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New premium creative content!

Office 365 subscribers, you can now easily add high quality, curated images, stickers, and icons to your personal or professional files in Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint.

By Craig Ellis & Aimee Leong, Office PMs

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Lifting the 500 Folder Limit in Outlook

The limit of 500 shared folders has been a longstanding product limitation in Outlook since the dawn of cached mode (2003!) For those with access to mailboxes containing more than 500 folders, sync would “randomly” fail resulting in an inconsistent sync for both the customer’s own mailbox, as well as the other mailboxes they had access to.

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A Journey to Power Query in Excel for Mac

Discover Power Query, a powerful and time-saving set of tools to gather, analyze, and shape data quickly and easily in Excel for Mac.

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Easy Account Switching With Account Manager

The account manager allows you to seamlessly switch between multiple Office accounts without needing to deal with any secondary dialog boxes.

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Your Feedback in Action: New Insertable Icons

When we first added Icons to Office, we got tons of great feedback that people loved them, but we also heard you loud and clear: you wanted more!

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You Asked for it: New Shortcuts on the Mac Keyboard

One of the biggest pieces of feedback that we get from our Insiders and Office customers is that they want the ability to be more efficient when making their presentations in PowerPoint. Our Mac Office Insiders are very vocal and we have heard you!

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The Power of Feedback: Morph in PowerPoint

This is a story about how customer feedback led directly to improvements to the popular Morph transition, providing even more control for users to be able to create complex animations using Morph.

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@mentions for comments in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint available to Insiders Fast & Slow

We recently added the capability to @mention your collaborators in comments in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. @mentions makes it easier for you to notify your peers, pull them into a document, and work together wherever you need their attention.

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More control over which objects Morph on Windows and Mac

Office Insiders Fast users now have access to some new Morph improvements which give you more control over which objects Morph. You can now specify which objects Morph across slides, which enables smoothly morphing between different types of shapes, fixing incorrect object matches, changing one image to another, and more.

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Convert Ink to Math in PowerPoint

Office provides a large selection of equations and symbols but it can often be difficult to find the desired symbol and add it quickly into your work. Though PowerPoint has long contained the Math Input Control, we felt that the experience would be benefited by a UI and UX upgrade that kept you in your natural workflow on the canvas. We also wanted to leverage AI improvements to the math handwriting recognition model that would save you time and produce better results.

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Hello Insiders: We’ve added a way to search over your recent files to the Windows Office applications

Hello, my name is Theo and I am a Program Manager in Office and I work on experiences that help people find and create files in Office. Over the past few months our team has been busy reading and listening to the feedback you’ve given us to see how we can improve the experiences finding files in Office.

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