What’s new in Office Online—featuring Insights for Office

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ The Office Online team has been busy adding integration across Microsoft Cloud services and extending the capabilities of what you can do with Office in your favorite browser.  A number of powerful features have either been rolled out recently or are beginning to roll out now. If you haven’t used Office Online in a while, here are a few updates we’ve built and implemented based on your feedback.…

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OneNote Class Notebook Creator updated with top educator requests and new language support

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ “The OneNote Class Notebook Creator can literally ‘blow your mind’ as an educator with its potential in schools.” —Kevin Sait, head of IT strategy for Wymondham High Academy Trust in Norfolk England, kevinsait.wordpress.com. Since the launch of the OneNote Class Notebook Creator just over two months ago, many schools like St. Thomas School have begun using OneNote class notebooks in their classrooms as framework for teaching and learning.…

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New Document Inspector features for Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Beginning with the November and December 2014 updates for Microsoft Office 2013 and 2010, several enhancements are being added to the Document Inspector, also known as the “Check for Issues” tool in Excel, PowerPoint and Word. The Document Inspector helps you to prepare your documents, presentations, or workbooks for publishing and sharing by checking for items that may contain hidden or private information. In some cases, it will…

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Excel Power Map–December update for Office 365

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Last month we shipped a great time saving feature—playing a tour directly from any scene. This month we’ve improved Geocoding performance, made the Auto Fit feature for custom maps more accurate, and added another popularly requested feature as well—a quick way to select all items when filtering. When we shipped Filtering back in September, we got a lot of positive feedback, as well as several new requests. One…

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Office Lens gets you networking—scan business cards to OneNote, contacts to Outlook

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ Did you know that in the U.S. alone, over 10 billion business cards are printed each year and 88 percent of business cards exchanged are thrown out within a week? Here on the OneNote team, we’re always looking for ways to help you be more efficient, and today we’re launching a new feature to help you digitize all those business cards. Scan business cards with Office Lens You’ve…

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Upcoming general availability of Azure RemoteApp

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ We’ve announced the upcoming general availability of Azure RemoteApp and its related pricing. Azure RemoteApp delivers Windows Server session-based applications from the Azure cloud to provide scale, agility, and global access to your corporate applications. With Azure RemoteApp, you can enable your users to access corporate applications from anywhere and on a variety of devices, scale up or down to meet the dynamic business needs without large capital…

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Video calling between Skype and Lync available now

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: ​ In 2013, we enabled Lync users to contact people on Skype using instant messaging, presence, and audio calling right from your contact list.  I’m happy to say that we’ve now taken the next step by adding video calling between Lync 2013 and the latest Skype for Windows desktop client, available for download here.  Now Lync users can conduct everyday business and collaboration “face-to-face” with customers, partners and suppliers…

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