Office 365 client update channel releases
Excel: Feature updates
This channel release contains the following feature updates:
- Pen customization: Choose a personal set of pens and highlighters for inking. Your customized set is available on all your Windows PCs.
- Insert online pictures: New landing page for selecting images and attribution information is automatically inserted with the image.
- Azure Data Lake Store connector: Users can now import data from Azure Data Lake Store.
- “Add column from examples” enhancements: Supports suggestions, more Date/Time operations, and additional transformations.
Outlook: Feature updates
This channel release contains the following feature updates:
- New account configuration: Set up new accounts with a new wizard that requires fewer manual steps.
PowerPoint: Feature updates
This channel release contains the following feature updates:
- Pen customization: Choose a personal set of pens and highlighters for inking. Your customized set is available on all your Windows PCs.
- Insert online pictures: New landing page for selecting images and attribution information is automatically inserted with the image.
Project: Non-security updates
This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
- Fix an issue where timephased Baseline values don’t match the initial values when you save a project to the XML file format.
- Fix an issue where the Project client won’t open a project since it thinks the project is checked out when it really isn’t.
- Fix an issue so that opening Project files from a file server with high latency open faster.
Skype for Business: Non-security updates
This channel release contains the following non-security updates:
- Increase the prominence of High Importance messages in chat.
- Add Office and Skype for Business file extension types to allowable file transfer blocklists.
- Localization corrections in Outlook meeting invitations for meeting footer text set in non-English.
- Fix an issue where sender names can be switched in conversations of multiple users.
- Fix an issue where the blank conversation window fails to appear until a meeting is joined successfully.
- Fix an issue where the department field information in a contact card is empty in search results if the title field is empty.
- Fix sign-in failures for users migrated from on-premises to online due to firewall rules.
Word: Feature updates
This channel release contains the following feature updates:
- Pen customization: Choose a personal set of pens and highlighters for inking. Your customized set is available on all your Windows PCs.
- Insert online pictures: New landing page for selecting images and attribution information is automatically inserted with the image.
