Microsoft 365 Changelog

What's new in Microsoft 365 2402 Build 17328.20184

Mar 13, 2024
  • Access:
  • We fixed an issue where the app closed unexpectedly.
  • Excel:
  • We fixed an issue where the app closed unexpectedly when opening files with pivot tables and table design in macro-enabled files.
  • Word:
  • We fixed an issue where the app closed unexpectedly when the undo function is used.

New in Microsoft 365 2402 Build 17328.20162 (Mar 5, 2024)

  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue where users were unable to send emails from QuickBooks, as described in the following article: Unable to send emails from QuickBooks using Outlook Desktop after update to Version 2402.
  • We fixed an issue that caused some users to see Outlook exiting unexpectedly when clicking a hyperlink.
  • Office Suite:
  • We fixed an issue where opened Office apps did not automatically start when a laptop was reopened, and an error message appeared after manual relaunch.

New in Microsoft 365 2401 Build 17231.20236 (Feb 14, 2024)

  • Outlook:
  • CVE-2024-21378
  • CVE-2024-21402
  • Visio:
  • CVE-2024-21384
  • Word:
  • CVE-2024-21379
  • Office Suite:
  • CVE-2024-21413
  • CVE-2024-20673

New in Microsoft 365 2401 Build 17231.20194 (Feb 2, 2024)

  • Resolved issues:
  • Excel:
  • We fixed an issue where the Clipboard Locked Alert is disrupting the workflow for some users.
  • We fixed an issue where the application would stop responding when saving changes.
  • We fixed an issue where converting a diagram to shapes would result in invalid shape geometry.
  • OneNote:
  • We fixed an issue where meetings spanning a full day were appearing in meeting details on the following day.
  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to exit unexpectedly after discarding an edit to a received single instance meeting.
  • PowerPoint:
  • We fixed an issue where converting a diagram to shapes would result in invalid shape geometry.
  • We fixed an issue where Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) RecordNarrationFromCurrentSlide failed with a runtime error.
  • We fixed an issue where the ‘Cell Margins’ in the Table Layout ribbon item was disabled for users with only Edit Information Rights Management (IRM) permissions.
  • We fixed an issue where the Add comments method in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) showed a runtime error.
  • We fixed an issue where the Notes and Slide layout would open with incorrect proportions when a file was opened from a protected view.
  • Word:
  • We fixed an issue where comment cards may appear too wide and cut off text when changing or switching the screen in use.

New in Microsoft 365 2401 Build 17231.20182 (Jan 31, 2024)

  • Resolved issues:
  • Excel:
  • We fixed an issue where the Clipboard Locked Alert is disrupting the workflow for some users.
  • We fixed an issue where the application would stop responding when saving changes.
  • We fixed an issue where converting a diagram to shapes would result in invalid shape geometry.
  • OneNote:
  • We fixed an issue where meetings spanning a full day were appearing in meeting details on the following day.
  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to exit unexpectedly after discarding an edit to a received single instance meeting.
  • PowerPoint:
  • We fixed an issue where converting a diagram to shapes would result in invalid shape geometry.
  • We fixed an issue where Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) RecordNarrationFromCurrentSlide failed with a runtime error.
  • We fixed an issue where the ‘Cell Margins’ in the Table Layout ribbon item was disabled for users with only Edit Information Rights Management (IRM) permissions.
  • We fixed an issue where the Add comments method in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) showed a runtime error.
  • We fixed an issue where the Notes and Slide layout would open with incorrect proportions when a file was opened from a protected view.
  • Word:
  • We fixed an issue where comment cards may appear too wide and cut off text when changing or switching the screen in use.

New in Microsoft 365 2312 Build 17126.20132 (Jan 10, 2024)

  • Feature updates:
  • Excel:
  • Sensitivity toolbar is now available when creating a copy of a document: The sensitivity bar is now available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint when users are creating copies of their documents in File / Save As. This helps users understand the security policies that apply to their document.
  • Office has a new default theme: We've updated the default font and colors of the Office theme to be more modern and accessible.
  • Outlook:
  • Office has a new default theme: We've updated the default font and colors of the Office theme to be more modern and accessible.
  • PowerPoint:
  • Sensitivity toolbar is now available when creating a copy of a document: The sensitivity bar is now available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint when users are creating copies of their documents in File / Save As. This helps users understand the security policies that apply to their document.
  • Office has a new default theme: We've updated the default font and colors of the Office theme to be more modern and accessible.
  • Word:
  • Sensitivity toolbar is now available when creating a copy of a document: The sensitivity bar is now available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint when users are creating copies of their documents in File / Save As. This helps users understand the security policies that apply to their document.
  • Office has a new default theme: We've updated the default font and colors of the Office theme to be more modern and accessible.
  • Resolved issues:
  • Excel:
  • We fixed an issue where Custom Menu text was truncated when right clicking in a cell.
  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue where the message list was blank when switching between the "Focused" and "Other" views.
  • We fixed an issue where Skype for Business was shutting down unexpectedly at start up.
  • We fixed an issue where the list of invalid recipients was showing duplicates.
  • We fixed an issue where Mail Tips were not showing for attachments.
  • We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to exit unexpectedly when opening embedded mail attachments in another application.
  • We fixed an issue that caused the tracking status summary to be missing from the organizer's meeting form.
  • PowerPoint:
  • We fixed an issue where restoring a previous version of a presentation was not working as expected when using Version History.
  • We fixed an issue where Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) RecordNarrationFromCurrentSlide failed with a runtime error.
  • Project:
  • We fixed an issue where the duration on manually scheduled tasks was not calculated correctly when importing from XML.
  • Word:
  • We fixed an issue where the content control end tag is marked at the end of the document automatically if the document is edited in Word Online and then opened in Word desktop.
  • We fixed an issue where the input language formatting would sometimes revert to a previously typed language when using Language AutoDetect.
  • Office Suite:
  • We fixed an issue where the orientation of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) line markers was not rendering correctly.

New in Microsoft 365 2312 Build 17126.20126 (Jan 5, 2024)

  • Feature updates:
  • Excel:
  • Sensitivity toolbar is now available when creating a copy of a document: The sensitivity bar is now available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint when users are creating copies of their documents in File / Save As. This helps users understand the security policies that apply to their document.
  • Office has a new default theme: We've updated the default font and colors of the Office theme to be more modern and accessible.
  • Outlook:
  • Office has a new default theme: We've updated the default font and colors of the Office theme to be more modern and accessible.
  • PowerPoint:
  • Sensitivity toolbar is now available when creating a copy of a document: The sensitivity bar is now available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint when users are creating copies of their documents in File / Save As. This helps users understand the security policies that apply to their document.
  • Office has a new default theme: We've updated the default font and colors of the Office theme to be more modern and accessible.
  • Word:
  • Sensitivity toolbar is now available when creating a copy of a document: The sensitivity bar is now available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint when users are creating copies of their documents in File / Save As. This helps users understand the security policies that apply to their document.
  • Office has a new default theme: We've updated the default font and colors of the Office theme to be more modern and accessible.
  • Resolved issues:
  • Excel:
  • We fixed an issue where Custom Menu text was truncated when right clicking in a cell.
  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue where the message list was blank when switching between the "Focused" and "Other" views.
  • We fixed an issue where Skype for Business was shutting down unexpectedly at start up.
  • We fixed an issue where the list of invalid recipients was showing duplicates.
  • We fixed an issue where Mail Tips were not showing for attachments.
  • We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to exit unexpectedly when opening embedded mail attachments in another application.
  • We fixed an issue that caused the tracking status summary to be missing from the organizer's meeting form.
  • PowerPoint:
  • We fixed an issue where restoring a previous version of a presentation was not working as expected when using Version History.
  • We fixed an issue where Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) RecordNarrationFromCurrentSlide failed with a runtime error.
  • Project:
  • We fixed an issue where the duration on manually scheduled tasks was not calculated correctly when importing from XML.
  • Word:
  • We fixed an issue where the content control end tag is marked at the end of the document automatically if the document is edited in Word Online and then opened in Word desktop.
  • We fixed an issue where the input language formatting would sometimes revert to a previously typed language when using Language AutoDetect.
  • Office Suite:
  • We fixed an issue where the orientation of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) line markers was not rendering correctly.

New in Microsoft 365 2311 Build 17029.20108 (Dec 13, 2023)

  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue where the message list was blank when switching between the "Focused" and "Other" views.

New in Microsoft 365 2311 Build 17029.20068 (Nov 30, 2023)

  • Feature updates:
  • Office Suite:
  • Automatically insert image captioning for Excel's images: Insert image into Excel's spreadsheet and accessibility image captioning is automatically generated for you.
  • Resolved issues:
  • Excel:
  • We fixed an issue where the Save dialog wouldn't always save or would get stuck when closing a local file.
  • We fixed an issue where GETPIVOTDATA showed #REF! when refreshing a PivotTable containing Stocks data types.
  • We fixed an issue where Conditional Formatting handled wild card characters incorrectly.
  • We fixed an issue where worksheets with right-to-left alignment and frozen panes would sometimes render incorrectly.
  • We fixed an issue where list box controls would not respond to mouse clicks after scrolling using the mouse wheel.
  • We fixed an issue where angled text would not display correctly on some large monitors.
  • OneNote:
  • We fixed an issue where the calendar date picker day (Sat., Sun., Mon., etc.) did not align with the actual day number of the month.
  • We fixed an issue where attendees were not added automatically from the Meeting Details when using the Email Page functionality.
  • We fixed an issue where OneNote would close unexpectedly when rapidly navigating from one .PDF file to another .PDF file between different sections, or when performing an undo operation on a .PDF printout insertion.
  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue where Outlook would close unexpectedly when a user clicked “Cancel” in the Wait on Send dialog if the message had attachments.
  • We fixed an issue where Mail Tips were not showing for attachments.
  • We fixed an issue where the list of invalid recipients was showing duplicates.
  • We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to exit unexpectedly when opening embedded mail attachments in another application.
  • We fixed an issue where the scrollbar didn't render in the Contact Card View.
  • PowerPoint:
  • We fixed an issue where the Wingding font would not display correctly when characters were inserted using the Insert Symbol dialog prior to changing to the Wingding font.
  • We fixed an issue where some Connected Service account users were prevented from adding comments.
  • Word:
  • We fixed an issue where the language of a presentation was not retained when saving or exporting the presentation to a .PDF file.
  • We fixed an issue where creating a new comment with the Comment Pane enabled would reset the selected comment to the top of the pane, causing the document to scroll to that comment's anchor.
  • We fixed an issue where revised content was reversed showing added content as deleted and deleted content as added.
  • We fixed an issue where running Word's Spell Check through a Visual Studio solution would result in the ‘Not in dictionary’ area being grey and not editable when the Word window wasn't visible.
  • We made performance improvements for Macros where runtimes were slower in current builds compared to older versions.
  • We fixed an issue where setting Breaks to Continuous changed to Page after a Mail Merge.

New in Microsoft 365 2310 Build 16924.20150 (Nov 15, 2023)

  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to fail to comply with the default browser settings for some users.
  • We fixed an issue that caused the labels from protected PDF files to not be applied to the email that they were attached to.
  • Word:
  • We fixed an issue where new lines were added to an Outlook signature when pressing Enter in the body of the email.

New in Microsoft 365 2310 Build 16924.20124 (Oct 31, 2023)

  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to exit unexpectedly when clicking the "More" link in the Search results list.

New in Microsoft 365 2310 Build 16924.20106 (Oct 26, 2023)

  • Feature updates:
  • Excel:
  • Efficient reading in Excel using Narrator: Announcements through the Windows inbox screen reader, Narrator, will be much more succinct and efficient.
  • Outlook:
  • Teams Meeting Apps now work in Outlook too: Now, you can configure a meeting app while scheduling an invite in Outlook. This meeting app will be ready to use when you chat or join the meeting on Teams.
  • Word:
  • Improved Coauthoring Error Recovery Experience: Collaborating with others while working in Word is a vital productivity tool for many users, and disruptions can be extremely frustrating. We’ve now developed an improved recovery experience to quickly restore users back to a connected state after experiencing coauthoring errors. This automatic refresh synchronizes all changes among different authors, so you’re seeing the most up-to-date document possible. Conflicts between different authors and changes not saved to the server will show as tracked changes.
  • Resolved issues:
  • Excel:
  • We fixed an issue where certain Pivot Tables would load slowly.
  • We fixed an issue where cell content would sometimes re-render incorrectly when navigating with the keyboard.
  • OneNote:
  • We fixed an issue where OneNote would close unexpectedly when rapidly navigating from one .PDF file to another .PDF file between different sections, or when performing an undo operation on a .PDF printout insertion.
  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue where Microsoft account users were missing their Outlook Add-ins.
  • We fixed an issue where the setting to control how Outlook opens previous items at start-up was missing from the Options window.
  • We fixed an issue where Outlook would close unexpectedly when a user clicked “Cancel” in the Wait on Send dialog if the message had attachments.
  • We fixed an issue where the Louder Labels sensitivity menu was not visible in the ribbon for users in the Semi-Annual Channel.
  • We fixed an issue that caused a meeting update to be sent to all attendees when clicking on "cancel" in the "Send Update to Attendees" dialog.
  • We fixed an issue where tracking responses from rooms was inconsistent when adding a second room from suggestions.
  • PowerPoint:
  • We fixed an issue where ActiveX controls do not display correctly after changing the display scale.
  • We fixed an issue where running the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro View.Slide with multiple slides selected, returned the wrong Slide object.
  • We fixed an issue where clicking on Updates Available in the status bar does not merge in changes.
  • We fixed an issue where the 'End with Black Slide' option was not working when slides advanced on a timer.
  • Project:
  • We fixed an issue where a message that says, "You cannot delete or modify a project summary task" appears when opening a project.
  • Word:
  • We fixed an issue where deleting text within a Content Control would unexpectedly delete the Content Control when Track Changes was enabled.
  • We fixed an issue where previously inserted custom bullets would reset after editing a document.
  • We fixed an issue where if you saved a PDF in a language other than English and it had a hyperlink with a dash (-), the URL would get an extra dash that made the link not work.
  • We fixed an issue where subheading numbering with a custom Style would disappear if the file was saved and re-opened.
  • We fixed an issue where the layout of a table would unexpectedly change after saving and re-opening the file when the table was modified with Track Changes enabled.
  • Office Suite:
  • We fixed an issue where pictures with redirected URLs would not display properly.
  • We fixed an issue that caused unexpected black borders to appear around screen captures added with the Insert Screenshot functionality

New in Microsoft 365 2309 Build 16827.20166 (Oct 11, 2023)

  • Resolved issues:
  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue where Microsoft account users were missing their Outlook addins.
  • Word:
  • We fixed an issue where subheading numbering with a custom Style would disappear if the file was saved and re-opened.

New in Microsoft 365 2309 Build 16827.20130 (Sep 28, 2023)

  • Feature updates:
  • Excel:
  • Control your data conversions: You’ve been asking for more control over how Excel automatically converts your data to specific formats. We delivered! You now have the ability to disable specific types of automatic data conversions; this way, you won’t need to worry about Excel converting your data to a format that you didn’t want and weren’t expecting.
  • PowerPoint:
  • Present a local file in PowerPoint Live: The "Present in Teams" button now supports presenting local files in PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams.
  • Resolved issues:
  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue where the setting to control how Outlook opens previous items at start-up was missing from the Options window.
  • We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to exit unexpectedly when searching a shared or delegated mailbox.
  • Word:
  • We fixed an issue where Editor pane category labels were always showing in English, despite the UI language setting.
  • We fixed an issue where the Add-ins tab was not visible when using custom toolbar information.

