This month’s updates see small multiples become Generally Available, the new Model View / sensitivity labels in Desktop are propagated, plus there is a new Preview for streaming dataflows.

SumProduct is pleased to announce that two of our Directors, Liam Bastick and Tim Heng, have been re-awarded Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Excel for 2021-22.

Even if it does appear to mean blowing smoke up our own proverbials, we have some great news! Congratulations to SumProduct’s very own Liam Bastick who won the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award at last week’s Financial Modelling Summit 2021, held in London.

The General Availability of Office Scripts is only one of the new features and improvements to help you better analyse your data. There is more.

This month’s updates include DirectQuery support for Dataflows, which has now become Generally Available.

Microsoft has recently announced that Office Scripts in Excel for the web is now Generally Available for all “eligible users”.

We are pleased to hear that there is new update to Power Query (PQ) in Excel for Mac – the ability to import data from local files, coming on the back of being able to refresh data from, er, about this time, last year. Tempus fugit indeed!

This month’s updates include a new Preview of visual ToolTips, an ability to quickly create reports from SharePoint lists and an update on sensitivity labels so that they are now inherited “downstream”.

Microsoft Office now displays a list of recommended files on the File tab, or start page, of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint on Windows. This list allows you to keep track of work around you and quickly access files with activity you value most such as edits, mentions, comments by people you interact with.

This has been around a while now, but has had little fanfare, so trumpets at the ready…