While waiting for its arrival for the general public in the coming weeks, discover the seven notable new features of the Microsoft Office 2019 office suite.
Microsoft just announced the availability of Office 2019 for the Enterprise Volume Licensing Program and is expected to release the consumer version in the coming weeks.
No big surprise is to be discovered in Office 2019 since Microsoft’s office suite only embeds the features and improvements that the Redmond firm has deployed in recent months to Office 365 users. This update is therefore of little interest if you are already an Office 365 subscriber.
Please note that not all Windows users will be able to take advantage of this new version of Office. In fact, it can only be installed on PCs equipped with Windows 10. Mac users can install the office suite on the last two versions of macOS.
Finally, if Office 2019 integrates Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, on Windows and macOS, Publisher, Access, Project and Visio software will only be available for Windows users.
A new black theme
Microsoft is inaugurating a new black theme for all of its office suite tools, which changes the background color of windows. To activate it, simply go to File, then in the General Options tab, select the Black Office Theme.
Two new charts in Excel
Microsoft’s spreadsheet introduces two new types of charts. The first allows you to create a 2D map to compare values ​​in geographic regions.
The second, called the funnel graph, allows you to represent the different stages of a process by displaying the evolution of proportions in descending order.
Mentions in Outlook
Outlook, the mail client of the Office suite, is modernized and now supports mentions. As you do on social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) Outlook offers you the possibility of addressing a person directly in the body of an email by mentioning them with the prefix @nomdelapersonne.
Outlook will then search your address book for the contact to be mentioned, and will automatically add it to the list of recipients of the message.
Zooms in Powerpoint
Microsoft’s presentation tool takes advantage of a new feature to easily create indexes at multiple scales. At the start of a presentation, for example, the zoom function allows you to create a visual table of contents by selecting the first slides of each of your parts.
You can then navigate directly to a part by clicking on the zoom thumbnail. Zooms can be applied at any point in a presentation and can be used to simplify navigation through multiple sub-parts of the same chapter.
A dictionary in Smart Search
The intelligent search function, accessible in the majority of the programs of the suite, is evolving. If it was already possible to search on Bing for a word contained in a document, Smart Search now includes a Define tab offering to display the definition of words and the different possible meanings.
Automatic translator
Office now knows how to translate your writing. Whether it’s a selection of text or an entire document, Office 2019 displays the translation of the text you submit to it in a pane. The user can change the selection of text to translate, but also change the target language.
In the case of an entire document, Word takes care of creating a new document containing the translated text without interfering with the source document.
Two new functions for Excel
Excel spreadsheet aficionados will be happy to discover the integration of two new functions: Join.texte, and Si.multiple. The first allows to concatenate an entire range of data, while the second allows to nest Ifs.