open an Access database that contains links to SharePoint lists to close unexpectedly.

• We fixed an issue that caused newer versions of the Viva Insights add in to load less efficiently.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience performance issues when switching folders due to a corrupt view setting.

• We fixed an issue that caused the default icon to be displayed for attached messages when a custom icon was expected.

• We fixed an issue that caused the membership list to fail to display for contact cards.

Visio

• We fixed an issue where the user can now insert charts seamlessly without facing any issues where the app closes unexpectedly.

Version 2202: February 28

Version 2202 (Build 14931.20120)

Feature updates

Excel

• Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros will be disabled by default to improve security for Microsoft 365 customers.: To help protect customers, Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros will be disabled by default in Microsoft 365. We encourage you to migrate these macros to the latest version of Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Learn more

• Office apps now support OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.3: ODF 1.3 brought many improvements to the OpenDocument format and these are now supported in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (file extensions .odt, .ods, and .odp).
  See details in blog post

• Lambda: Helper Functions: 7 new functions which make use of lambdas and provide help when authoring lambda solutions!
  See details in blog post

• Lambda: Custom Functions Without Code: The lambda function allows you to take any existing formula or expression and turn it into a custom function with a name. Easily reuse and update logic in your spreadsheet with the lambda function.
  See details in blog post

Outlook

• Org Explorer: Visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles.
  See details in blog post

PowerPoint

• Record videos with narration: Make your next presentation more dynamic with pre-recorded video and narration. Or pre-record the entire presentation to ensure a smooth delivery on presentation day. Learn more
  See details in blog post

Teams

• Support of Live Caption for VDI-AVD: Users on Virtual machine will be able to use live captions. Live Captions display the text version of the audio in the call.

• Hide your own video in Teams meeting: Currently, the user's video is displayed at the bottom right corner of the meeting screen. This feature allow users to hide their own video during a meeting. This will help reduce distractions during the call while still having your video available for other participants.

• Enable Teams app developers to test their monetized apps within Teams client: Teams app developers now have ability to test the purchase of their Teams app directly from within the Teams client before making either app or offer public.

• Compact View in Chat: Allow users to see more chats within a given space. Generally better use of space in chat.

• New guest user usability improvements enabling pending invitation decline and show/hide guest tenant list from Teams app account settings: A guest user can now decline a pending guest invitation from Teams app. A guest user can now leave an org from Teams app account settings. A guest user can also choose to hide/show guest tenants from the Teams account settings.

• Queue view for Virtual visits scheduled in Bookings app: Real time updates to meeting state in a Queue view for Virtual visits scheduled in Bookings app.

• Pin your own video in Teams meetings: Currently, users can pin video feeds to increase the size of the desired video on their own screen. Now, we have expanded the ability for users to pin their own video on the stage as well. This way, users can also see their own video in the increased size on their screen.

• Local time available added to people profile: You can now know the local time of the people you collaborate with.

• Microsoft Teams: Career Coach - Job market trends: Faculty and staff license holders will now be able to view location-based job market trends within Career Coach. This experience is powered by LinkedIn workforce hiring data.

• New Fluent Emoji style coming to Teams emojis and reactions: Teams is joining M365 and Windows in updating all emojis and reactions to the new Microsoft Fluent emoji style, bringing users a more vibrant and expressive emoji experience.

• Support application Screen sharing for Citrix: Now users on Citrix VDI can share application in Teams meeting.

• Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home for VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop: This feature enables users on Azure Virtual Desktop on VDI to make an emergency call while working from home. It will allow users to validate (and if necessary, edit) the address that will be communicated to emergency responders.

Word

• Proofread selected text with Editor: Review spelling, grammar, and get writing suggestions for just the selected text in your document.
  See details in blog post

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue which adjusts how gradients fill on a series in a waterfall chart aligns with gradient fills on series in a column chart.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue where the folder hierarchy did not synchronize all folders for very large primary mailboxes with more than 10000 folders.

• We fixed an issue where a received email would not include a link to open the message.

• We fixed an issue that caused certain Smart Link callouts to be inaccessible to screen readers.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue that shows the company info in Info | Properties | Advanced Properties dialog for PowerPoint that is installed from C2R.

Project

• Users should no longer experience issues when printing progress lines on the Gantt chart.

Word

• We fixed an issue where SVG images that contain external content may not show up.

• We fixed an issue that caused the app to close unexpectedly when selecting Go to Comment for the first comment in a document.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue that caused contact cards to not show.

• We fixed an issue in the Outlook preview pane to allow SVG images to render properly.

Version 2201: February 16

Version 2201 (Build 14827.20198)

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue that may have caused errors while running an application.

Version 2201: February 08

Version 2201 (Build 14827.20192)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Access

• This update fixed an issue where an application would stop working and generate an error message such as "Cannot open any more databases"; the issue could also prevent Access from shutting down properly.

Project

• We fixed an issue where users were getting into a state where saving would not work. This fix makes it so that users can always save their work.

• We fixed an issue where users can now save projects to the Project Web Application even if the resources in the offline file have names that match enterprise resources.

Version 2201: January 26

Version 2201 (Build 14827.20158)

Feature updates

Outlook

• Improved address book search: You can now search additional fields in the Address Book including name, title, location, and more.
  See details in blog post

Teams

• People picker: Ability to search and select users from your organization within an Adaptive Card Input.Choiceset, leveraging Microsoft Graph APIs.

• Turn Off Reactions and App notifications from Activity: The feature will allow users to turn off reactions and app notifications from surfacing in the activity feed by directly right clicking on the feed item and exercising "Turn off all reactions" or "Turn off app notification" from the ellipsis.

• Mirror my video: Mirror my video feature provides the user the option to un-mirror their video and thereby have the same view as the other users(s) in the meeting. By un-mirroring their video, the user will see the text correctly. No more flipped text in backgrounds or while holding a small whiteboard while teaching primary school kids. This feature is helpful in gallery, large gallery, ppt-content only sharing, and ppt-live scenarios.

• Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home for VDI - VMware: This feature enables users on Virtual Machine to validate the address that will be communicated to emergency responders in the event that an emergency call is placed by an individual working from home.

• Export Teams list from the Teams admin center: Administrators can export Teams list as a CSV file from the Teams admin center

• Cortana iconography change on Teams Rooms devices in Front of Room display and console.: For Front of Room display and console UI, there will be a new icon for Cortana to help distinguish its capability for push-to-talk (PTT). The iconography is updated to reflect Cortana's avatar.

• Cortana voice activation is enabled by default in OOBE for newly imaged Teams Rooms devices: We are making some changes to OOBE (out of the box experience) for Teams Rooms! Cortana Voice Activation will be enabled by default, but if desired, IT admins can decide to opt out at that moment by switching the toggle off.

• Microsoft Teams for Education: Career Coach - Admin feature enabling: IT admin will have controls in Teams Admin Center for enabling new Career Coach features for their school.

• Microsoft Teams for Education: Career Coach - Connection messages: Students can now select a message to include with their LinkedIn connection invitation to school alumni.

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue that would prevent multiple users from opening a database on a network file share. Learn More

• We fixed an issue that caused the Insights add-in to stop working intermittently.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused a stop responding when loading personas.

• We fixed an issue that caused applications to become unresponsive after loading a contact card.

• We fixed an issue that caused the smart link URL to be unable to update when the user changed the permissions on the link in the message.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to be unable to open messages with Digital Rights Management policies applied.

Word

• We fixed an issue where Repeat style applies Normal instead of repeating style.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue where linked images may not load when opening a presentation programmatically in window-less mode.

Version 2112: January 12

Version 2112 (Build 14729.20260)

• Various bugs and performance fixes.

Version 2112: January 11

Version 2112 (Build 14729.20248)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue where shapes and form controls could not call VBA macros.

Version 2112: January 04

Version 2112 (Build 14729.20194)

Feature updates

Outlook

• Improved Calendar Search: Improvements have been made to Calendar search, largest of which is the ability to more easily find the next occurence of a series in search results.

PowerPoint

• PowerPoint Accessibility Ribbon: All of the tools to help you make your presentation accessible in one place.
  See details in blog post

• Office apps now support OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.3: ODF 1.3 brought many improvements to the OpenDocument format and these are now supported in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (file extensions .odt, .ods, and .odp).
  See details in blog post

Teams

• Raise your hand in a Teams meeting: During a meeting, you can raise your hand virtually to let people know you want to contribute without interrupting the conversation.

• Channel entry point for Workflows in Teams: There can be multiple workflows fueling collaboration within or across channels. With channel based entry point, users can view/search for applicable workflows as well as trigger pre-configured workflows from the manage channel menu alongside apps. This enables easy discovery and running of workflows at the channel level.

• Surprised reaction: Participants in a meeting can now send a surprised reaction.

