Coming soon: Users can create images using natural language to visualize concepts and ideas in the flow of work in iOS/Android mobile apps for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Outlook.

A Microsoft 365 Copilot license or a Microsoft 365 license is required to use this feature.

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out on mid-April 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

This new feature will be available by default.

In the Chat tab of the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app, users can enter natural language to ask Copilot to generate an image:

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app is users’ starting place for AI at work, with ease of access to Copilot Pages, productivity apps and files, and features such as enterprise search, secure AI chat, agents, and content creation. Now, the first time users open the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, they will be greeted with an experience that walks them through their favorite tools, apps, files, and more. The updated Microsoft 365 Copilot app is rolling out in May. 

Users can now effortlessly interact with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat by using the Copilot key or the new keyboard shortcut of Win + C on a Windows 11 device. This opens a prompt box, enabling users to quickly chat with Copilot, upload files and images, or call an agent. For more space, users can expand to the full Microsoft 365 Copilot app. This feature is rolling out in May. 

Users will soon find a simplified experience when using the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app. OneDrive is being renamed Search, and Copilot is being renamed Chat. We’ve also added a new module called Create. These three modules are pinned to the bottom navigation in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, giving users easy access to secure AI chat, apps, and files on the go. These updates are rolling out in May. 

Users will soon experience a more streamlined user interface for Copilot Chat. The first time users open Copilot Chat, they will be greeted with an intuitive experience that introduces Copilot Chat capabilities. The Chat module (previously the Copilot module) offers quick access to chat history, Copilot Pages, and agents through an updated left navigation pane. Users can also easily collapse the navigation pane while they collaborate seamlessly with Copilot. These features are rolling out in May.  

The Prioritize my inbox feature marks high priority mails in a user’s inbox and provides a short summary of the mail's importance in the message list and the reading pane. Email can be sorted and filtered by Copilot's priority. In Outlook for the Web and New Outlook for Windows, users can also choose to have Copilot mark low priority mails.​ This feature rolled out in April.

Microsoft 365 Copilot now makes it effortless for users to bring their phone’s photos directly into your Word, Excel, or PowerPoint workspace, so they can transform visual data into actionable insights without the hassle of emailing or downloading files. To do this, users simply open a document on desktop or web, click Copilot from the Home tab, tap the + button in the Copilot prompt box, select ‘Add an image’, and select ‘Upload from phone’. A QR code appears for the user to scan with their mobile device, enabling them to quickly snap a new picture or choose an existing image from their gallery. Once uploaded, the image (like photos of handwritten notes, whiteboard sketches, or receipts) appears in the Copilot chat where the user can ask it to extract and process text, summarize information, or answer any questions they have—all while keeping their workflow seamless and efficient. 

Microsoft is introducing a new control for meeting organizers that enables multilingual meetings. When enabled, each meeting participant can choose their own spoken language and translation language. Meeting organizers will see a new control in meeting options called “Enable multilingual speech recognition.” The meeting transcript and intelligent meeting recap will accurately reflect each participant’s spoken language of choice. This feature rolled out to public preview in April.

Intelligent meeting recap now supports multilingual meetings, ensuring users can easily catch up on key discussions even when multiple languages were spoken during the meeting. After the meeting, the recap is automatically generated in the translation language the user selected for live transcription and captions during the meeting. This feature rolled out to public preview in April.

Copilot in Teams can now analyze content shared on screen, enabling deeper insights into the meeting and ensuring no meeting details are overlooked. Users can ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from content shared on-screen simply by asking questions, such as “Which products had the highest sales?” This works for any content a user shares from their desktop screen, including documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app. Copilot can also consolidate insights across both the conversation and whatever information is presented to answer questions such as “'What was the feedback per slide?” Additionally, users can ask Copilot to draft new content based on the entire meeting with a prompt such as “Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat.” 

New improvements to Copilot in PowerPoint help users create, edit, and understand professional presentations with even more ease. These improvements will give users more control over the slides and content Copilot helps to create.

When users are building a presentation, they will soon be able to create a new slide based on a Word doc or a prompt directly on the canvas. This makes it easy to get a great draft slide based on existing content. This feature is rolling out in May.

Soon, users working with Copilot in PowerPoint will see a new design suggestions pane, sharing the same designer-like suggestions in a new way. These suggestions include new slide starter options, so users can quickly choose their favorite designs, which will be applied as they update their content. These features rolled out in April. 

