Microsoft has finally released the November 2024 feature update of Outlook for Microsoft 365 Apps in the Current Channel.
There are 8 fixes related to Outlook but there is also a new feature which applies to the Office Suite in general.
- Protect sensitive files with dynamic watermarking
Deter leakage of your highly confidential document content by rendering the reader’s email address and other information over the document. This is configurable on sensitivity labels. - We fixed an issue that caused the Wait on Send experience to stop working until the user clicked “Send Anyway.”
- We fixed an issue that caused users who were replying to a message with an Information Rights Management policy applied to see the error “You don’t have permission to make this change to the sensitivity label” when no label changes were made.
- We fixed an issue where users using parentheses in the name of their signatures weren’t seeing the signatures in the Insert>Signatures list.
- We fixed an issue where Outlook would stop responding when a user tried to create an Outlook profile for a different user when OneAuth was enabled.
- Fixed an issue that was preventing emails with linked SVG content from saving or sending. (Word)
- Resolved an issue in Outlook where unexpected characters may appear in comments when using the setting “preface comments with” and the Aptos font. (Word)
- Resolved an issue in Outlook where text may be truncated on the right side of the message when using an HTML email template. (Word)
- Resolved an issue where Word would give the error “Word could not re-establish a DDE connection to Microsoft Query to complete the current task” when selecting MS Query as the data source for “Mail Merge Create Data Source”. (Word)
Note: Depending on your installation type, this update can be installed via the Update Now button in Outlook or the Microsoft Store and updates Outlook to: Version 2411 (Build 18227.20152).
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