Microsoft Office for Mac 16.99
Microsoft has released version 16.99 of Office for Mac, bringing a range of Copilot AI enhancements to the productivity suite. Copilot in Excel can now intelligently infer relevant table or data range based on a query (highlighting inferred data for clarity) and displays value tokens (i.e., visual indicators around cell values) when a cell contains a data type or other rich format. In PowerPoint, Copilot can now create a slide from a file or prompt, as well as access enterprise assets hosted in a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or Templafy. In Word, the Copilot icon in the document margin enables you to write a prompt or choose quick actions. Outlook now includes AI-generated notes and references gathered by Copilot, as well as recaps of previous meetings. Outlook’s new email editor also adds support for paragraph spacing. ($149.99 for a one-time purchase, $99.99/$129.99 annual subscription options, free update through Microsoft AutoUpdate, release notes, macOS 12+)
Hello, beware of updating to version 16.99 if you use PowerQuery in Excel, most likely it will hang up if you try to open the Power Query editor from Excel. It happened to me and forced me to downgrade to version 16.98. It only happens on the Mac as the Windows version does no have this issue. It seems Microsoft is aware but there is no solution yet.
Microsoft may have just fixed it. I see an update to 16.99.1 that just dropped today:
Strangely, after the installation, AutoUpdate shows 16.99.25072013 (the build number), but the About box in the app says 16.99.1:
Thank you! Will check if the issue has been resolved.
Tried with several spreadsheets and did not work … so they have not fixed the issue yet. Reverted back to version 16.98 in Excel in order to keep working in Power Query… will wait until a newer version arrives.
Just to let you know that Microsoft released Excel version 16.100 for insiders today and Power Query is working again. If no other problem arises, it should be generally available for normal users soon.