• Music Mode for Teams: In music mode, we support up to 32 kHz sampling rate mono audio at 128 kbps, and optimize our internal audio processing settings for reproducing music with high fidelity. Teams will automatically adjust the audio bitrate based on the available bandwidth, going down to 48 kbps while still delivering good music quality. We also provide users the option to turn off components such as echo cancellation, noise suppression, and gain control if needed. To benefit from this improved fidelity, professional microphones and headphones or high quality external loudspeakers are ideal (no Bluetooth headsets). Built-in microphones and speakers on laptops such as the Surface Book will also deliver good experience.

Word

• Track just your changes in your documents: Sometimes when you're collaborating, you only want your own changes to be tracked, without forcing this setting on others. To track only your changes, go to Review tab, select Track changes, and choose Just Mine.
  See details in blog post

• Get back to work faster when collaborating: When you get disconnected while collaborating with others, Word will automatically refresh your document with the latest changes.

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue that would prevent multiple users from opening a database on a network file share. Learn More

• We fixed an issue that caused an application to close unexpectedly when connection to an Access or Jet database using multiple threads.

• This change fixes an issue that may cause an application that used the OLEDB API to open an Access database (.accdb file) to close unexpectedly if the database contains links to SharePoint lists.

• This change enables full support of requirement set 1.11 and 1.9 for Outlook add-ins.

Excel

• We fixed an issue where an application using the OLEDB API with the ACE.OLEDB.12.0 or ACE.OLEDB.16.0 provider was closing unexpectedly.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see garbled text in some fields when exporting contacts to a CSV.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue where the teaching callouts (tips) about the new look of Office did not appear in Outlook. Now, users of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote are notified about the changes to the new look of Office, which includes information about what changed and how to change settings, or toggle off the experience.

• We fixed a reliability issue related to refreshing elements that may contain text.

• We fixed an issue selecting text via double-tap when using the touchpad.

• We fixed an issue related to text anchoring in SVG rendering.

Version 2111: December 16

Version 2111 (Build 14701.20262)

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue that would prevent multiple users from opening a database on a network file share. Learn More

Office Suite

• We fixed a reliability issue related to refreshing elements that may contain text.

Version 2111: December 14

Version 2111 (Build 14701.20248)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue where opening XLSM file in SpreedsheetCompare tool can cause the tool to stop responding.

• We fixed an issue with the WEBSERVICE worksheet function, where Excel would stop working in rare cases when calculations are canceled by the user.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience a stop responding when retrieving personas.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue where the teaching callouts (tips) about the new look of Office did not appear in Outlook. Now, users of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote are notified about the changes to the new look of Office, which includes information about what changed and how to change settings, or toggle off the experience.

Version 2111: December 03

Version 2111 (Build 14701.20226)

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed issues that refreshing the data for PivotTables can stop working when filtered values no longer exist in the data, and a subsequent query statement generated without the invalid filtered values to retry the refresh request was temporarily disabled and is now reenabled.

• We fixed an issue where newly created PivotTables could lose custom settings if the data source range was changed.

• We fixed an issue where certain formula results aren't updated after their inputs have changed.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience an close unexpectedly when loading personas in PowerPoint.

• We fixed an issue that caused an unexpected close when displaying a contact card.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience an unexpected close when loading people photos.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue where some pop-up UI elements could not be clicked, such as the Join Meeting pop-up in Outlook or the Welcome Back pop-up in PowerPoint.

Project

• We fixed an issue where manually scheduled tasks were rescheduled to earlier dates when the user opened projects that had been Saved As to a different name. Users should no longer see manually scheduled tasks rescheduled while opening these projects.

• We fixed an issue where some projects would close unexpectedly when loading customized reports.

Word

• We fixed an issue where some pop-up UI elements could not be clicked, such as the Join Meeting pop-up in Outlook or the Welcome Back pop-up in PowerPoint.

• We fixed an issue where bookmarks and table of content links aren't working after exporting to PDF.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue during protected coauthoring where a sensitivity label and encryption might be removed from a file hosted in SharePoint or OneDrive.

Version 2110: December 01

Version 2110 (Build 14527.20312)

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience a close unexpectedly when expanding conversations.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to be able to download the MP3 attachment from protected voicemail messages.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see their default signatures stop being able to be inserted in new emails, replies, or forwards after a restart of Outlook.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience a close unexpectedly when updating user presence information in Outlook.

PowerPoint

• The product is updated not to save changes to original cloud file with AutoSave off when Save a Copy operation is executed.

Word

• We fixed an issue where the theme picker in Word's File > Options menu for x64 users where the theme selected would not apply. The theme picker in the File > Account place continues to work and is unaffected by this change.

Version 2110: November 09

Version 2110 (Build 14527.20276)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue where some worksheet functions were not appearing for users with certain languages.

• When opening linked tables to Dynamics, numbers may appear as small squares when the data is displayed. To work around this issue, open the link in Table Design view, and clear the Format property for any affected columns.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue where sending mail by right clicking and selecting "Send Mail" from the file system caused explorer.exe to close unexpectedly on VDI machines.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue when a user changes an original Portrait and bigger paper size document to a smaller paper size (e.g. from Letter to A5), its print out would be cut off (data loss).

Project

• We fixed an issue when tasks are rescheduled in Project, manually scheduled tasks may be scheduled earlier than they should be.

Version 2110: October 28

Version 2110 (Build 14527.20234)

Resolved issues

Outlook

• Fixed an issue where there was a potential for the app to stop responding when drawing an image.

PowerPoint

• Fixed an issue where there was a potential for the app to stop responding when drawing an image.

Skype for Business: Non-security updates

• We fixed an issue where a hybrid camera on some laptops did not show in SfB client.

Word

• Fixed an issue where there was a potential for the app to stop responding when drawing an image.

Version 2110: October 25

Version 2110 (Build 14527.20226)

Feature updates

Excel

• DLP policy tips in Word/Excel/PowerPoint: Additional sensitive information types configured as part of OneDrive and SharePoint data loss prevention (DLP) policies can now be detected by the app to show a policy tip. This update also brings accuracy improvements and globalization support. Learn more

Outlook

• Expanded GAL people suggestions for mail and calendar compose: Outlook will now return results from the complete GAL when suggestions people for email and calendar compose. (Ex: Adding someone to the To line of a new email)

PowerPoint

• DLP policy tips in Word/Excel/PowerPoint: Additional sensitive information types configured as part of OneDrive and SharePoint data loss prevention (DLP) policies can now be detected by the app to show a policy tip. This update also brings accuracy improvements and globalization support. Learn more

Teams

• Music on Hold for Consult/Transfer: Music on Hold for Consult/Transfer scenarios ensures that users placed on hold will hear music while consultation and transfer occurs, ensuring that the caller knows that the call is still active.

• Explicit recording start/stop messages to improve recording availability and discoverability: Redesign of recording start and stop messages in chat to improve discoverability and accessibility. It will also be easier to find a successfully uploaded recording in a meeting chat.

• Microsoft Teams: Room video fits to frame: Conference room video fits to frame by default and provide a full view of the room on Teams desktop app. Users can choose to fill frame for room video as needed.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Chat bubbles: Ability to view chats sent during a Teams meeting on the front of room display in a Teams Room, calling attention to the chat conversation happening alongside the meeting.

• Teams Guest Access Support for Sovereign Clouds (GCC-H): Teams now supports Guest Access in Sovereign Clouds.

• Expiration of Teams meeting recordings: For Teams meeting recordings saved to OneDrive & SharePoint you'll now be able to define a default number of days to keep recordings before they are automatically deleted. Users will be notified of upcoming expiration dates of their recordings and be able to override the expiration date per recording file.

• Teams Q&A: Question & Answer application for Teams webinars & meetings. By adding this application to any Teams Webinars or Meetings, users will be able to create either moderated or unmoderated Q&A experience.

• Microsoft Teams: 2x2 video in Gallery view for web meetings in Safari: Gallery view can now show up to 4 participant videos during a meeting in Safari browser.

• Message Deletion for Chat Supervisors: This feature, designed with our Teams for Education users in mind, allows chat supervisors to delete anyone's message in chats.

• Enable Teams users to purchase Teams apps through Teams client: Teams users have now the ability to purchase Teams app subscriptions from the Teams store.

• SMS notifications from Bookings app in Teams: SMS confirmations and reminders with Teams meeting link for appointments created from Bookings app in Teams.

• Support for CART and human typed captions: Teams meetings now supports embedded CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) captions from 3P CART service providers. CART users now don't have to open up a secondary browser window to stream CART captions. This will help attendees who are deaf or hard of hearing participate in meetings and makes it easier because the meeting presenter and meeting content will be in one place.