New in Microsoft 365 2308 Build 16731.20234 (Sep 13, 2023)

  • Resolved issues:
  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue where an out-of-memory error would appear when sending email after seeing the WaitOnSend dialog pop up.
  • We fixed an issue where the External Sender tag was not showing.
  • We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to close unexpectedly when viewing an email.
  • We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to close unexpectedly in some search scenarios.
  • PowerPoint:
  • We fixed an issue where the Notes Pane was in the wrong order with no ability to edit the slide when pressing the F6 key.
  • We fixed an issue where the presenter view slide section zoomed in and out when zooming in the notes section.
  • Security updates:
  • Excel:
  • CVE-2023-36766
  • Outlook:
  • CVE-2023-36763
  • Word:
  • CVE-2023-36762
  • CVE-2023-36761
  • Office Suite:
  • CVE-2023-27911
  • CVE-2023-36767
  • CVE-2023-41764
  • CVE-2023-36765

New in Microsoft 365 2308 Build 16731.20170 (Aug 29, 2023)

  • Feature updates:
  • Excel:
  • Data Validation dropdown list autocomplete: Dropdown lists are a handy way to make data entry and validation more efficient in Excel. We’ve now added AutoComplete functionality, which automatically compares the text typed in a cell to all items in the dropdown list and displays only the items that match. You’ll spend less time scrolling through lists, dealing with data validation errors, or writing complex code to handle this task.
  • Paste values directly into your workbook using a keyboard shortcut: The keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+V lets you quickly Paste Values rather than having to choose Paste Values from the menu.
  • Updated encryption for Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with 256-bit key length in Cipher Block Chaining mode (AES256-CBC) is now the default Microsoft Purview Information Protection encryption mechanism for Microsoft 365 Apps documents and emails. Learn more.
  • Outlook:
  • Updated encryption for Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with 256-bit key length in Cipher Block Chaining mode (AES256-CBC) is now the default Microsoft Purview Information Protection encryption mechanism for Microsoft 365 Apps documents and emails. Learn more.
  • PowerPoint:
  • Updated encryption for Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with 256-bit key length in Cipher Block Chaining mode (AES256-CBC) is now the default Microsoft Purview Information Protection encryption mechanism for Microsoft 365 Apps documents and emails. Learn more.
  • Word:
  • Updated encryption for Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with 256-bit key length in Cipher Block Chaining mode (AES256-CBC) is now the default Microsoft Purview Information Protection encryption mechanism for Microsoft 365 Apps documents and emails. Learn more.
  • Resolved issues:
  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an error that users were hitting when they tried to override a Policy Tip detection or to report it as a false positive.
  • We fixed an issue that caused Outlook to exit unexpectedly when users executed a search with the "All Mailboxes" scope.
  • We fixed an issue that caused the application to close unexpectedly when clicking on non-HTTP links.
  • We fixed an issue that caused the incorrect workdays to be displayed on shared-in calendars.

New in Microsoft 365 2307 Build 16626.20170 (Aug 9, 2023)

  • Excel:
  • CVE-2023-36896
  • CVE-2023-35371
  • Outlook:
  • CVE-2023-36893
  • Visio:
  • CVE-2023-35372
  • CVE-2023-36865
  • CVE-2023-36866
  • Office Suite:
  • CVE-2023-36897
  • ADV230003
  • CVE-2023-36895

New in Microsoft 365 2307 Build 16626.20132 (Jul 27, 2023)

  • Feature updates:
  • Excel:
  • PivotTable overlap improvements: We have improved the experience when PivotTables overlap other content in your workbook.
  • Performance improvement related to fonts: If you do not use printer fonts or have not heard of printer fonts, unchecking the setting in File/Options/Advanced/[Include fonts that are stored on the printer] can help speed up font related operations such as choosing a font from font drop down, or formatting a cell by bolding/italicizing a cell's font, etc.
  • Word:
  • Improved Coauthoring Error Recovery Experience: Collaborating with others while working in Word is a vital productivity tool for many users, and disruptions can be extremely frustrating. We’ve now developed an improved recovery experience to quickly restore users back to a connected state after experiencing coauthoring errors. This automatic refresh synchronizes all changes among different authors, so you’re seeing the most up-to-date document possible. Conflicts between different authors and changes not saved to the server will show as tracked changes.
  • Office Suite:
  • Ability to insert live camera feed in all slides with one click: Now, one can insert a PowerPoint Cameo in all slides using the Insert > Cameo > All Slides command on the PowerPoint ribbon. Further, a user-customized camera style and location can be applied to all slides using the 'Apply to All Slides' option in the Camera Format ribbon.
  • Resolved issues:
  • Excel:
  • We fixed an issue where sensitivity labeling was unavailable for documents opened from SharePoint on-premise servers.
  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue where opening links in Edge would cause the side pane to not be visible.
  • We fixed an issue where Outlook would prompt the user to save changes to a meeting when no changes were made.
  • PowerPoint:
  • We fixed an issue where sensitivity labeling was unavailable for documents opened from SharePoint on-premise servers.
  • Project:
  • We fixed an issue in Project where content was missing after scrolling.
  • Word:
  • We fixed an issue where document rendering caused overlapping artifacts from one part of the document to appear on top of other.
  • We fixed an issue where sensitivity labeling was unavailable for documents opened from SharePoint on-premise servers.
  • We fixed an issue where the character spacing is wrong after a cloud font download.
  • Office Suite:
  • We fixed an issue where broken SVG assets didn't fall back on their raster image counterparts.
  • We fixed an issue where default sensitivity labels were not displayed until after a save event. The sensitivity bar in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows now indicates that a default label will be applied on the next save for new and previously unlabeled files.

New in Microsoft 365 2306 Build 16529.20182 (Jul 12, 2023)

  • Resolved issues:
  • Excel:
  • We fixed an alert to better communicate our text support for picture to drawing object conversion.
  • Word:
  • We fixed an alert to better communicate our text support for picture to drawing object conversion.

New in Microsoft 365 2306 Build 16529.20154 (Jun 27, 2023)

  • Feature updates:
  • Excel:
  • Data Validation dropdown list autocomplete: Dropdown lists are a handy way to make data entry and validation more efficient in Excel. We’ve now added AutoComplete functionality, which automatically compares the text typed in a cell to all items in the dropdown list and displays only the items that match. You’ll spend less time scrolling through lists, dealing with data validation errors, or writing complex code to handle this task.
  • Paste values directly into your workbook using a keyboard shortcut: The keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+V lets you quickly Paste Values rather than having to choose Paste Values from the menu.
  • Outlook:
  • Block emails with sensitive labels: Implement pop-up messages in Outlook that warn, justify, or block emails being sent based on sensitivity labels.
  • Resolved issues:
  • Excel:
  • We fixed an issue where using "Alt + P" as a hot key for Previous was conflicting with "Alt + P" for the Replace tab.
  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue where the Me control showed the wrong display name in Office apps.
  • Word:
  • We fixed an issue where doing a mail merge would display the error, "Microsoft Word is required to run the Mail Merge Wizard".
  • Office Suite:
  • We fixed an issue where sensitivity labeling was unavailable for documents opened from SharePoint on-premise servers.

New in Microsoft 365 2305 Build 16501.20210 (Jun 13, 2023)

  • Security updates:
  • Excel:
  • CVE-2023-32029
  • CVE-2023-33133
  • CVE-2023-33137
  • Office Suite:
  • CVE-2023-33131
  • CVE-2023-33146

New in Microsoft 365 2305 Build 16501.20196 (Jun 2, 2023)

  • Feature updates:
  • Excel:
  • Faster filtering when cells contain unique or duplicate rules: When your workbook contains many unique or duplicate conditional formatting rules, it can often slow down the app’s performance. No longer! By optimizing the underlying comparison algorithm, we’ve enhanced the performance and sped up the filtering process.
  • Desktop Excel Action Recorder: You can now record Office Scripts in Desktop Excel! Perform the actions you want in Excel, and the recorder will create an Office Script to replay those actions for you.
  • Outlook:
  • Accessibility Ribbon in Outlook for Windows: The Accessibility Ribbon brings together in one place all the tools you need to make your emails accessible.
  • See details in blog post
  • PowerPoint:
  • PowerPoint Accessibility Ribbon: All of the tools to help you make your presentation accessible in one place.
  • See details in blog post
  • Resolved issues:
  • Access:
  • We fixed an issue where refreshing an ODBC connection to an Access database would cause the operation to stop working after refreshing the link several times.
  • We fixed an issue where OLEBD/ADODB interfaces exposed by the Access Database Engine from Excel may be significantly slower in recent versions of Office.
  • Excel:
  • We fixed an issue where Conditional Formatting rules were not being preserved after closing and reopening a workbook.
  • We fixed an error that occurred when publishing as a web page (.htm or .html) to a cloud location.
  • We fixed an issue where using "Alt + P" as a hot key for Previous was conflicting with "Alt + P" for the Replace tab.
  • We fixed an issue where cell values remained visible on the grid after deleting the row, until the cells were scrolled off the screen.
  • Outlook:
  • We fixed an issue that caused users to see the error, "We cannot render Actionable Messages right now" when reading some email messages.
  • We fixed an issue where Outlook would close unexpectedly when Microsoft 365 apps in the Navigation Pane were closed.
  • We fixed an issue where the application would close unexpectedly when searching using dates.
  • We fixed an issue where the links associated with known issues were not shown to customers who were using the Contact Support feature.
  • Office Suite:
  • We fixed an issue where users who selected Colorful, Precision, or Dark theme prior to enabling the Fluent Visual Refresh would get switched to Dark Gray theme when the dialog welcoming the user to the Fluent Visual Refresh reached page two.

New in Microsoft 365 2304 Build 16327.20248 (May 11, 2023)

  • Access:
  • CVE-2023-29333
  • Excel:
  • CVE-2023-24953
  • Word:
  • CVE-2023-29335
  • Office Suite:
  • CVE-2023-29344

New in Microsoft 365 2303 Build 16227.20280 (Apr 11, 2023)

  • Publisher:
  • CVE-2023-28295
  • CVE-2023-28287
  • Word:
  • CVE-2023-28311
  • Office Suite:
  • CVE-2023-28285

New in Microsoft 365 2021 (Oct 5, 2021)

  • In Office 2021, you'll find new inking tools, data types, functions, translation and editing tools, motion graphics, ease-of-use features, and so much more!
  • Look left, look right… XLOOKUP is here:
  • Row by row, find anything you need in a table or range with XLOOKUP.
  • Dynamic arrays:
  • Write one formula and return an array of values. Expedite calculations and insights with six new functions: FILTER, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE, and RANDARRAY.
  • LET function:
  • The LET function assigns names to calculation results. This allows storing intermediate calculations, values, or defining names inside a formula.
  • XMATCH function:
  • The XMATCH function searches for a specified item in an array or range of cells, and then returns the item's relative position. You can also use XMATCH to return a value in an array.
  • New and improved Record Slide Show:
  • Record Slide Show now supports presenter video recording, ink recording and laser pointer recording
  • Replay your ink strokes:
  • You can replay your ink strokes as they were drawn; this lets you illustrate things step by step or show a thought process. You can also pause the replay, and select the point to start the replay from.
  • Arrange elements on your slides for screen readers:
  • See the elements in screen-reading order and re-arrange them as necessary to communicate your message effectively.
  • Translator and ink in Outlook:
  • Translate email messages into more than 70 languages on the fly and view the transcript—all within Outlook.
  • Annotate email images or draw in a separate canvas using your finger, pen, or mouse.
  • In Outlook, use Instant Search to quickly find emails:
  • Select the search bar (located above the Outlook ribbon) to help find email messages anywhere in Outlook.
  • Visual refresh:
  • Work with a modernized Start experience and newly refreshed tabs in the ribbon.
  • Experience a clean, clear style with Monoline iconography that communicates action and features with simple visuals.
  • See what’s new in stock media:
  • We’re constantly adding more rich media content to the Office Premium Creative Content collection, a curated library of stock images, icons, and more that helps you express yourself.
  • Find what you need with Microsoft Search:
  • At the top of your Microsoft Office apps on Windows you'll find the new Microsoft Search box. This powerful tool helps you quickly find what you're looking for, from text to commands to help and more.
  • Performance improvements:
  • Experience improved performance, stability, and speed across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook​.
  • Get faster calculations from common Excel functions like SUMIF, COUNTIF, and AVERAGEIF.
  • Updated Draw tab:
  • Quickly access and change the color of all your inking tools in one place.
  • Simplify how you work with ink using new Draw tab additions: Point Eraser, Ruler, and Lasso.
  • Save your changes as they happen:
  • Upload your files to OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint Online to make sure all your updates are saved automatically.
  • Support for OpenDocument format (ODF) 1.3:
  • We now include support for the OpenDocument format (ODF) 1.3. The ODF 1.3 specification adds support for many new features.
  • Refresh, relink, or remove linked tables:
  • The updated Linked Table Manager is a central location for viewing and managing all data sources and linked tables in an Access database. See all the improvements we've made to the Linked Table Manager based on your feedback.
  • Try the new the Date/Time Extended data type in Access:
  • To enhance syntax compatibility with SQL and to increase accuracy and level of detail in records that include dates and times, we’ve implemented the SQL DateTime2 data type into Access.
  • Keep tabs on your database objects in Access:
  • You can clearly see the active tab, easily drag tabs to rearrange them, and close database objects with just one click.
  • New Azure stencils and shapes in Visio:
  • We've added many more stencils to help you create up-to-date Azure diagrams. You can use these new stencils to build Azure diagrams for network topologies, virtual machine configurations, operations, and more.
  • New AWS stencils and shapes in Visio:
  • We have enabled infrastructure shapes from another major cloud provider: Amazon Web Services (AWS). You can now use stencils with the latest AWS shapes to help you create diagrams.
  • Content for social distancing planning in the workplace:
  • Many workplaces need to be re-planned to follow the social distancing guidelines in force. This new Visio template, and the Workplace Social Distancing stencil, provide a number of shapes, fill patterns and line patterns, both scaled and unscaled, to help with this process.
  • Try the Sketched style outline:
  • You can give a casual, hand-drawn look to shapes in your presentations with the Sketched style outline.
  • Try out the Curved, Freehand, or Scribble options under Format Shape > Line > Sketched style.
  • Pick the perfect color:
  • Based on your feedback, we’ve added a new input field in the Colors dialog for Hex color values. Now you won't have to spend time converting Hex color values into RGB values.
  • For any property where you can define a color, you can now enter a Hex color value in the Hex box, for example, #0F4C81 or 444.

