UPDATE 8/3: New Office Insider Beta Channel v2109 build 14329.20000 - August 3

Version 2108 (Build 14326.20004)

Feature updates

Excel

• Want your workbook to take you places?: Understand the layout of your workbook, see what elements exist, and navigate around quickly using the Navigation pane! Learn more
  See details in blog post
• Enjoy an improved scrolling experience: Scrolling through your sheet just got smoother when navigating large or very wide cells. Learn more

Outlook

• Hero answers in search results: Outlook Search Answers is the latest development in search enhancement for Outlook, helping you find exactly what you’re looking for. Now it’s even easier to find the people, files, and calendar events you want, with Outlook surfacing the best answer as a card at the top of the results.

Resolved issues

Excel

• We fixed an issue occurring when saving as XML data (.xml) from workbooks containing an XML map.
• We fixed an issue where scrolling with touch or a touchpad would revert back to the start of the spreadsheet.

Outlook

• We fixed an issue that caused emails re-sent by a different user to appear to have been sent by the original sender, in organizations where SendFromAliasEnabled is set to True.
• We fixed an issue where some notifications in Outlook desktop were not actionable when Office is installed on Windows Server 2016.
• We fixed an issue that caused delegates trying to view forwarded meeting requests in their sent items folder to see the manager's copy of the meeting rather than the delegate's sent item.
• We made a change to allow administrators to disable Always On Logging on a per-process basis via group policy.
• We fixed an issue that caused users to be able to download protected voicemail files.

PowerPoint

• We fixed an issue to re-enable cropping for pictures inside SmartArt objects.
• We fixed an issue where, in certain situations, a user was unable to use Paste Special to paste chart content from Excel to PowerPoint.

Project

• We fixed an issue where, when you applied a view or table, not all of the columns that were supposed to show up actually showed up.
• We fixed an issue where you couldn't create a visual report if the project had cross-project links and fixed cost.

Word

• We fixed an issue where cursor may not be visible after a page break
• We fixed an issue where Word becomes unresponsive on updating 'Table of content' field via VBA when track changes is on.
• We fixed an issue which inserting GIF will show security notice.

Office Suite

• We fixed an issue where Fire coauthoring state changed when transitioning to None.
• We fixed an issue where text was truncated in some languages due to increased text size.
• We fixed an issue with incorrect text wrapping in task panes for high-DPI displays.

Source:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...n-2108-july-30
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...y-beta-channel
• Office Insiders

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Posted By: Brink
30 Jul 2021