• Federation/External Access with user in Teams outside of IT managed organizations.: This feature extends the Teams Connect offerings to also allow user in an IT managed organization to start 1:1 and Group chats with users outside of an IT managed organization (TFL). No support for meetings, TFL users starting chats, or calls in this release. This feature will only be supported for EDU tenants initially.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Split video layout across multiple screens: Ability to split the video gallery across all available displays in a Teams Room, when content isn’t being shared, maximizing screen space and bringing greater attention to the people joining remotely.

• Meeting room capacity notifications: This feature enables room administrators to automatically notify in-room meeting participants if a room is over capacity. Room administrators can define meeting room capacity for the room account in exchange and room uses the data from meeting room cameras with people-counting technologies to identify how many people are in a room, and alert in-room meeting participants if it is over-capacity. The notification is displayed as a banner across the top of the screen at the front of the room.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Spotlight multiple video streams: Ability to Spotlight multiple video streams (up to 7 participants) simultaneously during a Teams meeting. Users can select which participants to pin from the center of room console.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Support for large meeting controls: Ability for a Teams Room on Windows to join a large meeting as a presenter or attendee. Based on the role assumed by the Teams Room, appropriate meeting controls are made available to presenters for meeting moderation and for attendees.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Lock meeting support: Ability to lock a meeting, preventing additional participants from joining. Users attempting to join a locked meeting will be informed that the meeting is locked.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Support for Logitech Scribe content camera: From a Teams Room you can effortlessly share analog whiteboards into Teams meetings using the Logitech Scribe content camera and Intelligent Capture feature in Teams.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Live reactions: Ability to view live reactions sent by participants in a Teams meeting on the front of room display in a Teams Room. Room users can also send reaction from center of the room console.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Pin multiple video streams: Ability to pin multiple video streams (up to 9 participants) simultaneously during a Teams meeting. User can select which participants to pin from the center of room console.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Presenter mode support: Ability for presenter mode views to appear on the front of room display in a Teams Room. Presenter mode is a feature in PowerPoint Live that helps you customize how your video feed and content appear to the meeting audience.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Updated Meeting Roster: The updated meeting roster (viewable on the Teams Rooms console) more closely aligns with the experience available through the Teams desktop app, and includes capabilities like participant grouping, sort roster by raised hand, integrated user search. As well as with ability to ask others to join meeting from invited list or from chat.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Dynamic view on single and dual displays: Dynamic view automatically optimizes shared content and video participants in Teams meetings. New controls let you personalize the view to suit your preferences and needs, such as the ability to show shared content and specific participants side-by-side or to view content or people only.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Large gallery view and Together Mode in GCCH: Ability for Teams Rooms to support different video gallery layouts including Large gallery and Together mode, in GCCH clouds.

• Support for CART and human typed captions: Teams meetings now supports embedded CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) captions from 3P CART service providers. CART users now don't have to open up a secondary browser window to stream CART captions. This will help attendees who are deaf or hard of hearing participate in meetings and makes it easier because the meeting presenter and meeting content will be in one place.

Word

• Read Aloud just get better: The new Read Aloud Toolbar features new, natural sounding voice options.
  See details in blog post

• More natural voice options for Read Aloud: Try out a new, more natural sounding voice in the Read Aloud toolbar. Learn more
  See details in blog post

• DLP policy tips in Word/Excel/PowerPoint: Additional sensitive information types configured as part of OneDrive and SharePoint data loss prevention (DLP) policies can now be detected by the app to show a policy tip. This update also brings accuracy improvements and globalization support. Learn more

Office Suite

• Read Aloud just got better: The Read Aloud toolbar features new, natural sounding voice options.
  See details in blog post

• Use your voice to send email and @mention people: In our increasingly busy world, dictating your emails in Outlook has become a very popular way to improve your efficiency. We’ve now made this feature even more powerful by adding specific voice commands, enabling you to add people to an email, mention (@name) someone in a message, and send the mail—all using only your voice.
  See details in blog post

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue where the app stop responding when we opened the privacy settings window and the default dialog manager is empty.

Excel

• We fixed an issue where a query update caused Excel to stop responding.

• We fixed an issue where on opening an Excel file, the cell selection was off.

• We fixed an issue where the app stop responding when we opened the privacy settings window and the default dialog manager is empty.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused a sync failure to occur when generating a preview.

• We fixed an issue that caused users who are on Windows 11 or who are using the visual refresh through Coming Soon to see misaligned text when hovering over the mini calendar date.

• We fixed an issue that caused all emails sent with Sensitivity labels to always apply the "Encrypt - Only" template which would result in incorrect behavior, allowing people to forward "recipients only" emails.

• We fixed an issue that caused users who are on Windows 11 or who are using the visual refresh through Coming Soon to see some alignment issues in the ribbon area and strange visual artifacts when resizing Outlook windows.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to encounter a stop responding when loading the navigation pane for the calendar module.

• We fixed an issue that caused the appointment quick view to be cropped when previewing meeting invitations.

• We fixed an issue where the app stop responding when we opened the privacy settings window and the default dialog manager is empty.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue where the app stop responding when we opened the privacy settings window and the default dialog manager is empty.

Project

• We fixed an issue where, when programmatically adding new tasks to a project via CSOM, the tasks might not be inserted at the correct location if the new task's summary task is collapsed.

Word

• We fixed an issue where the app stop responding when we opened the privacy settings window and the default dialog manager is empty.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue where documents that contain invalid SVGs will show the rasterized fallback image instead of a red X.

Version 2109: October 14

Version 2109 (Build 14430.20306)

• Various bugs and performance fixes.

Version 2109: October 12

Version 2109 (Build 14430.20298)

Security updates listed here

Version 2109: October 06

Version 2109 (Build 14430.20270)

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused some users to experience a stop responding when attempting to retrieve AutoDiscover settings.

Version 2109: September 28

Version 2109 (Build 14430.20234)

Feature updates

Excel

• A new way to reach the Accessibility tools: The Accessibility ribbon puts all the tools you need to create accessible content in one place.
  See details in blog post

Teams

• Bookings app in Teams in Government Cloud (Moderate): Availability of Bookings app in Teams in GCC Moderate environment

• Live Transcript in Teams Meetings in Additional Spoken Languages: Meetings held in one of the supported languages now are supported by Live Transcript. We have expanded from just English (US) to include EN*, German, French (France), French (Canada), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Hindi, Italian, Korean, Russian, and Swedish.

• Q&A in Teams meeting: Add the Q&A app to a meeting/webinar in order to add moderated or un-moderated Q&A to the session.

• Team Templates: Refresh to Team Templates content with additional apps and channels in the Microsoft-provided predefined team structure.

• Extensible Camera Effects in Microsoft Teams Meetings: Build immersive experiences for Microsoft Teams meetings by leveraging our new platform offering and empower end-users with augmented experiences while in a Microsoft Teams meeting

• Content from camera: "Content from camera” in Teams empowers users to share content from physical artefacts such as whiteboards and documents in a high quality and legible way during meetings. Using this, Educators can also share content directly from a document camera during a Teams call.To use this feature, users should have a laptop/PC with an in-built camera or USB camera that can be plugged into a laptop/PC. While using this feature, camera should be pointed towards a whiteboard or document in view and ideally within a 4 feet range. If you don’t have a whiteboard, you can still test the feature with a flip-chart or chart stuck on a wall.

• Large Gallery for VDI: Large Gallery feature will enables a Teams meeting participant on Virtual Machine to see an expanded view of the meetings gallery with 7x7 = 49 simultaneous user video streams in a Teams meetings.

• Changing default notification style to Native notification from Teams built-in for new users: Native Notifications provide a host of benefits like support for action center, accessibility, and support for focus assist mode. Currently the default notification style for a new user in Microsoft teams is Teams Purple. With this change the default for new user will change to Native Notification.

• Teams Network planner for government clouds: Network Planner can help you determine and organize network requirements for connecting Microsoft Teams users across your organization. When you provide your network details and Teams usage, the Network Planner calculates your network requirements for deploying Teams and cloud voice across your organization's physical locations.

• Live Captions for Teams Meetings for your personal life: Personal Teams Meetings will now have live captions.

• Pin a chat message: You can now easily pin chat messages to drive awareness and provide your chat members quick access to important content. Pinning will help your team stay in sync on what’s and relevant in a timely manner.

• Support Human Interface Devices for WVD: This feature will support use of Human Interface Devices (HID) for Team on WVD

• Expiration of Teams meeting recordings: For Teams meeting recordings saved to OneDrive & SharePoint you'll now be able to define a default number of days to keep recordings before they are automatically deleted. Users will be notified of upcoming expiration dates of their recordings and be able to override the expiration date per recording file

• Breakout Room Presenter support: Extend the management of Breakout Rooms to specific presenters.