New in Microsoft 365 2008 Build 10367.20048 (Oct 14, 2020)

  • Access:
  • CVE-2020-16957 | Microsoft Office Access Connectivity Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • Security Vulnerability
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Office Access Connectivity Engine improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on a victim system.
  • An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing a victim to open a specially crafted file.
  • The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the way the Microsoft Office Access Connectivity Engine handles objects in memory.
  • Excel:
  • CVE-2020-16929 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Excel handles objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-16931 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Excel handles objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-16932 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Excel handles objects in memory.
  • Outlook:
  • CVE-2020-16947 | Microsoft Outlook Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Outlook software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the System user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Outlook software. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) that contains a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • Note that where severity is indicated as Critical in the Affected Products table, the Preview Pane is an attack vector.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Outlook handles objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-16949 | Microsoft Outlook Denial of Service Vulnerability:
  • A denial of service vulnerability exists in Microsoft Outlook software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could cause a remote denial of service against a system.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a specially crafted email be sent to a vulnerable Outlook server.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Outlook handles objects in memory.
  • Word:
  • CVE-2020-16933 | Microsoft Word Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability:
  • A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word software when it fails to properly handle .LNK files. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could use a specially crafted file to perform actions in the security context of the current user. For example, the file could then take actions on behalf of the logged-on user with the same permissions as the current user.
  • To exploit the vulnerability, a user must open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Word software. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) that contains a specially crafted file that is designed to exploit the vulnerability. However, an attacker would have no way to force the user to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince the user to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or Instant Messenger message, and then convince the user to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Word handles these files.
  • Office Suite:
  • CVE-2020-16930 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Excel handles objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-16955 | Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability:
  • An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) AppVLP handles certain files. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges.
  • To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to convince a user to open a specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle these files.
  • CVE-2020-16928 | Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability:
  • An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) AppVLP handles certain files. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges.
  • To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to convince a user to open a specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle these files.
  • CVE-2020-16934 | Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability:
  • An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) AppVLP handles certain files. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges.
  • To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to convince a user to open a specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle these files.
  • CVE-2020-16918 | Base3D Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Base3D rendering engine improperly handles memory.
  • An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability would gain execution on a victim system.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Base3D rendering engine handles memory.
  • CVE-2020-16954 | Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Office. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Office handles objects in memory.

New in Microsoft 365 2008 Build 13127.20408 (Sep 10, 2020)

  • Excel:
  • CVE-2020-1594 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Excel handles objects in memory
  • CVE-2020-1335 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Excel handles objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1224 | Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability:
  • An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Excel improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who exploited the vulnerability could use the information to compromise the user’s computer or data.
  • To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could craft a special document file and then convince the user to open it. An attacker must know the memory address location where the object was created.
  • The update addresses the vulnerability by changing the way certain Excel functions handle objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1332 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Excel handles objects in memory.
  • Word:
  • CVE-2020-1338 | Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word software when it fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could use a specially crafted file to perform actions in the security context of the current user. For example, the file could then take actions on behalf of the logged-on user with the same permissions as the current user.
  • To exploit the vulnerability, a user must open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Word software. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) that contains a specially crafted file that is designed to exploit the vulnerability. However, an attacker would have no way to force the user to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince the user to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or Instant Messenger message, and then convince the user to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Word handles files in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1218 | Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word software when it fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could use a specially crafted file to perform actions in the security context of the current user. For example, the file could then take actions on behalf of the logged-on user with the same permissions as the current user.
  • To exploit the vulnerability, a user must open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Word software. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) that contains a specially crafted file that is designed to exploit the vulnerability. However, an attacker would have no way to force the user to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince the user to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or Instant Messenger message, and then convince the user to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Word handles files in memory.
  • Office Suite:
  • CVE-2020-1193 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Excel handles objects in memory.

New in Microsoft 365 2008 Build 13127.20296 (Sep 1, 2020)

  • Feature updates:
  • Excel:
  • Save to Pinned Folders: Pin your folders makes saving Office files easier. We received feedback that users want more control over the folders available when a new file is saved. We're excited to bring a new capability to you: pin your folders in the Save dialog. This new capability will make saving your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files easier. Learn more
  • See details in blog post
  • Outlook:
  • Improved links in email: When you include a link to a file, the file name replaces the URL. You can change permissions so all recipients have access. Learn more
  • See details in blog post
  • Natural Language Support in Search: With the implementation of Natural Language Support in Search, users can easily filter their search results without remembering specific search syntax.
  • PowerPoint:
  • Save to Pinned Folders: Pin your folders makes saving Office files easier. We received feedback that users want more control over the folders available when a new file is saved. We're excited to bring a new capability to you: pin your folders in the Save dialog. This new capability will make saving your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files easier. Learn more
  • See details in blog post
  • Teams:
  • Call Merge: Call Merge gives end users the capability to merge their active unheld 1-1 call into another 1-1 call or another group call. This applies to Teams VOIP calls and PSTN calls.
  • Admins can configure shift-based presence (On shift, Off shift) for their Firstline workers: Admins can configure their firstline workers to have shift-based presence states: On shift, Busy (can be toggled when on shift), and Off shift.
  • Cortana voice skills in Teams: Cortana voice skills in Teams mobile app help users perform meeting, communication and collaboration tasks simply using spoken natural language. Users can speak to Cortana by clicking on the microphone button in Teams app and make requests like “Call Megan” or “Send a message to my next meeting” if they need to connect with someone while juggling household chores or walking the dog or generally on the go. Users can join meetings simply by saying “Join my next meeting” or check their calendar by asking “what do I have this morning”. Once in a meeting or a call, they can invoke Cortana from the overflow menu in the meeting stage and perform typical in-meeting tasks like adding people by name or number (“Add Megan to the call”), deck presentation (“present the quarterly review deck”) or navigating slides (“Go to the appendix slide”). Other things that the feature supports are finding and sharing files, search, and generally navigating within the Teams app (“Open my chat with John, Go to my unread activity, Go to my mentions etc.). Cortana in Teams meets the same enterprise-level privacy, security, and compliance promises for Cortana enterprise services, as reflected in the Online Services Terms (OST).
  • Group chat increase: Teams added the ability to now have 250 participants in a group chat.
  • Tagging by Shift: With this feature, people are automatically assigned tags that match their schedule and shift group name in the Shifts app in Teams.
  • Word:
  • Save to Pinned Folders: Pin your folders makes saving Office files easier. We received feedback that users want more control over the folders available when a new file is saved. We're excited to bring a new capability to you: pin your folders in the Save dialog. This new capability will make saving your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files easier. Learn more
  • See details in blog post
  • Office Suite:
  • Tabbed Panes: Now you can switch between multiple panes using a tab UI on the right hand side of the app. The UI will only be visible when you have 2+ panes open.
  • See details in blog post
  • Resolved issues:
  • Access:
  • This issue has been resolved - you can now use our ODBC driver outside of Office's Click-to-Run applications.
  • Outlook:
  • Fixes an issue that caused users who attempted to create a meeting request from a secondary account added to their profile to not see a blank From: field instead of their email address.
  • Fixes an issue that caused users to be unable to connect to Public Folders after adding a shared mailbox.
  • Addressed an issue that caused meetings to fail to be removed from a manager's calendar when declined by a delegate in some circumstances.
  • Addressed an issue that prevented some users of the Shared Calendar Improvements feature from being able to view a newly-added shared calendar.
  • Fixes an issue that caused users to experience occasional crashes when interacting with Cloud attachments.
  • Addressed an issue that caused users of some character sets to see file names display incorrectly when adding a Smart Link to a SharePoint file.
  • Addresses an issue that caused users to experience a crash when replying to or composing new email.
  • Addressed an issue which caused users to experience a crash when deleting 4 or more emails from a POP account with the "Download Headers Only" option selected.
  • Addressed an issue that caused some users to see the Scheduling Assistant page fail to display.
  • This fixes an issue that caused users to experience occasional crashes when editing recipients.
  • Fixes an issue that caused users to see anomalies when using the compact view.
  • Addressed an issue that caused the right-click context menu to fail to appear in the search controls.
  • Addresses an issue that caused users to receive the following error when replying to or composing new email, "Some of the files in this web page aren't in the expected location. Do you want to download them anyway? If you’re sure the Web page is from a trusted source, click Yes"
  • Project:
  • Fixed an issue where the Project finish date isn't getting updated for projects connected to SharePoint tasks list.
  • Fixed an issue where if a resource had more than one cost rate table defined, remaining cost was not always calculated correctly.
  • Skype:
  • Changed dancing emoticon skin tone to neutral color.
  • Word:
  • This change fixes an issue where Office applications can get stuck in a silent Save failure state after a previous coauthoring session.
  • We fixed an issue where macro AutoOpen runs before AutoExec

New in Microsoft 365 2007 Build 13029.20344 (Aug 12, 2020)

  • CVE-2020-1582 | Microsoft Access Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Access software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Access. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Access handles objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1495 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Excel handles objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1498 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Excel handles objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1496 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Excel handles objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1497 | Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability:
  • An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Excel improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who exploited the vulnerability could use the information to compromise the user’s computer or data.
  • To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could craft a special document file and then convince the user to open it. An attacker must know the memory address location where the object was created.
  • The update addresses the vulnerability by changing the way certain Excel functions handle objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1494 | Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Excel handles objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1493 | Microsoft Outlook Information Disclosure Vulnerability:
  • An information disclosure vulnerability exists when attaching files to Outlook messages. This vulnerability could potentially allow users to share attached files such that they are accessible by anonymous users where they should be restricted to specific users.
  • To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to attach a file as a link to an email. The email could then be shared with individuals that should not have access to the files, ignoring the default organizational setting.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Outlook handles file attachment links.
  • CVE-2020-1483 | Microsoft Outlook Memory Corruption Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Outlook when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Outlook software. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) that contains a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.
  • Note that where severity is indicated as Critical in the Affected Products table, the Preview Pane is an attack vector.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Outlook handles objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1583 | Microsoft Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability:
  • An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Word improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who exploited the vulnerability could use the information to compromise the user’s computer or data.
  • To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could craft a special document file and then convince the user to open it. An attacker must know the memory address location where the object was created.
  • The update addresses the vulnerability by changing the way certain Word functions handle objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1502 | Microsoft Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability:
  • An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Word improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who exploited the vulnerability could use the information to compromise the user’s computer or data.
  • To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could craft a special document file and then convince the user to open it. An attacker must know the memory address location where the object was created.
  • The update addresses the vulnerability by changing the way certain Word functions handle objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1503 | Microsoft Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability:
  • An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Word improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who exploited the vulnerability could use the information to compromise the user’s computer or data.
  • To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could craft a special document file and then convince the user to open it. An attacker must know the memory address location where the object was created.
  • The update addresses the vulnerability by changing the way certain Word functions handle objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1581 | Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability:
  • An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges. The attacker would need to already have the ability to execute code on the system.
  • An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application on the victim system.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle objects in memory.
  • CVE-2020-1563 | Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:
  • A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Office. In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file.
  • The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Office handles objects in memory.

New in Microsoft 365 1807 Build 0325.20082 (Aug 3, 2018)

  • Outlook: Feature updates:
  • Outlook add-in warnings: Occasionally an Outlook COM add-in can encounter problems that slows down the rest of Outlook. These problems could be due to latency of events such as switching between Outlook folders, arrival of new emails, opening Calendar items, etc. When such issues arise, Outlook will display a warning in the notification bar.
  • Join Teams meetings from the Outlook Reminders dialog: When Outlook reminds users of an upcoming meeting, it will show a Join Online button if the upcoming meeting is a Teams online meeting. This is similar to the experience of joining a Skype for Business meeting from the Outlook Reminders dialog.
  • PowerPoint: Feature updates:
  • Hyperlink colors: Hyperlinks aren't just blue anymore. Apply any font color you like.
  • Visio: Feature updates:
  • Build a Word document out of Visio shapes: Automatically add diagram content, including shapes and metadata, to a Word document. Then customize the document to create process guidelines and operation manuals.
  • Word: Feature updates:
  • Track changes with IRM: You can now use the Track Changes feature in Word in IRM-protected documents without requiring the Full Control usage right.
  • Office Suite: Non-security updates:
  • Fixed a set of issues that prevented some users from opening IRM-protected documents & emails that were shared with them by people in other organizations.

New in Microsoft 365 1805 Build 9330.2087 (May 25, 2018)

  • Outlook: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Outlook crashes when using the iCloud add-in.

New in Microsoft 365 1805 Build 9330.2078 (May 25, 2018)

  • Excel: Feature updates:
  • Chat with co-authors while you edit: Collaborate more effectively by chatting with your co-authors without ever leaving Excel.

New in Microsoft 365 1804 Build 9226.2210 (May 21, 2018)

  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where charting actions could cause Excel to crash.
  • Fix an issue where the Power View add-in is inadvertently disabled for some users.
  • Fix an issue where temporary auto-recovery files created during document recovery are never cleaned up.
  • Fix an issue where attempting to make a new connection to a text file in a protected workbook results in getting a "Workbook is protected and cannot be changed" error message.
  • PowerPoint: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where spelling correction in shapes causes PowerPoint to crash.
  • Office suite: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where, when opening an application, the user might see a message about launching in Safe mode and then the application fails to open.

New in Microsoft 365 1804 Build 9226.2156 (May 15, 2018)

  • Office suite: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where, when opening an application, the user might see a message about launching in Safe mode and then the application fails to open.

New in Microsoft 365 1804 Build 9226.2126 (May 9, 2018)

  • Excel: Security updates:
  • CVE-2018-8147: Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-8148: Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-8162: Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-8163: Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability
  • Outlook: Security updates:
  • CVE-2018-8150: Microsoft Outlook Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
  • Office suite: Security updates
  • CVE-2018-8157: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-8158: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

New in Microsoft 365 1804 Build 9226.2114 (Apr 25, 2018)

  • Outlook: Feature updates:
  • Listen to your emails: Outlook can read your email aloud, highlighting text as it's read. Learn more
  • Never miss a reminder: Set reminders to pop up over windows you're working in. Otherwise, Outlook will blink in the taskbar to get your attention.
  • Mark deleted items as read: You can now set any message that you delete as read. Opt in by going to File > Options > Mail > Other.
  • Encrypt option: Office 365 Message Encryption users can encrypt a message and send it to anyone, inside or outside their organization. Encrypt option appears under Options > Permissions when creating a message. Learn more
  • PowerPoint: Feature updates
  • Convert your ink: Take scribbled notes and drawings, and convert them into readable text and crisp shapes to create a polished presentation. Learn more
  • Project: Feature updates:
  • Task board filtering: Streamline your task boards by filtering on key resources or summary tasks.
  • Set percent complete from a task board: Choose a percent complete for each column, and then update task completion with drag-and-drop.
  • Sprint navigation: Switch from one sprint view to another, and quickly move tasks between sprints.
  • Word: Feature updates:
  • Find and fix relevant proofing issues: Editor pane now displays an overview of proofing issues found in your document, so the focus is on fixing the ones that are most relevant to you.

