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The latest incarnation of Microsoft Office (2016) should be released on 22nd September 2015 (Microsoft are always a bit ahead of themselves with versions). This blog gives a detailed guide to what's new, the biggest changes being in Excel and Outlook.
- The Wise Owl take on Microsoft Office 2016
- General changes for Microsoft Office 2016
- What's new in Excel 2016
- What's new in Outlook 2016 (this blog)
- What's new in Access, PowerPoint, Project, Visio and Word
Posted by Andy Brown on 07 September 2015
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What's new in Outlook 2016
Outlook has seen more changes than any other Microsoft Office application - this pages summarises the most important ones.
Attachments
You can now see the files you've recently been editing when you add an attachment:

Since it's likely you'll be attaching a file you've just been editing, this has to be a good idea.
Received attachments each have their own drop down menu:

Again, someone at Microsoft has obviously thought about this!
365 groups stored in OneDrive
If you have Office 365 Enterprise mailboxes enabled, there are a few new features in Outlook 2016. You can find a good list of them all here.
Outlook 2016 also includes a Clutter folder, into which Outlook will move emails deemed low priority, but this is only available if you have an email account on an Exchange server.
Quick steps
Although I haven't found any mention of this on the Internet, I don't remember it being in Outlook 2013. In addition to rules, you can create quick steps:

A few quick steps have already been created for you.
A quick step can consist of one or more instructions:

Here we're creating a quick step to delete a message permanently.
You can assign short-cut keys and tooltips to quick steps:

Here pressing CTRL + SHIFT + 1 will run this quick step.
Of course, you can always run the quick step by clicking on it:

Irritatingly, the permanent deletion warning dialog box still appears though!
As the final part of this blog, I'll summarise changes specific to Access, PowerPoint, Visio and Word. This won't take long!
- The Wise Owl take on Microsoft Office 2016
- General changes for Microsoft Office 2016
- What's new in Excel 2016
- What's new in Outlook 2016 (this blog)
- What's new in Access, PowerPoint, Project, Visio and Word