Office Insider for Mac Version 16.42 release notes

Office Insider for Mac Version 16.42 release notes.

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Version 16.42 20093000, 20092705, 20092300, 20092101 (October 2, 2020)

The new Outlook for Mac gets an update to the user experience to align better with the UX changes within MacOS Big Sur. Crafted specifically for the Mac, you will now find rounded corners in the buttons, message list, and conversation pane that are influenced by Big Sur. We have also incorporated friendly and modern Fluent icons that establish a consistent experience across our products and services.

Natural Language Search: With Natural Language in search, you simply type the way you would ask a question/statement, no syntax needed. We take the guesswork out of choosing the right words and understand your intents expressed naturally.
Saved Search (aka Smart Folders): A Saved Search, also known as a smart folder or a search folder, is a virtual folder that dynamically displays a set of search results. For example, you could create a search to find all the items in the Manager category. This search can be saved as a Saved Search so that you can use these search criteria later without having to manually re-create the search.

iCloud Support: Add your iCloud account in the new Outlook, supporting mail, calendar, and contacts sync. If your account is already added in the current Outlook, you will be prompted to migrate it into the new Outlook. Requires M365 subscription activation.

iCloud account added:

Mail Sounds: play a new mail sound for new messages when arriving in Inbox OR Focused Inbox (if enabled)
Add-ins: when the user attempts to track a meeting to a Dynamics record, they will no longer be asked to resend the meeting invite
Accounts: fixed the crash when click on Google Cloud Cache account in Accounts prefs
Attachments: fixed an issue so that users can open the attachment from the messages
Contacts: added VoiceOver to the Birthday/Anniversary fields to announce the date type
Contacts: fixed unexpected keyboard focus on hover action for call/email/chat on people list
Mail: insert table is now enabled when composing a mail in nested compose window
Added a feature for on-prem users who don’t have office identity to activate Microsoft Teams feature
Attachments: added toast to let users know that attachment download is in progress if it is taking more than 3 secs to open an attachment/s. We shall no longer show an error if the attachment/s opens.
Mail: added VoiceOver announcement, color contrast ratio and enlarge text on hover for MailTips
Added support for preflighting auth for an HTTP connection using NTLM
Contacts: mapped “In messages from my contacts” in Current Outlook to “Never” in Phoenix
Calendar: location Pills are now clickable in plain text locations
Calendar: fixed crash caused when clicking on “Done” in “View all Proposals” page

Calendar: fixed crash when closing a window when two calendars are selected with a disabled overlay
Current Outlook | Favorites: move up/down the list in the context menu is removed for group folders
Calendar: the offset and startTime minutes computation will now factor for Daylight Saving for the concerned date
Calendar: fixed crash in events panel when showing the color of the calendar
Reading Pane: added context menu support for the reading pane
Calendar: mark as private shall be disabled for modified exception and occurrence of series. It is enabled only for a single instance or parent series
Căutare: the ‘Add more options’ button shall no longer remains active when all the options in the popup are disabled
Accounts: IMAP and POP Accounts will no longer hang on the configuration screen and now show “not supported”

Re-order Favorites and Accounts: Re-arrange items within Favorites and re-order the various accounts added in sidebar by simply dragging and dropping them so that they are quick to reach
Căutare: When a user query returns no results, the search shall return results corresponding to an alteration of the original query. The information about the alteration is presented to the user

Message List: a message will be selected after responding or forwarding a message
Add-ins: re-installation of certain Admin managed Add-ins will now no longer fail in outlook
Căutare: all the contents in the expanded search popup are now scrollable using the keyboard
Căutare: Fixed accessibility bug to reach ‘Search edit field’,’ New outlook’, ‘Send bug report’, ‘What’s new’ buttons in reverse navigation using the keyboard
Add-ins: Add-in name shall now appear as button label if there is only one add-in