New to Microsoft 365 in October—tools to create impactful content and help transition to the cloud

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Collaborate with others and keep track of to-dos with new AI features in Word

Most employees leave notes, to-dos, and placeholders in their Word documents while writing. New features for Microsoft Word for Mac Insiders Fast builds on this behavior to help you collaborate with others and get the information you need without leaving your Word document.
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Office 2019 is now available for Windows and Mac

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Office 2019 for Windows and Mac. Office 2019 is the next on-premises version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, Access, and Publisher.
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Power and simplicity—updates to the Office 365 user experience

Announcing user experience updates for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook designed to deliver a balance of power and simplicity.
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Serving up great experiences with the help of Word

Learn how Linda Derschang, CEO of the Derschang Group, brings her visions to life.
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Writing a book with Office—how Maxie McCoy does it

We recently caught up with inspirational writer, speaker and millennial expert Maxie McCoy—a self-professed Office enthusiast (“I live in Office. Always. Period.” )—to get her take on Researcher and Editor, two new cloud-powered services designed to help you do your best writing in Word. Both features are exclusive to Office 365.
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Word real-time co-authoring—a closer look

Now that Office 2016 is officially here, we are giving a special nod to one of our coolest features within the suite—real-time co-authoring. The Word team is honored to debut this new capability in Office 2016 for Windows.
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History—collaborate with confidence!

The new History feature in Word, PowerPoint and Excel 2016 allows you to easily find and restore previous versions of your files, so you never have to worry about making a mistake or overwriting someone else’s changes.
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Share with the click of a button in Office 2016

Using Word, PowerPoint and Excel 2016, you can now easily share your documents with friends and colleagues and work with others on the same document simultaneously while using the rich formatting options you know and love. Collaborating in Office has never been easier!
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Preview real-time co-authoring on OneDrive

Earlier this year we announced real-time co-authoring support for Word 2016 as part of the Office 2016 Preview. For the last several months, this feature has been available to preview users co-authoring Word documents stored on SharePoint Online. Today, we are pleased to announce that real-time co-authoring is also available as a first-look for Word documents stored on OneDrive as part of the latest Office 2016 Preview release.
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Document font embedding demystified

For many years, Office on Windows has offered users the ability to embed fonts within electronic documents such as Word documents or PDF files. However, we often get questions about the font embedding feature and today are providing you with details on what font embedding is and how you can use in your electronic documents.
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New Document Inspector features for Excel, PowerPoint and Word

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.
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Office and Dropbox to work together on phones, tablets and web

Today we announced a partnership with Dropbox to help you work and collaborate more effectively. You can do more with your Office documents when they are stored online. You can easily share your documents with others, and you can access those files from anywhere, on all your devices. If you use OneDrive and Office together, you already know how easy it is to work online with Office.
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