O365 July 2021

Microsoft released a semi-annual update for Office 365 in July 2021. This topic coveres the general changes required to SIMbook and Simulation based exercises.

All Applications Backstage View Updates

When you’re in a database and you click the File tab, you’re taken to the Home tab in Backstage view (previously it was the Info tab).

The Files (Workbooks, Documents, Presentations) and Folders links have a new Font/Style

File locations includes a visual update

The Featured and Personal links have been removed

On the Account tab:

• Several links removed under User Information

• Name of product has changed, no longer ProPlus, it’s now Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise

Access

The Home tab is new in Backstage for Access. It’s equivalent to the Backstage view of the other apps.

Access Backstage View

• There is now an area at the top that allows you to click on a thumbnail to open a blank database.

• Save and Save As are now in a different order in the left nav

• New icons in the Save Database As section on the right.

The Home, Create, External Data, Database Tools, and Design tabs have new icons

Excel, PowerPoint, and Word common updates

Backstage View

• New button named Version History in the left column

• New buttons underneath the document name in the top left on the info tab

New Save Dialog

Clicking the Save button on the Quick Access Toolbar using an unsaved file opens a new dialog instead of defaulting to the Save As section in Backstage view

The Ink Toolbox on the Draw tab has additional options and functionality.

New fonts are available in the Font List. 5 new potential default fonts include Bierstadt, Grandview, Seaford, Skeena, and Tenorite.

Excel

New Insert Tab

The Insert Surface or Radar Chart button no longer appears in the Charts group on the Insert tab.

In the Sheet Options group, there is a vertical divider between Gridelines and Headings on the Page Layout tab.

On the View tab there is a new group named Sheet View.

PowerPoint

On the Home tab The Design Ideas button now appears in the Designer group.

On the Insert tab:

• The Reuse Slides button now appears in the Slides group

• The Forms button icon has changed

New group named Captions & Subtitles now appears on the Slide Show tab.

The new Home Tab

Word

New View Tab

On the View tab, the former Learning Tools button is now named Immersive Reader. The Properties button icon has changed

New Title Bar

Clicking the title in the Title bar can save the document to One Drive; this is only visible when working from a previously saved document, not a new document.