New in Microsoft 365 1803 Build 9126.2152 (Apr 11, 2018)

  • Excel: Security updates:
  • CVE-2018-1029: Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • PowerPoint: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where multiple users co-authoring on the same presentation results in an incorrect duplication of slides masters.
  • Fix an issue where opening a file saved on OneDrive results in PowerPoint crashing when exiting Protected View.
  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue related to TLS 1.2 support.
  • Word: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue that causes an insufficient memory message to appear.
  • Office suite: Security updates:
  • CVE-2018-0950: Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-1026: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-1030: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

New in Microsoft 365 1803 Build 9126.2116 (Mar 27, 2018)

  • Excel: Feature updates:
  • Microsoft Translator: Translate words, phrases or sentences to another language with Microsoft Translator. You can do this from the Review tab in the ribbon.
  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Quick Print of an Excel workbook attached to an Outlook email may not print.
  • Fix an issue where clicking on a hyperlink may cause Excel to crash.
  • Fix an issue where using cube functions causes Excel to crash.
  • OneDrive for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where OneDrive for Business (Groove.exe) consumes one CPU core’s worth of CPU (for example, 25% on a 4 core CPU) in Task Manager for extended periods of time.
  • Outlook: Feature updates:
  • Blind carbon copy (Bcc) warning: A warning appears if you choose Reply All to a message that you were Bcc’ed on
  • PowerPoint: Feature updates:
  • Microsoft Translator: Translate words, phrases or sentences to another language with Microsoft Translator. You can do this from the Review tab in the ribbon.
  • Improved support for high definition displays: If you use multiple monitors or a laptop dock, Office apps will now look crisp on every display, even if the displays have different scaling settings
  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where adding users by selecting 'Skype Call' in a meeting causes an error.
  • Remove prompt asking user to add Skype coordinates to a meeting, if a Skype Room is added as the location and the meeting already contains Teams meeting coordinates
  • Visio: Feature updates:
  • Improved support for high definition displays: If you use multiple monitors or a laptop dock, Office apps will now look crisp on every display, even if the displays have different scaling settings
  • Word: Feature updates:
  • Improved support for high definition displays: If you use multiple monitors or a laptop dock, Office apps will now look crisp on every display, even if the displays have different scaling settings

New in Microsoft 365 1803 Build 9126.2098 (Mar 22, 2018)

  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Quick Print of an Excel workbook attached to an Outlook email may not print.
  • Fix an issue where clicking on a hyperlink may cause Excel to crash.
  • Fix an issue where using cube functions causes Excel to crash.
  • OneDrive for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where OneDrive for Business (Groove.exe) consumes one CPU core’s worth of CPU (for example, 25% on a 4 core CPU) in Task Manager for extended periods of time.
  • Outlook: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where a meeting location update to attendees shows the old location instead of the new location.
  • Fix an issue where the user sees an error when previewing an attachment in the reading pane.
  • Fix an issue where Outlook crashes when resolving display names to email addresses when the user is composing an email.
  • Fix an issue where some users don't receive support features that have been enabled by their tenant admin.
  • Word: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Word won’t open on a computer running Windows 7 that doesn't have the update for customer experience and diagnostic telemetry installed.
  • Fix an issue where bullets in lists don’t print.

New in Microsoft 365 1803 Build 9126.2072 (Mar 14, 2018)

  • Access: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following CVEs:
  • CVE-2018-0903: Microsoft Access Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • Excel: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following CVEs:
  • CVE-2018-0907: Microsoft Office Excel Security Feature Bypass
  • Word: Security updates
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following CVEs:
  • CVE-2018-0919: Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability

New in Microsoft 365 1802 Build 9029.2253 (Mar 13, 2018)

  • Access: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following CVEs

New in Microsoft 365 1802 Build 9029.2167 (Feb 27, 2018)

  • Outlook feature updates:
  • Know who you'll be meeting with: You can see other people's responses to a meeting request, even if you aren't the organizer.
  • Project non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where setting more than one baseline in a session sets the MOD_DATE value as the same.
  • Skype for Business non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where location is populated even when UseLocationForE911Only is set to true.
  • Fix an issue where Skype for Business hangs when using the "call using conference center" option to invite users from the roster.
  • Fix an issue where Outlook running on terminal server freezes while creating a Skype for Business meeting.
  • Change the default value of EnableRestoreOAuthUsedKeyWhenUsingCachedWebTicket to TRUE.
  • Visio feature updates:
  • Built-in database model diagrams: Use the new Database Model Diagram template to accurately model your database as a Visio diagram. No add-in required.

New in Microsoft 365 1801 Build 9001.2144 (Feb 8, 2018)

  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where, if your editing language is Japanese, Chinese, or Korean, Excel may freeze when you try to choose a new font on the Home tab or when you edit.

New in Microsoft 365 1801 Build 9001.2138 (Feb 2, 2018)

  • Project: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Actual Work is still shown in the reporting tables after being removed in a Save for Sharing session
  • Fix an issue in the German language version where using a Weeks date format returns an error when scheduling
  • Fix an issue where, when editing finish dates in Schedule Web Part, tasks stay at 8 hours per day instead of being spread over time
  • Fix an issue where "Progress point shape" is drawn at an unexpected location
  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where "More Options" and "Invite More People" buttons are hidden when a meeting is in full-screen mode.
  • Fix an issue where the P2P audio call window or conference call window becomes transparent when you attempt to join.
  • Fix an issue where upcoming Skype meetings do not show up in the meetings tab.
  • Fix an issue where, when Skype for Business is configured to join meetings without audio, adding audio to a meeting initiates a new P2P call to the user itself rather than adding audio to the existing meeting.
  • Fix an issue where user receives the error message "We couldn't find this Skype meeting" when clicking 'Join Skype Meeting' link in a meeting request from Outlook.

New in Microsoft 365 1712 Build 8827.2179 (Jan 31, 2018)

  • Excel: Non-security updates
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix and issue where the scroll bars are missing when a workbook is opened when Excel is minimized.
  • Outlook: Non-security updates:
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where search fails with “No matches found” when search is scoped to All Mailboxes.

New in Microsoft 365 1712 Build 8827.2148 (Jan 18, 2018)

  • Excel: Feature updates
  • Convert SVG icons to shapes: Transform all SVG pictures and icons into Office shapes so you can change their color, size, or texture.
  • Deselect cells: Make selections in your worksheet and deselect cells that you accidentally clicked without having to start over.
  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where workbook references fail when opening multiple workbooks by double-clicking on the file names in File Explorer.
  • Outlook: Feature updates:
  • Convert SVG icons to shapes: Transform all SVG pictures and icons into Office shapes so you can change their color, size, or texture.
  • Improvements to Office 365 groups: It’s easier than ever to read and reply to group conversations because you can double-click on a group message to open it in its own window.
  • PowerPoint: Feature updates:
  • 3D animations: Bring your 3D models to life with animations such as swinging gently or jumping and turning.
  • Convert SVG icons to shapes: Transform all SVG pictures and icons into Office shapes so you can change their color, size, or texture.
  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Add call transfer button in the toast UI for incoming PSTN calls.
  • Notify users that calls and chat are being sent to Teams when ChatDefaultClient and CallDefaultClient are set to Teams.
  • Show user’s presence as Offline when user is not in a meeting and disabled from Skype for Business and meeting join experience is set to Native Limited Client.
  • Disable all options except Open and Exit when Skype for Business is minimized to the notification area.
  • Suppress new calls and conversations when paired with Aries phones and RedirectClient is enabled.
  • Fix an issue where searching messages in PChat by date fails when the date format is other than US format (mm/dd/yy).
  • Fix an issue where, when EnableExternalP2PFileTransfer policy is set to false, users are still able to attach files in meetings.
  • Visio: Feature updates:
  • Use Excel templates to export to a Visio diagram: Get a jump on your Visio flowcharts. Enter your data in one of the Process Map Excel templates and export to Visio to create the diagram automatically. Requires Visio Pro for Office 365.
  • Word: Feature updates:
  • Convert SVG icons to shapes: Transform all SVG pictures and icons into Office shapes so you can change their color, size, or texture.

New in Microsoft 365 1711 Build 8730.2175 (Jan 10, 2018)

  • Excel: Security updates:
  • CVE-2018-0796: Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • Advisory 170021: Microsoft Office Defense in Depth Update
  • Outlook: Security updates:
  • CVE-2018-0791: Microsoft Outlook Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-0793: Microsoft Outlook Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • Word: Security updates:
  • CVE-2018-0792: Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-0793: Microsoft Outlook Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-0794: Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-0798: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-0801: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-0802: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-0804: Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-0805: Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-0806: Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-0807: Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2018-0812: Microsoft Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • Office suite: Security updates:
  • CVE-2018-0795: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • Advisory 180003: Microsoft Office Defense in Depth Update

New in Microsoft 365 1711 Build 8730.2165 (Jan 4, 2018)

  • PowerPoint: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where removing document properties and personal information causes saving to SharePoint to fail.
  • Project: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where VBA code gets lost from projects.

New in Microsoft 365 1711 Build 8730.2127 (Dec 13, 2017)

  • Outlook: Security updates:
  • CVE-2017-11939: Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability
  • PowerPoint: Security updates:
  • CVE-2017-11934: Microsoft PowerPoint Information Disclosure Vulnerability

New in Microsoft 365 1711 Build 8730.2122 (Dec 7, 2017)

  • PowerPoint: Feature updates:
  • This channel release contains the following feature updates:
  • Export to 4K: When you export a presentation to video, Ultra HD (4K) is a resolution option.
  • Project: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where tasks show as complete even when there is remaining work.
  • Fix an issue where Project hangs when using the Task Path feature.
  • Fix an issue where the timescale doesn't show the timescale labels.
  • Fix an issue where visual reports show incomplete information or fail completely.
  • Fix an issue where a failed save can corrupt a file and cause Project to crash on open.
  • Fix an issue where you can't drag tasks in the Timeline and Team Planner view.
  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where, in Conversation History, the caller is shown instead of the called person. This happens when the called person's work number is modified using Active Directory.
  • Fix an issue where, for outgoing PSTN calls to mobile numbers, recipient information is missing in the call history in conversation history.
  • Fix an issue where, when initiating an IM from an email in Outlook, the subject line of the email is not included in the subject of the IM.
  • Fix an issue where, when IM conversation windows are snapped to one side, conversations appear double stacked.
  • Fix an issue where, in a VDIv2 environment, VbSS screen sharing requests appear as RDP-based requests.
  • Fix an issue where, in a failed call transfer, the caller is listed in the failure notification, instead of the missed recipient.
  • Fix an issue where the "Start using Teams" button is hidden within the client upgrade redirect banner.
  • Fix DPI scaling issues in IM windows.
  • Fix an issue where LinkedIn data does not appear in the Skype for Business Contact Card.
  • Word: Feature updates:
  • Character count: Display the character count on the status bar as you type. You can enable this from the Customize Status Bar menu.

New in Microsoft 365 1710 Build 8625.2139 (Nov 29, 2017)

  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where the user incorrectly sees a "catastrophic failure" error message when opening an Office 2007 or older workbook (.xls or .xla) with macros.
  • Office suite: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where the Office app crashes when the user tries to activate Office using the Activate Office dialog box.

New in Microsoft 365 1710 Build 8201.2209 (Nov 27, 2017)

  • Office suite: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue with the 64-bit version of Office that causes Office apps to crash, such as when the user goes to File > Options.

New in Microsoft 365 1710 Build 8625.2132 (Nov 21, 2017)

  • Access: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where opening an Access runtime application (.accde file) results in a "This database is in an unrecognized format" error message and the application won’t open.
  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where, when the user tries to insert an object in an existing workbook, Excel crashes when the user clicks Browse.
  • Fix an issue where, when protecting a range with a password, the dialog box to enter the password to unlock the range isn’t visible.
  • Outlook: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where, when monitoring using Accessible Event Watcher (AccEvent.exe), Outlook crashes when switching folders.
  • PowerPoint: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where references to Flash Player based YouTube embed codes result in a new window opening to play the video. Old embed codes are now upgraded to reference HTML5 based YouTube videos so that they correctly play in place.
  • Office suite: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue with zooming and scaling in Office Add-ins under dynamic DPI environment.
  • Fix an issue where the CurrentStatus node of the Office configuration service provider (CSP) returns an empty string even if Office 365 ProPlus is currently installed.
  • Fix an issue that causes .box file format changes, which impacts functionality of older versions of Office installed on the same computer, because .box files are shared across all versions of an Office app on the same computer.

New in Microsoft 365 1710 Build 8625.2127 (Nov 15, 2017)

  • Excel: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following CVEs:
  • CVE-2017-11877: Microsoft Excel Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
  • CVE-2017-11878: Microsoft Excel Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • CVE-2017-11884: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where the user can’t close a workbook in protected view when the file name contains square brackets.
  • Word: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following advisories:
  • Advisory 170020: Microsoft Office Defense in Depth Update
  • Office suite: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following CVEs:
  • CVE-2017-11882: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

New in Microsoft 365 1710 Build 8625.2121 (Nov 3, 2017)

  • Excel: Feature updates:
  • Digital Pencil: Write or sketch out ideas with our new pencil texture. Simply tilt to do shading with supported digital pens.
  • PowerPoint: Feature updates:
  • Digital Pencil: Write or sketch out ideas with our new pencil texture. Simply tilt to do shading with supported digital pens.
  • Project: Feature updates:
  • Task Board view: Sort tasks on cards in the Task Board view. Reorder and move cards between columns on the board just like in Agile projects.
  • Agile projects: Manage your Agile projects using backlogs, task boards, sprints, and more. Both Scrum or Kanban methodologies are supported. More information
  • Project: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where resource availability isn't shown in Team Builder.
  • Fix an issue where graphical indicators aren't displaying correctly.
  • Fix an issue where Project hangs while leveling on hour-by-hour or day-by-day basis.
  • Fix an issue for working with master/sub projects from a SharePoint Document library.
  • Fix an issue where, when you add assignments to a fixed duration task, you may end up with a nameless resource.
  • Fix an issue that produces an incorrect error message of change on protected work.
  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Add the ability for users to stop receiving calls on behalf of a hunt group.
  • Add the ability to automatically hold calls when a call is active in Skype for Business or Teams and a new call is received or initiated.
  • Fix an issue where users are unable to IM after full screen sharing.
  • Fix an issue where users in the lobby aren't notified when they're denied from entering the meeting.
  • Fix an issue where automatic gain control increases uncontrollably during calls.
  • Visio: Feature updates:
  • Create a wireframe diagram for a website: Quickly create a wireframe diagram of a website including interface, navigation, and how they work together. More information
  • Create a wireframe of your mobile application: Use a template to create a wireframe of your mobile application. More information
  • Word: Feature updates:
  • Microsoft Translator: Translate words, phrases, or the whole document into another language using Microsoft Translator, right in Word. More information
  • Digital Pencil: Write or sketch out ideas with our new pencil texture. Simply tilt to do shading with supported digital pens.

New in Microsoft 365 1709 Build 8528.2147 (Oct 26, 2017)

  • Access: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where, when using Japanese language input, selecting characters in a text box causes all characters in the text box to be highlighted.
  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where placement of the tooltip is misaligned when dragging or drag filling.
  • Fix an issue where, when saving a workbook by using File > Save As, a file name that contains periods appears blank or truncated in the file save dialog.
  • Publisher: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where filtering on data source fields containing null (empty) values fails when running the Mail Merge wizard.
  • Word: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Word crashes when a user tries to do a Save As to an existing document on OneDrive for Business and then cancels the save or tries to merge existing changes.
  • Fix an issue where filtering on data source fields containing null (empty) values fails when running the Mail Merge wizard.

