Microsoft’s new Office Insider Build comes with new features and a lot of fixes

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Microsoft has released a new Office Build for Office Insiders on Windows. The new Build 11911.20000 has introduced new features and coauthoring improvement to Microsoft Word. The new Office Insider Build brings a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements too. You can read the official changelog below.

What’s New:

Word

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Coauthoring improvements

Improved the coauthoring experience by making it more likely that content changes will be received by others in real time.

Notable Fixes:

Word

  • We fixed an issue which BookMarkEnd tag was missing.
  • We fixed an issue where the font selection could change while the user was typing special characters
  • We fixed an issue which could sometimes cause blank replies to a new comment card
  • We fixed an issue which could cause formatting to be lost when sharing an email

Excel

  • We fixed an issue where an array with a large range could sometimes cause a crash
  • We significantly improved the performance of copying data from filtered ranges
  • We fixed an issue which prevented some files from opening if the filenames contained special characters

PowerPoint

  • We fixed an issue where section name was not selected by default for newly created section in PowerPoint.
  • We fixed an issue which could cause the UI to become difficult to use when using a 4:3 display

Outlook

  • We fixed an issue which could prevent available rooms from being listed
  • We fixed an issue which prevented HTML formatting for some POP3 users

Access

  • Various performance and stability fixes

Project

  • Various performance and stability fixes
To update to the latest Office Insider Preview Build, open any Office program and go to File > Account > Update Options > Update Now.

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