MC694123 – The Microsoft 365 app browser extension (formerly named Office browser extension) is a free extension available on Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome that gives you access to your Microsoft 365 apps and documents on the web. This extension will reach retirement and end of support on January 15th, 2024. When this will happen:...
MC692758 – Catch Up allows you to stay in sync with your collaborators in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Web by showing you the latest comment activity that is directed at you and a summary of recent changes. Based on your feedback, Microsoft made improvements to the Catch Up feature. The comment activity directed at...
MC513049 – Updated October 3, 2023: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Closed captions will soon be supported for embedded videos in PowerPoint Live for Teams. Video closed captions in PowerPoint Live will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web and will allow PowerPoint Live users to...
MC678310 – To facilitate efficient scheduling and awareness of global time zones, Outlook will help meeting organizers find overlapping times across global time zones. This will help enable seamless collaboration among team members dispersed across global locales. Microsoft initially rolled this feature out in September and based on your feedback the company is making additional...
MC661826 – Updated September 7, 2023: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Loop component links that currently open in an editor on Office.com will now open on Loop.microsoft.com. Users will have access to the same functionality as is available on Office.com. Users who have access to Loop workspace will...
MC525660 – Updated August 16, 2023: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft is introducing two new list templates with the Approvals app integration. With this change, Microsoft Lists templates, specifically Travel Requests with approvals and Content Scheduler with approvals, will begin to leverage integration with the Approvals app...
MC600245 – This post is associated with the previous post announcing Microsoft 365 Copilot – MC528800 (March ’23). Whether or not you are participating in the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program, there are a few steps you can start taking today to help your organization get prepared for such experiences in the future. For example,...
MC452253 – Updated June 20, 2023: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft is excited to announce a new look in Office for the Web. We’ve changed the visuals to give you a clean modern look to help you focus, but nothing has moved. We will start flighting at...
MC590144 – Microsoft Purview Information Protection will begin to use Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with 256-bit key length in Cipher Block Chaining mode (AES256-CBC) by default for encryption of Office documents and emails. If your organization is part of any of the four groups listed in this post, you must take action to update or...
MC500886 – Updated May 25, 2023: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Originally announced in MC462919 (October ’22), Context IQ allows users to easily search for and insert entities like people and files in a message they’re writing. Microsoft apologizes for the delay and are now proceeding with the...
MC556157 – Microsoft is retiring the option to edit and reply with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from attachment previews in Outlook. Users will still be able to edit their files using web or desktop apps and then attach a copy or a link to the file in OneDrive to share it. View image in...
MC534739 – When using Microsoft 365 Apps on the web for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, files that have a sensitivity label will also apply those labels to PDFs created in those apps. Documents that also have encryption cannot be converted to PDF without first removing protection. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117594...