New in Microsoft 365 1709 Build 8528.2139 (Oct 16, 2017)

  • PowerPoint: Feature updates:
  • Run a slide show with your digital pen: Use your Surface Pen, or other pen with a Bluetooth button, to advance your slides. Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is required.
  • Project: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Project might crash when going to reports that contain several images
  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where users are unable to select a presenter in Meeting Options when a conference room resource mailbox is added to a meeting invite.
  • Fix an issue where the desktop sharing button is dimmed during a peer-to-peer video call if AllowlPVideo is set to False.
  • Fix an issue where IM stays disabled after changing the Meeting Option setting to Enable IM for existing meetings created with Disable IM.
  • Fix an issue where the tooltip isn't shown when hovering over the "Insert Link" button in the chat window, and there isn't an accessibility name when the button is selected.
  • Visio: Feature updates:
  • Apply data graphics to Data Visualizer diagrams: Save time when you create a Data Visualizer diagram by automatically applying shape data as data graphics
  • Word: Feature updates:
  • SharePoint property panel: Display and edit SharePoint document library column values from within a document. A ribbon button on the View tab provides easy access to the panel and SharePoint admins can use a document library setting to automatically open the property panel

New in Microsoft 365 1708 Build 8431.2107 (Oct 11, 2017)

  • Outlook: Security updates:
  • CVE-2017-11774: Microsoft Outlook Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
  • CVE-2017-11776: Microsoft Outlook Information Disclosure Vulnerability
  • Word: Security updates:
  • CVE-2017-11826: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • Office suite: Security update:
  • CVE-2017-11825: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

New in Microsoft 365 1708 Build 8431.2094 (Oct 4, 2017)

  • Access: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where a query won't execute if the query has a join with a primary key from a Microsoft Dynamics linked table.
  • Fix an issue where decimal places aren't shown for currency values in a Microsoft Dynamics table.
  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Excel crashes when opening an .XLL file.
  • Fix an issue where the AutoSave toggle isn't visible.
  • Fix an issue where, when opening a file saved in OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, or SharePoint that is synced using a sync client, AutoSave is incorrectly disabled or grayed out.
  • Fix an issue where the pattern style of a cell doesn’t render correctly after adding a header or footer in Page Layout view.
  • Fix an issue where pasting a copy of a PivotTable into another workbook could result in a crash.
  • Fix an issue where, when you choose the Replace command and the Find and Replace dialog box opens, the focus of the dialog box is on the Find tab instead of the Replace tab.
  • Fix an issue where Excel crashes when opening the Activity pane for a workbook opened from a SharePoint server older than SharePoint Server 2016.
  • Fix an issue where Excel opens and displays a blank window when one or more XLL add-ins are enabled.
  • Fix an issue where Excel crashes after having used the Forms button in an already closed workbook.
  • Fix an issue where, when using the SheetBeforeRightClick event, inserting a column that intersects merged cells doesn't expand the merged cells.
  • Outlook: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where the "Learn more" link in Policy Tips isn't visible when using the Dark Gray theme.
  • Fix an issue where Outlook crashes when the user is trying to set up a new account and they close the window without completing the account setup.
  • Fix an issue where Mark as Read and Mark as Unread show as options for messages in the shared inbox for a group.
  • PowerPoint: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where PowerPoint crashes when opening a presentation from a SharePoint server older than SharePoint Server 2016.
  • Word: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Word crashes when opening the Activity pane for a document opened from a SharePoint server older than SharePoint Server 2016.
  • Office suite: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Online Repair progress isn't shown to the user.
  • Fix an issue where Office file properties aren't displayed in File Explorer.
  • Fix an issue where Office add-in buttons disappear from the ribbon when there is a second document opened.
  • Fix an issue where some VBA modules which have names with double-byte characters can't be opened.

New in Microsoft 365 1708 Build 8431.2079 (Sep 19, 2017)

  • Access: Feature updates:
  • Dynamics connector: Import data from or link to data stored in Microsoft Dynamics.
  • Salesforce connector: Import data from or link to data stored in Salesforce.
  • Excel: Feature updates:
  • 3D models: Use 3D to increase the visual and creative impact of your workbooks. Easily insert a 3D model, then you can rotate it through 360 degrees.
  • New ink effects: Express your ideas with flair using metallic pens and ink effects like rainbow, galaxy, lava, ocean, gold, silver and more.
  • “Add Column from Examples” enhancements: Supports more Date/Time, Math, and Index Column transformations.
  • Performance improvements: Excel opens complex workbooks with multiple sheets faster, so you can crunch formulas with large ranges, filter lots of rows, or copy and paste quicker.
  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where tabs are ignored when copying and pasting tab delimited text from Word, resulting in the text not being parsed into columns
  • Outlook: Feature updates:
  • 3D models: Use 3D to increase the visual and creative impact of your email. Easily insert a 3D model, then you can rotate it through 360 degrees.
  • Profile card: Shows you the most relevant details about people and groups, whether you’re on the desktop, the web, or using a mobile app.
  • Accessibility improvements: We've made it easier to read and edit text, tables, lists, and images in email when you're using a screen reader.
  • PowerPoint: Feature updates:
  • 3D models: Use 3D to increase the visual and creative impact of your presentations. Bring 3D models to life in your presentations with transitions like Morph that create cinematic animations between slides.
  • New ink effects: Express your ideas with flair using metallic pens and ink effects like rainbow, galaxy, lava, ocean, gold, silver and more.
  • Project: Feature updates:
  • Manage a task in Planner: Link a Project task to Planner and create a plan for it. Break the task into subtasks, add a team, assign tasks, and manage the work on a task board
  • Project: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Actual Start may be wrongly cleared when you set remaining work.
  • Fix an issue where Assignment Actual Start Date may show different data than was reported by the resource through statusing in Project Web App.
  • Fix an issue where actual work may be rescheduled if the task's finish date is changed.
  • Fix an issue where if you copy and paste cost fields, the pasted values might not exactly match the copied values due to a rounding issue.
  • Fix an issue where timephased data for Budget resources isn't copied when you save from one baseline into another one.
  • Fix an issue where the status field doesn't always calculate correctly for summary tasks.
  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Add dialog explaining why a user is unable to join a meeting when certain ports are blocked or IPs are not whitelisted.
  • Fix an issue where unread messages in persistent chat rooms are marked as read when you click IM conversation tabs.
  • Fix an issue where incoming IM toasts experience a several second delay.
  • Fix an issue where an AD contact is displayed as a phone number instead of contact name when sync with Exchange is disabled.
  • Fix an issue where anonymous join users are blocked from joining when federation is disabled and anonymous join is not explicitly blocked by meeting organizer.
  • Fix an issue where the number of invitees is incorrectly displayed to meeting organizer for meetings that exceed the limit.
  • Fix an issue where phone number is not displayed in toast on inbound PSTN calls.
  • Fix an issue where, when using the Delete key while renaming a contact list group, the entire group is deleted.
  • Fix an issue where the sharing notification in an IM conversation is dismissed before sharing stops.
  • Word: Feature updates:
  • 3D models: Use 3D to increase the visual and creative impact of your documents. Easily insert a 3D model, then you can rotate it through 360 degrees.
  • New ink effects: Express your ideas with flair using metallic pens and ink effects like rainbow, galaxy, lava, ocean, gold, silver and more.
  • Office suite: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue that prevents the What’s New dialog from appearing.

New in Microsoft 365 1707 Build 8326.2107 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Excel temporarily hangs when you expand or collapse a PivotTable and the PivotTable headers move off the screen.
  • Fix an issue where Excel crashes when opening the Publish as Web Page dialog box.
  • PowerPoint: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following CVEs:
  • CVE-2017-8742: PowerPoint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • CVE-2017-8743: PowerPoint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • Project: Non-security updates:
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where opening certain files from Project Online causes Project to crash.
  • Skype for Business: Security updates
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following CVEs:
  • CVE-2017-8676: Windows GDI+ Information Disclosure Vulnerability
  • CVE-2017-8695: Graphics Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability
  • CVE-2017-8696: Microsoft Graphics Component Remote Code Execution
  • Office suite: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following CVEs:
  • CVE-2017-8630: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • CVE-2017-8744: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

New in Microsoft 365 1707 Build 8326.2096 (Aug 31, 2017)

  • PowerPoint: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where end-user defined characters (EUDCs) that are linked to fonts fail to display.

New in Microsoft 365 1707 Build 8326.2087 (Aug 25, 2017)

  • Office suite: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where hovering over a Common Control that has a tooltip on it causes the application to crash.
  • Fix an issue where a licensing error message appears when using Common Controls.

New in Microsoft 365 1707 Build 8326.2076 (Aug 23, 2017)

  • Outlook: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where you're unable to configure an IMAP account in Outlook.
  • Fix an issue that causes an intermittent crash when opening Outlook.
  • Word: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Word closes unexpectedly while loading the Grammarly add-in.
  • Fix an issue where, under certain conditions, Word crashes while trying to recover cloud-based files.

New in Microsoft 365 1707 Build 8326.2073 (Aug 17, 2017)

  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where a data refresh doesn't succeed or Excel crashes when using data from a SQL Server Analysis Services server, and the locale of Excel and the locale of the SQL Server Analysis Services server differ.

New in Microsoft 365 1707 Build 8326.2070 (Aug 8, 2017)

  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where the sign-in screen is blank for some non-English languages.

New in Microsoft 365 1707 Build 8326.2062 (Aug 1, 2017)

  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where non-English characters in chat and chat history are garbled.

New in Microsoft 365 1707 Build 8326.2059 (Jul 29, 2017)

  • Office suite: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue with how some program files are signed, causing anti-virus programs to flag those files as well as problems protecting or accessing data under Windows Information Protection (WIP).

New in Microsoft 365 1707 Build 8326.2058 (Jul 27, 2017)

  • Access: Feature updates:
  • Label Name property: Enhance accessibility by associating a label with a control on a form.
  • Editing a new item is more accessible: Use a quick keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+E) to edit a new item from a Combo Box or List Box.
  • Data connectors: Import data from or link to data stored in Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce.
  • Excel: Feature updates:
  • Collaborative editing: Work with others at the same time in your workbook.
  • AutoSave: Changes are saved automatically for workbooks stored in the cloud, and you can see others’ updates in seconds.
  • Helpful sounds improve accessibility: Turn on audio cues to guide you as you work. Find it in File > Options > Ease of Access. No add-in needed.
  • Outlook: Feature updates:
  • Downloading cloud attachments: When you save or drag and drop OneDrive attachments to your computer, we download the file for you.
  • Helpful sounds improve accessibility: Turn on audio cues to guide you as you work. Find it in File > Options > Ease of Access. No add-in needed.
  • Outlook: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following CVEs:
  • CVE-2017-8571: Microsoft Office Outlook Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
  • CVE-2017-8572: Microsoft Office Outlook Information Disclosure Vulnerability
  • CVE-2017-8663: Microsoft Office Outlook Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • PowerPoint: Feature updates:
  • Revision highlighting: Slides that have been modified by other users are highlighted.
  • Designer improvement: Designer now recommends design ideas for timelines in a bulleted list.
  • Helpful sounds improve accessibility: Turn on audio cues to guide you as you work. Find it in File > Options > Ease of Access. No add-in needed.
  • Project: Non-security updates:
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where actual work wrongly gets transferred to an enterprise resource when it replaces a local resource and protected work is enabled.
  • Fix an issue where Project crashes if you have a table where the first column is Task Name, the column is locked, and you click on a task.
  • Fix an issue where you can assign the same resource multiple times to the same task through the Task Usage view.
  • Fix an issue where values in the number custom fields may be lost when opening XML files.
  • Fix an issue where top-level task indentation doesn't sync properly from Project to a SharePoint tasks list.
  • Fix an issue where if you import task, resource, or assignment information from an Excel workbook, the values in the work field may be ignored.
  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Display the caller's phone number for an incoming call handled by the Organizational Auto Attendant if the user's name isn't known.
  • Add an inband setting allowing restriction of "Anyone (no restrictions)"as an option for "These people don't have to wait in the lobby."
  • Add ability to turn on or off self-video for P2P video calls in VDIv2.
  • Fix an issue where duplicate numbers display for contacts in the call drop-down menu.
  • Fix an issue where delegates are removed for users who move between Skype for Business and Skype for Business Basic.
  • Fix an issue where Appear Offline is not visible when using the Enable Appear Offline and Custom State URL client policies.
  • Word: Feature updates:
  • SharePoint property panel: Display and edit SharePoint document library column values from within a document. A ribbon button on the View tab provides easy access to the panel and SharePoint admins can use a document library setting to automatically open the property panel.
  • Edit using Learning Tools: Learning Tools is now available in Word's Web Layout. Adjust your text spacing and show syllables while you edit. In any view, see each word highlighted as the document is read aloud.
  • LaTeX syntax: Create and edit math equations using LaTeX syntax.
  • Helpful sounds improve accessibility: Turn on audio cues to guide you as you work. Find it in File > Options > Ease of Access. No add-in needed.

New in Microsoft 365 1706 Build 8229.2103 (Jul 20, 2017)

  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where errors appear when trying to save changes to documents synchronized with the OneDrive client.
  • Fix an issue where changes can't be made anywhere in a worksheet when there is a PivotTable with fields in the Filter area, but no fields anywhere else.
  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Widen the Meeting Join button to fix truncation of some localized languages.
  • Word: Non-security updates:
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where shapes within drawing canvas can't be rotated.
  • Fix an issue where, when typing in Korean, consonants and vowels are incorrectly separated.
  • Office suite: Non-security updates:
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where commands are missing from the Ribbon or the Quick Access Toolbar customization dialogs.

New in Microsoft 365 1706 Build 8229.2086 (Jul 14, 2017)

  • Excel: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following CVEs:
  • CVE-2017-8501: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • CVE-2017-8502: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability
  • Office suite: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following CVEs:
  • CVE-2017-8570: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

New in Microsoft 365 2016 16.0.7167.2040 (Aug 31, 2016)

  • Excel: Feature updates:
  • Data transformation and connectivity improvements: Perform additional Date/Time transformation and Text manipulations, migrate workbooks to a different environment, group two or more clauses for row filtering, and document transformations within the Query Editor window.
  • Publish to Power BI: Publish locally stored files to Power BI, with a Power BI subscription.
  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Excel hangs when trying to edit a workbook that contains numerous text boxes.
  • Outlook: Feature updates:
  • Recover deleted items link: In the Deleted Items folder, a "Recover items recently removed from this folder" link appears above the list of deleted items, and brings up the Recover Deleted Items dialog box when the link is selected.
  • Outlook: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where the Folder pane disappears when Outlook is opened.
  • Fix an issue where searching messages by using Advanced Find in frequently-used text fields results in an "Outlook cannot perform your search" error message.
  • PowerPoint: Feature updates:
  • Zoom: Create an interactive summary of your presentation with automatic navigation links. More information
  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where the user incorrectly sees an "Offline messages only" message when the recipient can't receive offline messages.
  • Fix an issue where after a user adds a delegate in Exchange Server, the delegate doesn't show up in Skype for Business even after restarting it.
  • Visio: Feature updates:
  • UML templates: Three templates— Component, Communication, and Deployment—that are compliant with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.5 standard.
  • Word: Feature updates:
  • Researcher: Find relevant quotes, citable sources, and images without leaving Word. More information
  • Office suite: Feature updates:
  • Publish to Docs.com: Publish documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on Docs.com and showcase your Office documents in their original formatting as well as track their usage with free analytics. More information

New in Microsoft 365 2016 16.0.6965.2058 (Jun 27, 2016)

  • OneNote: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue when inking where random strokes are selected and can't be unselected.
  • Outlook: Non-security updates:
  • Improve the detection of possible impending PST corruption and add steps to try to prevent the corruption from happening.
  • PowerPoint: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where the user gets an error message that the document can't be updated when the user is doing real-time co-authoring in a presentation that contains a content add-in.
  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Skype crashes for some users in large meetings, such as meetings with more than 30 participants.
  • Fix an issue on computers with Malwarebytes software installed where Skype hangs when the user attempts to initiate audio or visual scenarios, such as desktop sharing or joining the audio portion of a meeting. More info about this issue
  • Fix an issue where the user receives an error message when attempting to use conferencing features, such as a whiteboard or sharing notes. More info about this issue
  • Visio: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following security bulletins: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-070: Security Update for Microsoft Office (3163610)
  • Word: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following security bulletins:Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-070: Security Update for Microsoft Office (3163610)
  • Word: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where Word crashes if the user chooses the "Keep Source Formatting" option when pasting a SmartArt graphic.
  • Office suite: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following security bulletins: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-070: Security Update for Microsoft Office (3163610)

New in Microsoft 365 2016 16.0.6868.2067 (Jun 2, 2016)

  • Outlook: Non-security updates
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where the link to view older mail messages on the server doesn't appear at the bottom of the list of messages in the folder, such as the Inbox or Deleted Items folder.
  • Fix an issue where Outlook doesn't send the message content when sending mail using a .msg file.
  • Update the Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe) so that it can detect and correct file corruption issues related to how .pst files are indexed and searched. This type of corruption can prevent .pst files from loading, cause Outlook to crash, or cause high CPU utilization.
  • PowerPoint: Non-security updates
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where if PowerPoint has restarted after a crash and you're using the Document Recovery task pane, you get an error message when you try to save the recovered file or open the original file.
  • Fix an issue where PowerPoint crashes when trying to save a recovery file that was created from a previous PowerPoint crash.
  • Fix an issue where if you have a presentation that includes a table, and then save the presentation as a PDF, PowerPoint crashes.
  • Fix an issue where numbers and spaces are lost when saving a presentation in .rtf format or copying text into a rich-text editor, such as WordPad.
  • Word: Non-security updates
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where if you perform an undo action after moving a SmartArt graphic by dragging, Word crashes or the SmartArt graphic becomes blank and can't be selected.
  • Office suite: Non-security updates
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint where setting the pen thickness for inking causes the app to crash.
  • Fix an issue where the Document Recovery task pane doesn't appear the next time you open the Office app after it has crashed, especially if you re-open the app right after it crashed.
  • Update OfficeC2RClient.exe to use "channel" instead of "branch" as a command-line option.