When creating a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, users can choose a template from their organization's collection for on-brand presentations or select one from Microsoft's handpicked templates. This makes it easier to create a new presentation with the right branding in minutes. This feature is rolling out in May. 

Microsoft 365 Copilot responses in Microsoft Teams meetings can be shared to external apps (Word or Excel). Responses generated by Copilot in Meetings will come with a button to Open in another app. Although this will start with Word and Excel, more apps will be added in the future.

The Open in button will show up when:

• A response has more than the set number of characters (1,300), which will make it long enough to warrant editing in a document. Shorter responses can always be copied/pasted anywhere outside of Teams, as long as the meeting policy allows.
• A response has a table, which will allow it to be exported to Excel if the meeting policy allows.
• Responses will only be able to be exported if the meeting policy allows copying or exporting of Copilot responses and will respect the sensitivity label of the meeting (sensitivity labels are available to Teams Premium customers).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 481352.

When this will happen:

Targeted release: Microsoft will begin rolling out early May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-May 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

Users will see the ability to export content when hovering over the Copilot response card. 

When hovering on the Copilot response card and only text is present:

When hovering on the Copilot response card and a table is present. Clicking on the dropdown will show Edit in Word as an option as well.

How this will affect your organization 

Copilot enabled users will now be able to share the summary of the call from within the transfer panel and the context will be shown in the toast notification and within the call. 

How this will affect your organization 

When creating a form with Copilot, users can reference existing documents such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint or existing forms. 

Coming soon: Microsoft 365 Copilot Pages created in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat will open in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for the web. This change is designed to reinforce the Microsoft 365 Copilot app as the center for all content created with Copilot.

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): Microsoft will begin rolling out early May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

After this rollout, users who search for Copilot Pages or select links to Copilot Pages will be taken to m365.cloud.microsoft where the link will open. For example, if a user shares a Copilot Pages link with another user in Microsoft Teams, that link will open in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for the web.

Screen recording:

Microsoft will also update the Copilot Pages icon in this rollout. Left: The old icon. Right: The new icon:

This rollout applies to files created in Copilot Chat and files created by the user in My Workspace in Loop. This rollout will not change or affect Loop files created in Team chat, email, or in Loop workspaces.

Sensitivity labels for Copilot Pages are available now for Worldwide customers and will be available to GCC customers for Copilot Pages by late April 2025. Learn more about new Copilot capabilities coming soon:

• Copilot Pages service description
• What’s New in Microsoft 365 Copilot for Government

These changes will be on by default.

What you need to do to prepare:

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change.

Microsoft is excited to announce that M365 Copilot Chat experiences can now reason over your OneNote Pages. This enhancement will significantly improve productivity and efficiency by allowing users to quickly summarize takeaways or list all action items from their OneNote Pages within any M365 Copilot Chat experience. This feature will streamline workflows, reduce the time spent on manual tasks, and enhance collaboration across your organization.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 490722

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out on late April 2025 and expect to complete by mid-May 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

M365 Copilot Chat experiences can now reason over your OneNote Pages. Users can now ask Copilot to summarize the takeaways or list all the action items from their OneNote Pages on any M365 Copilot Chat experience.

What you need to do to prepare:

You may consider updating your training and documentation as appropriate. These features are available to users with a Copilot license.

In this method, we will create SharePoint Groups to store the members of a role and retrieve the contents of the group in the PowerApps app and save them in a collection. Then we will check for the currently logged-in user’s UPN in the collection to get the user’s role.

We will create a Role management screen to add or remove members from the Groups.

• We will add a ‘Combo box’ to see members of our organization.
• We will add a ‘Button’ to add the selected member of the ‘Combo box’ to a group.
• We will add a gallery to show the current members of a role and give an icon to remove the selected member from the group.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-June 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-July 2025 and expect to complete by late July 2025.

General Availability (GCC): Microsoft will begin rolling out early July 2025 and expect to complete by mid-July 2025.

General Availability (GCC High): Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-July 2025 and expect to complete by late July 2025.

General Availability (DoD): Microsoft will begin rolling out early August 2025 and expect to complete by mid-August 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

On release, Slide Control will be enabled for all internal users in the tenant and disabled for all external users.

What you need to do to prepare:

Before release, decide what feature scope you'd like to apply within your tenant, meaning which type of users are allowed to use the new Slide Control feature.

Note: Slide Control only allows for presenters to share control of their slides with the users they choose; users cannot request control themselves.

