{"id":173760,"date":"2016-07-28T08:01:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T06:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=173760"},"modified":"2016-07-28T08:03:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T06:03:23","slug":"microsoft-office-365-getting-major-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/173760-microsoft-office-365-getting-major-upgrade.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Office 365 getting major upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced several new\u00a0features which will be added to Office 365 as part of its July 2016 update.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.office.com\/2016\/07\/26\/the-evolution-of-office-apps-new-intelligent-services-such-as-researcher-and-editor-in-word-and-outlook-focused-inbox-as-well-as-continued-powerpoint-innovation-with-zoom\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Office Blog<\/strong><\/a>, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook are set to benefit from the update.<\/p>\n<p>New features coming include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Word Researcher<\/strong> &#8211; help users find\u00a0reliable sources of information by using the Bing Knowledge Graph. Available on mobile devices and PC.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Word Editor<\/strong> &#8211; improvements to spellchecker and\u00a0thesaurus to improve a user&#8217;s writing. A gold line under text will be introduced to indicate writing style clarity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>PowerPoint Zoom<\/strong> &#8211; lets users create\u00a0interactive, non-linear presentations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Outlook Focused Inbox<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0separates a user&#8217;s\u00a0inbox into two tabs: one for important emails and one for everything else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Outlook 365 and Outlook for PC and Mac are also getting @mentions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yMnD47lnFQk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Microsoft<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/173598-microsoft-south-africa-to-train-one-million-citizens.html\">Microsoft South Africa to train one million citizens<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/171857-microsoft-edge-is-the-best-browser-for-netflix.html\">Microsoft Edge is the best browser for Netflix<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced several new features which will be added to Office 365 as part of its July 2016 update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":163877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,123,7047],"class_list":["post-173760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-office-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173762,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173760\/revisions\/173762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}