Many users have already started receiving these updates through a phased roll-out, which should reach all users within a couple weeks. Microsoft Word start screen on the new iPad Air. These updates reflect the recent design enhancements we’ve been making with our Fluent UI which you’ll see across the Microsoft 365 experience. These enhancements provide a cleaner and more modern user experience which has proven to help people more easily find what they need and focus on the task at hand. We are updating the overall user experience in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with new start screens and a new ribbon of feature menus. Using the trackpad with PowerPoint on the new iPad Air. This experience will be immediately familiar to anyone who has ever used Office on a Mac or a PC and helps make iPad even more versatile and capable for getting more work done.

And using a mouse or trackpad with iPad for common tasks like highlighting a passage of text in Word, selecting a range of cells in Excel, and moving and resizing graphics in PowerPoint are as simple and intuitive as ever. When moving a finger across the built-in trackpad of Magic Keyboard, the cursor transforms into the tool you need depending on the content you’re pointing to. The Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps are now receiving updates to take full advantage of trackpad support in iPadOS to give iPad users using a mouse or Apple’s new Magic Keyboard easy cursor control, fluid navigation, and precise adjustments. Accordingly, we have made several updates to the Office apps to take advantage of these enhancements and make it even easier to work on iPad. The latest iPad Pro, iPad Air and iPad models have introduced powerful new features and capabilities to enable people to be productive in more ways. We know the Office experience on iPad is an important tool for the many people who use it to work, learn and create. For us this means not only finding general innovation that spans across all Microsoft 365 solutions, but also adapting the experience for the new and powerful capabilities of each platform and device. At Microsoft we are committed to making sure Microsoft 365 users have the best experience possible on any technology platform they use.

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