Microsoft is introducing the ability to pop out live captions (including live translated captions) and Real-Time Text (RTT) in Microsoft Teams meetings and calls. This new functionality gives users more flexibility and control over how they view text-based communication during meetings, supporting both accessibility and multitasking needs. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 484113.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out early May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-May 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): Microsoft will begin rolling out early May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-May 2025.

General Availability (GCCH): Microsoft will begin rolling out early June 2025 and expect to complete by mid-June 2025.

General Availability (DoD): Microsoft will begin rolling out early July 2025 and expect to complete by mid-July 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

After the rollout, users will see a pop-out icon on the live captions and RTT interface during meetings and calls. This feature will be on by default. When popped out, captions and RTT will open in separate windows that users can drag, resize, and position anywhere on their screen. This allows users to customize their meeting layout and view captions or RTT in a way that works best for their workflow or accessibility needs.

Live caption pop-out

RTT pop-out

Provide a meaningful name to first channel of the team, with no restrictions on the name. The first channel, if named "General" (in English), will follow the behavior as General in any other teams. 

When this will happen:

Targeted Release (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out late April 2025 (previously mid-April) and expect to complete by late April 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-May 2025 (previously early May) and expect to complete by mid-May 2025.

General Availability (GCC, GCC High, DoD): Microsoft will begin rolling out late May 2025 (previously early May) and expect to complete by late June 2025 (previously mid-May)

How this will affect your organization:

Team owners on desktop client will now be able to name the first channel as General while creating the team or can rename the existing first channel as General by manually typing the string "General" or using the more options button in the text field. Naming the channel "General" will show it at the top of the team in the channel list, however, no other first channel name will show the channel at the top.

Naming the channel "General" manually by typing or selecting "More options" > "Set name to General"

Channel when named "General" shown at the top of the team in teams and channels list in the left pane

Channel when named anything else shown in alphabetical order in the teams and channels list in the left pane

Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters in a Microsoft Teams town hall will soon be able to join and view the event from an attendee's perspective.

This feature will be available for customers who have access to town hall in Teams for Windows or Mac desktop, Teams for the web, or Teams for iOS/Android.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 484126.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-June 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

After joining the town hall green room, event participants will be able to access the attendee view by joining from a different Teams platform. For example, an organizer who joins the green room from Teams for Windows desktop can access the attendee view from either Teams for the web or Teams for iOS/Android. Also, a select set of town hall features (such as Q&A) will be disabled just for the organizer, co-organizer, or presenter in the attendee experience they are monitoring. This feature has no impact to the broader attendee experience or on organizers, co-organizers, and presenters in the green room.

1. Primary use case:An organizer, co-organizer, or presenter has joined the event and opens the event again in another platform to preview as attendee. They will have a new option to Preview event as attendee below the options to Add this device or Transfer to this device. (Mobile and desktop/web screens shown)

2. Secondary use case:Organizer/Co-Organizer/Presenter has not joined the event as their designated role yet but first chooses to join as attendee. On desktop and web, they will see a pre-join screen with a new drop-down menu with the option to Preview as attendee. On mobile, they will have the option to Preview as attendee under the More join options. (Mobile and desktop/web screens shown)

Coming soon in Microsoft Teams: Users will be able to create new channels in a Team directly from the New items drop-down at top of their list of chats and channels, eliminating the need to scroll down to the specific team. Channel creators can choose the team in which to host the new channel.

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, and Teams for the web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 479744.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out early May 2025 and expect to complete by early May 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

The admin or user creating a channel from the New items drop-down will be able to select any team to host the channel (not just the user's visible teams in the teams and channels list), provided they have the necessary permissions to create channels in that team. During the channel creation process, all teams visible or not in the user's teams and channels list will appear alphabetically in the window called Pick a team to add the new channel to.

To create a new channel, the user selects the New items icon at the top of the list of chats and channels, and then selects New channel from the menu:

The user completes the new channel details:

When the user selects Select a team to host the channel in the previous screenshot, an alphabetical list of teams displays on the screen called Pick a team to add the new channel to (like this example):

How this will affect your organization 

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams Premium: A new tenant-level feature called Detect sensitive content during screen sharing that will be on by default to proactively analyze onscreen content and alert meeting organizers, co-organizers, and presenter to any risk of exposure. 

How this will affect your organization 

Before this rollout, when an organizer or presenter brings a participant or shared content on or off screen, the change is immediately reflected in the attendees’ view. 

After this rollout, organizers and presenters will have the option to preview their changes before applying them. This allows for smoother, more polished transitions in the attendee’s view, without showing every adjustment made by the organizer or presenter managing the screen. Organizers can go to the town hall Meeting options to locate the Manage what attendees see feature. 