• Career Coach - Improved accessibility and minor updates: Career Coach will receive minor updates to copy and performance. The application will also adhere to greater levels of accessibility for keyboard navigation and screen readers.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Surface Hub: This next generation of Teams on Surface Hub has been redesigned to bring your favorite features from the desktop and Microsoft Teams Rooms into the meeting space.

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue where an error was attempting to use the DAO API from non-Office applications would stop responding with message, "The operating system is not presently configured to run this application."

• In certain customer configurations, it was discovered that document exports to PDF or XPS formats from Office would fail due to recent updates. This update fixed these regressions and reenabled export to these formats.

Excel

• Excel was clearing out the value for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Common\UserInfo\Company in non-MSI installs of Office. We have fixed this issue which primarily affected customers using non-MSI versions of Office.

• Addressed an issue where under rare circumstances Excel could stop responding while calculating a workbook.

• This version fixed a unexpected close which happened during save for some documents in tenants which opted into protected coauthoring if the local file cache had tenant Id datum formatted incorrectly.

• In certain customer configurations, it was discovered that document exports to PDF or XPS formats from Office would fail due to recent updates. This update fixed these regressions and reenabled export to these formats.

OneNote

• We fixed an issue which updated the hot key for creating a Quick Note to be Win + Alt + N.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused Room Finder to fail to load.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to be able to download protected voice mail files.

• We fixed an issue that caused some users to experience a unexpected close after adding a shared calendar.

• We fixed an issue that caused users of Outlook's "shared calendar improvements" feature to experience high CPU usage.

• We fixed an issue that caused calendars added to the "shortcuts" module to disappear after Outlook restarts.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see shared calendars that they added not be checked by default, leading them to believe that the calendar had failed to get added.

PowerPoint

• This version fixed a unexpected close which happened during save for some documents in tenants which opted into protected coauthoring if the local file cache had tenant Id datum formatted incorrectly.

• We fixed an issue where Word was taking a longer time to save than expected.

• In certain customer configurations, it was discovered that document exports to PDF or XPS formats from Office would fail due to recent updates. This update fixed these regressions and reenabled export to these formats.

Skype

• We fixed an issue where the video share peek in a conversation window will close unexpectedly.

Word

• This version fixed a unexpected close which happened during save for some documents in tenants which opted into protected coauthoring if the local file cache had tenant Id datum formatted incorrectly.

• In certain customer configurations, it was discovered that document exports to PDF or XPS formats from Office would fail due to recent updates. This update fixed these regressions and reenabled export to these formats.

• We fixed an issue where the insert Online video button was disable.

• We fixed an issue which typing Hiragana with the Japanese IME with the At Mention people picker opened caused the IME to stop working.

• We fixed an issue where applying Styles from the Home tab did not work.

• We fixed an issue where Word was taking a longer time to save than expected.

Office Suite

• Fixed an issue in Outlook where custom VSTO controls stopped working after opening and switching between multiple windows and views.

• We fixed an issue where the following error was displaying, "Read Aloud not starting."

Version 2108: September 14

Version 2108 (Build 14326.20404)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see a loss of HTML formatting when saving a draft of an email to disk.

Version 2108: September 07

Version 2108 (Build 14326.20348)

Resolved issues

Excel

• Fixed an issue where not all columns may appear when linking to or importing from a Dynamics table.

OneNote

• Updated the hot key for creating a Quick Note to be Win + Alt + N

Outlook

• We fixed an issue where special characters were included in error messages.

• We fixed an issue that caused Room Finder to fail to load.

• We fixed an issue where an unexpected informational notification tip about shortening meetings by default appeared when creating meetings in Outlook, when the option was not configured by the Exchange administrator.

• We fixed an issue that caused deleted meeting invitations to intermittently re-surface for some users.

• We fixed an issue that caused links in the location field to be unclickable.

Word

• Fixed an issue where a dialog showcasing the new visual refresh contained text that was inaccessible to screen readers.

• Office apps now support OpenDocument format 1.3

• We fixed an issue in Print where the print preview was not loading.

Version 2108: August 25

Version 2108 (Build 14326.20238)

Feature updates

Outlook

• Turn on shared calendar improvements: For shared calendars in Office 365, Outlook can update these calendars using the REST API. Turn on the preview for faster and more reliable updates to shared calendars.
  See details in blog post

Teams

• Breakout Room pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment: Introducing capability for organizer to perform breakout room configuration and participant assignment before the meeting starts.

• Live Captions in additional spoken languages for Teams Meetings: Meetings held in one of the supported languages now are supported by real time captioning. We have expanded from just English (US) to include English (Canada), English (India), English (United Kingdom), English (Australia), English (International), Deutsch (Deutschland), Português (Brasil), Nederlands (Nederland), Nederlands (Belgium), Français (France), Español (España, alfabetización internacional), 日本語 (日本), Français (France), Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional), Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified), Hindi (India), Italian (Italy), Korean (Korea), Spanish (Mexico), Swedish (Sweden), Polish (Poland), Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Arabic (Saudi Arabia).

• Stream Teams Meetings to custom RTMP endpoints: Streaming allows your organization to expand your reach and gives meeting attendees more meeting options. When you enable streaming, organizers can stream meetings and webinars to external endpoints by providing a Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) URL and key to the built-in Custom Streaming app in Teams.

• Transfer calls between Desktop and Mobile: Teams calling participants soon will be able transfer an ongoing 1:1 Teams VoIP call, a PSTN call or a Group call between Teams devices, i.e. from your desktop client to your mobile client or to another desktop client. In addition to it users will also be able to add another device as a companion to their call. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68776.

• Video Streams Out via AJA or Blackmagic Design Hardware: Isolated video streams can be sent out of Teams meetings via AJA and Blackmagic Design hardware devices.

• New assignment experience in modal window for Breakout Rooms: Enhanced UX for participant assignment. This includes new capabilities such as sorting participants and rooms and performing multiple selections and assignments to rooms.

• Peer5 eCDN support for Teams Live Events: Soon, you will be able to use Peer5 as an eCDN provider for your Teams Live Event network needs.

• Speaker Attribution in Live Transcript in Teams Meetings in GCC Clouds: Teams Meetings in GCC clouds will now have live transcript utterances attributed to the speaker of the utterance.

• Approvals - Sequential Approvers Support: Requestors will now be able to toggle on sequential approvals to designate the approval order of the request.

• Present from PowerPoint to Teams with M365 Apps for Business license: The capability of presenting your slides directly from the PowerPoint desktop apps to a meeting via PowerPoint Live in Teams is now extended to the Microsoft 365 Apps for Business license.

• Embedded CART Captioning support for Teams Meetings: Teams Meetings now support integration with real-time captioning providers and CART writers (Communication Access Real-Time Transcription) so that users who utilize CART captions can view the captions in the same window as their meeting.

• Dual-tone multi-frequency for Citrix: DTMF for Teams on VDI for Citrix customers.Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams is now available for users on Citrix VDI. Previously, when a Citrix VDI user calls into the meeting using the dial-in n​umber, the call is connected, but you are not admitted to the meeting because DTMF tone is not sent. Now, when the same user enters the conference ID, DTMF will recognize the ID being entered and admit user to the meeting.

• Error screen during chat failure: User will see the chat error screen incase of failure to render chat during meeting.

• Microsoft Teams meetings LTI application for educational learning management systems (LMS): Microsoft Teams meetings is an LTI app that helps educators and students easily incorporate Teams meetings into their LMS course. Users can view past & upcoming meetings, schedule individual or recurring meetings, and join the Teams meetings related to the course all from within their LMS.

• Together Mode Extensibility: Together Mode Extensibility

• Simplified class team navigation for Teams for Education: Access Assignments, Grades, Class Notebook and Insights more easily from your main class team navigation.

• Starting recording will also start live transcription: Assuming both recording and policy settings are enabled, turning on recording will also start live transcription.

• Missed Activity Email in DOD: Missed activity email enables the user to stay on top of Microsoft teams. A missed activity email is generated in case a user is away from Microsoft teams and has not reviewed their notifications. A user can choose to receive Missed activity emails by going to settings -> notifications -> choosing the frequency.

• Top hits in Search Autosuggest: Top hits is a new section at the top of the autosuggest results in search where users will see the most relevant results across people, chats, files and more. This feature will improve discovery and reduce search times.

• Manage Device Permissions for Teams Apps: Personalize permissions to use camera, location, and other capabilities within each app.

• Live Transcript in unscheduled Teams Meetings: Now unscheduled/ad hoc Teams Meetings are supported by Live Transcript.

• Live Transcript in Teams Channel Meetings: Channel meetings in Teams are now supported by Live Transcript.

• Live Captions on Teams Meetings on Web: Live Captions are now available for web users of Teams Meetings.

