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Microsoft has launched a new feature for OneNote users on Windows to help them take notes without any distractions. However, the new functionality is not available for everyone at this point in time.

Microsoft has launched new features for contacts on Outlook Web App including self-updating contacts for enterprise users, contact categories, a new contact editor, and an upgraded People hub.

Microsoft has announced a new Review option for Word documents to help users share documents with others explicitly for review. The new Review mode in Word is rolling out to Insiders across platforms.

After receiving many requests from users, Microsoft has introduced the text highlighting feature to PowerPoint for iPhone and iPad. Text highlighting will initially be available for Office Insiders.

The latest preview updates for Office on Windows make typing or pasting data in Excel less confusing, thanks to the new option that allows disabling various automatic data conversions.

Microsoft will soon bring a new feature to Office Mobile for Android, enabling users to utilize different accounts without signing out. The company says it will be rolled out to Office Insiders first.

Microsoft released the latest Office for iOS preview with PDF improvements and a new feature that allows you to open and edit documents from OneDrive without an active Internet connection.

The new Office Insider Beta build 14530.20000 brings with it several fixes and improvements. Among these is a bug fix that addresses high CPU usage for Excel under certain circumstances, and more.

Microsoft's monthly Current Channel (Preview) update for macOS users adds support for sharing PowerPoint slideshows directly to Teams, the rollout of new linked data types in Excel, and more.

Microsoft has released a new version of the Office app for iOS, adding the ability to merge PDF files into one, as well as a new Shared view on the home screen. It's rolling out to Insiders now.

Microsoft has announced that its Presenter Coach feature for PowerPoint is now available for Office Insiders in the Beta channel on macOS. It lets users practice presentations to be more engaging.

Microsoft is rolling out in preview form the ability for Word on the web to transform text-based documents to multi-slide PowerPoint presentations, complete with multimedia content.

Microsoft is rolling out a new update for Outlook on Android with some design changes and the ability to choose different colored themes. You can also now create To Do tasks from emails.

Microsoft is rolling out its monthly set of updates for the Office apps on iOS to those in the Insider program. Presenter Coach is now available in PowerPoint, among other new features.

The monthly Office Insider build for macOS brings Watch Window in Excel, windowed presentations in PowerPoint, and support for SQL Server ODBC connections for the upcoming ARM-based Macs.

Microsoft today announced that it is expanding Excel data types to allow for Power BI tables and custom, user-defined databases using Power Query to be transformed into linked data types.

Microsoft has released its monthly updates for the Office suite of apps on iOS devices for Insiders. The updates include widgets for the Outlook calendar, complications for the Apple Watch, and more.

Microsoft has released the monthly Office Insiders build for Windows users in the Current Channel (Preview), bringing a bunch of new features across the board aimed at styling, grammar, and more.

Microsoft is rolling out a new set of updates to Office Insiders on macOS, specifically those in the Slow ring. The new updates include improved performance for some Excel formulas.

Microsoft has released new updates for Office Insiders on iOS, and they include some significant improvements, specifically for the Outlook app on iPad, which now lets users drag and drop files.

The monthly Office Insiders build for Android is out today, bringing a few new Outlook features. There is a new two-way calendar sync that lets users view events from other calendar apps, and more.

Microsoft has released the monthly Office Insider build for Android. Word is getting a dictation feature, similar to the iOS version. Users can now also pick up from where they left off on PDFs.

The monthly Office Insiders build is out for iOS users, bringing PDF annotation to all apps, a dictation feature on Word, the ability to create tasks from emails on Outlook, and more.

The monthly Office Insiders build for the Current Channel (Preview), previously called the Monthly Channel (Targeted), is now out. There are a few new features for Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Microsoft's Office Insiders Slow Ring build for macOS users brings new features to Excel such as Sheet View and personalized chart labels. Users can now insert GIFs to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Microsoft today announced that it is adding more than 100 new cloud-connected data types for Office Insiders on Windows and macOS. The types include topics such as Food, Chemistry, Space, and more.

Microsoft has released its monthly build of the Office suite of apps to Insiders on iOS devices. It adds support for split view in Excel on iPadOS, plus a couple of new features for Outlook.

Following up on the rebranding of Office 365 as Microsoft 365, Microsoft is now changing the names of the update channels, include those previously known as Insiders, for the suite of apps.

Microsoft has released new builds of the Office apps to Insiders on Android, with the headlining new feature being the ability to rehearse PowerPoint presentations with Presenter Coach.

Microsoft is rolling out an update to its Office suite on apps on Windows that brings a new save dialog for OneDrive, letting users directly share documents with contacts right through the dialog.

Microsoft has released the monthly builds of the Office apps to Slow ring Insiders on macOS, and they bring features such as the ability to get data from images in Excel, in addition to others.