Introducing the Ink to Text Pen tool in Word, OneNote, and PowerPoint for Windows
Hello, Insiders! Did you hear the news? Thanks to your feedback, we made it possible to your convert your handwriting to text as you write. Read to learn more about the new Ink to Text Pen tool on the Draw tab in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote for Windows here. Best, Tony Microsoft 365 Insider Social Community Manager Become a Microsoft 365 Insider and gain exclusive access to new features while helping to shape the future of Microsoft 365. Join Now: Windows | Mac | iOS | AndroidRewrite in Word - Say it another Way!
Ever found yourself repeating phrases or looking for better expressions when writing in Word? Check out the new feature running in the Insider channel for Windows Office Insiders called Rewrite in Word to quickly find alternative expressions for phrases in your writing. We've got a great feature deep dive by Office Engineering PM Zhang who explains why we made this and how cool it is! https://blog-insider.office.com/2019/08/12/rewrite-in-word-say-it-another-way/Please Stop asking to save a duplicate file somewhere else before editing/annotating Word files
Stop asking to save a duplicate file somewhere else before editing a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file. this gets really annoying when it happens for Word and PDF files when you want to annotate it. either remove this requirement or add an option in the settings to disable this. this isn't an expected behavior. on Desktop/Mac when you want to edit a Word file, you're not required nor asked to save your file somewhere else, make a duplicate of it, before doing editing and annotating. it makes it hard to maintain a tidy file manager, also creates unneeded files as we have to make duplicate content all the time. another experience my father had, I installed this app on his phone, and he thought this app can only open Office (Word, PowerPoint, PDF etc.), not edit them, simply because of this constant duplicate creation requirement. This is a huge issue that needs to get fixed. we need to be able to edit the same file and save our changes to the same file. if needed, convert the file from read-only to editable mode automatically, without asking the user to do this manually, and never the need for creating duplicate content on phone.Word for Android Stopped Keeping Track of Where I Left Off.
Word version 16.0.11530.20000 One Drive version 5.29.1 If I use Word on my phone, Google Pixel2 XL, then reopen it later, it doesn't ask if I want to pick up where I left off. If I use word on my PC, Word on my phone won't know/remember where I left off. This is an annoying issue. Is this an issue with an app or not? Any suggestions on how I can fix this?
Welcome to Word Android beta program!
Hi there! As you might be aware, Google + is shutting down shortly for consumers. Therefore, we have decided to migrate to techcommunity.microsoft.com. We request you all to continue conversations here. To participate in beta community discussions, please do the below: Navigate to this link and press "Follow". Press "start new conversation" to create a new thread. In case you wish to respond to existing threads, please reply to them directly. You may follow the community link to get update about all 3 Word, Excel and PowerPoint We look forward to continuing interactions on TechCommunity, and request you all to follow Word space on Office Insider for Android community. Thanks for your support through this migration! Regards, Microsoft Office on Android Note: There will be no change in the way you will get beta builds, these will continue to happen as usual through Google Play To check if you are beta user, please open the link and look out for a banner which says "You are a beta tester for this app. Future updates will include beta versions."
Cannot directly save opened document
Joined this new community, let's see how this goes. As you can see, I cannot directly save opened documents. I only can only save a copy, but of what use is that, when i cannot save it directly. Directly saving is utmost important for me, because i open files in my favourite cloud service, and by directly saving the file gets automatically updated by my favourite cloud services. And of what use is it, to have documents just on tablet and not on pc? So this is a frequent use case and yes, i want to use my favourite cloud service. At the moment i use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobisystems.office&hl=de but wtf, how can a third party app do this better than microsoft itself? wtf. Please fix that problem, it's crucial as many people don't just work with tablet, but also crossplattform with pc on their documents.KeyTips now available in Office for Mac
Microsoft 365 Insiders, Happy Friday! Great news for Office for Mac users! KeyTip support is finally coming to Office for Mac, enhancing navigation and boosting productivity. Want to learn more about these popular keyboard shortcuts? Check out our latest blog post by Hugo Garcia, Product Manager on the Microsoft 365 team: KeyTips now available in Office for Mac KeyTips in Office for Mac are now available to Microsoft 365 Insiders, and they’ll be available to all Office for Mac users in the coming months. Thanks! Perry Sjogren Microsoft 365 Insider Social Media Manager Become a Microsoft 365 Insider and gain exclusive access to new features and help shape the future of Microsoft 365. Join Now: Windows | Mac | iOS | Android