• Reporter and Side-by-Side Mode in Teams meetings: You can now appear next to your content for a more engaging presentation and consumption experience

• Embedded CART Captioning support for Teams Meetings: Teams Meetings now support integration with real-time captioning providers and CART writers (Communication Access Real-Time Transcription) so that users who utilize CART captions can view the captions in the same window as their meeting.

Resolved issues

Access

• Fixed an error that causes tables dropped into the query design or system relationship window to appear in a different location then where they were dropped.

• Fixed an error where attempting to use the DAO API from non-Office applications would stop working with "The operating system is not presently configured to run this application."

• We fixed an issue which now enables launch events for Outlook addins.

Excel

• We fixed an issue where the "File" tab text was getting cut off in some languages.

• We fixed an issue where connecting to a data source from within the PowerPivot window was not working.

• We fixed a problem where the Analysis ToolPak add-in did not work with certain Automation Security settings.

• We fixed an issue bug that is causing office apps to stop responding, when multiple office apps are running at the same time. This also fixes other stability issues across the system that arises because of the reponse issue.

• We fixed an issue that caused date fields in PivotTables to be grouped incorrectly.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to be able to download protected attachments.

• We fixed an issue where the app stopped working while composing an email using Outlook.

• We fixed an issue where the app stops responding shortly after Outlook boot.

• We fixed an issue where email signatures would be missing after a change in the account's UPN/SMTP name.

• Fixed an issue where changes only to the content of a signature would not be updated in the cloud-based setting.

• Fixed an issue that caused users to be able to download protected voice mail messages.

• Fixed an error when forwarding some large or long running recurring meetings as ICAL.

• Fixed an issue where a meeting occurrence cancellation form would appear instead of the expected edit form.

• We fixed an issue that was causing the app to stop responding when using Outlook.

• We fixed a bug that caused increased network activity shortly after Outlook boot with profiles that have multiple accounts.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue where Word was taking longer time to save than expected.

Skype

• We fixed an issue where the video share peek in a conversation window will close unexpectedly.

Word

• Fixed an issue when editing contacts related to adding pictures using 'This Device' option.

• We fixed an issue where the insert Online video button was disable.

• We fixed a bug where you are unable to turn off any of the Editor options in the "Resume" section.

• We fixed an issue with non-default ribbon configurations that can lead to the Style Gallery to not function.

• We fixed an issue where Word was taking longer time to save than expected.

• We fixed an issue bug that is causing Office apps to stop responding, when multiple Office apps are running at the same time. This also fixes other stability issues across the system that arises because of the reponse issue.

Office Suite

• Fixed a bug in Outlook where custom VSTO controls stopped working after opening and switching between multiple windows and views.

• Fixed an issue related to scrolling on a thumbnail view in a PPT slide using touch or trackpad.

• We fixed an issue where some documents failed to load after using some web add-ins.

Version 2107: August 10

Version 2107 (Build 14228.20250)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue where attempting to use the DAO API from non-Office applications would stop responding with "The operating system is not presently configured to run this application."

• In certain customer configurations, it has been discovered that document exports to PDF or XPS formats from Office may stop responding due to recent updates. This update fixes these regressions and reenables export to these formats.

Excel

• We fixed an issue that may cause some linked Dynamics table to stop responding.

• In certain customer configurations, it has been discovered that document exports to PDF or XPS formats from Office may stop responding due to recent updates. This update fixes these regressions and reenables export to these formats.

PowerPoint

• In certain customer configurations, it has been discovered that document exports to PDF or XPS formats from Office may stop responding due to recent updates. This update fixes these regressions and reenables export to these formats.

Word

• In certain customer configurations, it has been discovered that document exports to PDF or XPS formats from Office may stop responding due to recent updates. This update fixes these regressions and reenables export to these formats.

Version 2107: August 03

Version 2107 (Build 14228.20226)

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused emails that are resent by a different user to appear to have been sent by the original sender in organizations where SendFromAliasEnabled is set to True.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see duplicate time entries in the end meeting time dropdown when the start of the meeting and the end of the meeting were on different dates.

Version 2107: July 26

Version 2107 (Build 14228.20204)

Feature updates

Outlook

• Microsoft Search powered compose (To\CC\BCC) suggestions: Adding people to the To\CC line is now powered by Microsoft Search.

• Read messages with fewer distractions: Make it easier to focus on messages with custom text spacing, page colors, column width, and line focus, by turning on Immersive Reader.

PowerPoint

• Add Flipgrid videos to your presentation: PowerPoint now supports Flipgrid videos along with other video types. Learn more

Resolved issues

Excel

• Fixed the issue where DRM-protected workbook cannot be opened from VBA if Application.DisplayAlerts is set to True.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused some users to experience a unexpected close when collecting diagnostic information.

• We fixed an issue that caused modifications on a message generated by the "Resend this message" option to be lost on send when that message was re-sent from a PST.

• We fixed an issue that caused some users to experience a unexpected close when performing searches.

• We fixed an issue that caused Cloud Settings users to experience a unexpected close when an incompletely configured account is present in the profile.

• We fixed an issue that caused users of the Shared Calendar Improvements feature to see newly added shared calendars fail to display until after a restart of Outlook.

Visio

• We fixed an issue where users can seamlessly access files without experiencing any unexpected close now.

Word

• Fixed issue where comment cards next to the Word canvas were the incorrect size.

• Fixed an issue maintaining "Current List" of Citations on Password Protected DOCX files.

Version 2106: July 20

Version 2106 (Build 14131.20332)

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused some users to experience a unexpected close when collecting diagnostic information.

• We fixed an issue that caused modifications on a message generated by the "Resend this message" option to be lost on send when that message was re-sent from a PST.

• We fixed an issue that caused Cloud Settings users to experience a unexpected close when an incompletely configured account is present in the profile.

Version 2106: July 13

Version 2106 (Build 14131.20320)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused some users to experience a unexpected close while retrieving service powered search suggestions.

• We fixed an issue that caused Cloud Settings to be unsuccessful to roam settings when it hit a conflict.

• We fixed an issue that caused the SMTP address to stop working to be in display next to the user's primary calendar in a multi-account profile after enabling the "Shared Calendar Improvements" option.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see duplicate calendar items created when responding to the meeting request through the right-click context menu.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue related to instability during DirectX device loss and recovery situations.

Version 2106: June 29

Version 2106 (Build 14131.20278)

Feature updates

Outlook

• Accessibility Checker nudge when sending emails to large DL, external users: We added the functionally to get prompted automatically, through a mailtip, of an accessibility violation while composing an email to large audiences, external users, etc. These settings live in the Ease of Access
  See details in blog post

• Get relevant file suggestions when you search: When you type in the Search box, the most relevant files related to your search will be included in your suggestions.

Resolved issues

Excel

• Fixed an issue where extra entries appeared in the Excel Add-in list for some users.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue where a retention policy for Skype for Business or Microsoft Teams was shown as the default folder policy when you view the properties of a mailbox folder, instead of the mailbox retention policy that's applied to the folder.

• We fixed an issue that caused performance issues on ARM64 devices.

• We fixed an issue that caused the translation options to be disabled for some users. Customers who experienced this bug would have seen their translation options disabled when navigating to File -> Options -> Language. Due to this, they would have been unable to change their preferred translation language and other translation related settings.

• We fixed an issue that caused users of the Shared Calendar Improvements option who have many shared calendars to experience some performance issues.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue where a user was unable to enter credentials into a Windows Security dialog to open a file, because of an obstructive PowerPoint-specific dialog.

Visio

• SPO/ODB Links with guest access will now work.

Word

• Fixed an issue to persist citations on a password protected docx file.

Office Suite

• Fixed user switching data scenario when user switches between Active Directory Identities from the Me control in Office applications.

Version 2105: June 18

Version 2105 (Build 14026.20308)

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience an unexpected property change prompt when closing a message they had replied to or forwarded.

• This change enables users to submit feedback through our new feedback system.

• We fixed an issue that caused ZeroConfigExchange to fail to work properly on Hybrid Azure AD joined machines connected to an external network.

Office Suite

• Fixed an issue where user is unable to edit certain documents stored in OnPrem sharepoint servers.

• Fixed a unexpected close when reopening certain files.

Version 2105: June 08

Version 2105 (Build 14026.20270)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue where extra entries appeared in the Excel Add-in list for some users.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that may cause a unexpected close when interacting with Outlook Mail or Calendar Views.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience a unexpected close when removing folders from an archive store.

Office Suite

• Fixed a performance regression on opening SyncBacked files.

Version 2105: May 24

Version 2105 (Build 14026.20246)

Feature updates

Excel

• AutoSave and coauthoring on sensitive encrypted documents: Don't trade off productivity for security. With Microsoft Purview Information Protection, documents that are encrypted with sensitivity labels can now be AutoSaved and co-authored with others in real time just like unencrypted documents can. Requires tenant opt-in.

