Slow ring Office Insiders on Mac are getting a preview of an updated look for the ribbon, along with several new features across apps today.
All Office 365 Users: Repair an Office Installation from the Control Panel. RELATED: How to Scan for (and Fix) Corrupt System Files in Windows Whether you’re using Office 365 Home or Business, you can try to repair an Office 365 installation by re-running its Setup program from the Control Panel. Oct 01, 2017 This is happening on multiple PC's. Each PC is running Win 10 Pro, allegedly with all the latest updates installed. Office 2016 Home and Business is installed on each PC.
While the new ribbon icons are the biggest user-facing change, Microsoft has also added an easier way to encrypt mail in Outlook, a PowerPoint view that shows all of your slides at a glance, and shortcuts for quickly changing the file name of whatever you're working on.
Mac #OfficeInsiders, you've been waiting for it, and it's here! The updated Ribbon is available in the latest #InsiderSlow update! All the same functionality, but with a sleek new look! https://t.co/Q5pd0EWuGdpic.twitter.com/gAQL66EaiF
— MS Office Insiders (@OfficeInsider) November 7, 2018- Get the picture? Search the web for pictures within your office apps. Select Insert > Online Pictures to begin. (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- What's in the filename? Click the filename to quickly move, rename, or browse the version history of your cloud documents, worksheets, and presentations. (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Summary Zoom: See all of the pieces of your presentation at once in an interactive table of contents. When presenting, get the flexibility you need to be creative and show your slides in any order, skip ahead or jump back as needed. (PowerPoint)
- Easier mail encryption: The Encrypt button now has an Encrypt-only option which makes it easier to send encrypted email, both inside an outside your organization. (Outlook)
- Your ribbon icons have a new look: Don't worry, everything works the same. Plus, all of the icons look great on screens of all sizes. (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote)
If you're already enrolled as an Office Insider, you can pick up all of these new features with version 16.19.181104.
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Heavy calendar/email users have noticed performance issues when using Outlook and other desktop clients. Below are some steps that may improve performance in Outlook desktop clients when configured with an Office 365 (Exchange Online) account.
Important: Some of the information below asks you to make changes to your software and/or usage of them. We recommend that you discuss these changes with your local IT administrator prior to making these changes.
- For best support and access to latest features of Office/Outlook, please make sure you are using most up-to-date version of Office/Outlook. See Office 365 - Download/Install Office 365 article for more details.
- Outlook add-ons can be the cause of significant performance degradation. For example, the iCloud add-on for Outlook for Windows has had many issues since its release and should be disabled if it is not needed. It is recommended that any add-ons not needed by the user be disabled. Review this resource to manage your add-ons.
- Outlook for Windows uses graphics acceleration to improve visual performance. However, this feature is not compatible with all graphics cards and can actually degrade performance, cause blurry text, and cause Outlook to hang. Graphics acceleration can be disabled by going to File | Options | Advanced and checking the “Disable Graphics Acceleration” box.
- Limiting the number of calendars in the “My Calendars” folder will improve Outlook performance. These calendars are synchronized regularly while Outlook is running. If a shared calendar is not heavily used by a user, it should be moved (you can drag and drop it in Outlook) to the “Shared Calendars” folder.
- Microsoft recommends enabling cached mode in Outlook clients connected to Exchange Online. This will improve performance and connectivity issues for the average user. However, administrative assistants that have a critical business need to receive shared calendar updates in real time may be adversely impacted by this setting and can have cached mode turned off if affected by calendar update latency.
- Check the connection status for Outlook. This can be done by holding Ctrl key and right-clicking the Outlook quick-launch icon in the system tray near the clock. Select connection status. Here you will see the number of persistent connections utilized by Outlook. Connection latency can be spot checked by clicking the reconnect button and observing the connection time. If a user has numerous calendars in their “My Calendars” folder, you will see those additional connections listed here.
- For Outlook for Windows clients, another common step to improve performances is to re-create the offline Outlook Data File (.ost). After completing this, start Outlook and see if the issue(s) exists.
- For all clients, but in particular Macintosh and other Exchange Web Service based clients, limiting the number of items in the Inbox root folder, the Deleted Items folder, and the Sent Items folder to under 5,000 will improve client performance.
- The native calendaring application for iOS/Android has known compatibility issues with Office 365 (Exchange) - it is highly recommended that you only use a Microsoft client to interact with your Office 365 account. When modifying calendar items via the native calendaring application, calendar item corruption can occur. It is recommended that the native iOS calendaring application only be used for calendar viewing. View supported clients | best practices | Microsoft issues.
- Microsoft recommends disabling scanning of Outlook files as outlined here.
Other Resources
- Microsoft: Best practices for using Office 365 on a slow network
- Microsoft: Outlook performance is slow in the Office 365 environment
- Microsoft: 'Outlook not responding' error or Outlook freezes when you open a file or send mail
- Microsoft: With many items in a Cached mode .ost file or .pst file folders, Outlook performance issues may occur
- Microsoft: Outlook Performance Troubleshooting including Office 365
- External: Clean up mailbox