Windows 10: New Office Insider Current Channel v2105 build 14026.20052 - May 3

Version 2105 (Build 14026.20052)

Feature updates

Teams

• 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.
• Present from PowerPoint to Teams: Present your slides directly from the PowerPoint app to a Teams meeting via PowerPoint Live.
• New manage tag experience and other enhancements: Tags in Teams let users quickly reach a group of people without having to @mention or type out everyone.The manage tags experience is now a Tab. Tags also now have a description field so that you can add more details to a tag. The new Tags Tab will be the landing page for tag notifications and search for tags, which is also coming soon.
• Intelligent Speakers: Intelligent speakers are intelligent peripherals for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows. They will bring speaker attributed transcription for participants in the meeting room, enabling attendees to spend less time note-taking and easily follow along who said what in the room.
• Changing default to native notification from teams purple for new users: Native Notifications provide a host of benefits like support for action center, accessibility, support for focus assist mode e.t.c.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.

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue that caused Excel to close unexpectedly when using 32 bit Office on 64 bit Windows.
• We fixed an issue that caused Excel to close unexpectedly when moving through comments in the Comments pane.
• Fixed an issue where some automation add-ins for Excel unable to load.
• We fixed an issue that caused Narrator to incorrectly read the properties of two buttons on the Header/Footer tab in the Page Setup dialog box.
• We fixed an issue that caused some workbooks linked in other Office applications to close without saving changes when running Update Link.
• Fixed an issue where the Analysis ToolPak add-in did not work for some users.
• We fixed an issue where some files would occasionally fail to open in Protected View
• We fixed an issue that caused date formatting to be displayed incorrectly in some languages when using add-ins.
• We fixed an issue that caused the status bar to not indicate a Ready state for some users.
• We made a change to enable the Name Manager to open on books with a large number of hidden names.
• We fixed an issue to support backward compatibility with older versions of Excel. The issue may cause a file that is saved in a more recent version of Excel failed to load properly in older versions of Excel due to functions such as IFERROR and XLOOKUP added to Excel since Office 2007.
• We fixed an issue which could cause Excel to close unexpectedly when using Paste Special with formats in certain situations.

Outlook

• 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 hangs .
• We fixed an issue that caused name resolution disabled when sending on behalf of another user and resolving against an address book that is not the Global Address List.
• 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.
• We fixed an issue where using High Contrast mode for extended periods of time would caused Outlook to close unexpectedly.
• We fixed an issue where hyperlinks including digits would be disable when composing a message in Outlook in a right-to-left language.

PowerPoint

• Fixes an issue related to linked pictures.

Project

• We fixed an issue where changes done through Planning Wizards weren't always captured by change events.
• We fixed an issue where users were unable to remove projects from the resource pool.

Visio

• We fixed an issue which caused Visio closed unexpectedly with recent build.

Word

• We fixed an issue where text formatting remains after removing hyperlinks.
• We fixed a issue where placeholder text was clipped in comments when using right-to-left languages.
• We fixed an issue where comments are not displayed after filtering by people.
• We fixed an issue where Word was unable to perform a Mail Merge with an Access database.
• We fixed an issue that caused the ability to collapse margins in a document containing multiple columns to be available.
• We fixed an issue where some characters are not displayed correctly in table cells when there are comments in the document.
• We fixed an issue where the file format changes occurred when saving documents with the AIP add-in enabled.
• We fixed an issue where Word would become unresponsive when editing fields.
• We fixed an issue where the sensitivity label disappears from a file in Word after uploading the file to SharePoint Online.
• We fixed an issue where users would not be prompted to save documents when using a command (rather than the CTRL+S keyboard shortcut).
• Fixes an issue that may caused Word unexpectedly closed when shutting down due to the user logging off or restarting their computer.
• We fixed an issue where text formatting remains after removing hyperlinks.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue that caused the Dictation button to be misaligned when adding comments to a document.
• Fixed an issue when parsing a string for emoji processing that casued application closed unexpectedly when reading outside of the bounds of an array
• We fixed an issue where some Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) did not render correctly.

Source:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...on-2105-may-03
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...hannel-preview
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New Office Insider Beta Channel v2105 build 14021.20000 - April 26

New Office Insider Beta Channel v2105 build 14021.20000 has been released.

Release notes will be posted when made available by Microsoft this Friday.


Source:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...s/beta-channel
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...y-beta-channel
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New Office Insider Beta Channel v2105 build 14014.20002 - April 20

New Office Insider Beta Channel v2105 build 14014.20002 has been released.

Release notes will be posted when made available by Microsoft this Friday.


Source:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...s/beta-channel
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...y-beta-channel
• Office Insiders

Latest Office Updates for Windows

Change the update channel after you enable Office 365 clients to receive updates from Configuration Manager

 

New Office Insider Beta Channel v2105 build 14007.20002 - April 13

New Office Insider Beta Channel v2105 build 14007.20002 has been released.

Release notes will be posted when made available by Microsoft this Friday.


Source:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...s/beta-channel
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...y-beta-channel
• Office Insiders

Latest Office Updates for Windows

Change the update channel after you enable Office 365 clients to receive updates from Configuration Manager