Microsoft has pushed a new office insider update for Windows Desktop. The update takes the version of office apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook to Version 1807 (build 10301.200006. Microsoft has also posted the release notes for all office apps.
The version 1807 for Office insider brings new features, some fixes, and improvements. You can read the changelog for individual office apps below.
Insider release notes for Outlook 2016 for Windows desktop:
What’s new
App
Description
Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook
Insert SVG’s with Filters Applied
If you’re looking to use more complex SVG’s in your Office documents, we now support the rendering of SVG’s that have filter effects applied to them.
Try It out:
From the Insert ribbon, click Insert Picture to insert a SVG file that has a filter effect applied.
Use the Graphics tab to edit the SVG’s fill, outline, size and much more!
Notable fixes
In the table below, you’ll find key fixes in the latest Insider build.
App
Description
Word
We fixed an issue with the Save As dialog that was displaying during a collaboration session and some other minor autosave and collaboration issues
We fixed a scaling issue that occasionally occurred during the restart of Word
We fixed a VBA performance issue
Excel
We fixed an issue where double-click to select text in a cell with special characters did not select full text
PowerPoint
We fixed an issue with entering square brackets when using some non-us keyboards’ shortcuts
Outlook
We fixed an issue with complex search queries
Access
Various performance and stability fixes
Project
Various performance and stability fixes
Shared across apps
Various issues with the size/layout of collab corner buttons in visual refresh were fixed (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
