And coming soon, at long last, the ability to view and configure retention policies for emails and meetings, along with improvements to Microsoft Information Protection labels, like default & mandatory labeling, auto & recommended labeling, label auditing & more! We’ve also added support for text predictions to help you along when composing emails. Use Online Archive? Want to compose an email in its own window? The new Outlook for Mac supports both! Online Archive was one of the topmost requested features, and it is now rolling out in production! You can move messages from primary mailbox or use retention policies to archive the messages automatically.
And soon, you will be able to react to emails, and see reactions to your emails in the same activity feed. We’ve added an activity feed in the Mail module to give you a quick glance at colleagues that have mentioned you in emails and documents. Search helps you find contextually relevant information, to help you get things done and connect with people faster. Our new search is faster and has many intelligent features like natural language, enhanced search suggestions, and speller. In search, for example, we recognize that a powerful tool is a key to getting things done quickly and efficiently. We loved the feedback that you gave us, and it helped us prioritize the right set of features and functionality. This applies to all the toolbars in the main window, and the read and compose windows! We’ve also worked hard on craftsmanship and motion, to make transitions feel beautiful and Outlook feel fluid. On the right, bottom, or in a new window? The choice is yours! The new onboarding flow also helps you customize the toolbar, with the tools that you use the most. And finally, under personalization, you can set how you would like to preview your emails. These settings affect the space between text and items, and you can see the changes live in Outlook! It’s the same with text sizes too. We’ve even introduced themes to add that touch of color to brighten your Outlook!Īs you flow through the onboarding process, you will also be able to configure density & text size preferences. Here, you can configure how Outlook looks & behaves, choose between light, dark, or automatic modes. When you launch Outlook for the first time or transition from the classic version of Outlook, you will be greeted by our new onboarding and personalization flow. It’s all about craftsmanship and personalization The change will not apply to users who use Microsoft Exchange on-premises. However, the switch will continue to be available, so you can switch back if you so desire. And now, we are very excited to announce that with the mid-February release of Outlook for Mac, it will become our recommended default experience for both new & existing users! We are very eager to have you try it out so you can experience the best of Outlook on macOS. We’ve added key missing features, improved the user experience, quality, & craftsmanship. And what a year it has been! Your feedback has been invaluable to us and has helped us prioritize features that were most important to you. Although the launch date is not yet known, Microsoft says that it will be available in the second half of this year.It’s been a year since the new Outlook has been available to users in production as an opt-in preview.
We also expected the same features to be available in Office 2021 and the company has also promised to share more details on the new features closer to the launch date. It is expected to bring accessibility improvements, a new dark mode, Dynamic Arrays, and XLOOKUP in Excel, as well as other smaller changes across all the popular apps, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. So far, the features associated with this new version aren’t known but it’s known that it will keep getting support for at least 5 years. The company doesn’t have any plans to increase the cost.įor the Office LTSC, a commercial preview will be available in a couple of months, in April this year. It has also been clarified that the Office 2021 will be an update to Office 2019 and will be available at a one-time cost without the need to have Microsoft 365 subscription.
Microsoft has confirmed that the company is set to release the two new versions of its Office suite later this year - Microsoft Office 2021 for personal use and Office LTSC (Long Term Servicing Channel) for commercial purposes.