New in Microsoft 365 2016 16.0.6868.2062 (Jun 2, 2016)

  • Word: Security updates
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following security bulletins:
  • Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-054: Security Update for Microsoft Office (3155544)
  • Office suite: Security updates
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following security bulletins:
  • Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-054: Security Update for Microsoft Office (3155544)

New in Microsoft 365 2016 16.0.6868.2060 (Jun 2, 2016)

  • Excel: Feature updates
  • This channel release contains the following feature updates:
  • Additional data connections: Query data from JSON and Azure SQL Data Warehouse sources.
  • Power Query improvements: Improved and new data transformation and data connectivity features. More information
  • Large Address Aware support: 32-bit versions of Excel can use more memory, if available. More information
  • Excel: Non-security updates
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where the Start screen appears when Add-ins are enabled, even though you've configured the Start screen not to appear when Excel opens.
  • Outlook: Feature updates
  • This channel release contains the following feature updates:
  • List of attachments for a conversation: All attachments for a message thread in a group are available from a drop-down list in the upper right corner of the message.
  • Outlook: Non-security updates
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where message classifications aren't always displayed on plain text messages.
  • Fix an issue where Outlook search returns duplicate results when Conversation Settings > Use Classic Indented View option is enabled.
  • Fix an issue with tab navigation of fields when creating a new message in the Spanish version of Outlook.
  • Word: Non-security updates
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue with context numbering lists in Persian, Arabic, Hindi, and Hebrew.

New in Microsoft 365 2016 16.0.6769.2017 (Apr 12, 2016)

  • Excel: Security updates. This channel release contains security updates covered in the following security bulletins:
  • Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-042: Security Update for Microsoft Office (3148775)
  • Skype for Business: Security updates. This channel release contains security updates covered in the following security bulletins:
  • Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-039: Security Update for Microsoft Graphics Component (3148522)

New in Microsoft 365 2016 16.0.6769.2015 (Apr 5, 2016)

  • Excel: Feature updates:
  • Power Query enhancements: Enhanced connectivity capabilities and new transformations added.
  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where, after creating subtotals, the selected range doesn't expand to include the subtotals.
  • Fix an issue where a file on an FTP server can't be opened.
  • Outlook: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where images in HTML signatures appear as gray boxes when sending new messages or replying.
  • Fix an issue where the search folder for read items also shows unread items.
  • PowerPoint: Feature updates:
  • PowerPoint Designer enhancements: Design suggestions for multiple images, color extractor, and facial recognition.
  • PowerPoint: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where not all font options are shown when trying to customize bullet points.
  • Visio: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where shapes placed on a CAD drawing aren't exported in the correct size.
  • Office suite: Non-security updates:
  • Add a Select button to the ribbon in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to allow users to switch whether a pen is used for ink annotations or for mouse emulation.

New in Microsoft 365 2016 16.0.6741.2017 (Mar 23, 2016)

  • Excel: Feature updates:
  • Publish to Power BI: Save and publish workbook items, such as charts, ranges, and tables to powerbi.com and interact with that data in a dashboard format. Requires a Power BI subscription. More information
  • Excel: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where, when using a theme color and running a macro or add-in, the status bar changes to green with gray text, making it difficult for user to read the status update on the status bar.
  • OneNote: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where content highlighting doesn't appear when using See Playback option.
  • Outlook: Feature updates:
  • Archive command on the ribbon: Allows you to quickly move an item stored in your Inbox or any other folder to an archive folder. More information
  • Work with groups: Browse, join, and create groups from within Outlook and add ones to follow most actively to your Favorites. More information
  • Outlook: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where creating a profile causes Outlook to crash. More information about this issue
  • Fix an issue where scrolling through a message causes Outlook to crash.
  • Fix an issue where the cursor lags behind what the user is typing.
  • Fix an issue where items in the From dropdown aren't completely highlighted completely in high contrast mode.
  • Fix an issue where only the first attachment is selected when using SHIFT + CLICK to select multiple attachments.
  • Fix an issue with using Paste All to copy addresses from the Calendar clipboard to a new meeting.
  • Fix an issue where accessing a ghosted public folder on Exchange Server causes Outlook to crash.
  • Fix an issue where users can't access public folders hosted on Exchange Server 2010.
  • Fix an issue where, if message sender attaches a file while replying to an HTML email containing inline images in the body or signature, the message recipient gets the message but not the attachment.
  • Skype for Business: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where clicking on the taskbar preview image for a new conversation window causes Skype for Business to crash.
  • Word: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where the cursor lags behind what the user is typing.
  • Office suite: Feature updates:
  • Small object selection handles: Improved selection handle to help users manipulate small objects in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, especially when using a touch-enabled device.
  • Office suite: Non-security updates:
  • Add an option under File > Options > Advanced in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to let users set the default behavior for using a pen to be mouse emulation instead of ink annotations.

New in Microsoft 365 2016 16.0.6568.2036 (Mar 23, 2016)

  • Outlook: Non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where, when configured to use POP3, all mail messages on the server are deleted from the Inbox after Outlook downloads the mail messages. More information about this issue
  • Fix an issue where, when configured to use POP3, mail messages are downloaded multiple times, causing duplicate items. More information about this issue

New in Microsoft 365 2016 16.0.6568.2034 (Mar 23, 2016)

  • Word: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following security bulletins:
  • Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-029: Security Update for Microsoft Office to Address Remote Code Execution (3141806)
  • Office suite: Security updates:
  • This channel release contains security updates covered in the following security bulletins:
  • Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-029: Security Update for Microsoft Office to Address Remote Code Execution (3141806)
  • Office suite: Non-security updates:
  • This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
  • Fix an issue where the app crashes if the user tries to convert the file to a PDF using Adobe Acrobat PDFMaker.

New in Microsoft 365 2016 16.0.3930.1008 Preview (May 5, 2015)

  • New in Office 2016:
  • In Office 2016, we’re updating the Office suite for the modern workplace, with smart tools for individuals, teams, and businesses.
  • Your documents, anywhere:
  • Across the Office 2016 applications, it’s easier to use the power of feature-rich applications to create, open, edit and save files in the cloud from your desktop, so you can access them from anywhere and on any device. In addition, new modern attachments in Outlook make it easy to attach files from OneDrive and automatically configure permission for the recipients—without leaving Outlook. All making it easier to share and collaborate on your work with others.
  • Collaboration:
  • Real-time co-authoring is available in the Office Online apps today and we’re bringing that experience to the Windows Desktop applications, starting with Word. When you and your team are working in Word 2016 and/or Office online, you’ll be able to see where other editors are working and what they are writing—all in real-time.
  • Smart Applications:
  • Applications will learn as you work, taking advantage of subtle cues and clues to help you stay on task and get more out of Office. Tell Me, a new search tool available in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, serves up the commands you need by simply typing what you want to do. Clutter—a new Exchange feature that lights up in Outlook—uses machine learning to analyze your email patterns and de-clutter your inbox by moving lower priority messages out of your way and into a new Clutter folder. And Insights, powered by Bing, finds you contextual information from the web within the reading experience.
  • Data analysis made faster and easier:
  • New analysis capabilities are built into Excel, so you can pull, map, analyze and visualize your data faster and easier than ever.
  • One-click forecasting. Create forecasts on your data series with one click to future trends.
  • Intuitive data connecting and shaping capabilities. With integrated Power Query, use Excel as your personal analysis workspace by connecting to and viewing all the data around you. Take advantage of a broad range of data sources, including tables from websites, corporate data like SAP Business Objects, unstructured sources like Hadoop, and services like Salesforce. After bringing all your data together in one place, quickly shape and combine to fit your unique business needs and get to analysis in seconds
  • Easy data modeling and powerful analysis. With improved Power Pivot features as part of Excel, map different data sets with drag-and-drop ease to build data models to give you the bigger picture of your business. Take advantage of intuitive analysis functions, automatic time grouping and other features that enhance your PivotTable and PivotChart analysis experience. Now with the ability to calculate 100s of millions of rows of data, perform deeper analysis with high speed.
  • Publish to Microsoft Power BI Preview. Effortlessly publish and share your Excel workbooks to users of Power BI.
  • New modern charts and graphs, including TreeMap, Sunburst, Waterfall, Box & Whisker and Histogram & Pareto in Excel help you to present your data in fresh ways.
  • New for IT:
  • Office 2016 will offer new security, compliance, and deployment features, giving organizations more control over sensitive data and IT more flexibility in deployment and management.
  • Compliance and security controls:
  • Data Loss Protection (DLP). DLP is now available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. IT admins can centrally create, manage and enforce policies for content authoring and document sharing. End users will see policy tips or sharing restrictions when the apps detect a potential policy violation.
  • Outlook Multi-factor authentication. Multi-factor authentication now available in Outlook through integration with the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL).
  • Information Rights Management (IRM). IRM protection is now extended to Visio files, enabling both online and offline protection of Visio diagrams.
  • Flexible deployment and management options:
  • Better network traffic management. New Background Intelligence Transfer Service (BITS) helps prevent congestion on the network. BITS throttles back the use of bandwidth when another critical network traffic is present.
  • Enhanced distribution management. Improved integration with ConfigMgr allows IT admins to efficiently download and distribute monthly Office updates using the native ConfigMgr features.
  • Flexible update management. Admins can now manage the pace at which they receive feature updates and bug fixes while continuing to receive regular security updates.
  • Simplified activation management. New controls in the Office 365 Admin Portal allows admins to manage device activations across users.

New in Microsoft 365 2013 SP 1 (Feb 26, 2014)

  • This service package fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles:
  • Can't hear the first few words that a callee speaks when they answer a call in Lync 2013
  • The "Program Events" sound setting is reset to the default value after you restart Lync 2013
  • Can't rotate the screen orientation of a video window in a Lync 2013 video conference on a Windows 8.1-based device
  • A pie chart clock icon appears in the "Conversations" tab as a meeting icon in Lync 2013
  • The following are the key areas of improvement that are offered by this SP1:
  • Improves compatibility with Windows 8.1.
  • Improves compatibility with Internet Explorer 11.
  • Improves compatibility with modern hardware, such as high-DPI devices and the precision touchpad.
  • Provides new apps for Office capabilities and APIs for third-party developers.
  • Outlook 2013 SP1:
  • Provides support for task pane apps in Outlook 2013 to enable third-party developers to extend the compose experience for email messages and calendar items.
  • PowerPoint 2013 SP1:
  • Provides ability to insert and use content apps in PowerPoint 2013 slides.

New in Microsoft 365 2010 14.0.7015.1000 Service Pack 2 (Jul 24, 2013)