PowerPoint

• AutoSave and coauthoring on sensitive encrypted documents: Don't trade off productivity for security. With Microsoft Purview Information Protection, documents that are encrypted with sensitivity labels can now be AutoSaved and co-authored with others in real time just like unencrypted documents can. Requires tenant opt-in.

Teams

• Video Streams Out via AJA or Blackmagic Design Hardware: Isolated video streams can be sent out of Teams meetings via AJA and Blackmagic Design hardware devices.

• Anonymous users can present: When hosting a Teams live event, we added the ability for an anonymous users to join a Live Event and so that they can also present during the event.

• Approvals - Reassign support: Approvers will now be able to delegate/reassign an approval request to another user.

• Approval App add-in within Microsoft Word: Users will be able to create an approval request for an entire document or a section of a document within Microsoft Word via add-ins.

• Together Mode for VDI: Together mode on VDI uses of AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you’re sitting in the same room with everyone else.

• Supervised chat: Use Teams administrative policy to ensure students are supervised by an educator during private 1:1 or group chats. With Supervised Chat, students will not be allowed to engage in chats without a supervising educator present.

• Microsoft Teams: Revised in-meeting Share experience: The user interface for the in-meeting Share feature in Microsoft Teams has been redesigned to help presenters find their desired content more quickly and easily.

• Disable Camera for Specific Attendees: Meeting Organizers and Presenters can disable the cameras of specific Attendees in a Teams Meeting to make sure they don't share video in the meeting.

• Disable Camera for All Attendees: Meeting Organizers and Presenters can disable the cameras of all Attendees in a Teams Meeting to make sure they don't share video in the meeting.

• Teams webinar capabilities general availability: Schedule and deliver 1,000 person webinars with the same Teams app you use for meetings! Webinar capabilities support registration page creation, email confirmation for registrants, host management for attendee video and audio, attendee reporting, plus interactive features like polls, chat and reactions.

• Create Teams with Team Templates: With Templates in Teams, users can choose from a variety of customizable templates when creating a new team, helping them get started quickly. IT Admins can also create custom templates for their organization, allowing them to standardize team structures, preinstall relevant apps, and scale best practices. IT Admins can choose which team templates to show to end users in Teams Admin Center, and also preconfigure website tabs by adding URLs to a website tab in a team template.

• Present from PowerPoint to Teams: Present your slides directly from the PowerPoint app to a Teams meeting via PowerPoint Live.

• Expanded Emoji Picker: The expanded emoji update offers people more fun and expressiveness in Teams. It also introduces a wider range of diversity and representation. The emoji set has expanded from 85 to over 800 emojis, with a category selector, skin tone selector and shortcode picker.

• Chat with External Users in Group Chats: With this feature users can create group chats that include people external to their organization using Teams (requires all users to have external access capabilities enabled).

• Update to Network planner tool for bandwidth estimation: Network planner tool will be updated to reflect the latest bandwidth requirements of Teams client. This will help IT administrators better estimate and plan their office bandwidth needs.

• User preference setting to open files by default in Desktop (or) Browser (or) Teams: Users can set their default preference as Browser, Desktop or Teams when opening Office (Word, Excel, and Power Point) files that are shared in Teams.Desktop setting can be selected if latest Office clients are installed and activated

• Spotlight multiple users at the same time in a meeting: Organizers and presenters can now spotlight multiple participants simultaneously during meetings. The meeting stage will show these spotlighted participants, with their videos or avatars, to everyone in the meeting.

Word

• AutoSave and coauthoring on sensitive encrypted documents: Don't trade off productivity for security. With Microsoft Purview Information Protection, documents that are encrypted with sensitivity labels can now be AutoSaved and co-authored with others in real time just like unencrypted documents can. Requires tenant opt-in.

Resolved issues

Excel

• Fixed an issue where the Analysis ToolPak add-in did not work for some users.

• Fixed an issue to enable the Name Manager to open on books with a large number of hidden names.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused some instructions for the "Shorten Meetings" feature to be disabled through screen reader technologies.

• We fixed an issue that caused some users to experience closed unexpectedly when loading person cards.

• We fixed an issue that caused the feedback option disable for users of the Office Perpetual 2021 preview.

• We added a registry key that disables the new Room Finder experience (the same experience as in Outlook for Web) and enables the legacy Room Finder with Suggested Times.

  Registry Key:

  HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Options\Calendar
  REG_DWORD “ShowLegacyRoomFinder”
  
  0 (default) - Outlook uses new Room Finder OWA Powered eXperience when user clicks 'Room Finder' button to search for available rooms
  1 - Outlook uses legacy Room Finder UI to search for available rooms
  

PowerPoint

• Fixed an issue where Reuse Slides option was not available for few users.

Project

• Fixed an issue where assignments on manually scheduled tasks to be moved to an incorrect date.

• Fixed an issue where if you create a custom field formula which uses the ProjectDate*/ProjectDur* functions and if the second parameter is the Date(), Now() or Time() date and time functions, then a #ERROR results.

Word

• Fixed an issue where canvas contextual cards for spelling and grammar show icon buttons, but those buttons have no tooltips.

• Fixed an issue where the Editor Pane doesn't open.

Version 2104: May 18

Version 2104 (Build 13929.20386)

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused the people picker in Outlook to expand upwards rather than downwards for users with a perpetual license.

• We fixed an issue that caused the feedback option to fail to appear for users of the Office Perpetual 2021 preview.

Version 2104: May 11

Version 2104 (Build 13929.20372)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Excel

• Fix for an issue where a major version build rollback could result in crashes on file open.

• Fixed an issue where the Analysis ToolPak add-in did not work for some users.

• We fixed an issue that caused date formatting to be displayed incorrectly in some languages when using add-ins.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused some users of the calendar sharing improvements feature to experience issues with interacting with their calendar in the navigation pane.

PowerPoint

• Fix for an issue where a major version build rollback could result in crashes on file open.

• Fixed an issue where Reuse Slides option was not available for few users.

Word

• Fix for an issue where a major version build rollback could result in crashes on file open.

• Fixes an issue that may cause Word unexpectedly closed when shutting down due to the user logging off or restarting their computer.

Office Suite

• This change parses the new TenantId attribute sent on Cobalt responses and stores it in the Central Table.

Version 2104: April 29

Version 2104 (Build 13929.20296)

Feature updates

Excel

• Linked data types: Real data for real life: New linked data types bring you facts and data on hundreds of subjects to help you accomplish your goals right in Excel.

Teams

• Dynamic view: Dynamic view automatically optimizes shared content and video participants in Teams meetings. New controls let you personalize the view to suit your preferences and needs, such as the ability to show shared content and specific participants side-by-side.

• Out of Office: Set up a message to let others know you're not working or on vacation so you're not available to reply when they send a chat message. Your out of office status will also sync with Automatic Replies that are found in your Outlook calendar.

Visio

• Ready-made graphics for your diagrams: Choose from a large library of icons, stock photo images, cutout people, and stickers that you can add to your Visio drawings. Learn more
  See details in blog post

Word

• Better collaboration with modern comments: Add comments to objects, @mention colleagues, and resolve comment threads for a better collaboration experience. Learn more
  See details in blog post

• Dark Mode for Word documents: Dark Mode may help reduce eye strain and accommodate light sensitivity while working on your documents.
  See details in blog post

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue where some files would occasionally not able to open in Protected View

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to experience close expectedly when searching.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see signatures disappear unexpectedly.

• We fixed an issue that could cause users to see the message that they are composing losing the UI focus.

• We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to override the Focused Inbox preferences configured in OWA.

• We fixed an issue that caused users of roaming settings to experience no response.

• We fixed an issue that caused name resolution disable when sending on behalf of another user and resolving against an address book that is not the Global Address List.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue related to linked pictures.

Project

• Fixed an issue where users were unable to remove projects from the resource pool.

Word

• Fixed an issue to updates text on AutoSave callout for files saved locally.

• Fixed an issue where some select texts not visible when using dark mode theme in reading mode.

• We made a change on editing OLE object.

Version 2103: April 23

Version 2103 (Build 13901.20462)

Resolved issues

Excel

• Fixed an issue with automation add-ins for Excel that are not loading after installing April 2021 security update. Please use provided workaround for users not in Current Channel Learn more.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to override the Focused Inbox preferences configured in OWA.

• We fixed an issue that caused name resolution to fail when sending on behalf of another user and resolving against an address book that is not the Global Address List.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue related to linked pictures.

Word

• Optimizes conditions for text predictions to be offered.

Version 2103: April 13

Version 2103 (Build 13901.20400)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Excel

• Fixed a potential resource contention issue in word when drawing an image.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that cause users to erroneously see a "This may take a while" message when adding a calendar.

• We fixed an issue that caused delegates to appear as the organizer of meetings created on newly added calendars. Meetings in this state did not appear on the principal's calendar.

