Users willing to test early Office updates can download the latest August release with several new features and improvements. Version 2.64 brings a better highlighting tool in PowerPoint, new functions to Excel, and Scribble support for the Office app.
What is new in Office for iOS 2.64?
- Text highlight improvements in PowerPoint. Users can now highlight any text in any text box, table, or shape on a slide. Also, you can undo highlights made by other people. Interestingly, Microsoft announced this feature last month, but the improved text highlight made it to the testing channels only now.
- New functions in Excel. Excel for iPhone and iPad received 14 new text and array functions: TEXTBEFORE, TEXTAFTER, TEXTSPLIT, EXPAND, TAKE, DROP, VSTACK, HSTACK, CHOOSEROWS, CHOOSECOLS, TOROW, TOCOL, WRAPROWS, and WRAPCOLS.
- Scribble support in the Office app. The unified Office app now supports automatic handwriting-to-text conversion when you use Apple Pencil. The feature is available under Settings > Apple Pencil > Scribble.
You can learn how to join the Office Insider program on iOS on the official website.