14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has just released the July 2016 cumulative update for Microsoft Office 2016 insiders, as it wants to test this month’s feature improvements before all users get it in the coming weeks.
Excel and Outlook are the two apps that are getting significant updates this month, and you can check the full changelog in the table at the end of the article.
What’s worth knowing, however, is that Excel 2016 now comes with options to publish locally stored files to PowerBI (if you have a subscription, obviously), but it also gets improvements to date/time transformations and text manipulations.
Microsoft says that the spreadsheet tool can now “migrate workbooks to a different environment, group two or more clauses for row filtering, and document your transformations within the Query Editor window.”
Outlook 2016 improvements
As far as Outlook 2016 fans are concerned, there are plenty of improvements in this update. First of all, starting with this month’s update, which brings Office to version 16.0.7167.2015, users can add recipients with the @ symbol, so you can use this shortcut anywhere in the body of your email or calendar item to automatically add a contact to the “To” line.
Furthermore, Microsoft is making new changes for Outlook 2016 users who want to manage their appointments more easily, but also to organize their holidays or business trips from a single app.
“Ready for your next travel or adventure? Outlook now helps you verify and track reservations with summary cards available in your Inbox and Calendar. It’s also easy to change your hotel and rental car reservations, and you can stay on top of your flights info with Outlook reminders,” the company explains.
And last but not least, Outlook now has a feature suggestion option in File > Feedback > Suggest a feature while Office 2016 also gets support for Docs.com to easily publish documents on this service.
Keep in mind that all these updates are only available for insiders for the time being, but everyone should be getting them in the coming weeks.
| Publish to Power BI in Excel 2016: Now you can publish files that are stored locally to Power BI, with a Power BI subscription. |
| Data Transformations and Connectivity improvements in Excel 2016: We made further improvements to Date/Time transformation and Text manipulations, you can migrate workbooks to a different environment, group two or more clauses for row filtering, and document your transformations within the Query Editor window. |
| Add recipients easily with @ symbol in Outlook 2016: In the body of your email or calendar item, include the @ symbol followed by the person's name, to automatically add them to the To line. |
| Travel with ease with Outlook 2016: Ready for your next travel or adventure? Outlook now helps you verify and track reservations with summary cards available in your Inbox and Calendar. It’s also easy to change your hotel and rental car reservations, and you can stay on top of your flights info with Outlook reminders. |
| Have a new idea for Outlook 2016? You can suggest and vote on new feature ideas right from Outlook, by clicking File >Feedback >Suggest a Feature. |
| Publish to Docs.com with Office 2016: You can now publish your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on Docs.com and profile your Office docs in their original format as well as track their usage with free analytics. |