• Fixed a potential resource contention issue in word when drawing an image.

Powerpoint

• Fixed a potential resource contention issue in word when drawing an image.

Word

• Fixed a potential resource contention issue in word when drawing an image.

• Fixed a non-responsive issue while in Print preview.

• Updates text on autosave callout for files saved locally.

Office Suite

• Fixed rename failure issue when open a SyncBacked file offline then rename the file in app before saving file.

Version 2103: April 02

Version 2103 (Build 13901.20336)

• Various bugs and performance fixes.

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue in a component of Outlook that is used by MAPI-enabled applications on computers with ARM processors. The issue was causing search to fail or causing extra load on the computer as background apps restarted repeatedly.

Version 2103: March 30

Version 2103 (Build 13901.20312)

Feature updates

Excel

• Government customers: Apply sensitivity labels to your documents and emails: Sensitivity labeling features are now available for customers in the DoD environments. Learn more

Outlook

• Save time while composing messages: Outlook shows you writing suggestions that help you compose messages quickly. To accept the suggestion, just use the Tab key.
  See details in blog post

• New conference room and workspace booking experience: The conference room booking experience has been refreshed, and with it we've added capabilities to allow you to schedule individual workspaces as well

• Pick where to search: The new search scope drop down allows you to more easily modify your search and switch between Current Folder and Current Mailbox. Thank you to everyone in Coming Soon who provided feedback on the new Search at Top experience. This design and update came out of that feedback!

• Get meeting suggestions when you search for a person: When you type a person’s name in the Search box, the most relevant email containing calendar invites will be included with your search suggestions.

• Share to Teams: Share messages from Outlook with a person or channel in Teams.

• Draft messages with your voice: Use the new dictation toolbar, voice commands, auto-punctuation, and more to compose messages.

• Government customers: Apply sensitivity labels to your documents and emails: Sensitivity labeling features are now available for customers in the DoD environments. Learn more

PowerPoint

• Government customers: Apply sensitivity labels to your documents and emails: Sensitivity labeling features are now available for customers in the DoD environments. Learn more

Teams

• Meeting Reactions: Meeting reactions are a new way to interact in meetings. Participants can send reactions and they'll be shown as a stream on content that is shared, and on the individual who sent the reaction if they're displayed on the meeting stage.

• Improvement for managing attendee audio permissions in a Teams Meeting: Meeting presenters and organizers can now allow attendees to unmute even if their hand isn't raised. Previously, meeting attendees that were prevented from unmuting (mic disabled) had to raise their hand to be allowed to unmute.

• Improvement for managing attendee audio permissions in a Teams Meeting: Previously, meeting presenters or organizers couldn't disable the mic of a single attendee in a meeting. The organizer or presenter could only set "Allow attendees to unmute" to off, thereby disabling the mics of every attendee. With this change, meeting presenters and organizers can prevent individual attendees from unmuting in an ad-hoc manner during a Teams Meeting.

• Improved Experience in the Meeting Participant Roster: We are now changing how the participant list is displayed in a Teams meeting for the Lobby, In meeting, Presenters, and Attendees participant sections. A maximum of 20 participants for each of the sections will be displayed in the initial view, with an option to drill in and view more participants within that section. For the lobby, you can review the full list before you admit all into the meeting. The roster will display details of most active participants in the meeting arranged in alphabetical order. There are no changes to the participants action menu.

• Search meeting participants from the roster: From the search box in the roster, users can now search currently in the meeting participants, to know whether a particular individual has joined the meeting. They can continue to search for participants outside the meeting and request them to join the meeting.

• Share to Teams from Outlook: Share to Teams from Outlook allows you to send a copy of email messages or conversations, including attachments, into Teams chats and channels. Find the Share to Teams option in the Outlook ribbon or the action menu for an email. Share to Teams supports Outlook on the web, Outlook for Windows, and the new Outlook for Mac Preview.

• Breakout Room Timer and Room assignment retention: Organizers can now set a timer for Breakout rooms from the Breakout Room settings. After timer has expired, rooms will automatically close and participants will come back to the main meeting. Room assignment retention provides the ability to persist room configuration and assignment over multiple sessions.With participant reassignment capability, organizer will now be able to move joined participants across rooms and main meeting also when rooms are opened.

• Offline access for files: Users can now access previously opened files even when there is no internet connectivity.

• Grid View when sharing a PowerPoint File: When sharing a PowerPoint file in a meeting, users can now use grid view to see all the slides in the deck for easy ad-hoc slide navigation.

Word

• Draft documents with your voice: Use the new dictation toolbar, voice commands and auto-punctuation to draft documents.

• Government customers: Apply sensitivity labels to your documents and emails: Sensitivity labeling features are now available for customers in the DoD environments. Learn more

Resolved issues

Access

• This change fixes an issue where in some cases running a SQL Server pass through query could result in an error message indicating that there was an "invalid cursor state".

• We fixed an issue when an external application requests an accessibility interface, it will prevent us from shutting down until they release their reference.

Project

• Fixed bug where disabled commands in the Office Ribbon would only have the icon grayed out but not the text in Dark Gray Office Theme.

Excel

• Fixed bug where disabled commands in the Office Ribbon would only have the icon grayed out but not the text in Dark Gray Office Theme.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused some users to experience Outlook to close unexpectedly when syncing folder hierarchy changes.

• We fixed an issue that caused some users to see their primary and secondary calendar switching places in the Navigation Pane.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see more signatures than expected.

• We fixed an issue that caused some people to be unable to access signatures associated with secondary mail accounts.

• We fixed an issue that caused users of the Cloud Settings feature to see customized settings overridden by default setting after configuring Outlook on a new device.

PowerPoint

• Fixed bug where disabled commands in the Office Ribbon would only have the icon grayed out but not the text in Dark Gray Office Theme.

Visio

• Fixed an issue where Visio could stop working during close.

Word

• When coauthoring a document, active draft is not cleared when comment order changes.

• Fixed bug where disabled commands in the Office Ribbon would only have the icon grayed out but not the text in Dark Gray Office Theme.

• We fixed an issue relating to copy and paste.

Office Suite

• Fixed a bug where Dictation was disabled for GCC users

• Fixed a bug that could sometimes lead to text in Outlook becoming transparent and thereby not legible.

• Fixed a reliability issue related to support of Office apps running in session 0.

Version 2102: March 18

Version 2102 (Build 13801.20360)

Resolved issues

Access

• This change fixes an issue where in some cases running a SQL Server pass through query could result in an error message indicating that there was an "invalid cursor state".

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users of the Cloud Settings feature to see customized settings overridden by default setting after configuring Outlook on a new device.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see more signatures than expected.

Word

• We fixed an issue with typing at the end of a hidden paragraph may result in application hang.

Office Suite

• Fixed an issue where users are unable to save file when open a previously opened file with edits not saved but now the file has been deleted. After the fix, users will get a friendly message to inform them that the file is deleted, thus user can choose to discard changes, or SaveAs the file.

• We fixed a reliability issue related to support of Office apps running in session 0.

Version 2102: March 09

Version 2102 (Build 13801.20294)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see newly added calendars fail to appear in the navigation pane until after Outlook had been restarted.

Word

• Fixes an issue with colors applied to icons and SVG graphics with 3D effects.

• We fixed an issue with Narrator which may skips over a paragraph.

• We fixed an issue with Rich text content controls.

Office Suite

• Fixed an issue that could happen when using narrator within text that contains math equations.

Version 2102: March 01

Version 2102 (Build 13801.20266)

Feature updates

Excel

• Unhide many sheets at the same time: No need to unhide one sheet at a time anymore -- unhide multiple hidden sheets at once. Learn more

• Improved Conditional Formatting dialogs: Conditional Formatting dialogs are now resizable, and now you can duplicate the rule with a single click. Learn more

• Require users to apply sensitivity labels: Users will be prompted to apply a sensitivity label if their organization's policy requires it.

Outlook

• Updated Contacts list view: Contacts list now shows email addresses and updated photo and text size.

• Break the language barrier with a built-in translator: Add-ins for translation aren't required anymore! You can now use the Intelligent Translator in Outlook. When you receive a message in another language, a prompt will appear on top of the message asking if you’d like Outlook to translate it to your default language. You can also right-click to translate specific words, phrases, or the whole message. Learn more

PowerPoint

• Require users to apply sensitivity labels: Users will be prompted to apply a sensitivity label if their organization's policy requires it.

Teams

• Presenter View when sharing a PowerPoint file: When sharing a PowerPoint file in a meeting, the presenter can now a thumbnail strip of all the slides in the deck for easy ad-hoc slide navigation.

• Theming and icon updates: We have made updates to the default and dark theme colors and to the icon.

• Live Event Presenter Support on iPad: You can present in a live event from your supported iPad device.

