Windows 10: New Sketchy Shapes feature for Office 365 Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

Brink · Jul 4, 2019

Hey Insiders!

My name is Jessica and I am a Program Manager on the Office Graphics team.

When I’m working in Office, sometimes it’s hard to express work-in-progress diagrams and models without throwing up a big watermark that says “DRAFT” on your content.

So we built in a new style that helps convey that sense of in-progress work that should be taken as a sketch of what you’re proposing.

And because it’s an Office style on top of Office shapes, it’s easy to quickly go from a draft to professional look in seconds! You can iterate with a colleague and make changes back and forth while with a sketchy style. And when you’re done, you can just remove that sketchy style and show it as a final design, ready to be shared.

Introducing: Sketchy Shapes! It’s an outline style that lets you play around with your shapes to give them a bit more personality.

Creating a Draft: Apply a Sketchy Outline

Build your slide and select the shapes you want to apply a sketchy style to. Go to the Shape Format tab and then the Shape Outline dropdown. Hover over the Sketchy” options and select one of the sketchy line styles.

Going Back to Professional: Remove the Sketchy Outline

Select the shapes you want. Go to the Shape Format tab and then the Shape Outline dropdown. Hover over the Sketchy options and select None.

Now you have your clean looking professional version, ready to go.

Tips and Tricks

Set a Sketchy default

If you’re working on a bunch of sketches, rather than applying a sketchy style to each shape as you go, you can set the sketchy shape styles as your default shape.

This will make it so that every new shape you create has the same sketchy style applied.

Sketchy Icons

Want some sketched out icons?

Insert an icon, select it, then use Office’s Convert to Shape feature to turn your icons into Office shapes. Then you can apply any sketchy style you want.

Sketchy Lines

Want some scribbles?

Use a free form shape to draw a line, then apply a sketchy style to it.

How to Get It

Sketchy shapes is available in Insiders on Windows Desktop starting with 1907 (Build 11901.20018) and on Mac Insider Fast starting with 16.28 (19070300). Sketchy Shapes is available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and requires an Office 365 subscription.

Feedback

We are actively working on this feature in Office, and your feedback is key to guiding improvements. Let us know what you think and submit your feedback using the Send-a-Smile *Smile and Send-a-Frown *Sad buttons (in the top right)! My team reads all feedback that filters our way, and we greatly appreciate your input!
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Source: Sketchy Shapes for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel - Office Insider Blog

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Brink · Jul 4, 2019

October feature update for Word, Excel, & PowerPoint Mobile available

The October feature update for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Mobile is now available.

Release details
Here's everything you need to know about the update.

Audience: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Mobile
Released: October 25, 2018
Package versions: 17.0 (11001.20064) for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Platform: Windows 10 devices
Description: October feature update
Features: What's New in Office 365 for Windows Mobile

Got feedback?

To report an issue in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, open a document, and click or tap File > Feedback.

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Source: Announcing the October feature update for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - Microsoft Community

Brink · Jul 4, 2019

Announcing January feature update in Office 365 for Windows 10 Mobile

The January feature update for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Mobile is now available.

Release details
Here's everything you need to know about the update.

Audience: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Mobile
Released: January 25, 2018
Package versions: 17.9001.2102 for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Platform: Windows 10 devices
Description: January feature update
Features: What's New in Office 365 for Windows Mobile

Got feedback?

To report an issue in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, open a document, and click or tap File > Feedback.

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Source: Announcing the January feature update for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - Microsoft Community

Brink · Jul 4, 2019

@mentions for comments in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint available

Hello! My name is Apurv, and I’m a Program Manager in Microsoft Office.

What’s New

We recently added the capability to @mention your collaborators in comments in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. @mentions makes it easier for you to notify your peers, pull them into a document, and work together wherever you need their attention.

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How it Works

To get started, simply make a comment and type @ in a file saved on SharePoint or OneDrive for Business. You’ll see a drop-down list of contacts that updates as you type more characters. Pick a name and finish writing your comment. To be more casual, feel free to delete everything except the person's first name in the @mention. To include more people, type @ again and mention someone else.

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will automatically send an email notification to whoever you tag with a link to the specific comment. This link will open in the Online version of the apps or directly in the iOS/Android app. If someone gets mentioned more than once, we’ll batch the emails together.

Learn More

Requirements & Known Limitations

You must be using Office 365.

The file must be saved in SharePoint or OneDrive for Business.

Tenants with conditional access will not be able to create @mentions. Please contact your IT Administrator for more information.

If you’re using the desktop version of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint (i.e. on Windows or Mac), you have to have configured and signed in to your Office 365 email account.

@mentions does not work with guest or external accounts (you cannot @mention such accounts nor can such accounts @mention in files outside of their tenant). You can still share with them directly.

Available to all Insiders

Windows build 1812 (11126.20266) or later

Mac build 16.20 (18120801) or later

iOS build 2.20 (18120200) or later

Android build 16.0.11328.20008 or later

Available to all O365 users in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Online

Feedback

We're eager to hear your feedback! You can leave comments on this post or submit feedback in Word/Excel/PowerPoint:

On Windows go to File > Feedback

On Mac go to Help > Feedback

On iOS/Android go to Settings > Send Feedback

For Office Online go to Help Improve Office

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