Version 2004 (Build 12730.20236)

Feature updates

Access

• Be more productive working in Query Designer, SQL view, and the Relationships window: Right-click a table to open, design, size, and hide it. Search and replace text in SQL View. Select multiple tables in the Relationships window.

Excel

• Facebook connector support is ending: Starting in April 2020, Excel will no longer support external data connections that use the Facebook connector.
• Better Ideas: Now Excel Ideas lets you type a question about your data - no need to spend time formatting it first. Learn more
• New images to bring your workbooks to life: Thousands of royalty-free stock images, icons, and stickers you can use in your workbooks. Go to Insert > Pictures > Stock Images to get started. Learn more

Outlook

• Join meetings without leaving your inbox: No need to switch to your calendar to join online meetings. With the Calendar pinned to the To-Do pane, join any meeting with just one click.
• New images to bring your messages to life: Thousands of royalty-free stock images, icons, and stickers you can use in your email messages. Go to Insert > Pictures > Stock Images to get started. Learn more
• New room finder: Search for conference rooms by different capabilities.

PowerPoint

• Update slides during slide show: Update slides changed by other authors during your presentation.
• New images to bring your slides to life: Thousands of royalty-free stock images, icons, and stickers you can use in your presentations. Go to Insert > Pictures > Stock Images to get started. Learn more

Teams

• Improvements to the Teams calendar: Right-click an item in your calendar to pull up RSVP options, start a chat with meeting participants, or quickly join a meeting when it starts. We've also made improvements to the event scheduling form.
• Tag, you're it!: Create tags and assign people to them so you can @mention a group, role, department, etc. Team owners, try it out for yourselves. Go to a team, select More options, Manage tags.

Word

• Keep your tools handy: In your drawing toolbox, find the intelligent pen that allows you to add ink gestures to text. Learn more
• New images to bring your documents to life: Thousands of royalty-free stock images, icons, and stickers you can use in your documents. Go to Insert > Pictures > Stock Images to get started. Learn more

Resolved issues

Excel

• Workbooks saved with a digital signature in Excel 2016 could have the signature invalidated upon opening in the current version of Excel.
• Fixed an issue which would cause Excel to crash in some cases after copying a sheet containing a PivotTable.
• Application.Evaluate (VBA) was not working for User-defined functions in some cases.

Outlook

• Addressed an issue that caused the width of the folder pane to change unexpectedly.
• Addressed an issue that caused Outlook to crash on some builds of Windows.
• Addressed an issue that caused Outlook to crash when opening .msg or .oft files that were saved locally after a Windows update.
• Addressed an issue that caused Outlook to crash on some builds of Windows.
• Addressed an issue that caused users to experience a hang while exiting Outlook.

Project

• When Predecessor/Successor data is edited within a Form view, an extra ProjectBeforeTaskChange event is fired.
• Fixed an issue where if you are using Project connected to Project Web App and the decimal separator is a comma, the TaskDependencies Add method fails when you try to add lag to a dependency.

Office Suite

• Resolved an error which occurs preventing both restricting access and protecting files with a password simultaneously.

Source:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...y-channel-2020
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