Office Insider 2006 for Windows release notes.
Build 12920.20000 (May 29, 2020)
Outlook
Quick Action buttons now appear in pop-up notifications
You’ll start seeing Quick Action buttons in your pop-up notifications when running Outlook on Windows 10. Now you’ll be able to flag, delete, or complete other actions from the notification. To configure the actions, right click in the Outlook message list and choose Set Quick Actions.
PowerPoint
Faster playback comes to Microsoft Stream videos
Microsoft Stream lets people in your organization upload, view, and share videos securely. You can share recordings of classes, meetings, presentations, training sessions, or other videos that your team needs. We previously enabled Stream as one of the supported online video sources in PowerPoint. Over the last few months, we’ve made significant performance improvements to the video playback experience. Now you’ll experience faster playback of Stream videos in your PowerPoint presentations.
Notable fixes:
- We fixed an issue where slides were not centered after zooming using the mouse wheel.
Word
Notable fixes:
- We fixed an issue where copy and pasting text to a comment pane would not be displayed.
- We fixed an issue where comment hint bubbles appeared blurry at 100% zoom.
- We fixed an issue where files with long path names (greater than 32K) would not open and an appropriate error message was not being displayed.
- We fixed an issue where enabling policy Word 2007 and later Binary Documents and Templates would cause some co-authoring cases to fail.
Excel
Notable fixes:
- We fixed an issue where Excel would occasionally shut down when engaging OneDrive.
- We fixed an issue where clicking a bookmarked hyperlink within the same workbook would cause the workbook to be hidden.
- We fixed an issue where some copy and pasted chart links used mapped drive addresses rather than universal addresses.
- We fixed an issue where Excel could become unresponsive after using Ctrl+Shift+Arrow keys to scroll when the Excel window was shared through Teams.
Build 12914.20000 (May 22, 2020)
Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
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.
Excel
Notable fixes:
- We fixed an issue where the error message “This workbook is currently referenced by another and cannot be closed” would appear because add-ins were being loaded in alphabetical order rather than in a user specified order.
- We fixed an issue where memory was being corrupted when managing fonts between Excel and some third-party assistive technology applications.
- We fixed an issue where Excel would crash when add-ins ask for Host Items on worksheets that contain shapes with noSelect locks.
Word
Notable fixes:
- We fixed an issue where hyperlinks in comments weren’t working.
- We fixed an issue where pasting HTML into WordMail for Calendar wasn’t working.
- We fixed an issue where replying to a comment in a co-authored session could sometimes cause Word to freeze.
- We fixed an issue where zooming in and out from the presentation area resulted in a gap between the zoomed selection marquee and the mouse pointer.
- We fixed an issue where Word would crash when add-ins ask for Host Items on documents that contain shapes with noSelect locks.
PowerPoint
Notable fixes:
- We fixed an issue where zooming in and out from the presentation area resulted in a gap between the zoomed selection marquee and the mouse pointer.
Outlook
Notable fixes:
- We fixed an issue where the Folder.BeforeItemMove event didn’t fire correctly when a user moved items between folders.
- We fixed an issue where users saw calendar items that spanned the midnight threshold as All day events.
- We fixed an issue where Outlook crashed when two add-ins added a button to the same group in the ribbon.
- We fixed an issue where users were unable to share a calendar with a guest user.
Project
Notable fixes:
- We fixed an issue where Project would crash after clicking on Options.
Build 12905.20000 (May 15, 2020)
PowerPoint
Use your Surface Earbuds to control your PowerPoint presentations
If you forget your clicker or don’t want to use, your Surface earbuds have you covered. You can swipe forward and backward on the left earbud to navigate your presentation when it is in Slide Show mode. You can play or pause videos embedded in your presentation by double tapping.
How it works:
Once paired, you’ll need to enable the feature in PowerPoint.
- Start a presentation by pressing F5 or selecting Slide Show > From Beginning.
- In Slide Show, right click on the slide and under Surface Earbuds Settings choose Use Gestures to Control Presentation. This setting will be remembered for all future presentations.
Notable fixes:
- We fixed an issue where keyboard shortcuts and spell check wouldn’t function as expected when using an English Switzerland (QWERTZ) keyboard.
Excel
Import and refresh data from PDF documents
We’re excited to announce that the #9 request on the Data Import related asks on Excel UserVoice is now available. You can now import and analyze data from PDF documents. To enable this feature, select the Data tab > Get Data > From Files > From PDF.
Notable fixes:
- We fixed an issue that caused printer names to be duplicated in the list of available printers.
- We fixed an issue that resulted in improved performance time for users when they deleted merged columns.
Outlook
Find just what you need
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Word
Notable fixes:
- We fixed an issue where files with custom xml values opened extremely slowly.
- We fixed an issue where inserting or updating an Index in a document containing more than a hundred entries would result in the application crashing.
- We fixed an issue where adding a new comment on a blank document wouldn’t do anything.
Office Suite
Notable fixes:
- We fixed an issue in Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Office where certain VBA projects that contain references to code libraries with double-byte characters in the library name or library path would be viewed by the Office application as corrupt on load.
