Sometimes when you use applications every day, new features can go unnoticed. So that you’re up to speed with useful tools for your spreadsheets, take a look at these Microsoft Excel features you may have missed.
Microsoft Outlook and Excel for Mac Beta have new updates available.
The Outlook update brings IMAP support.
In Excel, you can now set icons for buttons that are assigned to macros.
Microsoft recently rolled out updates for Outlook and Excel for people on the Mac Beta Channel. The updates bring new features to test out, including IMAP support for Outlook. The release notes came out this week, but the features rolled out gradually to Mac Beta Channel users between November 19 and December 18, 2020.
Here s everything that s new in Excel:
For the Quick Access Toolbar, you can now choose an icon for buttons that are assigned to macros. Go to Excel > Preferences > Ribbon & Toolbar, then go to the Quick Access Toolbar tab, add a macro, and press the gear icon to rename it. You ll see a gallery of icons to choose from.