• Poll meeting participants using Microsoft Forms: Polls for Teams meetings is an easily discoverable and seamless experience that will help you conduct more engaging and productive meetings. With Polls, which is powered by Microsoft Forms, meeting presenters can prepare, launch, and evaluate polls before, during, and after meetings, respectively, all from one place under a tab in the Teams meeting. As a meeting presenter, you can add the Forms app as a tab in the Teams meeting, then create, launch, and evaluate your polls from one place. Create polls to be launched during the meeting even before the meeting begins. Then, after the meeting, you can choose to evaluate responses in the tab, an exported Excel workbook, or on the web in the Forms app. Presenters have a variety of controls, like enabling anonymous responses, closing polls, and exporting results to Excel. Attendees from any endpoint (mobile, web, desktop) can view and answer polls as they appear on the meeting screen or in the meeting chat, as well as see non-anonymous poll results in real time.

• Meeting reactions: Meeting reactions are a new way to interact in meetings. Participants can send reactions and they'll be shown as a stream on content that is shared, and on the individual who sent the reaction if they're displayed on the meeting stage.

• History Menu for desktop client: The History Menu in Teams desktop client lets you easily get back to recently visited locations. Simply hover over the forward or backward navigation options in the desktop client and select the location. A keyboard shortcut is also available to open the menu.

• Cortana in Microsoft Teams Rooms for US: Cortana voice assistance in Microsoft Teams Rooms lets you have a touchless experience for calling a number from your conference room, joining or ending a meeting, or adding a number to a meeting.

• Masking phone numbers: We released a new admin setting for masking phone numbers for dial-in participants when they join a meeting. Admins can choose to mask phone numbers from everyone in the meeting (except the organizer), from external people only or have masking disabled. If the admins choose to have this setting disabled, the phone numbers will be displayed fully in the meeting. (private release until the end of October)

• Calendar sharing: We added the ability to add a channel to a calendar tab.

• Bringing more scenes to Together Mode: Teams have now introduced the ability for meeting organisers or presenters to change the Together Mode scene allowing attendees to appear in different experiences together.

Word

• One-click writing suggestions: Apply writing suggestions with a single click. The updated Editor pane makes it easy to navigate between suggestions. Learn more
  See details in blog post

• Require users to apply sensitivity labels: Users will be prompted to apply a sensitivity label if their organization's policy requires it.

Resolved issues

Access

• We fixed an issue where users were getting an error dialog "Invalid cursor state".

Excel

• We fixed an issue that prevented users from exporting an Excel workbook to PDF.

• We fixed an issue which caused images to bee smaller than expected when using the Paste Linked Picture option.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users of the Shared Calendar improvements to be unable to set a calendar's color to yellow or brown.

• We fixed and issue that caused users to see duplicate calendar groups appearing after creating a new group.

• We fixed an issue that caused some users to experience the app to shut down when closing message windows.

• We fixed an issue that caused users to see signatures containing unicode content to get damaged.

• We fixed an issue that caused users of inline translation to be unable to submit feedback.

Word

• We fixed an issue in resolving conflicts while in coauthoring.

Version 2101: February 16

Version 2101 (Build 13628.20448)

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused the app to sometimes close unexpectedly when users were searching in Outlook.

• We fixed an issue that caused mails to be sent as digitally signed after the user unchecked that option.

Office Suite

• Fixes an issue related to media controller event notifications.

• Fixes an issue related to media player engine timing.

Version 2101: February 09

Version 2101 (Build 13628.20380)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused Cloud Settings users to experience a hang when updating settings.

• We fixed an issue that caused issues with displaying the correct default signature in OWA.

• We fixed an issue that caused the encryption icon to fail to display on emails sent using the encryption only option.

Version 2101: January 26

Version 2101 (Build 13628.20274)

Feature updates

Excel

• Send audit data about sensitivity labeling to M365 administrators: When users apply, change, or remove sensitivity labels on their documents and emails, Office will send up audit data to the M365 audit backend for administrators to see. This is a silent functionality (no UI) for administrator benefit.

• Government customers: Apply sensitivity labels to your documents and emails: Sensitivity labeling features are now available for customers in the GCC and GCC-H environments. Learn more

Outlook

• Delete conversation by message owner: This feature allows you to delete a conversation by message owner.

• Build in time between back-to-back meetings: Give attendees time to catch their breath or travel between locations by setting meetings to start 5-10 min late by default. Learn more

• Every meeting online: Update your calendar settings to make every meeting you create a Teams Meeting by default so you no longer need to remember to click the Teams Meeting option.

• Send audit data about sensitivity labeling to M365 administrators: When users apply, change, or remove sensitivity labels on their documents and emails, Office will send up audit data to the M365 audit backend for administrators to see. This is a silent functionality (no UI) for administrator benefit.

• Government customers: Apply sensitivity labels to your documents and emails: Sensitivity labeling features are now available for customers in the GCC and GCC-H environments. Learn more

PowerPoint

• Send audit data about sensitivity labeling to M365 administrators: When users apply, change, or remove sensitivity labels on their documents and emails, Office will send up audit data to the M365 audit backend for administrators to see. This is a silent functionality (no UI) for administrator benefit.

• Government customers: Apply sensitivity labels to your documents and emails: Sensitivity labeling features are now available for customers in the GCC and GCC-H environments. Learn more

Word

• Send audit data about sensitivity labeling to M365 administrators: When users apply, change, or remove sensitivity labels on their documents and emails, Office will send up audit data to the M365 audit backend for administrators to see. This is a silent functionality (no UI) for administrator benefit.

• Government customers: Apply sensitivity labels to your documents and emails: Sensitivity labeling features are now available for customers in the GCC and GCC-H environments. Learn more

Resolved issues

Excel

• Fixes an issue where Excel would fail to launch or close unexpectedly if certain Windows Security exploit protection settings (SimExec, CallerCheck) are in use

• We fixed an issue that broke some legacy Excel 4.0 and Excel5.0 macros as well as some VBA calls to dialogsheets.show.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused some users to experience Outlook to close unexpectedly in certain search scenarios.

• We fixed an issue that caused users that have Shared or Delegated Mailboxes with large hierarchies in their profile to encounter hangs.

Project

• Fixed an issue where borders weren't showing up for tasks in the Team Planner view.

• Fixed an issue where you drag and drop wasn't working for tasks in the Team Planner view.

• Fixed an issue where when a cost resource was assigned to a milestone task, baseline cost didn't rollup correctly.

Version 2012: January 21

Version 2012 (Build 13530.20440)

Resolved issues

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused users that have Shared or Delegated Mailboxes with large hierarchies in their profile to encounter hangs.

• We fixed an issue that caused some users to experience Outlook closing unexpectedly in certain search scenarios.

Office Suite

• Fixed the file closing sequence so that all the interdependent components are closed gracefully.

Version 2012: January 12

Version 2012 (Build 13530.20376)

Security updates listed here

Resolved issues

Excel

• Fixes an issue where Excel would fail to launch or close unexpectedly if certain Windows Security exploit protection settings (SimExec, CallerCheck) are in use.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused an edited signature to fail to save after prompting the user to do so.

Version 2012: January 05

Version 2012 (Build 13530.20316)

Feature updates

Outlook

• Your Outlook settings in the cloud: Choose your Outlook for Windows settings like Automatic Replies, Focused Inbox, and Privacy, and get to them on any PC.

• New room finder: Search for conference rooms by different capabilities.

PowerPoint

• Rehearse your presentation with Presenter Coach: Get feedback on the things that help keep an audience engaged — like pacing, pitch, filler words, sensitive phrases, and more. Learn more

Visio

• New Azure stencils and shapes: We've added many more stencils to help you create up-to-date Azure diagrams. Learn more

Resolved issues

Excel

• Fixed an issue where Excel might close unexpectedly when using the "Show Values As" menu for a PivotTable.

• Fixed an issue where Excel may leave macros disabled without prompting when opening an Excel Add-in file containing Excel 4.0 Macros.

• Fixed an issue where some users would incorrectly see a message bar informing them of a new version of a file when coauthoring.

• This change addresses an issue with properly displaying fonts within equations.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused some customers to encounter a hang while loading their calendars.

PowerPoint

• This change addresses an issue with path fills when applying Merge Shapes operations with certain geometries.

• This change addresses an issue with properly displaying fonts within equations.

• We have fixed an issue where font size command, added in QAT, auto completes to the nearest defined font size while updating it.

Office Suite

• Optimized binary size.

• Anaheim WebView does not support Windows Information Protection (WIP) yet. With this fix Office addin platform falls back to down level WebView in WIP enabled environment. That can be either Edge Spartan WebView or Trident WebView depending on customer's machine environment. Both down level WebViews support WIP.

Note

If you need help with an issue with using Office, we recommend that you post your question on Microsoft's Answers forum or Tech Community, or you can contact support.