Microsoft outs new Office 2016 Insider build with OneDrive improvements and more

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Microsoft has announced a new Insider build of Office 2016 for Windows desktop. Members of the Office Insider program can now download build 16.0.6769.2011, which includes a number of improvements for Excel and OneDrive. Here's the full breakdown of what's new:

  • Power Query Enhancements: In Excel, Power Query lets you discover, combine, and refine data across a wide variety of sources, as well as search for public data from sources such as Wikipedia. In this release, we've enhanced the connectivity capabilities and also added new transformations.
  • Find Photos in a Flash: In OneDrive, you can use the Search Photos command to scan photo tags and metadata and also extract and find text in photos. Starting in this month's update, the Search Photos feature can also recognize objects in a photo.
  • Easier Files and Folders Sharing: In OneDrive, we now offer you the two most popular options for sharing files up front: Get a link and Email.

If you're a part of the Office Insider Program, you should be able to download the latest update by heading to File > Account > Update > Update Now in an Office app.

Dan Thorp-Lancaster
Dan Thorp-Lancaster

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