Coming soon for new Microsoft Outlook for Windows desktop: To align with the behavior of classic Outlook for Windows, Microsoft will display shared mailboxes in the same way accounts are displayed and add a Shared icon to give users a visual distinction between standard mailboxes and shared mailboxes.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 486837.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out early May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out early June 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025.

General Availability (GCC): Microsoft will begin rolling out early July 2025 and expect to complete by late July 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

After this rollout, shared mailbox users and delegates will no longer have a Shared with me section in the folder pane on the left of the screen. Shared mailboxes and shared folders will display at the same level as accounts in the folder pane. Users will also see a teaching message pointing to the new shared mailboxes and shared folders, so users are not surprised by the change. Users will not lose any shared mailboxes or shared folders.

Left: The Shared with me section before the rollout. Right: After the rollout:

Coming soon for new Microsoft Outlook for Windows desktop: Users will be able to quickly categorize their emails using predefined shortcuts, enhancing productivity and streamlining their email organization process.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 483507.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-June 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-June 2025 and expect to complete by mid-July 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

The category shortcuts will work in the same way as they worked in classic Outlook, where the user can assign a shortcut to function keys ranging from CTRL+F2 to CTRL+F12. Microsoft will migrate the classic Outlook category shortcuts to the new Outlook for Windows. This feature is currently only available in new Outlook for Windows.

After this rollout, users can manage category shortcuts in Outlook Settings at Accounts > Categories, which has a new column called Shortcut. The user can select the pencil icon to assign a function key to an existing shortcut:

When creating or editing a new category, users can add a new category Shortcut:

Image placeholders in Microsoft PowerPoint desktops are getting refreshed to look more modern and provide clear guidance on the object that can be inserted. Image placeholders now allow you to pick from a variety of sources to insert an image.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 485770.

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft began rolling out in mid-April 2025 and expect to complete by mid-June 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

Users in your organization will see the refreshed placeholders when using PowerPoint.

Improved image placeholder:

Image placeholders now allow you to directly pick from a variety of image sources:

Refreshed content placeholder:

Users can now edit a recurring event from a chosen date going forward by selecting This and all following events on Android or Edit this and all following events on iOS.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 486835.

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCCHigh, DoD): Microsoft will begin rolling out on early May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

Users can now bulk edit all future instances of a recurring event from a chosen date going forward.  Anytime a user chooses to edit or cancel an event, they will see the This and all following events option on Android or Edit this and all following events on iOS. Previously, users would only see the option to Edit this event only or Edit all events in the series. 

Android:

iOS:

The new Microsoft Outlook for Windows and Microsoft Outlook for web will soon have a new Settings page called Shared with me where users can view and manage all shared email accounts and folders that they have been granted permission to access. Before April 30, 2025, Microsoft will update this post with new documentation.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 486836.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-June 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out early June 2025 and expect to complete by early July 2025.

General Availability (GCC): Microsoft will begin rolling out early July 2025 and expect to complete by early August 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

After this rollout, users will be able to access the new page in Outlook Settings > Accounts > Shared with me:

If users have permission to access shared mailboxes or folders before this rollout, they will appear on this page. After this rollout, users can add new shared mailboxes and folders if their colleague has given them permission to access the mailbox and/or folders. User can remove shared mailboxes and folders from this page, but this action does not revoke permission granted by a colleague. If a colleague revokes a permission, the email account will remain on this page in a disabled state and will say that the user no longer has permission.

If your organization uses shared mailboxes, the Shared with me page will give users more insight into the permissions they have for shared mailboxes without needing to ask an admin or mailbox owner.

If your organization does not use shared mailboxes, this rollout will not impact you. The Shared with me page will be available for users, but it will stay empty if they do not add shared mailboxes or folders.

This change will be available to users by default.

What you need to do to prepare:

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified dates with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current configuration to assess the impact on your organization. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Currently, SharePoint eSignature includes the capability to request eSignatures from a PDF using Microsoft’s native eSignature service. With this update, users will also be able to create eSignature requests from Microsoft Word documents without the need to create a PDF.

The rollout may take several weeks for some regions. Check the regional availability here.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 486707.

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out in late May 2025 and expect to complete by early July 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

Microsoft Word users on the Microsoft 365 Beta and Current Channels will have the capability to request eSignatures from Word documents stored in sites that have been enabled with SharePoint’s native eSignature service.