  • The following are the key areas of improvements that are offered by SP2:
  • Excel 2010 SP2:
  • Improves the overall stability, performance, and compatibility with other versions of Excel. For a more detailed list of specific issues that the service pack fixes, please download a version of the workbook that is available below.
  • Fixes issues in which the performance of Excel decreases, and Excel file sizes become larger when additional built-in styles are copied during the duplication of data between different Excel instances.
  • Fixes an issue in which data validation lists that contain comma signs (,) are broken in an .xlsx or .xlsb file. This issue occurs when you set the user locale to a location that does not use comma signs (,) to separate the lists. For example, Germany uses semicolons (;) to separate the lists. When you set Germany as the location, data validation lists that contain commas are all broken.
  • Fixes an issue in which an .xlsx file created in Microsoft Office 2013 that contains an App bound to a table is corrupted on save. Additionally, it addresses the issue in which all Agave formulas in the workbook sheet are removed from the file.
  • Outlook 2010 SP2:
  • Fixes the issue regarding the message size of certain long email messages. Additionally, it fixes an issue that occurs when you perform a spell check before you send an email message.
  • PowerPoint 2010 SP2:
  • Improves the quality of videos in a presentation after the videos are optimized or compressed by PowerPoint.
  • Fixes issues that occur when you co-author a presentation with other users at the same time.
  • Fixes an issue in which Mozilla FireFox crashes when you try to view a presentation in PowerPoint Web App on a Mac computer that has Microsoft Silverlight 3 or Silverlight 4 installed.
  • Word 2010 SP2:
  • Fixes issues regarding bookmarks, fields, track changes, templates, tables, object wrapping, autocorrect options, and email addresses. Additionally, it fixes general reliability issues that occur when you post a blog entry on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 and Microsoft Office 365 blogs.
  • Issues that are fixed by this service pack:
  • Access:
  • If Windows Regional Settings are set to "Romanian (Romania)", exporting with formatting from Access to Excel Workbook (*.xlsx) may result in an error when the file is opened in Excel.
  • In certain cases, the subform footer control in Access does not stay anchored to bottom of a subform.
  • When importing Excel data into Acess which is formatted using rounding, certain numbers may be rounded to too few significant digits.
  • If you create an Access query that uses a blank name for a query parameter, Access may crash when running the query.
  • Choosing a one-to-many or a many-to one-relationship in the Access Relationship dialog does not always dismiss the dialog and create the approriate link.
  • If you filter a column after already having applied a filter on a multi-valued column in a SharePoint list datasheet view, inaccurate results may be returned.
  • After you compact and repair a database in Access, adding a new row to a table may throw this error: "The changes you requested to the table were not successful because they would create duplicate values in the index, primary key, or relationship. Change the data in the field or fields that contain duplicate data, remove the index, or redefine the index to permit duplicate entries and try again."
  • After you compact and repair a database in Access, the value of a calculated field that is calculating the length of a memo field may return the wrong data.
  • Acess may crash if you create a new MFC project with ODBC database support and choose an Excel file source.
  • After you compact and repair a database in Access, you may find that data in memo columns is lost for tables that do not have a primary key.
  • When viewing a list datasheet view of a document library in SharePoint, you may be unable to edit properties for checked out files. The list datasheet may report that the columns/rows are read-only.
  • When viewed in a browser, Access Services 2010 reports show "#Error" for all expressions.
  • On Windows 7 with optional tablet PC components installed or on Windows 8, Access may crash when you open a form with a listbox and run code to change that listbox.
  • When opening an Access MDB file on 64-bit Windows 8 and entering the user security wizard, clicking Finish on the dialog crashes Access and sets the file's security in a state that doesn't allow you to open it again.
  • Excel:
  • When user opens a corrupt Excel document. Excel does not always initially detect the corruption. At some point working with this document, Excel crashes.
  • The bug is: when a workbook uses "1904 date system" mode, calculations with dates in pivot tables (but not in regular recalc) ignore the 1904 setting and are wrong.
  • A chart with a manual-sized plot area which is not visible on load is never made visible before running a macro setting the chart's series formula, the chart may be resized to be zero width and height.
  • Cell formatting applied to PivotTables in areas not associated with any field could cause the file to be detected as corrupt.
  • Enabling Smooth line on a scatter chart sometimes can cause the chart series to disappear.
  • When using dynamic range when the linked source file is closed, chart becomes blank.
  • When user locale is set to a language with a non-comma list separator (such as a semi-colon in German), data validation lists will be broken if a comma appears in the list when the file is saved to XLSX or XLSB.
  • When using VBA statement Workbook.Open with password to open a metro workbook encrypted with default password, workbook fails to open.
  • Pie charts with relocated labels and deleted backing data will crash on save to xls format.
  • When copying data between different Excel.exe processes, extra builtin styles may be copied, which will result in a larger file.
  • When users open workbooks with Excel embedded as an icon and double-click the embedded workbook, when the file is saved, the Excel icon may be replaced with a blank document icon.
  • On a series of a charts with data labels showing, users can't set the text of the data label for the first category by using object model property datalabel.characters.text.
  • After customizing the min and max settings for an date axis, the Error bars at the boundaries can be drawn outside the plot area.
  • When manually opening a file checked out from a Sharepoint server drafts folder that has a relative external link to something else on that same server, when the file is later checked in, the file will now have a local link to the user's draft folder instead of the relative link.
  • OpenType fonts may be displayed in Excel 2013 as TrueType fonts in the Ribbon Font drop-down list.
  • For a chart with many data points on one series, the hitTest result is not always correct.
  • When opening a file with a model pivot table created in Excel 2013, invokeing the Context menu for the pivot table and moving the mouse over the menu items may start an infinite loop of error messages.
  • Print title columns are clipped starting from page 2 when all the following conditions are met:_x000D_
  • 1. Printer paper setting and spreadsheet paper setting are A4/Letter or Letter/A4.
  • 2. Fit to page is turned on and printout horizontally spans more than one page._x000D_
  • 3. Print title include some column(s)_x000D_.
  • 4. Printer supports scaling.
  • Moving a chart series originally plotted from primary axis to a secondary horizontal axis doesn’t inherit the log and logbase settings of the original primary axis.
  • When attempting to create a list based the data of an Excel file on a SharePoint site containing a subpath (such as http://servername/sites/subpath/testsite instead of http://servername/sites/testsite), an error is given, and no data is saved.
  • When creating a scatter or bubble chart with data based on a named range, if a value in the named range evaluates to #N/A or another error, than the chart will try to plot that value as if it were a string instead of treating it as an error value and not plotting it.
  • Refreshing a PivotTable based on data in a file could result in an error in non-English locales.
  • Parameter Query Tables will not auto refresh correctly when non-parameter query tables are present on the same sheet.
  • If default file format is changed to .xls, and then the user emails as attachment a shared workbook using another file format (e.g., .xlsx), when the email recipient tries to open the attached workbook, the following error occurs: "Excel cannot open the file 'Filename.xlsx' because the file format or file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file."
  • When loading a file with DRM readonly rights which includes a Pivot Chart, you may see multiple identical alerts before you can see the chart.
  • A file containing a PowerPivot Pivot table, which was originally created using Excel 2013 and saved as an .xlsx file, and then later opened using Excel 2010, saved as an .xls file and then reopened, does not open in protected mode as expected.
  • When an Excel file is open via DDE from SkyDrive or SharePoint 2013, the Unicode characters in its path and name are encoded with %XX UTF-8 encoding. When the same file is opened directly from Excel, the Unicode characters in the file path and name are not encoded. When the user creates external links alternating between two methods of opening files, two sets of links are created - those with encoded Unicode charaters and with regular Unicode characters. If such an external workbook becomes resident, only one set of links is going to be updated, thus possibly leading to unexpected calculation results.
  • Updated EXPRSVR.dll and VBAJET32.dll to take advantage of dynamic basing security features of latest Windows OSes.
  • PivotTables with large data sets containing errors could sometimes be sorted incorrectly.
  • After saving a workbook containing a chart from Excel option dialog, if then change to use some custom decimal/thousand separators and close Excel, when reloading the file, the number formats on chart will be incorrect.
  • Editing a cell by typing in characters in a very long existing string can cause extremely slow response.
  • When opening an .xlsx file created in Excel 2013 which contains a table Agave binding, saving the file in Office 2010 and then re-opening it either Office 2010 or Office 2013 will generate a file-corruption message and all Agave formulas in the sheet will be discarded.
  • Depending on screen resolution, Text in E1O text boxes may be shifted down, causing the last line to be truncated.
  • When opening an Excel file containing an image or object in the range of merged cells in mobile EWA, the mobile EWA will try to add the image when Viewer loading the Excel file, resulting in the following error message: "MewaGridView.InsertImage: target cellElement is null. Unable to insert image." _x000D_
  • Excel Workspace files were previously not captured in the file block settings. Excel 4 Workspace files have been added to the file block list under "Excel 4 Workbooks" and are now blocked by default. Excel 97-2003 Workspace files were added to the "Excel 97-2003 Workbooks and Templates" which still allows them to be opened unless those types of files have been added to the block list.
  • When creating text links in Excel the cell formatting doesn't display correctly. Fix now displays formatting attributes as they were in Office 2007 and earlier.
  • Copying images and other objects between rows of differing heights causes images to be stretched, overlapping rows.
  • Office Shared:
  • When the language of the text-run is set to Norwegian (Nynorsk), spell check may not work correctly.
  • Date Fields and AutoComplete feature will now spell the months' names as defined by the Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa de 1990, per spelling reform in official documents and in the Diário da República.
  • Boxes are incorrectly displayed instead of Emoji in some controls.
  • Corrected date for lunar calendar for months four and five.
  • Boxes are incorrectly displayed instead of Emoji in some controls.
  • Incorrect display of Emoji when entered via the Win 8 soft keyboard in RichEdit controls throughout Office (OneNote canvas/headings, Outlook subject line, and other plaintext controls).
  • Updated translations in the French Outlook holidays.
  • When using Office Professional Plus 2010 Subscription on Windows XP, you may have difficulty shutting the computer down on the first attempt.
  • Cetain OfficeArt fonts did not support a font being both TrueType and OpenType.
  • Fixed a crash encountered when using Picture Manager with IE Compatibility mode.
  • When using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to determine whether a WarpFormat property is applied to a text box control, if a value of 0 is returned for the WarpFormat property, you do not know whether the warp format is applied or the square transform is applied
  • Deleting and undoing Diacritic marks may cause problems in Arabic text.
  • Add-Ins installed via ClickOnce may be disabled if the Add-In tries and fails to check for an update.
  • After installing add-ins through a ClickOnce update, the add-ins may become disabled in a host Office application if the add-ins cannot access the update path. See KB 2796590.
  • Office files with multiple signatures may have one or more signatures displayed as invalid when the signatures use different hashing algorithms.
  • Outlook
  • Outlook Custom Document Property values are not displayed in a document library when saving an email from Outlook.
  • Outlook Outlook 2010 may time out and hang when accessing pictures from slow servers.
  • PowerPoint:
  • When a PowerPoint 2013 user is coauthoring with a PowerPoint 2010 user on a SharePoint server, contents created by new PowerPoint 2013 features (e.g. new transitions, new themes) may be dropped.
  • When using OM to insert a slide from a different PPT document using Slides.InsertFromFile, the source formatting is not preserved after insertion.
  • Files (.ppt) created with PowerPoint 2007 appear to have indentation and left margins correct. But when the file is saved, closed, and reopened with PowerPoint 2010, indentations and left margins are incorrect.
  • Video Compression quality is too low to be usable.
  • Indentation behaviors for content placeholders saved to .ppt files do not reproduce correctly when copy/pasting between PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2010.
  • When editing, saving or closing a PowerPoint file opened from Outlook, which is stored on in SharePoint library that requires checkout, the file is not actually checked out.
  • If PowerPoint encounters unknown content in a file, it removes it and shows an alert on open, but alert is not actionable.
  • Fixed a crash encountered when using older versions of Silverlight with PowerPoint on FireFox for Mac.
  • When opening or saving a file in PowerPoint 2010 which was created in PowerPoint 2013, new slide transitions may be lost.
  • When saving a file in PowerPoint 2010 which was created in PowerPoint 2013, commentscreated in PowerPoint 2013 may be deleted.
  • Changing Brightness (or other Format Picture parameters) of an pasted EMF picture may blur image, reducing readability.
  • When using PowerPoint 2010 with Windows 8, certain newly supported scripts caused non-functionality and possible crashes in PowerPoint.
  • Project:
  • When tasks are inserted in the middle of the tasks list, renumbering of the work breakdown structure (WBS) codes doesn't update the WBS correctly.
  • Project Professional may crash when copying and pasting in master project.
  • If the "Actual costs are always calculated by Project" option is disabled in Project 2010, remaining cost data at the task level can behave unexpectedly when the task is partially complete.
  • Custom fields not totalling correctly.
  • In the resource usage view, the timephased section of the grid doesn't always change color correctly to indicate when a resource is overallocated.
  • If you have a server project and on the server you have the "Restrict updates to Project Web Access" option enabled, if you reduce work on a task such that it makes a milestone task and then if you set the task to 100% complete and save the project, the task's Start Date is set to NA and work is added to the task. This will also impact correctly publishing the project to the server.
  • When used in Russian language, Project Enterprise Custom Fields of type Text don't show the value properly in Project Professional.
  • The locally defined custom fields values appear in the enterprise custom fields.
  • If any assignment in the project plan has actual exceptions where the start date and the finish date are the same, publishing the project plan may get stuck indefinitely stuck at "93% completed" state.
  • The number of overdue status report items is incorrect if the system time changes.
  • Time-phased views of cost resources not displaying correctly.
  • Pending task updates are not shown on the Task Updates page.
  • Using the PSI call "QueueAddtoProject" to programatically add a task to a project can fail if the project plan contains has empty task rows.
  • If there is a cross-project link between two projects, then custom field values for those tasks are not shown correctly.
  • When a user attempts to import timesheet data, the import will fail due to an an exception which occurs when trying to apply the timephased data.
  • If you select the option to 'Disable all macros except digitally signed macros' and then restart Project Client, the registry options are set incorrectly, and users are unable to enter task names or update task details.
  • Late Tasks in Project Professional will not appear correctly in the print preview and in the printed output.
  • Actual Costs may not be updated correctly in certain situations.
  • Milestone tasks with non-zero duration can lose their % complete data when other tasks have their % complete changed and the project plan is published.
  • When editing an assignment with a long contour using the PSI or in Project Web App, the project data could become corrupted, preventing future edits to the project plan.
  • A user submits actual overtime work through statusing and subsequently the PM approves it. However when the project is opened in WinProj the remaining work is converted to actual work.
  • The option to create timesheets with "Current Projects" includes all projects, regardless of status. All Completed, Current and Future plans that a user was ever the owner of or had an assignment in, are added to the timesheet.
  • Using the My Tasks page, a user provides actual work updates for a material resource, however after being applied to the project plan, the actual work value for the assignment is incorrect.
  • Booting Project 2010 when connected to a Project 2013 server generates a confusing error message.
  • For months with five Fridays, creating a recurring calendar exception on the last Friday of every month can select the fourth Friday instead of the fifth Friday.
  • If the report contains a custom field with a look up table and the look up table has values which contain the single quote character " ' " then if the user generates a visual report containing this custom field, Project may crash.
  • When you build the Earned value Over Time report in Project Client, the AC values (which should be the same as ACWP) are not correct.
  • Applying updates causes assignments to lose work and tasks to lose duration.
  • When status updates are accepted, the status update job will show that the job completed successfully; however, the update apply process failed and the submitted actuals do not show up in the project plan and subsequent downstream reports.
  • If the "Actual costs are always calculated by Project" option is disabled in Project 2010, for tasks with their finish date before the status date of the project and with resources that have associated cost, the actual cost data can be incorrect.
  • When using Project 2010 to open a file with a timeline from Project 2013, the timeline doesn't display correctly (background timeline bar doesn't show up, and default task color is too light).
  • Time-phased views of cost resources not displaying correctly.
  • When attempting to create yearly recurring calendar exceptions in Project 2010, creation may fail if multiple exceptions occur after the 28th day of the month.
  • When changing the constraint on a milestone task in Project 2010, baseline cost data that had previously been set for that task may be lost.
  • If a user self-assigns a team task and subsequently PM rejects the pending updates when opening the affected plan into Project Professional, any subsequent edits to the plan tasks and assignments will cause publishing of that plan to fail.
  • After accepting status updates into a project plan in Project 2010, tasks linked from external projects can lose their start date data.
  • Costs are not calculated correctly if there are multiple cost rate tables and if actual work entered exceeds the work that was scheduled.
  • When editing a project using the PSI or in Project Web App with greater than 1000 calendar exceptions, scheduling tasks could fail with an InvalidOperationException error.
  • SharePoint:
  • Navigating to a SharePoint site with a BlackBerry device may open a non-mobile page. Adding RIM6 into compat.browser allows users to access SharePoint pages and view documents in mobile view.
  • If anonymous access is enabled for Sharepoint 2010 SP1 (or later Cumulative Update), attempts to to access the site via a mobile device will receive an authentication prompt.
  • Customers are unable to use spell check in Korean when running SharePoint on Windows Server 2012.
  • Displaying Summary Links Web Part in personalizing view; generating confusing error message.
  • File attachments are not deleted due to incorrect URL formatting
  • Incremental content deployment fails, giving the following error: FatalError: The given key was not present in the dictionary
  • Spell Checker doesn't work properly with Internet Explorer 10.
  • Rich text editor spell checker may work incorrectly on 64 bit machines.
  • Updated VBE7.dll to fix safe array corruption for x64 hosts when calling UDF methods using safe array arguments directly from the host.
  • SQL exceptions will appear in the log when running update statistics timer.
  • Getting a feed against a discussion board fails if feed contains more than zero items.
  • SharePoint 2010 client object model now has compatibility for accessing Sharepoint 2013 servers.
  • Windows 8 users with Internet Explorer 10 receive an error when trying to open a document from SharePoint 2010 directly in the Office client.
  • Call GetChanges won’t return changes in certain cases where the change log has been edited and no parameters are set.
  • STSAdm MigrateUser fails when SQL server is not in domain.
  • Attempting to delete a child web from site settings causes the page to fail.
  • There is no exposed method to recalculate the second stage recycle bin size.
  • April 2011 Calendar View does not display correctly with Amman System Time zone
  • Users can create a scenario where a site loses permissions.
  • After deleting a web that contains historical document versions in the RecycleBin, rows are abandoned in the database. These rows bloat the size of the database, causing difficulty with database management operations such as backup/restore, complicating upgrade and other scenarios.
  • SharePoint Workspace:
  • When using Internet Explorer 10 in the "modern" mode on Windows 8, the open/edit-in-client functionality does not work for Office documents in the Office Web Apps or in a document library in SharePoint 2013.
  • Unable to open or save OneNote notebooks against servers that require client certificate authentication. Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on servers requiring client certificate authentication will open in read-only mode.
  • Visio:
  • When a user attempts to open a Visio drawing with extension VSDX or VSDM in Visio 2010, the file will not open.
  • When a user saves a Visio drawing with file extension VSDX or VSDM to SharePoint 2010, the file is not recognized as a Visio file in the SharePoint document library.
  • Word:
  • Line thickness in EMF images changes after the image is edited within Word 2010
  • When running a solution that relies on getting the vertical position of the selection relative to the top of the page, Word returns an incorrect value for an an image object which is inside the nested table.
  • In a mixed Office environment, spellcheck returns an error "The Spelling check was stopped before it finished" when set to spellcheck on send.
  • Word crashes when deleting AUTONUMLGL field in Track Changes mode.
  • Incorrect rendering of ActiveX and bitmap OLE objects formatted with the "In front of text" text wrapping style.
  • Revision marks are removed when pasting into a WordMail document, but comments are not.
  • Linked objects in document resize when the links are refreshed if wrapping for the linked object is set to other than in-line.
  • Revisions are not merged correctly when performing a Combine on documents.
  • Email size sometimes increases by a large amount on reply.
  • Problems inputting text into a Word TextForm Field.
  • If multiple instances of WINWORD.EXE are open, users may get a "File in Use" error when trying to attach to templates.
  • When there is a SaveDate field in the header of a protected document (filling in forms allowed) and track changes is enabled, no matter what date format is chosen for the field date, the SaveDate field grows every time the field is recalculated (e.g. when document is saved or when the user opens Print Preview).
  • In Word 2010, a document including vertical text & page/section breaks, may get corrupted if a users scrolls up/down the document several times.
  • In Word 2010, the bookmark property of a form field may be lost when a form field is directly adjacent to another form field.
  • In Word 2010, a bookmark at the start of a document gets moved to the first paragraph in a floating textbox anchored somewhere else in the document.

