Dictation in Word and Outlook improvements
Short version:
Dictation in Word and Outlook improvements make it easier for you to create, edit content, change settings like Auto punctuation, Profanity filter and Spoken language with your voice. Rollout will...
Immersive Reader for OneDrive and SharePoint documents
Short version:This new feature release will allow you to open Word Documents and text files directly into Immersive Reader from OneDrive and SharePoint libraries. Due mid-May to late June.
Details:This new feature...
Introducing text predictions in Outlook for Windows
What you need to know:
Text predictions help users write more efficiently by using intelligent technology to suggest text during composition, Microsoft are extending support for these text predictions to Outlook for...
Pronouns on profile cards in Microsoft Teams and Outlook Web
TL;DR:Microsoft are adding a new feature to the profile card in Microsoft 365. You will be able to add pronouns directly to your profile card in Outlook on the web and...
Meeting Recap on Outlook on the web
TL:DR:Microsoft: “Meeting Recap is a new feature on Outlook on the web that allows meeting participants to quickly access meeting content, such as the meeting recording, easily from the calendar event....
Outlook’s ‘Bookings with me’ availability
TL;DR:Bookings with me hopes to help you reduce the back and forth scheduling meetings, while helping you maintain control of your calendar. You'll be able to create custom bookable slots to...
Outlook on the web – Update locations to message compose options
TL;DR:Outlook on the web is updating where some message-compose options are located. These changes include the formatting bar and the ‘send’ and ‘discard’ buttons. Now due mid-January to mid-April 2023.
Details:This update...
Microsoft Viva: Praise Highlights in Profile Card in Teams and Outlook
TL;DR:Praise in Microsoft Teams is great for showing your appreciation of colleagues. With updates coming soon, praises received will be highlighted on a user’s profile card in Teams and Outlook. ROLLOUT...
The Teams meeting Outlook add-in now supports multi-tenant/account meeting creation for users of new...
TL;DR: The Teams meeting add-in in Outlook now supports the ability to switch between multiple tenants and accounts to schedule Teams meetings. Available now for users of the new Teams client.
Details:If...
New SharePoint news page templates: send SharePoint News to Outlook
TL;DR: SharePoint news authors will be able to preview and send entire news posts as email. There will be six made-for-email page templates in Outlook and SharePoint. Authors will be able...
New to Outlook: choose how many days of email to sync on iOS and...
DetailsThe new sync window will allow you to choose how many days of email and attachments to download to your iOS or Android device for offline viewing...great for managing storage and...
Outlook Web – new experience for sharing cloud file links
Details:Microsoft are updating the experience for email attachments associated with files from cloud locations (OneDrive, SharePoint, and third-party file storage providers). In the new experience cloud attachments will be substituted by...
Outlook on the web: update in how users access Mail, Calendar, People, and To...
Short version:
Microsoft are adding an app bar to Outlook on the web which changes how you will access Mail, Calendar, People, and To Do functions (and more). Currently these are a...
Manage someone else’s Outlook calendar? This new notifications feature will keep you up to...
TL;DR:Outlook shared calendar notifications: get notified when someone makes a change to a calendar that has been shared with you, and when someone makes a change to your calendar. Due between...
Inline search during email composing in Outlook with ContextIQ
TL;DR:Context IQ allows you to easily search for and insert content like people and files in an email by typing what you want to insert after typing an ‘@’. Now due...
Updated Experience for Office Document Conflict Resolution in OneDrive Sync
Details:Microsoft: "We have updated the experience to resolve Office document conflicts in the OneDrive sync app.
Previously, clicking the “Resolve” action on a conflict would require the user to choose between opening...
Improvements to Microsoft Search with personal query history
What you need to know:Delayed: Microsoft are adding a new option in Microsoft Search that allows you to view and manage your personal query history.
What you need to do:With personal query...
Message conditional formatting is coming to new Outlook and Outlook web
TL;DRConditional formatting in new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web will make messages stand by using different font colours. You will be able to specify conditions such as a...
Switch to the new Groups experience in Outlook on the web
TL;DRAn optional new Groups experience is coming to Outlook on the web and new Outlook for Windows. The Groups Home page is described as a place to connect, communicate, and collaborate with...
Coming to Outlook: respond to meetings with ‘Follow’
TL;DRCan’t attend a meeting but want to stay engaged and easily access meeting information? The new Follow meeting response in Outlook and Teams is for you. Due early June to early...
What’s new in Microsoft 365 and Copilot? A look at April...
Welcome to our fourth roundup of 2024. We look at what is being announced, released and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Copilot in April.
These...
