Office Insider 2008 for Windows

Office Insider 2008 for Windows release notes.

Build 13127.20002 (July 31,2020)

Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook

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Excel, PowerPoint, Word

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where a copy of an image with a radial gradient fill did not match the original.

Excel

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where if the order of a chart series was changed, the corresponding checkbox aligned with the series was not reordered along with the series.

PowerPoint

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where the Forms button in PowerPoint did not allow the creation of Forms when access to the Office Store was not permitted.

Word

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where if a comment was added to track a change, the revisions pane would unexpectedly open.
• We fixed an issue where links to documents were not being inserted to the comments box via the Insert > Link dropdown.
• We fixed an issue where the hyperlink count in the VBA hyperlinks collection was not iterating correctly after adding an image containing a hyperlink.

Outlook

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue that caused users to be unable to add a signature when replying to a digitally rights managed message from an inspector window when the user did not have Owner permissions on the message being replied to.
• We fixed an issue that was causing Outlook to fail to display line breaks properly in markdown content.

Access

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where trying to run certain queries have previously produced the error message “Query is too complex.”

Project

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where for a SharePoint tasks list, the ribbon buttons on the second tab may be disabled.

Build 13117.20000 (July 24, 2020)

Visio

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Word

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where an occasional hang occurred while opening HTML files.
• We fixed an issue where the Specific People option for Track Changes was disabled.
• We fixed an issue where the placeholder text in the Search edit box would overflow if the application window was resized to a small dimension.

OneNote

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where the placeholder text in the Search edit box would overflow if the application window was resized to a small dimension.

Build 13115.20000 (July 17, 2020)

Excel

Notables fixes:

• We fixed an issue where any time a pivot chart with hidden leader lines was saved and reopened, the leader lines would become visible.
• We fixed an issue where charts were not always updated as expected when “ForceFullCalculation” was enabled via VBA for the workbook.

Word

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where the Show Markup command was disabled when the focus was on a comment text box.
• We fixed an issue where the Editor command was disabled when the focus was on a comment text box.
• We fixed an issue in custom XML that state of comments may be lost when opening the document.

Outlook

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue around creating multiple profiles in Outlook from the same email domain.
• We fixed an issue that caused the lock icon to fail to display in the header of S/MIME encrypted messages.
• We fixed an issue that caused attachments to get stripped from S/MIME messages when sending as unencrypted.
• We fixed an issue that caused users to be unable to save OneDrive attachments from outside their tenant to their local computer when selecting the Save option on the security dialog.
• We fixed an issue that cause recipients to be unable to save rights protected messages even when the save as permission was granted by the sender.
• We fixed an issue that caused plain text S/MIME messages to become garbled when sending.
• We fixed an issue that caused attachments to become corrupted when sending an S/MIME email unencrypted.
• We fixed an issue that caused the labels for some Advanced Search options to be truncated in some languages.

Project

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where the tasks listed in the Task Board view were not in sync with those in the Assign Resources dialog.
• We fixed an issue where if you copied and pasted a task that had multiple dependencies, not all dependencies were copied correctly.

Birou

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where after the user opened a new app window from the taskbar and created a new blank document, additional files were created.
• We fixed an issue where if a user was editing a document but had lost permissions, we were not notifying the user that they had to re-authenticate.

Build 13102.20002 (July 10, 2020)

Word

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where Word would stop responding after pasting some text and an image in a comments box.
• We fixed an issue where the New comment button would be disabled after deleting the last comment.

Outlook

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where the Allow Forwarding option was missing from the shared calendar meeting Response Options if Download Shared folder was not checked.
• We fixed an issue that would display the print button in a disabled state even though the user had the appropriate print permissions.

Project

Notable fixes:

• We fixed an issue where if you tried to save a PDF/XPS from Project to a SharePoint document library, nothing would happen.