New in Microsoft 365 2013 15.0.4128.1014 Preview (Jul 17, 2012)

  • Touch everywhere:
  • Office responds to touch as naturally as it does to keyboard and mouse. Swipe your finger across the screen or pinch and zoom to read your documents and presentations. Author new content and access features with the touch of a finger.
  • Inking:
  • Use a stylus to create content, take notes and access features. Handwrite email responses and convert them automatically to text. Use your stylus as a laser pointer when presenting. Color your content and erase your mistakes with ease.
  • New Windows 8 applications:
  • OneNote and Lync represent the first new Windows 8 style applications for Office. These applications are designed to deliver touch-first experiences on a tablet. A new radial menu in OneNote makes it easy to access features with your finger.
  • Included in Windows RT:
  • Office Home and Student 2013 RT, which contains new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications, will be included on ARM-based Windows 8 devices, including Microsoft Surface.
  • SkyDrive:
  • Office saves documents to SkyDrive by default, so your content is always available across your tablet, PC and phone. Your documents are also available offline and sync when you reconnect.
  • Roaming:Once signed in to Office, your personalized settings, including your most recently used files, templates and even your custom dictionary, roam with you across virtually all of your devices. Office even remembers where you last left off and brings you right back to that spot in a single click.
  • Office on Demand:
  • With a subscription, you can access Office even when you are away from your PC by streaming full-featured applications to an Internet-connected Windows-based PC.
  • New subscription services:
  • The new Office is available as a cloud-based subscription service. As subscribers, consumers automatically get future upgrades in addition to exciting cloud services including Skype world minutes and extra SkyDrive storage. Subscribers receive multiple installs for everyone in the family and across their devices.
  • Yammer:
  • Yammer delivers a secure, private social network for businesses. You can sign up for free and begin using social networking instantly. Yammer offers integration with SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics.
  • Stay connected:
  • Follow people, teams, documents and sites in SharePoint. View and embed pictures, videos and Office content in your activity feeds to stay current and update your colleagues.
  • People Card:
  • Have an integrated view of your contacts everywhere in Office. The People Card includes presence information complete with pictures, status updates, contact information and activity feeds from Facebook and LinkedIn accounts.
  • Skype:
  • The new Office comes with Skype. When you subscribe, you get 60 minutes of Skype world minutes every month. Integrate Skype contacts into Lync and call or instant message anyone on Skype.
  • Digital note-taking:
  • Keep your notes handy in the cloud and across multiple devices with OneNote. Use what feels most natural to you — take notes with touch, pen or keyboard, or use them together and switch easily back and forth.
  • Reading and markup:
  • The Read Mode in Word provides a modern and easy-to-navigate reading experience that automatically adjusts for large and small screens. Zoom in and out of content, stream videos within documents, view revision marks and use touch to turn pages.
  • Meetings:
  • PowerPoint features a new Presenter View that privately shows your current and upcoming slides, presentation time, and speaker notes in a single glance. While presenting, you can zoom, mark up and navigate your slides with touch and stylus. Lync includes multiparty HD video with presentations, shared OneNote notebooks and a virtual whiteboard for collaborative brainstorming.
  • Eighty-two-inch touch-enabled displays:
  • Conduct more engaging meetings, presentations and lessons, whether in person or virtually, with these multitouch and stylus-enabled displays from Perceptive Pixel.

New in Microsoft 365 2010 14.0.6023.1000 Service Pack 1 (Jun 29, 2011)

  • Access 2010 SP1:
  • Access 2010 SP1 adds a new feature to integrate community content in the Application Parts gallery.
  • Fixes an issue that occurs when you try to export an Access file to an Excel workbook.
  • Improves the performance when publishing client forms from Access that contains embedded images
  • Excel 2010 SP1:
  • Improves the overall stability, performance and backward compatibility with earlier versions by addressing bugs that affect lots of users. For specific bugs fixes, download the "Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 Changes" workbook discussed later in this article.
  • Function names now maintain backward compatibility with earlier versions of Excel for the Czech, Dutch, Danish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish languages.
  • OneNote 2010 SP1:
  • Added a new Open from web option that is located under the File Open menu. This enables you to open OneNote notebooks from Windows Live SkyDrive.
  • The Web option and the Network option are now added under the File Share menu. This makes it easier to share a notebook.
  • You can use the Quik Filling feature to save your local Unfiled Notes section to another section, or to Windows Live SkyDrive. To do this, click File, Options, Save and Backup, and then click Modify.
  • Improves how OneNote synchronizes with SharePoint or Windows Live SkyDrive.
  • OneNote 2010 SP1 now uses Windows Live Essentials to log on to Windows Live SkyDrive.
  • Fixes an issue that occurred when you applied a bullet or a numbered list to an empty line, or lines.
  • Fixes an issue where notebooks are visible in the navigation bar when you open or create lots of notebooks, and then minimize them.
  • Fixes an issue in which the incorrect style is used for the next line after a pasted link.
  • Fixes an issue in which the marked as read pages in OneNote 2010 changes to mark as unread.
  • Improves performance when a shared notebook is used by lots of users who use section groups.
  • OneNote 2010 SP1 now highlights items within the search results.
  • Fixes an issue that an ink may not move correctly when you share a notebook.
  • OneNote 2010 SP1 corrects the highlighting feature when you perform a search for certain text that is located inside a multipage XPS file.
  • Fixes an issue where the ink may not move as expected when you use the Insert Space command. Additionally, various other ink moving issues are addressed.
  • OneNote 2010 SP1 fixes the highlighting feature when you review a page that uses the highlighter tool.
  • A detailed error message is now when you use OneNote on a computer while other users are using Windows Live SkyDrive OneNote on the same computer.
  • Improves performance when you use SharePoint 2010 to share a notebook on a slow network.
  • Fixes an issue in which you receive a "Exception 0x80042001(InvalidXML)" error message when you use the OneNote object model to export, and then import a page that contains Swedish content.
  • When you open OneNote 2010 for the first time, OneNote prompts you to set up your first notebook on Windows Live SkyDrive or on a local location. OneNote 2010 SP1 adds a new DisableSkydriveSetupOnFirstBoot registry value to turn this feature off, and create the notebook locally.
  • Improved performance when you create a new page by using a template.
  • Fixes an issue in which the printout is displayed as a red X when you copy or move a page that contains a printout in OneNote 2010 format to OneNote 2007 format.
  • Fixes an author issue on a page when you use the OneNote object model to export and then import the page.
  • OneNote 2010 SP1 now correctly scrolls when the mouse pointer is near the edges of the screen.
  • OneNote 2010 SP1 can now open or synchronize notebooks created on Windows Live SkyDrive that contains any of the following characters:
  • ",", &, %, #, ~, +
  • Fixes certain issues that Windows 7 users or Windows Vista users experience when they connect to Windows Live SkyDrive, or use Windows Live SkyDrive.
  • Fixes an issue in which you may lose customized note flags when an Add-in prevents OneNote 2010 from closing.
  • Fixes an issue an issue with the object model UpdateHierarchy method.
  • Outlook 2010 SP1:
  • Outlook 2010 SP1 includes Office 365 support.
  • Outlook 2010 SP1 can be set to always use the default sending account.
  • Fixes an issue in which the snooze time does not between appointments.
  • PowerPoint 2010 SP1:
  • The default behavior for the Use Presenter View option is changed to display the slide show on the secondary monitor, and display the notes on the primary monitor.
  • Fixes an issue in which an incorrect animation state occurs after you browse through all the slides.
  • Fixes an issue in which the mouse pointer disappears when you select the Second Monitor option from the Show On list.
  • PowerPoint Viewer is now included with the Package for CD option.
  • Fixes an issue in which you receive the following error message when you edit or enable an Excel object that contains Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code: Error accessing file. Network connection may have been lost. Microsoft PowerPoint can't start the application required to open this object. An error occurred and this feature is no longer functioning properly. Would you like to repair this feature now?
  • Fixes an issue in which an incorrect Runs.Count value is returned when a PowerPoint 2003 format presentation runs a PowerPoint 2010 object model command.
  • Fixes an issue in which audio or video media that was created on a Mac-based computer does not play back on a Windows-based computer.
  • Fixes an issue in which the images in an Enhanced Windows Medafile (EMF) file displays incorrectly when you save a slide as an Enhanced Windows Medafile (EMF) file, and then use a high resolution to print it.
  • Fixes an issue in which a pen cannot persist through the Slide Show mode when you use the pen as a pointer.
  • Fixes an issue that a default language change is not propagated to new slides or to new presentations.
  • Fixes an issue in which a linked image is not saved when you insert the linked image in a presentation, and then save the presentation an Open Document Format (ODF) file.
  • Word 2010 SP1:
  • Word 2010 SP1 includes a dialog box that warns users that the custom XML will be lost when files that use custom XML markups are saved in XML-based file formats.
  • Now, certain fields are available when you use the APA 6th and MLA 7th edition styles in the Bibliography feature.
  • Fixes an issue in which users receive the following error message when opening a Word 2010 document.
  • Fixes an issue in which users receive the following error message when opening a Word 2010 document: The file cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents. The name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag.
  • Fixes an issue in which users receive the following error message when opening a Word 2010 document: Microsoft Office Word has encountered a problem and needs to close.
  • Fixes a font display problem when you open landscape documents that use a font that is installed on the system with PostScript outlines.
  • Fixes several editing conflict issues that occur when you use the Word Coauthoring feature.
  • Word 2010 SP1 now displays the map correctly when you use the Display Map function.
  • Paragraph indents are no longer lost when you edit other paragraph properties.
  • Word 2010 SP1 now saves a linked image correctly when you insert the linked image in a presentation, and then save the presentation as an Open Document Format (ODF) file.
  • When you copy some Excel data that includes cells and a chart, and then paste them as a linked Excel Worksheet Object (OLE) object in a Word document, the size of the chart may not be correct. Or, the chart may be corrupt. This issue occurs because Word uses the printer information to display the chart. Word 2010 SP1 adds an OleIgnorePrintPict registry value to 1 to ignore the printer information.
  • Fixes an issue in which a chart resizes fully when you use yellow resizing handles to change a shape inside the chart.
  • Fixes a rendering problem that occurs when you insert a graphic into a Word document, and then save the document as a HTML file.
  • Fixes an issue in which the whole Word group is flipped when you try to flip a child share inside a Word group by using the Word object model.
  • Fixes an issue in which the whole Word group is scaled when the ScaleHeight and ScaleWidth command use the Word object model to scale the height or scale the width of a child shape inside a Word group.

New in Microsoft 365 2010 Beta (Nov 19, 2009)

  • 1 Express your ideas more visuallyOffice 2010 opens up a world of design options to help you give life to your ideas. The new and improved picture formatting tools such as color saturation and artistic effects let you transform your document visuals into a work of art. Combined with a wide range of new pre-built Office themes and SmartArt graphic layouts, Office 2010 gives you more ways to make your ideas stick.
  • 2 Accomplish more when working togetherBrainstorm ideas, provide better version control, and meet deadlines faster when you work in groups. The co-authoring experience for Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Microsoft® Excel Web App and Microsoft OneNote shared notebooks let you work on a file with several people at once - even from different locations.2
  • 3 Enjoy the familiar Office experience from more locations and more devicesWith Office 2010, you can get things done more easily, from more locations and more devices. Using a smartphone or virtually any computer with an Internet connection, you can work when and where you want to work. 3
  • Microsoft Office Web Apps
  • Extend your Office 2010 experience to the Web. Store your Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files online and then access, view, edit, and share content through the web.
  • Microsoft Office Mobile 2010
  • Stay current and respond quickly using enhanced mobile versions of Office 2010 applications, specifically suited to your Windows Mobile-based smartphone.
  • 4 Create powerful data insights and visualsTrack and highlight important trends with new data analysis and visualization features in Excel 2010. The new Sparklines feature delivers a clear and compact visual representation of your data with small charts within worksheet cells. Filter and segment your PivotTable data in multiple layers using Slicers to spend more time analyzing and less time formatting.
  • 5 Deliver compelling presentationsCaptivate your audience with personalized videos in your presentation. Insert and customize videos directly in PowerPoint 2010—trim, add fades and effects, or bookmark key points in the video to call attention to selected scenes. Videos you insert are now embedded by default, relieving you from managing and sending additional video files.
  • 6 Manage large volumes of e-mail with easeCompress your long e-mail threads into a few conversations that can be categorized, filed, ignored, or cleaned up. The new Quick Steps feature let you perform multi-command tasks, such as reply and delete an e-mail in a single click, saving you time and in-box space.
  • 7 Store and track all your ideas and notes in one placeGet the ultimate digital notebook for tracking, organizing, and sharing your text, picture, video and audio notes with OneNote 2010. New features such as version tracking, automatic highlighting, and Linked Notes give you more control over your notes so you’re always on top of where your ideas came from and the latest changes when working in teams.
  • 8 Get your message out instantlyBroadcast your PowerPoint presentation to a remote audience, whether or not they have PowerPoint installed.5 The new Broadcast Slide Show feature allows you to share your presentation through a web browser quickly without additional set up.
  • 9 Get things done faster and easierMicrosoft Office Backstage view replaces the traditional File menu to give you a centralized space for all of your file management tasks, such as the ability to save, share, print, and publish. The enhanced Ribbon across Office 2010 applications lets you access commands quickly and customize tabs to personalize the experience to your work style.
  • 10 Access work across devices and platformsEnjoy the freedom of using Office 2010 from more locations on more devices. When you use Microsoft Office 2010, you’re getting the familiar and intuitive Office experience across PCs, Smartphones, and Web browsers on the go.