The capability can be invoked from the Word Desktop Insert ribbon.

When requesting eSignatures from Word, signers will sign a PDF copy of the Word document.

• The PDF is automatically created, and a link is shared with signers.
• Signers do not access the source Word document during the signing process.
• Signer information, such as an email address, is not stored in the Word document.
• When signing is complete, the signed PDF will be saved in the same location as the Word document.
• The PDF document never leaves your Microsoft 365 Trust Boundary during the signing process.

What you need to do to prepare:

This capability is only available to users if the native SharePoint eSignature service is enabled and a group policy is applied.

1. Enable SharePoint's native eSignature service: Overview of SharePoint eSignature.
2. When this rollout is available:

• Ensure the Word option is toggled On for your tenant in the Microsoft admin center.
• Apply the Group Policy Allow the use of SharePoint eSignature for Microsoft Word to enable Word users to access the feature.
• The policy can be acquired and deployed via the standard methods of the Cloud Policy Service, Microsoft Intune, and Group Policy Manager.

3. Inform users of the new eSignature experience available in Word.

Coming soon: Users will be able to use the new Compress feature to reduce the file sizes of PDFs stored on Microsoft OneDrive for the web or Microsoft SharePoint. Users can choose from three different compression levels.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 487440.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out late April 2025 and expect to complete by early May 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): Microsoft will begin rolling out early May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-May 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

To compress PDF files for a smaller size:

1. Open a PDF in OneDrive for the web (in SharePoint, go to the document library and choose Preview):
2. Select the Compressbutton at the top of the screen:

3. Select a compression level and then select Save a copyto save the compressed file:

A progress notification will appear at the bottom of the screen. After the compression is complete, select Open from the notification to view the compressed file:

Coming soon for Microsoft SharePoint: Site owners can apply a multi-color theme to the site. Microsoft will offer these multi-color themes out of the box. Site owners will create the themes using the Site branding feature, or the brand manager will use branding from your organization if you have set up a brand center in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

NOTE: The brand center app requires the use of a public content delivery network (CDN) available in the Worldwide environment. CDN is not available in the GCC, GCC High, or DoD environments.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 489833 and Roadmap ID 490062.

When this will happen:

These releases will roll out to Worldwide (with brand center capability) and to GCC, GCC High and DoD (without brand center capability):

Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out early May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-May 2025.

General Availability: Microsoft will begin rolling out early June 2025 and expect to complete by mid-June 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

This feature introduces multi-color themes that support multiple color combinations in a theme. In addition to custom themes, eight new out-of-the-box site themes will be available after this rollout.

The theme colors will show up in the site header and site footer, applied by site managers. The theme colors will also show up in section backgrounds, the rich text editor (text web part), and Design ideas, all edited by page authors.

This feature will be available by default.

Edit a multi-color theme in Site branding:

Apply an out-of-box multi-color theme in Change the look:

Apply theme colors to a header in Change the look:

Coming soon for Microsoft SharePoint: Cards can be animated for some web parts (Editorial cards, Images, and People) in SharePoint Pages, News, and Microsoft Viva Amplify.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 481510.

When this will happen:

Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling early April 2025 (previously out late-April) and expect to complete by early May 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-April 2025 (previously early May) and expect to complete by early May 2025 (previously late May).

How this will affect your organization:

This feature will be enabled by default for new cards created after the feature is released. Users can disable card animation in the web part property pane. To add animation to existing web parts, users can enable the setting in the web part property pane. To preview the card animation, view the published page or use Preview mode.

Pages and web parts created before this rollout are not impacted by this change.

What you need to do to prepare:

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

In SharePoint Online, Table toolbar is a new toolbar that allows authors to use table functionality. Table Styles was previously available on the text webpart. All the Table Styles styles are now available via the Table toolbar, including some new table features like merge, split, add space before and after, and others. With the introduction of Table toolbar, users see a menu that is always in focus when working on a table. The Table toolbar will automatically adjust by expanding or compressing based on the section layout used. When compressed, the table options move into the overflow (...) button.

The new table toolbar will be available in SharePoint and Viva Amplify.

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): Microsoft began rolling out mid-April 2025 and expect to complete by mid-May 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

Within the text web part, users will be able to insert a table and, once the table is inserted, users will see the Table toolbar that is always in focus. Within Table toolbar, users can do all the table editing and formatting that is already available, including change layout, add/delete row/columns, and so on along with any new table features that may be added in the future.

Current experience

Future experience