Monthly User Voice Update

On our feedback site Excel.UserVoice.com we collect feedback on what we need to work on next.

 

We have made it easier to see what we are looking at, what is in process or what has been completed. For example for Excel desktop, take a look at the feedback that we are currently working on and what feedback we have already completed.

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Some highlights from our desktop work:
Disable time grouping
This ability to turn off time grouping from the UI was recently added to the O365 version of Excel. File→Options→Advanced→Data→“Disable automatic grouping of Data/Time columns in PivotTables”.
 
Recent Files pane in Excel 2013 was pretty good, but Excel 2016 broke it (Pin pinning recent files no longer sorts alphabetically)
The MRU should be sorting alphabetically again if you’re using build 16.0.7466.2038 or later. You can find your build number under File > Account.

 

Excel 2016 crashes with large sheets and filtering
The original issue reported in this thread was due to Win10 changes in Accessibility. The fixes for this have been released for Excel 2013, Excel 2016 and Office 365 subscribers in March.
 
Support saving CSV in UTF-8 encoding
we’ve completed our work on this feature and Excel will support a new CSV format using UTF-8 encoding. This fix still needs to make it through our release pipeline, but you should see it as an option once you have a build equal to or later than 16.0.7466.2023.